so. here's the deal.

[falling_voices]

Starting from tomorrow onwards through to Saturday next, I will be engaged in taking the exams for the entrance to the École Normale Supérieure of France, in Cachan...

That means all the work I’ve been doing during the past two years is actually coming to its pinnacle this week.

It also means I’m scared shitless.

The worst part is probably that though I’ve been working more than I usually do during the last week, and the week before that, too, even though less so, anyway—I don’t feel like I’ve really been accomplishing much. I’ve still so much to do to be prepared, and I’m going to have to do it all the day before each exam. Which, if you ask me, sucks.

Also? I’ve lost my ID card some three weeks ago, probably in the street. I’ve been ordering a new one, obviously, but it takes two bloody months before it’s done, and I don’t have a passport either, since I’ve never travelled out of the European Union. And they ask for either an ID card or a passport to prove your identity when you take the exam. So I’ve spent all of last Wednesday and most of Thursday rampaging around Paris and trying to obtain papers that prove I’m my parents’ daughter, I am a student at my school, and I have signed up for taking the exams. I’ve got an entire folder full of them, and I still don’t know if I’ll be accepted, since it’s not exactly what they ask for.

Then again, I can’t very well accelerate the Administration’s processes, can I?

This sucks.

So I won’t be around much, I don’t think—I’ll be checking in my inbox and friends’ page, but that’s about it. If the exams’ questions are really scary, I might post a few samples and cry on your shoulders.

Till then, lassies, I’ll be working on my English vocabulary for tomorrow’s translation exam.