If life were a bowl of cherries...

More brevity

2008-07-04T11:20:37+00:00

Keep meaning to update.... but I am currently struggling to grapple my way over the *mountain* of things to do that were postponed until the holidays. So this weekend I intend to sort out:

visa
current account for next year
holiday
workout and put in my hours form
oboe
organise singing lesson
organ
DVLA (DONE)
Pay Jo
list of things to buy for next year
return Francis' book
book oboe in to be serviced
buy / give leaving presents to teachers
organise Go Ap trip
organise picnic for next friday
organise drinks with sue
hand in repeat prescription to the doc!
sort out seeing Steve at some point
sort out seeing kit at some point
tidy my room
do the washing
Join the Old leysians
go through old paperwork I havnt bothered to read
sort through chuck out most of the last two year's notes.
lessons for next year?
music I need to buy?
email Alamty conservatoire
learn Russian (SOME!)

Im sure there are a few more things that I have forgotten. :P

Such is life

and my ~~irritating~~ amazingly lovely and considerate boyfriend took it into his head to lend me a slightly addictive computer game!!

Which I havn't played yet today so I am pleased with that.

working from 3:15-8:45 but going to go kayaking before and do organ afterwards. :D Hopefully there is someone else on over dinner so I will have a chance to eat.

xXx

The end

2008-06-28T20:01:37+00:00

School is over forever

I am too uterly exhuasted to post any more.

...or use correct grammar

xXx

And she returns...

2008-06-23T13:51:14+00:00

...And don't think I didn't hear your groan.

I have finished my 7 days of exams. I have done well in biology and chemistry (I had already written the biology synoptic essay of my own accord for revision - plant reproduction!! :D :D) and I am TERRIFIED about music - but such is the way. Hopefully my more than adequate marks from last year will tide me over. (*crosses fingers*)

I have also been out to dinner, a party and a ball.... Met some really rather interesting and entertaining new people, worked out how to do our song for Cabaret (Wed and Thur this week)... and written the A section of a gig. You shouldn't let me spend hours tuning on a recorder :P gone through every dance form I know from pavanne to sarabande to gig to reel.... :D oh and lots of minuets because they are pretty.

Oh and another song on the train... well beginnings of

Different trains honey, different line
Different trains/ways(?) honey, different mind
You'll go your way
And I'll go mine
You've done you worst
Soon I'll be feeling just fine / now I'm feeling just fine (?)

xXx

This is going around the folky people...

2008-06-20T08:36:05+00:00

"please, please, PLEASE sign this petition! the government are trying to pass a "violent crimes reduction bill" which will illegalise buying swords generally. unfortunately this also applies to dance swords! rapper, longsword, highland, etc. also possibly morris sticks. there is a exemption for sporting activites and historical reenactment, and the petition is to get dance included in this exemption.

please sign this, and pass it on to anybody you know who might be interested. we can't let our wonderful culture die out!! they can't do this to us!! note: closing date to sign is 25th june.

petitions.pm.gov.uk/dancers

please sign!"

Right... so I read the bill from 2005/6, but I can find no details of what the amendments actually are. Questions: "surely dance is classed as a sport?" and "aren't most dance swords not weapons anyway as they lack both a blade or a point"

Martial arts and fighting sports I assume are classed as sport.

and WHY CANT THESE THINGS BE MADE CLEAR AND UNDERSTANDABLE AND MORE IMPORTANTLY

ACCESSIBLE

Oh yes, then we might actually be able to contribute.... I forgot that.

Here's to Democracy,

xXx

She has to do something to keep herself calm

2008-06-10T20:47:58+00:00

It should not affect me so much. It shouldn't. Or effect if that is the right one. It shouldn't... but it does.

That is all.

Nothing more and nothing less.

But when you don't have the time to crash, you do what you can to keep yourself moving.

Anything you can.

Such is the way.

It's a pity really

xXx

Rant

2008-06-10T15:09:24+00:00

I have 6 exams.

They actually matter.

I have two years work to learn for all 3 subjects.

Only ONE of the papers is NOT synoptic.

I am trying to move country next year.

I am trying to set up 3 or 4 different bank accounts.

I don't understand my phone company.

The Customer Services for orange play AWFUL music when you are on hold.

I have no time to either exercise or play music.

I have two music lessons in the next week.

Everyone is wanting me to sort out the summer.

I am going to get no work done this weekend either :(

I have lost my favourite bra - at school somewhere.

THEY HAVE LOCKED MY ROOM for me!

