..were confusing, to say the least, seeing as my Doctor handed me the hospital's report of the scan and didn't bother interpreting it for me.

No large masses were found, however they did report there to be excess CSF (nope, not a clue what that is) in one of my ventricles, and based on this coupled with the severity of my symptoms and my age led them to suggest I go for an MRI scan. And something about my frontal lobe, but I don't remember what that was.

My doctor said,...

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So first off, I'm sure that anyone who has ever had a CAT scan can agree - it's not a particularly nice experience being strapped down to a board and being made to feel as though you're trapped alone in a boiler room. I don't get claustrophobic, but I didn't like it and felt horrible afterwards.
I had a weird experience right at the end of my time in the room. I was just getting off the bed and the bloke was telling me "Okay, you can leave now Miss Harris" and I looked into the...

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I'm going for my CT scan. Over the last few weeks I've been told I have raised intracranial pressure, and they're seriously looking into whether I have a mass in the skull - it could be a tumour, it could be an abscess, it could be fluid, or it could be nothing. It could be something causing me swelling in the brain or it could be something completely unrelated. But after a year of investigations they've suddenly started taking me seriously - and I've started taking it seriously too. I'm bloody...

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I've applied to -

The University of Birmingham.
The University of Bristol.
The University of Manchester.
The University of Nottingham.
The University of Sheffield.

For - Russian Studies BA degree (4 years.)

Hopefully I'll be spending 2010/2011 in Moscow or St. Petersburg. Provided I actually get accepted into any of the above, and given my poor grades and horrific attendance... it'd be a miracle!

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Uh oh, college is starting to spiral out of control ...again.

I started back in September, and all was well for about a week - and then I slowly started missing more and more lessons. For a number of reasons, first and foremost because I've been suffering from mind numbing headaches. And secondly because I've been suffering from a severe case of apathy/inability to work up any enthusiasm whatsoever for the college which I loathe.
We had half term last week, and halfway through...

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After accidentally throwing the other one under the wheels of my dads car (it was his own fault for telling me to hurry up and causing me to be all a fluster)... I'm now in love with my beast of a Nikon SLR. Here are some pictures I've taken over the last few days, when on a walk around my town (Yep, I'm terribly cool), and before I went to a Halloween party.





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between not posting a melodramatic, too-much-information type blog OR posting a blog to get something off my chest I've been worrying about over the past few days *sigh* This really comes from having too few friends/friends you're unable to confide in, it really is. Damn the unapproachable people in my life.


... so, instead, I'll just post this vague and pointless blog!


On the plus side, I watched American Psycho again this morning. Christian Bale, how...

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Me and my friend and getting t-shirts saying that for when we visit Washington on our 2009 USA trip. Won't we look cool?

We're also going to make maximum use of the different laws. We're going to obtain guns and become fully fledged members of the NRA. All in one week.

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Being able to watch La Vie En Rose without the subtitles. And having slightly more than a vague idea of what's being said

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Unrequited love, and being reminded of it on a miserable Wednesday afternoon, evokes my chagrin.

In proper Queen Elizabeth I mode, I want all the couples of the world banished from my kingdom and want only to be surrounded by jolly single people like myself.

I'll make the odd exception; state your case to avoid beheading. Irritate me further by making a sickening display of your love, and you will find yourself hung, drawn, and quartered.

[Note - just...

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March 2009!
The Politics trip of a lifetime, our teacher Dave has arranged for us to meet with some 'high profile' member of the senate when we're there and have a discussion.. but he won't tell us who?!

WHAT ARE THE CHANCES THAT IT'LL BE HILLARY CLINTON?!

I've got my fingers crossed.

And I've had my tutor banging on about getting University applications in again at college, and I just don't know. I'd like to do a gap year but I've got nothing...

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Okay, so I have this ridiculous pet hate garnered through secondary school (and some of the daft people I met there) and it plagues me now at college. Not because I'm frightfully popular with hoards of friends, but because the few friends/people who might become my friends do it and it really, really irritates me...
Pretending, or going out of their way to, like things that I like.
It sounds rather stupid now, doesn't it? But it all started years ago when I first obsessively got into...

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I'd be fine.


Because I started French A Level classes at another college this afternoon It's fabulous, I go in whenever I like for the talking element (like, once a year or 5 times a week, completely up to me) and I do all the writing at home and post it in. No course has ever been better suited to me. And it's ironic how much I hated French at secondary school and how much I love it now. My long holiday in France last summer (that involved me having to converse with...

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So, for my mum's birthday next month, I've organised a big day out.
It's on her birthday, which is a thursday (so I get to miss the worst day of college ) and we're going to London (which I love ) to see the Annie Leibovitz (and I love Annie Leibovitz )photography exhibition (which consists of Susan Sontag pictures, who I also love ) and then we're going to a lecture with photographers talking (because I hope Annie Leibovitz will be talking ) and...

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Today's been weird, in a negative sort of way.

Firstly, I met up with my friend Bethan and found out that a 15 year old girl from school hung herself on wednesday. It depressed me like you wouldn't believe, apparently she'd been having problems at school (with bullying) last year and had stopped going. Then her parents and the school made her come back this year, and things got too much for her and 3 days in she killed herself. And she was 15. I can't imagine what she must have been...

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