The second time in a row I'm not writing my blog from my own computer :)
Got to bed at one last night, so woke up pretty cranky. It didn't help that my dog woke me up by lying on my chest and crushing me. He is a pretty big dog. It was painful.
Then I packed three bags - school bag, laptop bag, clothes bag - for my train journey to Oxford to see my Dad.
Will post rest later - Inglourius Basterds is on and NOT on pause! See you later ^_^
Saturday, 15 January 2011
Friday, 14 January 2011
January 14th
Another...odd day. I couldn't really think of the right way to describe it. I guess I just felt a little disconnected from the whole 'life' thing today. No matter.
In terms of lessons, though, my day was actually marginally better than the rest of the days this week! *cheers* I...dissaggerate? Euphemise? It was actually a lot better than it has been. Not that it's been awful, I've just been bored, again, as usual :)
So first I had a free, in which I did my English homework (two thirds of it...). I think we went a bit to far with giggling about Regeneration... *Alice finishes reading explicit paragraph* 'Is that it?'
Then Biology, which was fairly hassle free. Carrying on with the self study units and shizzle, so no heckling or putting hands up or being asked to answer questions. I guess I just put my head down and worked in silence on my own. And it was nice, considering.
Then, English, with Miss Ford, thank GOD. But she'd lost her voice and was reduced to a whisper for the whole lesson. Oddly enough, Miss Ford whispering was more engaging than Miss Kear talking. Maybe it's because you had to listen harder. But I got my coursework back today too - B. Fairly pleased about that :)
Psychology, which I'd been looking forward to. We were learning about obedience and looked at this experiment which I found absolutely intruiguing and at the same time totally unbelievable. They had two participants (although one wasn't, he was a fake participant, but the real on thought he was a real participant too) who went to Yale university to carry this experiment out, and they put one of the men in front of this machine with lots of switches and the other man in a chair with wires attached to him. The man in front of the switches couldn't see him; he was behind a screen. But the switches indicated voltage levels - when he flipped a switch, the man in the chair would get an 'electric shock' according to which button he pressed. They went from 15V, nothing, to 470V, potentially lethal. There was also an experimentor standing by him, wearing a lab coat, who told him to flip the switches. When he administered the shock, he heard the man 'cry' out - although it wasn't him because they had unstrapped him from the chair and had an old-fashioned tape recorder playing with this man crying out in pain. Their initial prediction was that only 1% of the people doing the experiment would go all the way up to 470V, because only sadists would do that, right?
65% of them went all the way to the top. All because the man in the white coat told them 'It is essential that you carry on with the experiment'.
You see, because he had a white coat on, he was a figure of authority. And these people just did what he said. Of course, they protested, but they still did it. It was shocking. And these were ordinary people, bus drivers, clerks and things. Any one of us might have potentially killed someone because a figure of authority told us to do it. It was scary. And sadistically fascinating. It just shows you that it's not the person, it's the situation that they are in. It explains the Holocaust and Cambodia.
Wow, long post is long. Do I have room to talk about anything else? Well, the only thing I could talk about I guess is Senior Vocal Group. We started learning a new song today. I looked at the music, saw the words 'Joe', 'McElderry', 'Miley' and 'Cyrus' and nearly died on the spot. 'The Climb' is such an annoyingly optimistic song. You're not going to get there, Joe and Miley. Just die. Please. For the good of the nation, and indeed, the world.
WHO REMEMBERS THIS GUY?!
Am I the only person who does? He suddenly popped into my mind in Biology! His name's Adiboo. He has a dog with a plunger for legs and he taught me how to count ^_^
Night for today. I'm babysitting people today so not sure how much sleep I'll get tonight.
It's the wrong time for somebody new
It's a small crime, and I've got no excuse
And is that alright, yeah?
♥
UPDATE:
Scary ^_^
In terms of lessons, though, my day was actually marginally better than the rest of the days this week! *cheers* I...dissaggerate? Euphemise? It was actually a lot better than it has been. Not that it's been awful, I've just been bored, again, as usual :)
So first I had a free, in which I did my English homework (two thirds of it...). I think we went a bit to far with giggling about Regeneration... *Alice finishes reading explicit paragraph* 'Is that it?'
