Musings of a Perfectionist

Evening all! Happy Day 12 of NaNo- I'm only about 1000 words out of my goal, so it's going surprisingly well so far. I do have assessment week next week at school, however, so I guess that we'll see how that goes. I have had a truly exciting today- if you are considering doing IB, this will definitely be a part of your life as well, so pay attention (and pay attention anyway, because I lead a very interesting life, obviously). Today, I did a Group 4 Project Day. If you have no idea what this is, I will inform you: when doing IB, there are six groups, and you choose a subject from each (apart from Group 6, where you can either choose a subject or do another Group 2/3/4). Group 4 is Sciences, so maybe you can guess what sorts of things I did today? You're correct, I stood outside in the cold and the rain! For about an hour. What we had to do was plan and carry out a simple experiment on this massive field near(ish) our school. We were put into groups so that there w...

So exams have well and truly started (yay) and my friend still told me that I needed to update my blog, and voila! Hope you're happy, friend. ☺️ Exams done: French Reading/Listening, Biology 1, English Lit 1. To be honest, I think that they all went okay, for GCSEs. It still doesn't feel like I'm doing actual, proper exams though. Will it ever? I don't know. Maybe when I get my results. But that's ages away, and besides, I still have two more exams this week alone, so revising it is. Fear not, however, for I am having rests and tea breaks (lots of tea breaks, because I love tea). I've been watching TV- like Ghosts (on BBC iPlayer) which was created by the old Horrible Histories cast, and also the new Taskmaster episode (I was actually crying with laughter yesterday when we watched it, which is, of course, better than just crying). And tomorrow, as I go on Study Leave (which will be weird, no?) I will be hopefully going on a run. I mean, I could get u...