~Alec-Nicoll

OK so here comes another pitiful journal entry... Seatbelts on?

First big thing that's happened recently is AS results (if you're not in the UK we do half of our final exams before uni one year, then the other the next - ASs and A2s). Collection of them was preceded by seeing on the tele how ridiculously easy they are and how everyone gets an A for everything - yeh right! As it turned out I was a little disappointed with my results; being a bit of a perfectionist I know I could have done better - the comforting thing is that it doesn't matter one jot. Whilst they're not incredible, they're good enough, just about, for my Oxford application, not that I'm dead set on going there anyway. It seems like so much pressure for the sake of 4 years of more pressure. Mind you, the course seems better than my second choice, Durham, so maybe it is worth it.

Have spent a good part of my summer reading - which has been good, as well as having the time to pick up my violin and sit at my piano. Haven't really seen my friends nearly as much as I'd like, but they keep doing troublesome things like going on holiday.

As for learning to drive - the other big thing in the life of a 17-year-old... not far till 18 - Well I still haven't had a lesson, though I think I'm ready for my test, but having just looked I can't get a test till at least the back end of September! Ah well c'est larvae.

Do I have to say anything else? Oh yes, congratulations for bothering to read this - if you're feeling suitably brave, drop a comment down there. Go on - I dare you... \/\/\/\/\/