stupid arriva buses and the exams.

For the past few days feeling a bit down... Feeling quite headachy and really couldnt be bothered to eat... sigh*.. i know my appetite isnt so great, but lack of appetite?? i wonder why... feeling so bored after the exams... although there was no way i could study for the exams, i was busy panicking for it, so wasnt so bored.. now i have nothingness for the next 2 weeks... which is what is really bugging me as well. If classes are going to start only on 29th, then why did we not have an exam at the end of next week, so that I could have stayed home a little while longer? Anyway, besides the point. Now to Arriva buses... The most unreliable bus service one can find. Our exam is at 9:30am at the Leeds campus. Now in order to get to the uni on time, we only had one choice: the X44. The bus was scheduled to come to the Lodge at 7:45am. So, in order to catch the bus, we all awoke at 7am and went to the bus stop at 7:35am. 7:35am - We get out of the Lodge and wait for the bus to arrive 7:45am - ...Waiting... The bus should have arrived by now 7:50am - ...the bus is slightly late now... 7:55am - ...10 minutes late 8:00am - ...15 minutes late... 8:05am - a bus appears to be comi-oh.. its the blimmin 110.. (damn those 110s) 8:10am - its already 25 minutes late. We decide to call for the taxi. an expensive option, but its either the £7 each or its missing the exam 8:20am - the taxi arrives at the Lodge. Myself, Lizzy and isa get on. 9:15am - We arrive at the Parkinson's building steps. Now to look for the sports centre!! (this is the result of not ever coming to Leeds for anything) 9:25am - After manipulating our way around, we finally reach the sports centre. We enter, but are told that we can enter our exam room only from outside. 9:26am - We make our way to the other side where we see sports hall 2 (ours is 3) 9:28am - We manipulate our way into the crowd to see if our names were on the list. It wasnt. (why am i not surprised? People in the main campus dont even know of the existence of Bretton Hal!!) 9:30am - We go into sports hall 2 and ask the invigilators. They direct us to sports hall 3 9:35am - We arrive at sports hall 3. No one is here yet. 9:37am - remove coat, take stationary and student ID out of bag. Settle down in assigned seat 9:45am - Exam begins DAMN ARRIVA BUSES.. DAMN THEM... After the exam, we found out that the X44 skipped our stop (yet again..) and went straight to Bretton Hall!!! It feels good to know we are wanted. Thanks. Otherwise, the exam was alright. It was not amazingly good, but wasnt terrible either. We got 4 quotes, each with a question attached. we had to answer 2 of them. That makes it 2 essays in 1 and a half hours. I answered these two: Question 1 'It's to performance we go and when we want the borders between our daily lives and our imaginative lives to bend and blur a little, when we want to play out and challenge the orthodoxies, the rules and separations through which and in which we live in.' Tim Etchells (1998) in Nicky Childs and Jeni Walwin Ed (1998) A Split Second of Paradise: Live Art, Installation and Performance, London: River Orams Press, p. 31 Consider how far Etchells' expectations of performance fit with your own, and explore ways in which performance-makers blur the boundaries between our daily and imaginative lives, wit reference to the work of contemporary practitioners. Question 2 'All the world's a stage And all the men and women merely players' William Shakespeare As You Like It How far is it useful to apply Shakespeare's view of the world as performance to contemporary attitudes and approaches to performance that reach beyond the traditional theatre? I managed to finish just on time, writing 2 and a half sides for each question. I just couldn't get in more in such short time! Anyway, now that exams are finally over, I can enjoy my birthday in peace on Saturday... woo! its tomorrow!! eugh... feel old... bleh. Anyway, i have to go and eat my dinner now! more like force it down my throat. so... adios!