So, all the schools will be starting again within the next couple of weeks. And I can't help but smile when I think that for the first time in ever, I won't be joining everyone and instead will be going to uni at the end of Septemeber. I know that it is very cruel of me to laugh at those who still have to goto school, but I figure that having had to go through 5 years of secondary school, then 2 years of 6th form myself, I have at least earned that right. :-p
I haven't updated this for a while, because I can never think of anything to say. And I still can't think of anything to say, so here is some of my poetry for you. I hope you all like it. I call it "Purple", and it is an exploration of my inner self.
Ever wondered why nothing rhymes with purple?
Only made up words such as shlurple,
and shlurple is as real a word as wurple,
is which is just as bad as turple,
but not quite as awful as lurple,
which is only marginally better than hurple.
O, why does nothing rhyme with purple?
I thank you.
According to ye olde news (well, it is really all that old actually), police were apparently called out to rescue a cuddly toy that had fallen out of a car window and got stuck in the middle of a motorway.
Some people may say that this is a waste of out tax money. Personally I say it was a bloody good thing. (Because I would say something like that). \o/
Considering that I have a button on my Firefox toolbar that links me to this place, it really is quite suprising how many times I foret about it. Or do I? Perhaps I decided to go for ages without an update to keep you all in suspense, or even worse, to trick you into thinking that this place had become a graveyard, and then when you least expect it WHAM! I hit you with an update. I could do that you know. And you would be none the wiser. Lets just say that if anyone (by some miracle is) reading this blog, then I strongly suggest that you tell everyone about this places greatness, otherwise I could very well mess with your head again. ¬_¬
So what has been happening recently? Well, to be truthful, not a great deal. Well, nothing that would form the basis of any intresting to write here anyway. However, today I did find out where I will be livign when I go to University in September, which is good. I like having places to live. It makes living so much easier, and, well, liveable really.
I would make this post a little more worthwhile by adding something more interesting to it, but I am currently feeling like the poop.
Just got back from my prom, and after tonight I can conclude that it wasnt as bad as I thought it was going to be. The prosect of having to dress up and go somewhere posh didnt appeal all that much to me, so was feeling a little apprehensive earlier this evening. However after getting over the initial bouts of confusion regarding what items of cutlery are used for what (what one is the stabbing knife again?), I forgot my origianl apprehensions about it, and had a really good time.
In conclusion, prom = good.
Oh, and there were lots of pictures taken too. They're not getting posted on here though. :-p
Well today has been a very good day indeed. I turned 18, spent a good portion of the day fiddling about and tinkering with my new lappy (which is very sexy I might add). Didn't get upto a whole lot, went out for a meal in the evening, but all in all a nice relaxing day. Managed to get some stuff of my chest too, which is always a good thing. :-)
Am absolutely knackered though now, especially considering I only got about 6 hours of sleep last night. I attribute this to the fact that Harry Potter was keeping me up (plus I couldn't sleep). No rest for me though, got my prom tomorrow, and then another party on Saturday. All good fun though, and at least I can't complain of boredom now.
Took the car driving for the first time without L plates (which I cut up as soon as I passed) today. Is quite a nice feeling knowing that everyone else on the road doesnt hold you with quite so much contempt.
Mmm, I think I'm discovering Genesis. First time I heard them today, but some of their stuff isn't bad. Been wanting a new band to listen to for a while now!
Well I cant think of anymore to say. If the spelling here is crap, then I blame it on the fact that I'm still gettinbg used to typing with a laptop keyboard.
Goodnight. :-)
Well it looks as if this is going to turn into another of those sleepless nights. I've always found it quite infuriating that the only time my brain seems to want to start thinking about things is when I am trying to get to sleep. I'm conviced it does it just to annoy me. Silly brain. What thoughts have been keeping me awake? Well thats confidential information, I'm afraid. Dont know why you're looking at me like that, I do keep some secrets from the interweb, you know.
Anyway, happier news. Today I passed my driving test. Was the 4th time I've taken it, so as I say, its about bloody time I passed too! I'm pretty pleased with this, even if I'm not going to be getting a car now since I'm going to University sooner than expected.
