06/10/2008
Rant
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
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06/07/2008
So My day.... just incase you cared :P
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...
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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
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06/02/2008
Displacement
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
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Soundtrack to my life... stolen from Em
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)
Black Diamonds - Jez Lowe (... interesting)
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
(Speed - Artisan)
Giver of life - Tim Hughes :D :D
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BCD Clock
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
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