A Happy Song...

...Just to inform you that I passed on the vestibular again!
Behold the future best Journalist from Brasil!! hehe

Argh Vestibular!!

It's 07h22 a.m. and as Nalim and I procrastinate for the moment we will HAVE to leave the house to do the often-dreaded vestibular we listen and sing-along to Feist and aknowledge that fear and nervousness aren't with us.

In my case it probably will come as soon as my ass is sat down on the desk's chair; but like every year it'll turn out to be the adrenaline's punch and I'll probably do a good exam. I hope the same for Nalim, of course.

Yesterday we went to a reviewing class and most of the other people were teenagers on their first vestibular. Won't get too confident cos it could sneak into cockiness, but I think I will go well and succeed once again. This year I'm doing for Journalism.

Wish me luck, byotches!

[Song: Leisure Suite - Feist]

Let Your Body Go With The Flow

What to do in a day you're practically sleeping in front of the teacher?

Today my cigarettes finished by noon and I had no time to buy a new pack before levaing to college, so as my nicotine craving grew along the afternoon I had to do something to calm my disturbed spirits: I ate. So instead of having cancer now I'm fat.

But all these craps: the sleep, the cig desire, the food, they just ended being part of one more day in my routine. As the weekend approaches I get all excited about going to cool places and doing fun stuff that my daily life often seems miles away even for myself. Let me see if I can explain better: sometimes it feels like I sleep throughout the week to just wake up on the Friday night.

At the end of last night however I had my first piece of stress concerned to school. As dawn slowly and unwantedly rose at the other side of the window I realized the paper I had to hand in the afternoon wasn't quite ready yet. I tuned myself to the always helpful and cute Rufus [seriously, Go Or Go Ahead aches sometimes] and quickly finished the thing that was inicially neglected for a whole day wasted online [not exactly because two lovely and uncommented posts were written] and a whole night with Bridget Jones [a whole BJ raving coming later this week]. I went to bed after 5am, so on Monday I was nobody.

However today was a fun day. No deep philosophical epiphanies but little fun in an environment I usually take for granted. When I got home I didn't feel the usual bone-tired I always do and despite the sleep I was okay. Got me thinking of how simple it is to actually study when I want to; maybe I'll be trying a little harder to do it.

And to finish the random thoughts of the night I again got me daydreaming about the one person who will make me feel and behave like this:

Yeah Mr. Right you suck ass badly!! Where the fuck are you? I wanna dance on the streets like Björk!

Begosteodioparvida!!!

[Song: Vogue - Madonna]

Yaaay!

And guess what! As a great present from the Universe for my achievements [I also passed on UFBA's vesitbular - being UFBA a federal university] I got a tonsillitis!!! My throat feels like shit and I bet smells like it as well - okay tmi. But yeah, after a night of fever and a morning at a queue in the hospital [the friggin' doctor took hours to assist those before me and dispensed me after 10 minutes I was in!] here I am...

Sometimes I'd really like to get more optimist about it all you know, but argh life loves to have me bitching. Besides where'd be the fun anyway?

[Song: Bittersweet Faith - Bitter:Sweet]

UNEB

In Brasil we have private and public colleges.

The public ones are divided in two categories: the state colleges and the federal colleges. The state ones are taken care by each state's governments; they provide the necessary funds to the school's subsistence. Same happens with the federal ones, but in their cases the country's government is responsible for the budgets et al.

UNEB is an acronym for Universidade Estadual da Bahia [Bahia's State University], being Bahia the state I live in. All universities, including UNEB, have a selective process called "vestibular" that the candidates to the 20/60 chairs [depending on the course and school] have to go through. The vestibular consists on 2 or 4 days [depending on the university] of exams of the basic disciplines: Portuguese, Brazillian Literature, English, Brazillian and General History, Geography, Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Math and a 25/30 lines composition. Yeah it's a dog's life!

I applied this year to three public universities and have been waiting for their vestibular results. The results are crucial to my moving to Salvador. Tonight, UNEB's results were out. And...

[Song: On A Night Like This - Kylie Minogue]