Then Biology, which was fairly hassle free. Carrying on with the self study units and shizzle, so no heckling or putting hands up or being asked to answer questions. I guess I just put my head down and worked in silence on my own. And it was nice, considering.
Then, English, with Miss Ford, thank GOD. But she'd lost her voice and was reduced to a whisper for the whole lesson. Oddly enough, Miss Ford whispering was more engaging than Miss Kear talking. Maybe it's because you had to listen harder. But I got my coursework back today too - B. Fairly pleased about that :)
Psychology, which I'd been looking forward to. We were learning about obedience and looked at this experiment which I found absolutely intruiguing and at the same time totally unbelievable. They had two participants (although one wasn't, he was a fake participant, but the real on thought he was a real participant too) who went to Yale university to carry this experiment out, and they put one of the men in front of this machine with lots of switches and the other man in a chair with wires attached to him. The man in front of the switches couldn't see him; he was behind a screen. But the switches indicated voltage levels - when he flipped a switch, the man in the chair would get an 'electric shock' according to which button he pressed. They went from 15V, nothing, to 470V, potentially lethal. There was also an experimentor standing by him, wearing a lab coat, who told him to flip the switches. When he administered the shock, he heard the man 'cry' out - although it wasn't him because they had unstrapped him from the chair and had an old-fashioned tape recorder playing with this man crying out in pain. Their initial prediction was that only 1% of the people doing the experiment would go all the way up to 470V, because only sadists would do that, right?65% of them went all the way to the top. All because the man in the white coat told them 'It is essential that you carry on with the experiment'.
You see, because he had a white coat on, he was a figure of authority. And these people just did what he said. Of course, they protested, but they still did it. It was shocking. And these were ordinary people, bus drivers, clerks and things. Any one of us might have potentially killed someone because a figure of authority told us to do it. It was scary. And sadistically fascinating. It just shows you that it's not the person, it's the situation that they are in. It explains the Holocaust and Cambodia.
Wow, long post is long. Do I have room to talk about anything else? Well, the only thing I could talk about I guess is Senior Vocal Group. We started learning a new song today. I looked at the music, saw the words 'Joe', 'McElderry', 'Miley' and 'Cyrus' and nearly died on the spot. 'The Climb' is such an annoyingly optimistic song. You're not going to get there, Joe and Miley. Just die. Please. For the good of the nation, and indeed, the world.
WHO REMEMBERS THIS GUY?!
Am I the only person who does? He suddenly popped into my mind in Biology! His name's Adiboo. He has a dog with a plunger for legs and he taught me how to count ^_^
Night for today. I'm babysitting people today so not sure how much sleep I'll get tonight.
It's the wrong time for somebody new
It's a small crime, and I've got no excuse
And is that alright, yeah?
♥
UPDATE:
Scary ^_^
Thursday, 13 January 2011
January 13th
Just a quickie today (and early)
Despite having all my lessons in one go in the morning, it was still the slowest day I have ever encountered. I say that about all of my slow days. But this one was really slow.
So first, Music. In which we did no composing, but instead talked about the written aspect of the exam, the sleeve note, or, as I like to call it, three questions of bullshitting about your piece. 'Yes, I totally listened to that before I started composing, yeah, yeah, it totally gave me inspiration'. There were only about four of us because the rest were on study leave for an exam tomorrow, but hey.
English. I refer you to yesterday's blog post. It was much the same as that, with a bit less banter. And the one lesson I actually do some work instead of fooling around, she doesn't ask me to answer any of her questions. I have to just say what I want to say. Annoying, but, we got through it.
Biology. -_-
Oooh, I got my locker key today! Mega excited. Now I don't have to carry my books round ^_^
Then Fego's with Aimee, Angela and Anthony. Being the only person whose name didn't start with an A, I felt a slight outcast. But then Zee joined us, so my outcastness was ended. Yay!
Then Anthony got a Kinder Egg from the newsagents. I would put a photo of the toys, but I still haven't worked out how to get pictures from my Blackberry to my computer. Instead, please feel free to marvel at this chimpanzee cuddling a white tiger.
LOVE AND HUGS FOR ALL ^_^ ♥
Despite having all my lessons in one go in the morning, it was still the slowest day I have ever encountered. I say that about all of my slow days. But this one was really slow.
