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[Mar. 12th, 2004|07:49 pm] |
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Sppplaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargggh. I have a headache. Rantness. Computers probably aren't such a good idea. But I don't care cos I'm feeling really grumpy. Bah humbug. I've got soooo much work to do this weekend - I kind of let it build up :S and now I have three essays to do and all my Saturday is used up doing a Diabetes Day thing for biology people and on Sunday I have Interview Training Day. It's not that I don't think they'll both be really useful, but why the weekend? This has been the kind of week when I could really have done with a day that was a bit different.
I'm just feeling kind of drained and empty but still being drained anyway. I usually get like this two weeks before term ends so I suppose it's only set on a few days earlier than usual! Having said that I do like working intensively and in bursts - I don't like modular things. But recently I've been feeling really apathetic, and by the looks of things my sentences are becoming really disjointed.
Had a driving lesson this morning - it was ok but towards the end I couldn't really breathe because my teacher's car stinks of smoke. I just don't understand why people smoke - I'm in an especially intolerant mood at the moment but still, it turns you yellow, it makes you stink and it kills you. And everyone else, for that matter. Why start??? Anyway, on that happy note I am really hungry and my stomach says it's suppertime, so bye bye - have a great day,
lots of love,
Norbert
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[Mar. 11th, 2004|10:23 pm] |
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Hello! Hope you are all feeling merry and bright. Had my parents' evening today. I had to go to it. Aaaaaaaaaaargh. It was a kind of painful experience in that whenever someone talks about me to someone else when I'm listening I go this really weird tomato colour. And I'm usually wearing red or pink or something so I look like a sweating evil giant tomato. Which is not the image I'm trying to project.
Anyway - today:
I had Biology (blood groups and enzymes) which was kind of interesting - I'm still really happy that I chose it cos it's really interesting and I learn all these new words so I feel really wise. Yay! Ssssssynapsssssesssss, my preciousssssss. Anyway, that was kind of fun. And then Games was cancelled cos some poor souls were playing House Hockey (hehehe...) so I went to a French cafe near my school with a few friends. It was quite a nice place in that it was cozyish but it was the kind of place where everything was made of plastic trying to look like grey marble. And it was quite grimy as well until we got our drinks (caffe latte - £1.30) when they decided they might as well show some attempt at wiping it. Recently I've actually begun to like coffee. Initially I really couldn't stand it but I liked the smell, and coffee cake and stuff like that, then I started to like mocha and now I like coffee. Which is both deeply uninteresting and kind of strange timing, cos I never liked coffee when everyone else was drinking massive amounts of it because of 'the stress of GCSEs'.
By the way, does it ever annoy you when people get really competitive over how stressed they are? Someone says: 'Ooooh, I had a really hard night last night, I didn't get to bed until eleven,' then someone else says, 'You think that's staying up late? I went to bed at (horror of horrors) ELEVEN THIRTY!!!' And then, of course, somebody else butts (two ts?) in with 'You're both so lucky! I'm lucky if I can get to sleep before TWO.' Gah. And then someone asks me what time I got to bed and I go red and mumble 'nine thirty.' Ah well. The trials of life.
Anyway, the cafe was kind of nice - we talked about general stuff like daffodils (the flowers, not the poem!), people using too many '...' (I know I'm not one to talk) and homesickness. Which was kind of strange, but interesting. I was planning to make a start on structuring my history essays or something, but I wanted to do something interesting (no offence historical people). Then I went back to school for
lunch, where they said we'd get carrot cake but they only had rice pudding. Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not ashamed to tell you that I had to fight to keep my temper. I love carrot cake! Raising my expectations only to dash them... metaphor for life really. My word I'm being pessimistic today! I don't mean it really, I'm just going through a cynical phase. Admittedly it has lasted quite some time.
My singing lesson was quite fun really, I did enjoy it but I kept on feeling really dizzy. Which is apparently a normal blood-pressure issue but it was kind of annoying because you don't exactly want to die when you're trying to get all the way through a phrase (well, you don't at all) but I keep on taking really really loud breaths in really non-grammatical places and I want to stop doing that! History after that was cancelled (sorry, this is basically just an account of my day. The trouble is my thoughts just aren't that interesting so I can't just write about them. Though having said that, neither are my lessons and exactly what order I did them in). I went up to the Study Room (completely empty... hehe) with the genuine intention of doing some work and I did do some (Chemistry - grrr, and Biology - grrr. And General Studies. But actually I just wrote the title for that). But then my friend came in and I just started talking to her (which must have been quite annoying for her and anyway i am (really) (overusing) (brackets). (Sorry)).