My room is covered in notes: the walls, the bed, the floor... havn't got to the window yet!

AND I HAVE TORN THE LIGAMENT IN MY FOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!

xXx

So My day.... just incase you cared :P

2008-06-07T08:16:15+00:00

7:30 - Wake up (suppsedly so I can FINALLY DO some organ practise)... turn over and go back to sleep

8:45 - Wake up... still have headache and bleary brain, but find tea and clothes and get up

9:30 - Cycle into town

9:45 - buy a dress for my sister (I hav a student card)

10:00 - meet a friend for coffee...

....

15:00 turn up at the Sports Hall for Lifeguarding

21:00 Leave the Sports Hall after cleaning up and all that fun!

....

The dots repressent a combination of gyming (because I dont ache quite enough today so should go again), organ (Because I MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST MUST do some) and Music Revision (Because Ditto)....

That said, it is the practical paper first and my chorales seem to have become entirely mood dependant... I shall do them anyway. And get JMJD to mark - make his day to be able to go through them again with his "CONtraVERtial" (drawled tone and the CAPS indicate accent) and his look of glee at finding (numerous in my case) parallel fifths.

Today is a day for parenthesis.

xXx

Displacement

2008-06-02T23:14:13+00:00

The trouble with displacement... is that is it only temporarily.

Say, for example, you choose to displace an emotion for an evening so you can enjoy yourself (however random you appear) then at some point that emotion will come back. Usually it comes back when the evening is over. When everyone else has gone. When it is just you and no one to see...

I can never work out if that is better or worse.

xXx

Soundtrack to my life... stolen from Em

2008-06-02T16:49:46+00:00

Soundtrack To My Life:
So, here's how it works:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool and no disclaimers allowed.

Opening Credits:
Black Wave - The Shins

Waking Up:
Beautiful One - Time Hughes

First Day At School:
The Falmouth Packet / Haul Away Joe - Show Of Hands

Falling In Love:
Nature Boy - Bowie (Moulin Rouge - so true: the greatest thing you'll ever learn...)

Fight Song:
The Man I Killed - Mike Ryan and Pete Harris (apparently)

Breaking Up:
The Burning Times - Artisan

Prom:
The Battle of Marfa Rhuddlan

Mental Breakdown:
Valentine - The Delays

Driving:
You Shook me ALL night long - Hayseed Dixie remix

Flashback:
I need you to turn to - Maddy Prior and the Girls

Getting back together:
Gree Grows the Laurel - Cara Dillon

Wedding:
On the Road Again - Katie Melua (something like that)

Birth of A Child:
Black Diamonds - Jez Lowe (... interesting)

Final Battle:
Life in the Fast Lane - The Eagals

Death Scene:
Courting is a Pleasure - Show of Hands

Funeral Song:
How Can I tell you - Cat Stevens

End Credits:
(Speed - Artisan)
Giver of life - Tim Hughes :D :D

xXx

BCD Clock

2008-06-02T10:02:27+00:00

The people at my Dad's work think I'm geeky.

They might also have evidense to support this.

When I saw this my face lit up, my eyes shone, I lost all power's of speech and valid communication and trails of green smoke trailed across the room. It is sooo soooo cool! I mean REALLY cool. As in just *the best* idea ever. It's just pretty :D And cool... and .... and ... and I WANT ONE!

Actually... screw that. Having seen that website, I want to make one. But I'll settle for buying one at the moment as I don't have the time or parts or time... really it's just the time.

Apparently... liking my decimal clocks to be coded in base two is somewhat geeky. Apparently this is a characteristic that is of significant note in any Homo sapien with two x chromosomes. Apparently I became a talking point at his work for a few days after this revelation.

I also like logical/maths puzzels and do them for fun. I think xkcd is hilareous. OOTS isn't too bad either. I play dungeons and dragons and have dipped into various other role-play games. I need to know how things work. I am more than happy to read copious volumes of Sci-Fi, and then point out all the physical impossabilities and how it could have been made more accurate. The most entertaining game I have played in the last 18 months is one that involves leaning magentic pieces up against each other so that the the repulsice forces balance and they stay upright (I need to practise seeing magnetic fields on the playing area). I am happy to spend hours looking over the schematics for a light confocal microscope trying (sometimes in vain) to understand. I will grin inanely once I have solved a difficult problem. And I will shout at youif you give me the answers first (unless it is tiresome integration and I am in a bad mood).

Have we cleared this up now :P

xXx