Damn you, issues of consent in Section 41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Act. Section 41 subsection 3(a), to be perfectly precise. When the entire case hinges on whether or NOT there was consent - when both parties agree that the act took place - consent becomes an issue, and motive can't be adduced under Section 41 3(a). But motive can be adduced under 41 3(a) if the case hinges on whether or not the act took place or not - and that's when motive can be adduced, to prove that the complainant had a reason for fabricating the allegation. And just why do section 41 3(b) and section 41 3(c) have the exact same drafting on matters on time when their application in practice is wonderfully different?! HAHAHAHAHA. I brought this up in the discussion, and then another girl agreed, and after class we ran after the teacher to get our question sorted.
Couldn't continue studying once the British birds started the morning chorus at 4am this morning. Eventually gave up at 4.30am and crawled into bed, where I stayed awake for an entire hour because I couldn't fall asleep. Every time I peered out from under the covers ANOTHER blasted bird would start chirping and I would go tunnel into bed again. Eventual failure to sleep had me crawl out of bed at 5.30am in the morning and start making planned notes for past year papers. That's what stress does to me, it messes up my sleeping patterns even more than using the Internet obsessively does. I either become unusually sleepy or turn into a total insomniac. Usually both at the same time. Haven't been online much, been preparing for this blasted test. Panic is the best sort of caffeine.
Also, I do not understand why the muses never talk as loudly as they do when I have NO TIME for them. When I get one set to keep quiet another set starts talking. (... I cannot believe the number of mistakes I've made in this entry, I must be really out of it.) The last time I was studying Crime and Punishment in the LSE library, an entire page of derivative and not-derivative Abyss fic turned up on fullscap paper, so much so that the guy sitting opposite me was O.O-ing at the speed at which I was writing. Oh, if only you knew that nothing I was writing had anything to do with what I was studying.
Fics always write out best when you're stressed and trying to study for tests. I found that out sometime around my Emaths O level paper, when I spent more time writing Golden Pair fic than doing the damn paper. XD
Also, I do not understand why the muses never talk as loudly as they do when I have NO TIME for them
This happens to me too. = = Had major major plot bunnies running around my head yesterday... Although I'm actually blaming the Taiwanese swordfighting drama for that. Watching Chinese dramas always make plot bunnies run around my head.
Am in the LSE comp lab now! Freezing 'cos I think some idiot turned on the air-con. wtf.
I'm hoping it was Morimori and Sakupyon bunnies, but it could just as well be, um, er, wuxia plotbunnies! ALSO LAST NIGHT WHILE I WAS STUDYING the wires crossed in my head and my mind was HEY ABYSS CROSSOVER FIC WITH LAW and I was as usual going OH SHUT UP PLEASE at myself. Don't you think a replica is the ultimate GET OUT OF JAIL/TRIAL card? XD
... KICK THE IDIOT and put them out in the snow. AIR CON INDEED, IN FEBRUARY. What do they think it is, SUMMER?!
HEEE. Um, doing homework always makes bunnies run around in my head. Do you ever get the situation when your muses start applying/explaining legal concepts to you, or declaring that they're proponents of particular schools of legal thought?
A muse really is just an excuse to voice what I really think, isn't it? :D
*hugs* so that's why you were up and about at five-ish commenting on journals.
you've gotta take better care of yourself, dear. running ragged during exam time isn't good for your health. even if you can't sleep, just rest your eyes in bed. or kill those damn birds. they always start chirping at 4am in the morning. what is this, some sort of international bird conspiracy?! back when I was rooming with amber_fire, we had a tree directly outside our window and the damn birds perched on the branches would have some sort of pre-arranged signal and start chirping away. -___- makes me wish I knew how to use an air rifle. hehe.
anyway, you must get some sleep! how about some frequent short naps? *worries*
*hugs back* True. Me + insane hours. Sometimes it comes to a time when my mind just shuts down and refuses to think, and it takes running around LJ/Photoshop for a while to start it up again. I've been all XD that my favourite Zack/Cloud writer is WRITING. ;D And going YAY!!!! When not freaking out about work. *laughter*
*hugs* I did, but I can feel the time passing while I can't sleep and I'll be... even spending time online will be better than this! *wry smile* I don't ever seem able to do things by halves.
YES. IT IS AN £"($*($^£("*") INTERNATIONAL BIRD CONSPIRACY. It's round about this time of year that I start thinking longingly of roast pigeons in Hong Kong. British birds would probably have, I don't know, mad bird disease or something, but the thought of KILLING AND EATING THEM IS SO TEMPTING THOUGH.
YES. I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO USE AN AIR RIFLE.
*pats* 's all right. I usually miss out on a lot of sleep one day and then overdose the next. ... rather, I miss out on sleep for three days, then spend the next day sleeping.
your insane hours are worse than my insane hours. *wrinkles nose at you*
yeah, it's good to take a break to read fanfic. (which is what I'm doing now shhhh)
ewwww. I've never eaten a pigeon, and I don't think I'll ever eat one. *shudders* roast pigeons remind me of a scene in neverwhere, for some reason. *shudders again*
I'm more evil than you are - I'd capture the pigeons and put them into a room full of cats. That'll most definitely teach them NOT to disturb our precious sleep, scant as it already is. *evil overlord laughter*
What's your natural sleep cycle like? Mine's slightly shorter than 24 hours. I find it helps when I just flop onto the bed during those times I know I'll get sleepier than any other time of the day. I might not be able to sleep sometimes, but my eyes do feel better after that.
