Good news in a bad week

by Lee Hopkins on July 20, 2006 · View Comments

in miscellaneous

G'day! Thanks for returning!

Regular readers of this blog will remember that back about two months ago or so I was stressing about having to write two x 4,000 essays for my Masters program.

A lot was happening in my life during that time (like that ever changes!), leaving me less time than I would have liked to focus on them. I was prepared and would be happy with a ‘pass’.

In a week that can be rated 2/10 both personally and professionally, I got my marks back today — 85% and 98%

The corks will be a-poppin’ tonight!

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{ 8 comments }

1 Ben Hamilton July 20, 2006 at 8:41 pm

Congratulations!
Enjoy it and live it up.

2 donna papacosta July 21, 2006 at 12:41 am

Congrats, Lee. Enjoy the well-deserved celebration!

3 Owen Lystrup July 21, 2006 at 2:18 am

Congratulations!

I still don’t get the ration thing in the UK’s grades and the 2/10 thing for Australia, but I’m just a dumb American.

4 Trevor Cook July 21, 2006 at 3:17 am

well done mate

5 Allan Jenkins July 21, 2006 at 3:37 am

You wild man, you kick-ass wild man. Congrats!

6 Dan Hill July 21, 2006 at 6:22 am

Good effort Mr Hopkins.

7 Lee July 21, 2006 at 11:11 am

Thank you, friends – a mighty hangover this morning!!

Oh, and Owen:
1) yes, there are such things as dumb Americans, as there are dumb Australians (one of them occasionally posts on this blog) but you ain’t one of ‘em, mate

2) 2/10 refers to a week that could be rated ‘two out of ten’ in terms of how successful (or, indeed, otherwise) it has been — not a good week for me at all, either personally (want to live life to the full? Have a teenage son) or professionally (it looks like I will have to find a full-time job as the consultancy here in Adelaide just isn’t enough to sustain me or the family in an increasingly expensive economy)

3) 85% is a ‘High Distinction’ (bloody good), 98% is fackin’ phenomenal — I’ve never heard of anyone ever getting that close to the ‘perfect’ score of 100 before.

8 Donna Tocci July 21, 2006 at 10:25 pm

Congratulations, Smarty Pants!

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