I went to a philosophy lecture in the evening, which to be honest wasn't very good. It was kind of interesting but the guy just kept on repeating himself. And he kept calling science 'wishy-washy'. I kid you not. From a guy who spends his entire time sitting in a high-backed leather chair with steepled fingers and different coloured pills reflected in his glasses thinking 'Why?'. Or maybe not. Anyway, I asked him a question about colour perception and he waffled on about nothing in particular. He was a bit rude about my question! Ah well, it was probably just because I was a girl and I *gasp* wasn't wearing a suit. Or more realistically it was probably a stupid question. But what IS a stupid question? See, I've learnt at least one thing from his lectures - reflect back all questions - answering them just wouldn't be philosophical. Hmmmm. Dubious.
Laaa laaa laaa. I had to walk home in the COLD and the DARK. Poor me. But I was wearing my happy red gloves so I didn't really mind. And then I had to go to Parents' Evening. I went to Chemistry first which was interesting - I said I was concerned about my practical skills and my Chemistry teacher said she'd noticed how I kept on spilling stuff and shaking chemicals everywhere and asked if I was dyspraxic. Which I thought was fair enough but it REALLY offended my mum! Though I think that could have been because she suggested I should do Natural Sciences rather than Medicine because I had quite shaky hands and any sensible person would really not be happy for me to give them injections or anything. Mum also ended up telling my teachers that I loved cooking and embroidery :( it was quite embarassing. I'm kind of glad she stood up for me though.
Maths and Biology were fine, the teachers were really nice. And History was such a relief! I was really quite worried about it but my teacher was very reassuring. He also seemed kind of amused that I got Haigh from Father Christmas *sheepish grin*. The main thing is I'm not my parent so I don't see why I have to go to my Parents' Evening. Ah well. Such is life.
It has been quite a long time since I updated so this is stuff of note (well, from a nice perspective) that has happened:
I FINALLY have a great voluntary placement - I help on an old people's ward and talk to them and answer the phone and help to examine them and stalk junior doctors in the hope that they might impart some wisdom.
I am now a prefect (along with half the year) which entails the onerous tasks of collecting milk and a paper for the Sixth Form Centre and frightening off Year 11s from pushing in at the Tuck Shop. It's great fun though and I get to help look after a form - they are all really lovely.
I can reverse round corners (well, theoretically) and reverse into a parking spot (even more tenous).
I am reading the Iliad so I feel really really wise. Apart from that I told my Mum it was 'translated from the original Latin text' so maybe I'm not so wise after all. I'll have to be like Adrian Mole - I am an intellectual but I'm not very clever.
Have to go now - 23.08 (shock horror). Have a great day.
Lots of love,
Norbert
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[Feb. 4th, 2004|07:29 pm] |
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First question to you all: what is a moley guitar? Or did I hear that bit wrong in the Cats song? Hope you're all ok! Smile! Lalalaaa.
I had a really weird dream the night before last - Neo and Trinity were in this alternate world and Trinity kept impaling Chinese people and justifying killing to Neo using the Just War Theory (ius ad bellum!) and then they bounced into another world and fell out of a bus and Trinity started picking large purple flowers kind of like pansies but not. Strange, eh? I just didn't get it! Trinity wasn't flower-loving or racist in the Matrix. Weirdful.
Anyway, Tuesday - good enough day I suppose - had double History where we started Mary I who is q. interesting then triple Chemistry where we had an assessed practical. Aaaaaaaaaargh! There was stuff there that we'd never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever ever seen in our lives! It was REALLY REALLY hard. It was on Group 7 - there was one thing with manganate ions that I realised just after my analysis sheet had been taken in were REDOXy things. And my nitric acid turned YELLOW at one point. ?????
Sorry I will stop being annoying with my scary chemical talk now. That I don't understand at all. LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! Anyway, that is why (as you may have noticed) I am currently Cranky with a capital C. Raaaaaaaaaaaaa! Gaaaaaaah! The afternoon was ok once I got home though - had a weird onion bagel for lunch which tasted really nice but was straaaaaange. Then I had some Hula Hoops (Enjoy the Holes!). Sorry this is really uninteresting! I will have to go on and tell you that I had one and a half glasses of water, eighteen grapes (green, seedless) and a small apple with a nasty brown smudge on it. Hmmm. Fascinating. Anyway, the afternoon was alright (alright or all right?) - I did some more of my History essay and did some Maths revision. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz.