I have finally given into the dark side and have started reading Harry Potter. Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later really, despite all the stuff that I originally said about it. I am indeed most shocked by these books, for Ms Rowling is nothing but pure filth! Honestly, I really dont want to know what the three of them were getting upto in that toilet cubicle!
I'd best go do something more usefull than waffle on here for ages. I've got a story that I'm trying to write, and failing quite miserably I might add. I need some sort of plot hook. Maybe if I inroduced lasers into it somehow....
Tomorrow I have the last of my A2 exams. It is UK and US comparitive politics, for those who are interested. I haven't prepared much for it, which is just the way I like it since I always do better when I don't do any revision. Plus, an unconditional offer at University helps too. :-)
Tomorrow also marks the last time I'll be going to the place where my 6th form is. The 6th form is actually part of a school too, so I have in reality been studying at the same place since I started year 7 there in 1998. On one hand it seems as if the past 7 years have passed quickly, but then conversly I feel as if I don't know what its like having a life of not being there. I'm not sure what my feelings are on the matter of leaving - the past two years in 6th form have been excellent, I've made some good friends and have had a good time there for the most part. However the 5 years that preceeded 6th form were, naturally, quite rubbish, although there are some memories from the place that will stick with me forever. Just as soon as I remember what those memories are, of course.
It will be odd leaving there, but I doubt very much that I'll get much time to ponder this as I shall be starting university in September - am going to Aberystwyth which the more astute of you may have noticed is in Wales, and seems to be pretty much in the middle of nowhere, which is why I love the place. It's nice and small, which is how I like my towns. I'm strangely confident about starting, but there is a small invoice inside me somewhere that is saying to me that I should be absolutely petrified by now. It's a good thing I have chosen to completely ignore this voice. Starting universty will most likely be a traumatic affiar, but I fully intend it to be a good one.
My 18th birthday is looming next week. I intend to celebrate this as per my style, by remaining steadfastly sober throughout the whole thing. I would say how pointless it is in conforming to things, but then I would in fact be conforming to those who say it is useless to conform, so I'll stop now before I go cross-eyed.
I've forgotten what my original point in this post was, and it appears to have devolved into a stream of quite uninteresting drivel. However, fear not, for I intend to treat all of my loyal readers with some far more interesting posts this summer - namely some of my works of fiction that I plan on posting. Personally I would suggest running away right about now.
Goodnight.
Greetings readers of blogs!
Now I know you all lead very busy lives, but I bet at some point you have all wondered what I tatse like? Well you no longer have to loose sleep pondering this fact, for I found a website that could tell me exactly what flavour I was, via a series of complex scientific testings. And the results:
 I am sweet, like Sugar.I am all sweetness and light; fluffy bunnies and dancing fairies; happiness and joy. Too much of me will make you sick. What Flavour Are You? |
Picture your self on a train in a station, with tangerine trees, and marmalade skies......is how a well known song by the well known band The Beatles goes. Now I started to ponder the situation that is presented to us in the above line the other day. I decided that marmalade skies would indeed be a benefical addition to our lives, just so long as there was an adequate supply of toast shrubberies. If at this point you do no understand what I am talking about, or think I am insane, then you are most likely the type of person who would ask, "So what is Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds all about anyway?"
Ok, when I said I wanted something interesting to happen to me, this wasn't quite what I had in mind. Still, it will teach me to keep my big mouth firmly shut in future.
This morning we had some pretty bad weather, and lightning either struck our house or at least very close to it. Close enough to do damage to my computers. So far I've discovered that half of the ports on my router have got fried, along with the phone extension into my room where my computers are kept, an ethernet cable and also the netowrk card on my Windows box. The phone has also been damanged and now emits a beeping noise every couple of seconds, and I haven't even checked whether the network adapter on my PS2 has been affected or not. At the moment I have my Linux box set up in the sitting room next to the phone socket so that I can use the 'net stil. Good thing I have the house to myself this weekend then. Take heed - when lightning is around, unplug phone equipment as it can get buggered very easily.
Can't be bothered to write about anything else at the moment, nothing much of note. Got another driving test on Tuesday, and I've decided that I am going to try and go to University this year instead of taking a gap year. Which means I need to phone Aberystwyth at some point and see if this is doable and if they have any places going spare for this year. Plus there are exams looming, so if anything I can't complain I'll be bored over the next couple of weeks. Roll on summer...