So first, Music. In which we did no composing, but instead talked about the written aspect of the exam, the sleeve note, or, as I like to call it, three questions of bullshitting about your piece. 'Yes, I totally listened to that before I started composing, yeah, yeah, it totally gave me inspiration'. There were only about four of us because the rest were on study leave for an exam tomorrow, but hey.
English. I refer you to yesterday's blog post. It was much the same as that, with a bit less banter. And the one lesson I actually do some work instead of fooling around, she doesn't ask me to answer any of her questions. I have to just say what I want to say. Annoying, but, we got through it.
Biology. -_-
Oooh, I got my locker key today! Mega excited. Now I don't have to carry my books round ^_^
Then Fego's with Aimee, Angela and Anthony. Being the only person whose name didn't start with an A, I felt a slight outcast. But then Zee joined us, so my outcastness was ended. Yay!
Then Anthony got a Kinder Egg from the newsagents. I would put a photo of the toys, but I still haven't worked out how to get pictures from my Blackberry to my computer. Instead, please feel free to marvel at this chimpanzee cuddling a white tiger.LOVE AND HUGS FOR ALL ^_^ ♥
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
January 12th
Woohoo! First A Level exam EVER! Slightly scary, but I think a day off for revision beforehand worked a treat. Feeling pretty confident about my Psychology grade now ^_^
So after that, a free, where I ate my lunch and got my shoes stolen.
English, which was SUCH a drag. Even if it was full of banter with Jess about Wild Willy of the West, coming at you with his rather large and threatening weapon. I've stopped criticising Miss Kear for her teaching techniques and now I'm criticising her for her monotonous voice. She drones on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on until you fall asleep. I like English, but have little enthusiasm in her lessons. Liven up, Miss, please, for our sake if not for yours!
Then another free. Well, PE. But PE's been taken off my timetable. Medical grounds. And I'm allowed a locker to lighten the load of my bag. I love being physically unhealthy. Yay for disabilities! So instead I sat in the Durning Room and continued reading Les Miserables. Cover to cover. I'm not going to finish it by the time I leave this place. Still, there's always the musical, which I believe has had 25 years on the West End! Congrats to Alain Boubil and Claude-Michael Schoenberg. And Cameron Mackintosh.
Then there was an English lecture on an overview of WW1 (yes, it was definitely English, promise) I have to say if Miss Kear was doing the lecture instead of Mr Metson, I may have just hanged myself from the rafters there and then. Are there rafters in the lecture theatre? I don't think so. I would have found a way; desperate times call for desperate measures.
Overall though, my day was pretty boring. Although I did get into a conversation with Jess and Nick about single sex schools. The phrase that now concequently comes into my mind when thinking of my time at Holt is:
On that note, I shall say goodbye for another day. Again, good luck for all with exams tomorrow! I believe it's Chemistry...?
Question still stands on the YouTube front. Someone give me an opinion...please?!
♥
So after that, a free, where I ate my lunch and got my shoes stolen.
English, which was SUCH a drag. Even if it was full of banter with Jess about Wild Willy of the West, coming at you with his rather large and threatening weapon. I've stopped criticising Miss Kear for her teaching techniques and now I'm criticising her for her monotonous voice. She drones on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on until you fall asleep. I like English, but have little enthusiasm in her lessons. Liven up, Miss, please, for our sake if not for yours!
Then another free. Well, PE. But PE's been taken off my timetable. Medical grounds. And I'm allowed a locker to lighten the load of my bag. I love being physically unhealthy. Yay for disabilities! So instead I sat in the Durning Room and continued reading Les Miserables. Cover to cover. I'm not going to finish it by the time I leave this place. Still, there's always the musical, which I believe has had 25 years on the West End! Congrats to Alain Boubil and Claude-Michael Schoenberg. And Cameron Mackintosh.
Then there was an English lecture on an overview of WW1 (yes, it was definitely English, promise) I have to say if Miss Kear was doing the lecture instead of Mr Metson, I may have just hanged myself from the rafters there and then. Are there rafters in the lecture theatre? I don't think so. I would have found a way; desperate times call for desperate measures.
Overall though, my day was pretty boring. Although I did get into a conversation with Jess and Nick about single sex schools. The phrase that now concequently comes into my mind when thinking of my time at Holt is:
And:
On that note, I shall say goodbye for another day. Again, good luck for all with exams tomorrow! I believe it's Chemistry...?
