Elias investigates

11.4 - It's 11:47 AM. I woke up 10:15-30 and had breakfast. Now I write and I'll go and look for guitars after this.

10.4 - I woke up 8 and had a quick breakfast. I left home 8:30 and walked to the main library where I met Rebecca who gave me John's dictionary in Swedish-English for the exam. I had 150.000 words under my arm. I walked towards the main building, Hunters Hall East. I met Robbie on the way and more classmates outside. The chat before exams was the same as in Finland, nervous. At 9:25 the doors were opened and we walked quickly in. I dumped my stuff next to the wall and sat down in the far end of the hall, 20 meters away from the invigilator. I couldn't her what instructions what they gave. At 9:30 we started. Answers three questions of eight. The questions were fair and I wrote around four pages on each. The results will come this summer. I wrote in pen on white paper and margins were on the paper. You wrote all answers in a book. 1 hour per question. 15 mins planning and 45 min writing. No daydreaming this time. I answered the following questions.

1. "If the move, as described by Maine, from status to contract was viewed as progressive, then more recent trends towards status should be categorised as regressive. Discuss

5. According to Sandra Fredman: "Equality as an ideal shines brightly in the galaxy of liberal aspirations. Nor is it just an ideal. Attempts to capture it in legal form are numerous and often grand... (which) suggests that we all have an intuitive grasp of the meaning of equality and what it entails. Yet the more closely we examine it, the more its meaning shifts." Discuss

7. What does Polanyi mean when he talks of the "commodity fiction' of labour? What is fictitious about it? What are the implications of organising a (real) self-regulating market around fiction?

As you can see, no real law, and that I love!

After the exam I left the hall asking people how it went. I realised that the university bell ringing once at :15 and :45 and twice at :30 and at full hours was really stressing during the exam. My understanding of ringing bells has changed. I walked to uni to give back the dictionary. I couldn't find here. Then I had lunch with Fernando. I had a chicken mayonnaise baguette, speciality of QM. Then Fernando and me walked to the Bute Hall and attended the rectorial installation. The Rt Hon Charles Kennedy MP is now the rector of Glasgow. It was interesting to see how it works. Then they served drinks.

I walked back to uni and handed back the dictionary and met Maria in the library. I walked home after spending a short time in the Law Workshop. It was a gorgeous day. At home I read the Independent for a long time and Andrea served a cup of coffee. I ate pate sandwiches and yesterdays pasta and discussed Zimbabwe, global recession and history. Then Maria arrived and we spent some time together. She walked home and I went to sleep.

9.4 Wednesday I woke up early, 9:30. I had breakfast. I read at home until 1 and ate fried potatoes with salad(!). Then I walked to uni and continued revising. I had a panini in QM and checked for some books in the library and asked for advice from, hm I forgot his name. I met Maria in the workshop. She had returned from Holland. I revised until 7:30. Maria and me walked home and prepared a pasta. We ate and took a pause. Then I continued revising until 11:30. Then I went next doors with Samuel and Fernando to a Hippie party. I was there 20 minutes. Then I walked home and slept. I woke up around 2 because somebody was loud in the kitchen. I was furious and couldn't sleep even when it was quiet because I was angry.

8.4 Tuesday - I ate fried potatoes with fish. I studied the whole day.

7.4 Monday - I ate fried fish with boiled potatoes. I studied the whole day. During this week of revision and reading I realised to my relief that I haven't lost my skill in reading a lot in a short time.

6.4 Sunday. I was studying hard the whole day. In the evening I had enough and went for a walk. I walked just nearby to a part I had never been to before and took some pictures. I bought some stuff in Morrisons. 2 Steak & Kidney Pies and 2 Cornish Pastries and a coconut. At home we, me and Samuel, enjoyed them. I went to sleep.

5.4 Saturday I read the whole day. Outside my bloc I heard noise from Clara's flat. She and her flatmates served nuggets and chips. I relaxed there after a day of hard reading. Then I walked home and slept.

4.3 Friday - I watched two good films after a day of disciplined studies. The Taxi driver and Memento were the the titles of the films. I went to sleep around 2:30.

3.3 Thursday - I studied and then slept like a baby.