Right then, need to update this thing. Even if there is nothing to write about. *Note to self: do something interesting soon, so I can write about it later on the internet.*
What has been happening lately then? Well, erm 6th finished so w00t for that. All thats standing between me and summer now is a 15 day long exam period, and before that starts I get to revise, or at the very least seriously contemplate revising. I am rather good at contemplating things. Just a shame that actually doing them is a different matter. :-
Since I am far too lazy to structure things in any coherent manner, here is a nice oredered list of completely unrealted things that have either happened to me lately, or I have been pondering:
1) Just because half of my MSN list listens to them reguarly, it does not make Greenday a good band. :-p
2) I discovered what is perhaps the single most annoying thing in the world ever the other day, which is discovering you are not in a possesion of a corkscrew, and yep you've guessed it, all the wine you got is all bloody well corked. At least I managed to sort this out today. ^_^
3) There is no number 3. Move along please.
4) I have become addicted to playing Timesplitters: Future Perfect online. I know what I'm going to be doing this summer instead of sleeping. If anyone reads this, owns this games and has an interwebbed PS2, then my handle is MevilWeevil1. Yes, its a crap name, but that is inconsequential when I am in your base killing your doods.
5) I better shut the window now before any moths get in. Nasty little buggers.
6) Frank Zappa - Can't stop listening to his stuff. This man is a bloody genius, and I must have more of his albums. More I tell you, MORE!
And that is about the extent of what has been happening lately. I'd love to stay longer and tell you more, but the truth is there really isn't any more to say.
Until next time o' reader of blogs. I always hate saying goodbye, so I think I'll just say hello instead. Hello. :-)
It has been bought to my attention that I am an owner of a blog. This blog in fact. Quite a nice blog if I may say so myself. My little blogy-woggy. Nice blog. Good blog. However, I have been, shall we say somewhat unkind to my blog of late. I have ignored it, I have brushed it aside and left it to be forgotten. How sad. All alone, with no little blog friends to play with. Well I say this ends tonight. Around about...... now in fact.
So what have I been upto in my life recently I hear you ask? Well, no I'm not actually hearing you ask this, but I'm just saying it as a figure of speech. Well it would be very difficult for me to update this without mentioning that I went to see The Revenge of the Sith on Thursday. In order to emphasise how excited I was about this, I have decided to type the following all in capitals, and without proper usage of my spacebar:
OH MY GOD I WENT TO SEE STAR WARS EPISODE 3 ON THURSDAY AND IT WAS THE BEST THING EVER BECAUSE THERE WERE LIGHTSABERS AND SPACESHIPS AND EXPLOSIONS AND STUFF AND IT WAS REALLY COOL BECAUSE IT WAS SUCH A REALLY GOOD FILM AND IT HAD ANAKIN SKYWALKER WHO SHALL HENCEFORTH BE KNOWN AS MOODY EVIL
So hopefully I have now succesfully conveyed to you what I thought of the film. However I feel a great sadness come over me, as I will never again be able to watch a Star Wars film for the first time. I feel as if apart of me has changed. Wait, no I still feel the same as before, but still :'(
There is little else I can include in a post which has such greatness in it. I am going to go now; no doubt my dreams will be filled with the fact that I am going to see the film again tomorrow. And possibly Sunday too.
But fow now though - goodnight.
Went to see The Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy today. Been a fan of the books ever since I read them, which is a little over a year ago now. There were some entirely new additions to the film, but then every different version of the guide (TV, radio, book, game) have been different, so the film may as well follow tradition. I just hope they make films for the rest all of the books in the trilogy. All five of them.
Next film on my list is Star Wars episode III, out later this month. And in regards to the title of this update, today is Star Wars day. So go do something Star Wars related, you've got 59 minutes left accordign to the clock on this computer. Personally, I wouldn't trust it though, especially considering it syncrhronises itself with the Windows time server.
With tomorrow comes General Election day. I won't be voting due to being 2 months too young, yet I can still tell anyone reading this to vote Liberal Democrat. Why? Put simply, they're the best of a bad bunch, which isn't saying much since all the 3 main parties are more or less one and the same. However, it's far too late to start ranitng about politics, so I'll leave that for another day.