Question still stands on the YouTube front. Someone give me an opinion...please?!
♥
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
January 11th
Revision day for me today *yawns dramatically* Feeling slightly better about my Psychology exam tomorrow now. First A Level exam, whoopee! *cheers sarcastically*
So, got up at half nine, had breakfast, drank peppermint tea, got dressed, tidied room, brushed teeth, cleaned up stuff that I didn't need anymore, and started revising. THAT'S procrastination for ya.
Talking of procrastination, is this not just so true for everyone?
At half past one I stopped for lunch and made myself a ham sandwich, came back upstairs and watched QI for forty five minutes. At five o'clock I had a nap like an old man. I would thoroughly recommend naps.
That's basically my day. I could write an interesting blog post about cats, but I can't be bothered. OH - Dick King Smith died last Tuesday, for people who don't know. He wrote many of my childhood stories, including The Sheep Pig, which was influence for Babe, who everyone knows about. RIP Dickie ♥
Well, I've got to go watch Silent Witness and learn the rest of Sesame Street on the guitar. Ciaw ^_^
♥
So, got up at half nine, had breakfast, drank peppermint tea, got dressed, tidied room, brushed teeth, cleaned up stuff that I didn't need anymore, and started revising. THAT'S procrastination for ya.
Talking of procrastination, is this not just so true for everyone?
At half past one I stopped for lunch and made myself a ham sandwich, came back upstairs and watched QI for forty five minutes. At five o'clock I had a nap like an old man. I would thoroughly recommend naps.That's basically my day. I could write an interesting blog post about cats, but I can't be bothered. OH - Dick King Smith died last Tuesday, for people who don't know. He wrote many of my childhood stories, including The Sheep Pig, which was influence for Babe, who everyone knows about. RIP Dickie ♥
Well, I've got to go watch Silent Witness and learn the rest of Sesame Street on the guitar. Ciaw ^_^
♥
Monday, 10 January 2011
January 10th
Hello Blogosphere! Have you all had a fantastic Monday? I have!
Actually, my day kinda started last night, because just as I was drifting off to sleep my brother texted me from the next room saying not really a lot, and in my comatosed state I believed my ring tone was my alarm. I proceeded to groan a bit about how unsatisfactory my sleep had been because I couldn't remember any of it and then realised I hadn't actually fallen asleep yet. Lol.
Not really much to report today, except that Anthony tried to grope me. And succeeded. Much to my annoyance and also delight about having something new to make fun of.
Ooh! I went home early today because there was a power cut in the main block, meaning there was bugger-all we could do in Music so they let us go ^_^
Train ride home was slightly more annoying. There's this woman, on the phone, talking rather loudly about this guy called Ben (I do not know who Ben is) whose house she went round to at one o'clock last night. She said two rather suggestive 'yes'es, told her friend to Google it, and insisted there was 'nothing more to say about that, promise'. Now, I know she wasn't being overly obscene, in fact, not really obscene at all, but it just reminded me of all the people who need to get some tact in their lives and stop broadcasting what they do in bed. It's no one else's business. If you want to tell someone, tell them in private. I don't want to know. Unless you're my significant other. In which case, I most sincerely WOULD like to know. Take this as an advance warning.
Good luck to everyone with exams tomorrow and Wednesday! Fingers crossed :)
900 views ^_^
And if I ever lose my hands
Lose my plough, lose my land
Oh, if I ever lose my hands
I won't have to work no more.
♥
Actually, my day kinda started last night, because just as I was drifting off to sleep my brother texted me from the next room saying not really a lot, and in my comatosed state I believed my ring tone was my alarm. I proceeded to groan a bit about how unsatisfactory my sleep had been because I couldn't remember any of it and then realised I hadn't actually fallen asleep yet. Lol.
Not really much to report today, except that Anthony tried to grope me. And succeeded. Much to my annoyance and also delight about having something new to make fun of.
