to keep me calm from 05:30 18/8/08

pathway33

looking for about 30 suggestions of things to occupy myself while I wait for 06:00

05:30 pace the kitchen watching the olympics, perhaps this race

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs4lbNPiat0

05:31

PurpleFistMixer

5:30 Be asleep
5:31 Be asleep
5:32 Be asleep
...
5:57 Be asleep
5:58 Activate computer
6:00 Success!

Or just listen to lots of good music and dance around, it'll take your mind off it. Video games? They're always handy. Angry debate on the internet? Fairly distracting. Youtube videos? God knows you could lose hours of your life. A really gripping film, perhaps? Something you know you'll get really into. Just something to keep your mind off it really! Makes the time go faster.

K4t

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

Angry debate on the internet? .

Or even a mastur-debate? :pac:

Peleus

get a job. i've been looking for a job for the past two weeks and time has flew by.

1huge1

Peleus wrote: »

get a job. i've been looking for a job for the past two weeks and time has flew by.

Tried that at the start of the summer, was time consuming and got nowhere...

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

Or just listen to lots of good music and dance around, it'll take your mind off it. Video games? They're always handy. Angry debate on the internet? Fairly distracting. Youtube videos? God knows you could lose hours of your life. A really gripping film, perhaps? Something you know you'll get really into. Just something to keep your mind off it really! Makes the time go faster.

Ah yes youtube, boards.ie and resident evil, im sure that'll be me on tuesday night.
Who knows might even pop in the lord of the rings movies. Haven't seen them in ages.

LizT

Are the results available online from 6? I thought they weren't up until 12....

pathway33

lizt wrote: »

Are the results available online from 6? I thought they weren't up until 12....

yep leaving cert are midday

cao are 6am

daggy

hold up..sorry now, whats all this about CAO at 6am?whatt?they have results before we do?

K4t

daggy wrote: »

hold up..sorry now, whats all this about CAO at 6am?whatt?they have results before we do?

I think you can get your results online (at 6am) if you go to the examinations.ie website and enter your exam number.

pathway33

daggy wrote: »

hold up..sorry now, whats all this about CAO at 6am?whatt?they have results before we do?

leaving cert results out on 13th

cao offers out 6am 18th :eek:

daggy

no no that's from midday on.. but the CAO get access to your results before you do i think.. so they can get on with their major job of filling out college spots?that seems unethical.. but efficient all the same i suppose.

daggy

pathway33 wrote: »

leaving cert results out on 13th

cao offers out 6am 18th :eek:

oh hoh.. haha. I'm silly. thanky. Ah it'll be grand!let it flow.

The Walsho

Drink yourself into a stupor.

Before you pass out, phone/text all your exes.


What could possibly go wrong?

declan_lgs

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

5:30 Be asleep
5:31 Be asleep
5:32 Be asleep
...
5:57 Be asleep
5:58 Activate computer
6:00 Success!

6:00 Server Busy Error

I didn't even know CAO offers were the 18th. I thought it was the day after. Aw damn. I want me & my friends to go down and find a house in Dublin this week but it'll be NEXT MONDAY when the little prats know what college they're going to.

Picking easy courses FTW.

poppygirl2608

cao get all the results early to mid july so they can sort out all the college stuff. Bit unfair to the rest of us having to wait til the 13th of aug tho'.

ciaranajl

poppygirl2608 wrote: »

cao get all the results early to mid july so they can sort out all the college stuff. Bit unfair to the rest of us having to wait til the 13th of aug tho'.

How do you know? That seems pretty quick to have the entire country's exams corrected.

Alan Smith

I'll be in a nightclub somewhere in Spain :cool:

Mark200

poppygirl2608 wrote: »

cao get all the results early to mid july so they can sort out all the college stuff. Bit unfair to the rest of us having to wait til the 13th of aug tho'.

They don't. They get them electronically on the 13th according to the handbook we got. There is no "sorting out" to do because everything is done by computer.

kaki

Yoga

:pac:

Nanaki

poppygirl2608 wrote: »

Bit unfair to the rest of us having to wait til the 13th of aug tho'.

especially for someone like me who turns 18 at 1:45 on wednesday morning heh pretty damn amazing that I'm 18 the day of my results considering I was due in october heh

edit: Question: does anyone know about this-
The offers are available from 6am on the 18th, but does that mean if you've gotten an offer, it ~will~ be there at 6.00?

pathway33

Nanaki wrote: »

especially for someone like me who turns 18 at 1:45 on wednesday morning heh pretty damn amazing that I'm 18 the day of my results considering I was due in october heh

edit: Question: does anyone know about this-
The offers are available from 6am on the 18th, but does that mean if you've gotten an offer, it ~will~ be there at 6.00?

check out the posts from 6 am last year and they were bang on the button. some happy people at 6.01 ..... course if they were definitely definitely going to be at 6 why didnt they say 'at 6' on the cao site instead of 'from 6' ........'from 6' could be 10 o clock :eek:

poppygirl2608

Mark200 wrote: »

They don't. They get them electronically on the 13th according to the handbook we got. There is no "sorting out" to do because everything is done by computer.

yea they do......i got someone on the inside! :cool: dont mind the handbook. thats just a load of waffel!

eoin2nc

how long do you have to accept the offer?

Cokehead Mother

You have until 5:15pm August 27th to accept a first round offer.

Nanaki

Cokehead Mother wrote: »

You have until 5:15pm August 27th to accept a first round offer.

I thought it was the 26th?

andrew

Aren't the results the main thing though? If you get within 10 points of what you want then chances are you're going to get it.

1huge1

andrew wrote: »

Aren't the results the main thing though? If you get within 10 points of what you want then chances are you're going to get it.

I would be fairly nervous if I was only like 10 points ahead of what it was last year to be honest.

turgon

5:30 - put on "The Mission" soundtrack. 6:00 will arrive in no time.