Exams, Monologues, and Literature, oh my!

Part 1: Exams

Yup, it's that time of the year again. Exam season. And you know what? This time the grades that I get actually count for something. As in, if I do well in these exams, I've got a place at one of the UK's top universities. If I don't, then I'm screwed. So yeah, pressure. Here's to hoping I can get that AAB!

Part 2: Monologues

My audition monologues may not have gotten me into drama school, but I don't want all that hard work to go to waste. Following exam season, I shall upload renditions of my four favourite monologues: Hippolita from 'Tis Pity She's a Whore; Titania from Midsummer Night's Dream; Rosalind from As You Like It; and Queen Margaret from...well, pretty much all of Shakespeare's histories, but more specifically Henry VI Part III

...Remind me why Juliet is the Classical monologue that everyone knows and jumps at?

Part 3: Literature.

I'm considering starting up a series of posts, yet again, after exam season, discussing my responses and interpretations of different plays, poems, and novels, everything from Young Adult to Gothic Horror. These interpretations and 'essays', if you will, will be open for any students, such as myself, to use as sources and critics for coursework. I'll mainly be doing this to improve my essay writing skills between 6th Form and Uni, but I understand how hard it can be to find literary critics with alternative or otherwise out there interpretations of texts.

And now this is in a blog post, I guess I have to commit. Permission granted to e-slap me if I don't pop up again around August time

P.S- My Blogger commenting is really glitchy, as in, I can't respond to comments. Sorry guys :(

Lent, and what I'm giving up for it

I know I know, there are probably a million and one different posts like this popping up around the internet at the moment, and I know you're saying 'But Alice, you're not religious, why should you care about lent you hypocritical arsehole!'

Well for one, thank you for saying arsehole. It brightens up my day because the voice to my inner monologue simply cannot pronounce the word 'asshole' without sounding like a completely different entity has entered into my thoughts and is rudely jumping in on my normal mental narrator who speaks in a very distinguished and refined English accent which I attempt to channel into my everyday speech which has earned me the title of being 'very ladylike'

But I digress. Secondly, I believe that lent is a good thing (despite the fact that this is going to be the first time I observe it) because everybody needs a chance to let their bodies wind down, relax, and detox. Considering that exam season is coming up soon as well, I need to spend as much time as possible relaxing now before the stress induced binge that will come with frantically reciting my lines the night before I'm due to play Titania for Theatre Studies, or trying to overcome my resentment of the character Holden for English Literature.

So, what am I giving up for lent? Well, quite a lot of things actually, considering I'm also dieting (inb4 'so that's your real motivation!')

-Chocolate (obvious one)
-Sweets (still obvious)
-Sugar (as in adding extra sugar to things)
-Fast food (fast food that mum doesn't cook- Yay for oven bake!)
-Soda and diet soda
-White bread
-Pastry (I'll miss you pastry </3)
-Cake
-Alcohol

Well then, haven't I got a fun and highly enjoyable 40 days ahead of me

How to Revise for English Literature

1- Return home from school, switch on the computer, put on some Pain of Salvation so you have a 'trigger' in the exam.

2- Feel glad that you've gotten this far. Open up Facebook. Complain about revision.

3- Reluctantly dig out your AQA Anthology, which holds all the poems required for the exam. Do private, dramatic readings of the required poems to yourself until you get to 'My Last Duchess'

4- Go get dinner, you've earned it.

5- Continue reading through the poetry until you come to the end of your studied poems.

6- Check Facebook again.

7- Check the AQA mark scheme.

8- Make witty Facebook status concerning said mark scheme.

9- Sit back for a while. You've earned another break.

10- Start thinking about prom, allow these thoughts to distract you from revising and check Youtube for make up tutorials.

11- Perform said make up tutorial.

12- Curse your lack of concentration.

13- Write a blog post concerning revision as a product of your procrastination.

14- Finish blog post and eventually decide to go and do some more revision.

15- Theexam'stomorrowohshit