On Wednesday I woke up, got out of my red bed, put on my blue shoes, my black mac, and my orange and indigo and yellow and scarlet and purple and violet and magenta and maroon and silver and gold and lilac and cream and ochre and green and russet DREAMCOAT! (Well, actually scarf). (Well, actually, none of that is true. Hehe fooled you! Except that I didn't. At least for your sake I hope I didn't!). Oh dear I must stop telling such bizarre lies! To summarise: I got up.
School was ok actually - had Maths and I had to climb all the way up three flights of stairs (oh, the pain, the pain of it all). And then I had History and I had to climb all the way back down three flights of stairs. That was fairly interesting though (the history, not the stairs! Although they have some really strange posters, all bearing the blatantly untrue legend: 'Maths is cool.' Hmmm. The power of posters. Maths is interesting though.). After lunch I did this Coursefinder thing to help me figure out what to do at university. Those things always tell me to do Philosophy! It would be q. fun I think, just sitting in a high-backed black chair looking wise. With, naturally, the STEEPLED FINGERS! Hehehehe. And after that, I had General Studies - ethicsy stuff - fairly interesting but all a bit - well, general, if you know what I mean. It's all too vague, and there don't seem to be any solid answers.
When I got home I made double chocolate muffins! Yay! Though my History teacher actually asked me if I liked cooking today! I was really embarrassed. I must seem so so so strange to other people! I like the food more than the cooking! Anyway, I now have tea (hehe, hehe), and I have to finish my work so I can have an early night and read more of the Dawn Treader (great book - I'm on the bit with the Dufflepuds. They're so cute!). So night-night, sweet dreams, etc. etc. (I bet you'll be reading this in the morning now!)
Lots of love,
Norbert
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[Feb. 2nd, 2004|08:16 pm] |
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Hi! Hope you're ok and have had a reasonable week. Mine's gone ok, all things considered.
Last Monday was good, Tuesday was ok in the morning but then I went for an interview for volunteering at my hospital (I want to do something more interesting!) and the woman wasn't there! And she hadn't put me in her diary even. But she'd emailed my dad saying that she was meeting me so I am quite annoyed! Disorganised woman! I really hope she never reads this! She is nice, but I am still ANNOYED. I think she was ill though so I really should forgive her. I have another interview in a fortnight.
Anyway, best part of the week was Wednesday - IT SNOWED! Really properly too, everything was white and beautiful and sparkling. It was amazing. Loads of schools were shut for the day. Mine wasn't. Apparently loads of kids were ringing up the local radio station saying their schools were closed when they weren't! Why didn't I think of that?! We had our lessons as usual and our un-joyful teachers made us do maths and history and all that anyway. But at least I knew that outside it was snowy. It sounds strange but knowing stuff like that is really important to me. It kind of makes you feel inwardly rebellious in a nice way knowing that although you might have to be considering utilitarianism and all that inside the snow doesn't care! School was closed in the middle of my last lesson because it got really stormy and the snow was blowing horizontal. My friend apparently saw purple lightning! I saw some pretty impressive thunder. We were the last class to be told! How annoying? Having said that, there were lots of claimants for the post of Last Class To Be Told To Go Home - at least four rivals to my claim that I heard. But I was right! Hehehe! It was like that GCU orienteering thing Jes!
Thursday was fun - a lot of the snow had turned into ice though, and I fell over quite dramatically! My sister just stood laughing at me! I was quite offended. It was very amuooooooooosing though. I basically only had double Biology, where we just had to go to the computer room and try to write our coursework essays. After that I had lots of frees so I walked home and worked there. I made some cheese scones and my mum made MASSES of tomato soup! She felt quite ill in the evening though! I thought the cheese looked a bit wet! Hope it wasn't my fault! I didn't feel ill though so it hopefully wasn't. I got back to school for my singing lesson (la la LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA) which went fairly well.
