XD bobandbill, that's awesome. I would use that for my own finals time, but I really don't care about my grades, so I don't freak out about it now.
For me, it's 'Yr 11 half-year exams'. So less catchy...
For me it's: "I'm almost graduating and I just need to boost my grades a bit to transfer to another college to see a particular teacher again! Yay!"
Curiosity speaking, what series are you referring to?
._. Don't you read my LJ? It's the only book series where I go rabid fangirl mode for. It's the only book series where I have to have four copies of the same book because three are falling apart from being read so much.
Guh, Jax. We're, like, no longer bestest friendz nao. D<
Actually, I remembered that I said to ignore all my LJ posts whenever I go ranty about that book series, so I don't blame you. I would ignore myself whenever I go off on a tangent about those books if I was another person.
It's the
Enderverse series by Orson Scott Card. Now, there are a few instances where he messed up his own canon, but one instance that sticks out in my mind is the age that the main character is when he goes up to the magical school in space. In the first book, he goes up to that school when he's six, and this is made such a big deal of since because he's six, it appeared as if the government didn't deem him worthy enough of going to this school. Because of that, his older brother still thought that
he was better, since he was deemed "worthy" by the government at the age of three. (There's way more to it than just that.) But all that's really needed to know is that the older brother treated the main character horribly because of the whole worthiness by the government thing for the school in space. And that relationship between the two brothers was a theme that was carried throughout the entire book.
Now, in the later books, it's said that the main character is sent up to space at the age of
five because he's so intelligent, special, and all these other kind of "perfect" character qualities. That's the only reason why Card keeps bringing up the younger age: to drive home the point that his character is chosen from the start.
That's kind of why I lean more towards the version written in the first book, since it has more of a background for the character, rather than making him more sparkly than he already is. (Which so was not needed to be done. The main character has been called a canon-stu.)
(In some cases, going with older over the newer tends to be a bit more difficult because the older continuum is most likely vastly different and not as accepted as a fandom as the newer.
The fandom is practically non-existent. :P I just write fanfiction for the books to explore the characters in the way that I see them, but it's not something I would publish online. It's just that the differences that there are in the canon have always been something that irked me.
It was a horrific bloody nose. *sticks band-aid up nostril* Ack.