My hands are starting to feel numb now. Actually, so are my feet and legs. In fact pretty much everything feels numb. I have no idea why. Thankfully for you this means I'll be shutting up around about now and going to bed.
I was watching TV earlier on, and there was some program where they throw some people into a kitchen with so called celebrity chefs, and then filmn them being shouted at. Yet another in the saga of reality television that is invariably as boring as shite, and has about the same intellectual content of a pair of sandals. It was after I had endured 15 whole minutes of some self-important food critic moaning that his mushrooms weren't to his liking that I came to the conclusion that it was quite possibly the most pretentious load of bollocks that I have ever had the displeasure to set eyes upon. Well, there are probably worse things, but it was certainly the worst thing I ever had to watch today. Let this be a lesson as to what can happen if you loose the telly remote - you will be forced into watching such rubbush as this.
Anyway, I think thats enough of my daily cynicism. Mayday is approaching, and I am having inexplicable urges to purchase a bike, get absolutley pissed and then dance about a bit. Possibly or possibly not featuring maypoles and drunken morris dancers. Meh, now can you see how screwed my brain has become after years of hard-line caffeine abuse?
The morning started as most morning usually do - slowly, and most of the time spent with me making the violent re-entry back into consciousness. After stumbling out of the shower, some random piece of paper on my desk managed to catch and hold my attention for at least a full 5 minutes. Eventually, and satisfied that my A-Level English coursework was in a state that could finally be submitted I saw the green sheet next to it. Yesterdays driving test report. Failed, for a second time. This was quickly disreagarded however, and my biggest regret of the morning was hte fact that the time I had spent looking at my coursework meant that I would not have time to drink any coffee. Therefore, it was in a rather fould mood that I eventually managed to slump into the car and end up at 6th form.
I approached the common room door cautiously. It was early in the morning, and I was praying that I wouldnt have to put up with some of the more chav like Year 12's. Thankfully this did not happen, but I saw something attached to the door that had not been there Wednesday. A letter, a seemingly incouculous one, but bearing the distinct picture of out local Labour MP. His smug grin peered out at me, in a "All your base are belong to me" kind of grin. I read it; more lies about Labours success and urging those of us that are old enough to vote Labour in the coming election, which further rubbed in the fact that on May 5th I will only be 2 months short of being 18. They have supposedly invested money in our schools, depsite the fact that I have not seen any evidence of this. He was also giving backing to the Labour candidate in our mock election. I vowed to deface some more Labour posters later on that day. It was then that I had the pleasure of sitting in the common room, caffeine deprived and being forced to sit in the overbearing shadow of the absoloutley massive billboard they have installed in there, which is currently advertising some mobile phone company or some such rubbish.
The rest of the day was rather mediocre - installing an overpowering sense of it being Friday. To my feigned suprise, it was Friday after all. After 6th form had ended I drove my parents car home, smiling to myself about the prospect of a 3 day weekend in which I will have absoloutley no coursework to do. The evening was spent playin San Andreas and adding the Hoary backport repositories to my apt-get sources.list in Ubuntu, and apt-get installing Gaim 1.2.1 in order to test it out, and feeling rather smug at the fact that I can get upto date software now. The vast majority of people can feel free to ignore that last sentance, unless of course they use Linux.
At this point I feel it suitable to give anyone who had read about my day in such minute detail a big shiny medal.
Farewell reader, until next time.
I keep underestimating just how good Linux actually is. Being of a doubtful nature, and always expecting the worst, I thought that getting Linux to recognize my digital camera would be a somewhat tricky task. I searched high and low on the internet for how I might achieve this. I tried special apps for the job, but they did not support my particualr camera. It was whilst I wass looking at the ins and outs of how to mount external devices other than floppy and cd-rom drives that I noticed something. On my desktop was an icon I had never seen before, and underneath it was written the word "removable". Upon opening this I discovered, to my joy that Linux had reognised my camera, and mounted it ready for me to copy the photos onto my hard drive. On windows I had to go through a lengthy installation procedure with drivers and what-not for me to be able to do that! And they say Linux is more difficult than Windows? I won't hear anything of the sort.
Next all I have to do is to make sure my scanner and printer works under Linux, and then I will have no reason not to change to it permanantly.
