'The Hobbit'

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I've just come back from watching 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey'. I'm not coherent enough to wax poetry, so let me just say that I loved every second of all three hours and ohmygod go watch it right NOW!

I realize not everyone's going to like it a lot, but I really did. There's always things to nitpick about in a film, but I was blown away in the cinema, and if I'm blown away in the cinema, then I'm going to stand by that film, even if I nitpick about it on rewatch when I get the DVD.

LOOK WHAT ARE YOU EVEN STILL DOING HERE GO WATCH IT RIGHT NOW!!

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I panic so much when I get assignments, that I always end up writing them at the very last moment :/
Ugh, this so much! One of my friends is done with her major, I'm only a little over half-way now because I've been rather lazy this past week. And I'm freaking out right now! But did it turn out okay, your essay?

While Radagast was definitely one of the sillier aspects of the movie, I didn't mind it, I found. They excluded him from LotR, so it's only right he got a cameo here ;) and I think it added to the urgency of the story, that we got to see glimpses of Dol Goldur and the Necromancer already.

Ooh, sorry if I spoiled you! I thought you knew about Legolas (-: but yeah, he'll be there, though I don't know how big of a role he's going to play. I'm thinking we'll most likely see him in Mirkwood, when the dwarves get there next movie.

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I don't know, I think I mostly wrote crap and I'm going to get a C or a D again. Blah :( I really need to be more organised and most of all stop panicking all the time.

No worries, I can't exactly be 'spoiled' about Tolkien stuff ;) And yes, Mirkwood, I'm so looking forward to it!!

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Aw, well :( there's always next time <3 One thing I've started doing is, when I first read the assignment, I write down some of my initial thoughts, because most of the time, that's some good ideas, and I can go back to it a week+ later, when I want to start writing. It really helps a lot, for me at least :) and I'd tell you to write the assignment as soon as you get it, so its over and done with, but even I don't wanna do that, haha xD a lot of the time I do write better under pressure, though, but sometimes it can be a good idea to at least write as much as a few sentences, and then come back to it later.

And I get crap grades once in a while too (and C isn't even a crap grade - though I'm not completely sure about the French grading system :) we have numbers and general oddness about it all over here!)

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Indeed, thanks <3 And your approach is the right one, of course, I tend to do that too, but sometimes I just freak out and think all my ideas are crap, and well... Also I have so much work to do that organization has become a major issue, most of the time I just don't know where to start.

Our marks are numbers too, they go from 0 to 20. What I call a C would be a 7 or 8, and a D, ikr, 4? In the course I'm taking, it's okay to get an 8, but I'd like to have better marks once in a while. Oh well, I got an A in English, life is good ;)

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I do that too <3 (like right now ;) ) your course sounds so hard, but think of it like this: you've gotten this far. You might not have done as well as you wanted, but people hardly ever do, because we tend to set very high goals for ourselves. And that you're still hanging in there is proof that you're doing at least something right!

Ours is sort of similar, except not? We have: -3, 00, 02 (if you get this its a pass, the rest are fail), 4 (which is in the middle, so its an okay grade), 7 (which is 'well done'), 10 (which is 'really well done') and 12 (which is 'amazingly done, superb' ;P) but it got changed a couple of years back. We used to have more numbers, so it was actually easier to see how well you did: a 7 can be either an 8 or a 9 according to the old way of doing it, so that can be a bit annoying. Plus the big leap between 02 and 4, with no grades in the middle.