Aaaargh!! !

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Rant of sorts. (correction. Definitely a rant).

Had an exam this morning. Woke up, set the alarm for me to leave the house in 15 minutes (which gave me a minute or two to spare) and went to get dressed, files together etc..

After a while, I notice that either I'm way faster at getting ready than I thought, or something's wrong with my alarm.

So I check my phone and it's already 10 minutes too late! And the alarm is switched off!

I thought I might as well ask my bf had he touched it, and I was surprised whrn he said that yeah, he had switched it off! He thought that because the alarm went so soon after I woke up, that I must have switched the snooze on by mistake and he was doing me a favour by switching it off.

OK, fine. Totally idiotic thing to do, but I would have accepted that had he acted sorry and worried about the fact that I was probably going to miss my exam as a result.

(edited bit)

I was 10 minutes late already when I looked at my phone- thank god I did, because otherwise I could have missed the entire exam. As it was, I arrived seconds too late for the bus and had to wait for the next one. It was only 10 minutes later, but that still left me 5 minutes late for my exam (it was very short, so I would have missed a lot of it already).

Luckily, the examiners were a bit late themselves so I got in just in time, but I was still majorly pissed at my boyfriend. Just because he 'meant' to be helpful doesn't mean he shouldn't apologise or act more concerned about the fact that he nearly cost me my exam.

Yes, I know I should have left longer to get in to it, that's fair enough and in future I definitely will (and will keep my phone with me at all times), but what kind of idiot turns off someone's alarm on the morning of their exam?

I'm afraid I was still seriously pissed off, even afterwards. I lost my temper with my bf and told him that since he was so blase about my exams, I was fed up wishing him luck in his and hoped he'd fail...

I feel bad about that now, and sent a text saying sorry and hoped he'd pass. He hasn't answered so I guess he's mad now. Fair enough, but AAAAArrrgh. Stupid me, for thinking I could fine tune my timing for my exam (usually I can), and stupid him for changing the alarm and not having the grace to apologise properly. And again, stupid me for saying I wish he'd fail his. I was trying to give him a taste of what I felt like this morning, but it wasn't fair of me; his was an accident at least.

And yes, reading back through this, I realise how childish that all sounds. But god, it feels good to get it off my chest. Maybe now I can study for my next one...

rant over.

I hope your exam went well, and I hope that you do good, on your next exam.

Thanks CockneyRebel

I second CockneyRebel, hope your exam went well, and the next one.

Also, don't beat yourself up about being stressed and bad tempered over what happened. It wasn't the best start to an exam.

Before my final maths exam (the one I finally passed) my then partner (AS) and I got into an argument about something I no longer recall, and he grabbed me and threw me against the wall telling me I was stupid and going to fail the exam. I was five months pregnant at the time, and he'd never laid a finger on me before. I was so angry that if I hadn't been pregnant I'd have thumped him, but I was afraid he'd hurt the baby.

Anyway, turns out the adrenaline was good for me, because I got nearly full marks in the exam... this after having failed it five times before. Either being pregnant or bloody furious helped.

For the record, my ex partner was so upset by his temper that he booked an emergency appointment at the doctor's, told him what had happened, got counselling and anti depressants. He wasn't normally a violent man... I wish I could remember what on earth set us both off, but I'm sure exam stress was part of it.

So don't worry, people do blow up a lot around exam times.

Oh yeah, I hate days like those. I bet you spent half the exam trying to calm down.

Hi Lene.

The baby was (and is) fine... he's fourteen now, and the apple of both parent's eyes... though we're not together anymore it's nice that we were together long enough for him to come into the world. He's great.