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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] anewcitylife.livejournal.com 2010-06-25 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
YOU MIGHT BE SURPRISED, BUT I'M NOT. Congratulations! You deserve it, you smarty-pants.

[identity profile] halotolerant.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
HOORAH! *bounces with glee for you* Well done you *g*

[identity profile] strangeumbrella.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
IMMENSE CONGRATULATIONS! I'm so incredibly pleased to hear this, although not hugely surprised, because you clearly put so much work into this and it wouldn't be FAIR if you didn't do just as well as you deserved. Well done well done well done. <333333

[identity profile] strangeumbrella.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
Also, okay this isn't related to this but I just remembered and I was like WHO WOULD BE INTERESTED BY THIS NEWS, guess what! I went to a comedy preview (Jeremy Lion) tonight in a tiny theatre in Islington and who was in the queue handing in his tickets right in front of us? DAVID MITCHELL. Couldn't deal with that. Also Olivia Colman. We sat quite far away from them in the audience so that we could go quietly but they looked like they had a lovely time. That's all of that story.
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[personal profile] dafna 2010-06-26 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Mazel tov!

[identity profile] draegonhawke.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
HOORAY YOU!

Being unfamiliar with the British system, I have no idea what that means, but it sounds pretty awesome! Also, I think Romana had a double first, so I suppose this allows you to go around and brag that you are at least half as cool as a Time Lord. And not one of those vaguely suspect Time Lords like Drax, but one who can totally run circles around the Doctor.

I might also be fabricating that piece of canon, but the HOORAY YOU stands despite that.

(You are apparently more coherent drunk than I am sober. <_<)

[identity profile] calamitysxchild.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
...you basically write drunk the same way you do when sober. I like it :)

[identity profile] suzie-shooter.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
CONGRATULATIONS YOU!

PS I dreamt about you last night. You were taking me to an art gallery. No, I don't know either. :D

[identity profile] nixwilliams.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 07:13 am (UTC)(link)
congratulations!

[identity profile] denorios.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 08:40 am (UTC)(link)
CONGRATULATIONS! That is awesome!
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[identity profile] sunlightdances.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 08:47 am (UTC)(link)
Yay! You are totally awesome, well done. :D

[identity profile] gulliblesnail.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 11:04 am (UTC)(link)
Congraaaats! :D :D :D

[identity profile] chenoeh.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! God, has it been 3 years already?

[identity profile] make-a-move.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations! You are made of awesomesauce.

[identity profile] serriadh.livejournal.com 2010-06-26 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
CONGRATULATIONS!

[identity profile] prologi.livejournal.com 2010-06-27 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations!

[identity profile] newbie1990.livejournal.com 2010-06-30 11:02 pm (UTC)(link)
WELL DONE YOU CLEVER THING YOU.

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