Ooh! I went home early today because there was a power cut in the main block, meaning there was bugger-all we could do in Music so they let us go ^_^
Train ride home was slightly more annoying. There's this woman, on the phone, talking rather loudly about this guy called Ben (I do not know who Ben is) whose house she went round to at one o'clock last night. She said two rather suggestive 'yes'es, told her friend to Google it, and insisted there was 'nothing more to say about that, promise'. Now, I know she wasn't being overly obscene, in fact, not really obscene at all, but it just reminded me of all the people who need to get some tact in their lives and stop broadcasting what they do in bed. It's no one else's business. If you want to tell someone, tell them in private. I don't want to know. Unless you're my significant other. In which case, I most sincerely WOULD like to know. Take this as an advance warning.
Good luck to everyone with exams tomorrow and Wednesday! Fingers crossed :)
900 views ^_^
And if I ever lose my hands
Lose my plough, lose my land
Oh, if I ever lose my hands
I won't have to work no more.
♥
Sunday, 9 January 2011
January 9th
Evening everyone. I'm sure, like me (that is, if you're the same age as me), you're all desperately wanting to ask that one simple question: Exams, can I please have my social life back?
Yes! It's that time of the year again, the time of hair pulling, tooth grinding, hand wringing and general stress that is the exam season. Look what I found!
Incidentally, I have the same poster in my room, in the form of a metal plate. I can safely say I have never used it, although I have been sorely tempted on more than one occasion.
So, I'm guessing, for many of you today was a day of cramming for the exam period? My first exam is on Wednesday, Psychology. NOT looking forward to it, but I get Tuesday off so my cramming will come then :)
After waking up this morning from another strange dream, complete with Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch, obviously) and James Bond depicted by a rather sexually appealing black woman dressed like Lara Croft, I got up, had breakfast and watched Miss Marple on ITV3 until twelve. Zoe Wanamaker did it. I knew she was a bad seed right from the off.
Then I had lunch. Recipe for #1 sandwich:
INGREDIENTS
Slice of bread, x3. Unless your bread is flimsy, in which case, Slice of toast, x3.
Mayonnaise, preferably Hellmans.
Pickle. That's pickle, not pickles. That would just be wrong.
Cheddar cheese
Ham
METHOD
You know how to make a sandwich. If you don't, I pity you. If you've never had a sandwich, you're a deprived individual. No, I will not make you a sandwich.
Anyway, ramble ramble ramble...what else did I do today? Oh yes - I did my Biology and a bit of Psychology revision. Then I found this guy: http://www.27bslash6.com/index.html
This is my definition of witty. Devilishly witty. I aspire to be like this guy. Click on the link. You know you want to.
Anyway...I think I should start counting the number of times I say 'anyway'. It's starting to annoy even me, so who knows what it's doing to you.
Anyway #3, I have Theory homework to do, so ta-ta for now and happy examing :) ♥
Yes! It's that time of the year again, the time of hair pulling, tooth grinding, hand wringing and general stress that is the exam season. Look what I found!Incidentally, I have the same poster in my room, in the form of a metal plate. I can safely say I have never used it, although I have been sorely tempted on more than one occasion.
So, I'm guessing, for many of you today was a day of cramming for the exam period? My first exam is on Wednesday, Psychology. NOT looking forward to it, but I get Tuesday off so my cramming will come then :)
After waking up this morning from another strange dream, complete with Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch, obviously) and James Bond depicted by a rather sexually appealing black woman dressed like Lara Croft, I got up, had breakfast and watched Miss Marple on ITV3 until twelve. Zoe Wanamaker did it. I knew she was a bad seed right from the off.
Then I had lunch. Recipe for #1 sandwich:
INGREDIENTS
Slice of bread, x3. Unless your bread is flimsy, in which case, Slice of toast, x3.
Mayonnaise, preferably Hellmans.
Pickle. That's pickle, not pickles. That would just be wrong.
Cheddar cheese
Ham
METHOD
You know how to make a sandwich. If you don't, I pity you. If you've never had a sandwich, you're a deprived individual. No, I will not make you a sandwich.
Anyway, ramble ramble ramble...what else did I do today? Oh yes - I did my Biology and a bit of Psychology revision. Then I found this guy: http://www.27bslash6.com/index.html
This is my definition of witty. Devilishly witty. I aspire to be like this guy. Click on the link. You know you want to.
Anyway...I think I should start counting the number of times I say 'anyway'. It's starting to annoy even me, so who knows what it's doing to you.
Anyway #3, I have Theory homework to do, so ta-ta for now and happy examing :) ♥
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