My problem isn't birds... The thing about my room is that the only sunlight we get comes from this tiny slit above - it's sort of in the basement - and it shines directly on my pillow. The rest of my room is dim except for my bed.
And then there's the bells of St Paul's Cathedral... that go on and on and bloody on for about 15 minutes every Sunday morning when I'm trying to sleep...
Hahaha, is it bad that immediately after reading this article on the spread of bird flu to the U.S., I saw your thing on British birds? I was like, OMG, aefallen, get away from there! *drags you across pond* I'm sorry the birds are keeping you up, dear ;_;, but at least they sound pretty? Better than the garbage dump truck that starts up at 5-6 AM here and basically kills my sleep on weekends. Urgh.
XD The muses are evil! I always have such wonderful ideas and vivid images and snappy lines come to me in the middle of a class or while walking to and from class, only to have it all fade away when I finally sit down in front of a computer. Must be a phobia exclusive to plot bunnies or some such.
ROFL~ Nature can be sooo annoying at times. I also hear roosters at around that time too but I think I'm too used to the sound to be kept awake by them... and my alarm clock as well XD Me = dead
Muses tend to do that to me too! They scream "WRITE/DRAW/DOODLE BL!" in thesis class while I stare blankly at the projector XDDDDD
♥ you~~
Unobjectively, I think writing Golden Pair fic is a better use of time than doing E-Maths papers, but that's just me.
♥ you too! :D
Agreed! :D
This happens to me too. = = Had major major plot bunnies running around my head yesterday... Although I'm actually blaming the Taiwanese swordfighting drama for that. Watching Chinese dramas always make plot bunnies run around my head.
Am in the LSE comp lab now! Freezing 'cos I think some idiot turned on the air-con. wtf.
... KICK THE IDIOT and put them out in the snow. AIR CON INDEED, IN FEBRUARY. What do they think it is, SUMMER?!
HEEE. Um, doing homework always makes bunnies run around in my head. Do you ever get the situation when your muses start applying/explaining legal concepts to you, or declaring that they're proponents of particular schools of legal thought?
A muse really is just an excuse to voice what I really think, isn't it? :D
you've gotta take better care of yourself, dear. running ragged during exam time isn't good for your health. even if you can't sleep, just rest your eyes in bed. or kill those damn birds. they always start chirping at 4am in the morning. what is this, some sort of international bird conspiracy?! back when I was rooming with
anyway, you must get some sleep! how about some frequent short naps? *worries*
*hugs* I did, but I can feel the time passing while I can't sleep and I'll be... even spending time online will be better than this! *wry smile* I don't ever seem able to do things by halves.
YES. IT IS AN £"($*($^£("*") INTERNATIONAL BIRD CONSPIRACY. It's round about this time of year that I start thinking longingly of roast pigeons in Hong Kong. British birds would probably have, I don't know, mad bird disease or something, but the thought of KILLING AND EATING THEM IS SO TEMPTING THOUGH.
YES. I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO USE AN AIR RIFLE.
*pats* 's all right. I usually miss out on a lot of sleep one day and then overdose the next. ... rather, I miss out on sleep for three days, then spend the next day sleeping.
yeah, it's good to take a break to read fanfic. (which is what I'm doing now shhhh)
ewwww. I've never eaten a pigeon, and I don't think I'll ever eat one. *shudders* roast pigeons remind me of a scene in neverwhere, for some reason. *shudders again*
I'm more evil than you are - I'd capture the pigeons and put them into a room full of cats. That'll most definitely teach them NOT to disturb our precious sleep, scant as it already is. *evil overlord laughter*
What's your natural sleep cycle like? Mine's slightly shorter than 24 hours. I find it helps when I just flop onto the bed during those times I know I'll get sleepier than any other time of the day. I might not be able to sleep sometimes, but my eyes do feel better after that.
My problem isn't birds... The thing about my room is that the only sunlight we get comes from this tiny slit above - it's sort of in the basement - and it shines directly on my pillow. The rest of my room is dim except for my bed.
And then there's the bells of St Paul's Cathedral... that go on and on and bloody on for about 15 minutes every Sunday morning when I'm trying to sleep...
EEEEEEEEE I WOULD CLOSE THE CURTAINS ALL THE TIME THEN~ XD
*SINGS ORANGES AND LEMONS?* XD You know that song about the bells. Oranges and lemons/say the bells of St. Clemens? ; )
NOW I CAN LISTEN TO ABYSS SONGS WITHOUT WORRYING IT WILL EAT MY FOCUS.
XD The muses are evil! I always have such wonderful ideas and vivid images and snappy lines come to me in the middle of a class or while walking to and from class, only to have it all fade away when I finally sit down in front of a computer. Must be a phobia exclusive to plot bunnies or some such.
=/ Really do hope you've got some sleep, though. *cuddles you*
*feeds your meeses a biscuit*
Muses tend to do that to me too! They scream "WRITE/DRAW/DOODLE BL!" in thesis class while I stare blankly at the projector XDDDDD
I hope at least the guy sitting opposite you in the library was cute to some measure! :D