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Riona ([personal profile] rionaleonhart) wrote2010-06-25 10:20 pm

I Was Not Expecting This.

I GOT A FIRST.

But, my goodness, I wish they'd give me a certificate or something right now so I can stop feeling they're about to whisk it out from under my feet, because I was right on the borderline. I was actually 0.017% below the percentage required for a First. THIS IS TERRIFYING.

Still, I now have a first-class joint honours degree in English Language and Literature! Hurrah!

And then my parents got me drunk, because apparently this is the law of academic celebration, even if the person whose academic success you are celebrating doesn't drink. In any case, I thought it would be interesting to attempt to type an entry whilst drunk. I'm not as drunk as I was, but still not sober. I am disappointed in my drunken typing, though, because, whilst I am making more typos than usual, I think I'm generally catching them and going back to correct them. I AM A DRUNKEN DISAPPOINTMENT. A DISAPPOINTMENT AT BEING DRUNK. I was so hoping for some entertaining typographical failures to mock later. But no; I'm still capable of using words like 'typographical'. Rubbish.

(Actually, I was also forced to drink the day after my final university deadline. At the somethingth cocktail, I began to protest.

Person Present: Don't worry. Worst-case scenario, we'll carry you out.
Riona: Well, it's good to know I'll have support. In my physical being, if not in my principles. (drinks somethingth cocktail))

...as it turns out, all I do when posting whilst drunk is drunkenly boast about how articulate I manage to remain whilst drunk. How incredibly uninteresting. I don't think I'm going to make a habit of this.

BUT ANYWAY. Yes! I have a degree! A good degree! Thank you so much for your support when I was panicking over work and such. I couldn't have done this without you.

...my father is now loudly saying to company a couple of rooms away 'AS IT HAPPENS, I KNOW WHEN HARRIET* WAS CONCEIVED.' (The Great Storm of 1987, apparently. GOOD TO KNOW.)

* I should point out that this is me, as people have in the past been surprised to discover that Riona was not my real name.

[identity profile] timydamonkey.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Congrats, Riona! All the hard work paid off in the end! :D

You may not have expected a first, but just seeing the way you write and the fact that you can analyse things well makes it seem not so surprising to me. Well done! :D

[identity profile] reipan.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations, my dear, as I have already said!

Allow me, however, to be the first to point out that as nobody can actually force you to drink without holding your nose and pouring cocktails down your throat, it would appear that your principles are pretty rubbish. :P

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[identity profile] vampirespider.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
(I feel like a stalker for being the first person to post again. Coincidence, I promise! Ed: also it took me so long to type this that I am no longer first. Success!)

CONGRATULATIONS!!! You rock!

(Also, you being a disappointing drunk is hilarious & sort of adorbs. At least you don't get really giggly, then really academic, then really depressed and then horribly hung-over. Which is why twos my limit these days.)
Edited 2010-06-25 21:25 (UTC)

[identity profile] inappropriately.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)




Hahahahaha you're a brilliant drunk.

Hm. I'm also good at typing when inebriated. Just not at keeping my mouth shut or making sense. But that isn't news. (Wow, this comment is so self-centred. You'd think I was drunk as well.

I'm not.)
Edited 2010-06-25 21:26 (UTC)

[identity profile] apiphile.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
I was kind of expecting you to get a first. :) THIS DOES NOT STOP ME FROM BEING FILLED WITH CONGRATULATIONS ODF A REALLY HIGH-PITCHED AND ANNOYING VARIETY. Well done, you hard-worker, you.

[identity profile] thinkpink20.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow! That's wonderful news Riona! Absolute congratulations and well done. :D ♥

[identity profile] derryderrydown.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
CONGRATULATIONS, YOU!

(Also, I remember the night you were conceived. I shall weep for my long-lost youth.)

[identity profile] inappropriately.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
(You sort of make it sound like you were there.)

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[identity profile] yumiboo.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
asdfghjkl;, congratulations!!! :D

(insert mass celebrations here)
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[identity profile] littlemoose.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations, brainy lady :D

[identity profile] zeitheist.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
FUCK YEAH CONGRATULATIONS.

Now excuse me whilst I sit here and gaze at you in awe, you clever girl, you.

[identity profile] darkest-alchemy.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations!
(It took me 3 attempts to spell that and I'm definitely not drunk. LOL)

[identity profile] littlered2.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations!

[identity profile] chocolatepeach.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
A first? Amazing! Very, very congratulations and well done!

My graduating flist have done so well.*smiles*
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[identity profile] rhosyndu.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 09:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Dude! Congratumalations!

(The trick with drunken posting is to only start when the room is about to take off.)

[identity profile] the-wanlorn.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
GO YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[identity profile] sparklenight.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! Although this is not a surprise. I mean, the first is not a surprise, the drunkenness actually kind of is.

If you're still in Brighton, would you like to socialise at some point?

[identity profile] mirabehn.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, yay!!! Congratulations! :-) :-) :-)

[identity profile] rowanberries.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
As Exams Admin type-person, I feel fairly confident in saying that they are not allowed to take it away from you without substantial reason (like academic misconduct, or changing the rules from under you which is... kind of illegal) - it will be agreed in the system, and thus fixed.

...Uh, which is to say CONGRATULATIONS!

[identity profile] lostambitions.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
OUTSTANDING WORK!

[identity profile] theoret.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 10:39 pm (UTC)(link)
CONGRATULATIONS!

I am very impressed! (...more impressed than that makes me sound.)

SUCCESSFUL RIONA IS SUCCESSFUL! \O/
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[personal profile] marginaliana 2010-06-25 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations!! \o/

[identity profile] dracothelizard.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
HURRAH.

Your dad does love his TMI, doesn't he?

And I tend to be able to manage understandable English (both speaking and typing, if MSN chatlogs with [livejournal.com profile] littlemoose are anything to go by) so HURRAH for those of us able to communicate whilst under the influence!

[identity profile] wolfenkahlon.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c2Vb7CqTdc)

I should point out that this is me, as people have in the past been surprised to discover that Riona was not my real name.

*Looks sceptical*

[identity profile] clanwilliam.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations, hon! I have to confess that I expected you to pull a 2:1 at the absolute minimum. (Dear god, I thought you were still doing your A-levels!)

Seriously, though, a) bloody well done, and b) I did wonder in your first year. You seemed to be getting a lot of crit on essays and I suddenly realised that they were pushing you as much as they could because you were First material.

So glad both you and the uni came through.

And yes, I *do* remember the storm of 1987...

[identity profile] ukcalico.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 11:16 pm (UTC)(link)
AMAZINGLY WELL DONE!! :D

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