Friday - most of the snow had melted. Nothing all that interesting. My driving lesson was cancelled because of the ice so I was less at risk of becoming one of the 1,000 people who die of passive smoking every year in England. Seriously, my teacher does smell like an ashtray. She is nice though, just has some habits which really ANNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOY me! D of E was really funny - we watched a video on first aid. The acting was SOOO bad! There was one scary bit though, where they showed a tent being burnt down and it only took 15seconds. So all you D of E people DO YOUR COOKING AWAY FROM YOUR TENT! When I got home I had two letters! I felt really popular :) simple things... Anyway, one was just from the blood people saying 'thankyou for your generous donation' blah blah blah. My blood group is O positive if anyone finds that remotely interesting! And the other was a Disguised Envelope i.e. an envelope inside another envelope with my bank card in it. A fetching lilac shade. Choir was good - better than usual. The second altos went horribly flat at the end though. At least I hope it was them :P
Saturday - had LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOADS of work to do. I probably should have written my biology essay a bit before it was due in! I was set it a month ago. I put lots of references in and tried to make it coherent and stuff (I just wrote 'tryed' then! Not a good omen...). And then I tackled my History essay. Not very concise I'm afraid! Ah well. Life is like that. I'll have to do a considerable amount of editing though! Sunday continued in much the same vein, but I went to church in the morning (great! We got to model with playdough during the sermon which was actually really fun. I made a model that Mum and my sister were convinced was Anna (the old woman from the Candlemas story). I didn't have the heart to tell them it was Joseph!), went driving with Dad in the afternoon (only cried once! Gear popped out when I was driving on a 40mph road. It was just really REALLY stressful! Dad is a really patient teacher though), and had SMYG this afternoon (which was FANTASTIC as always. We're doing Pilgrim's Progress at the moment). And that was a *counts frantically* 112word-long sentence. Be amazed!
Tis Monday today however, and that has gone fairly well. My cello teacher said I was doing a good amount of practice! Hehehe I'm only doing 15minutes a week and she told me to do half an hour a day! I feel so sneaky. Anyway, I have an assessed practical tomorrow and am rubbish at them so I had better cram then go to bed!
Have a lovely day,
lots of love,
Norbert
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[Jan. 25th, 2004|06:03 pm] |
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Hello! Hope you're all ok and smiley and having a right good old time my friends, oooh arrr that I am. I'm alright, a wee bit tired though me mateys because I didn't go to sleep until 3 last night (it was late for me!). I went round to my friend's house - it was massive! They had all these amazing chandeliers which were all twinkly and pretty impressive. We played sardines! We had to go in pairs though because the house was so big! We didn't count in the cool Jes&Norbert way though - one SARDINE *wild flailing* two SARDINE *wild flailing* etc etc, which is clearly THE way to go. Yay! Capitals! And oh dear. Massive surplus of exclamation marks.
Anyway, I ate and I ate and I ate and I ate and now I feel humungous and full full full. It was really fun though, everybody went outside and we were looking at the stars and Orion was looking really cool. But people kept on saying stuff like: 'look, that star's MOVING! And flashing too! WOOOOOOOOOOOW *deep aweful look*. I felt a bit bad having to point out that it was, in fact, an aeroplane. Ah well. Disillusionment all round. Jes, do you remember when we saw that amazing shooting star in Dorset? That was the best.
We all watched 'From Hell' together it was terrifying. I hate horror films in general, but somebody had already watched it and kept saying when the gory bits were coming up so I just covered my eyes the whole time basically. However, the film was saved by Johnny Depp, who is an amazing actor. Hehehe clever man ('the RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM!!!'). And Robbie Coltrane was in it too. He's quite good as well. And Ian Holm acted really well but (don't read the next bit if you intend to watch the film although this warning will probably give it away to you astute guessing people) he was Jack the Ripper! He really didn't seem the kind of man though to me, he was too short! Sorry I am so discriminating! I turned out to know more about opium than any of my friends which was a little concerning (it was in the film I wasn't just being random!).
It is Sunday now, always a good day. Mum's friend and her family came round so that was quite nice, although it entailed the inevitable Family Walk. We just pottered around and looked at some pretty gardens really. Joy.
Anyway, I still have loads of homework :( so I had better go and do that now! Have a lovely day,
lots of love,
Norbert
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| Hello. |
[Jan. 24th, 2004|09:46 am] |
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Hi everybody! (Hi doctor Nick!) sorry I know I say that all the time but it is so funny! Hehehehe. Well, maybe it isn't all that funny if you're not me but don't deny me the amusement!
Wow I am typing with my left hand I feel really cunning and skilful. Simple things... Anyway, on to the latter half of the working week my dear dear friends.
Wednesday wasn't bad - double maths in the morning (we have to climb LOADS of stairs to get up to it), then triple history, which was ok, but my teacher gave me an evil for no apparent reason and then we had a TIMED ESSAY! Aaaargh. It went kind of wrong. The afternoon was ok though, we had to make provisional A2 choices which was a bit scary, and then I had General Studies. It was interesting, but I'm really scared of the teacher!
Thursday was ok - double biology when we were talking about RNA and stuff which was kind of interesting and very clever. Hehe did you know you get nonsense codons in your DNA which are bits of DNA that don't code for anything and you have to take them out of the RNA before you make your proteins? I thought that was really sweet!
After break I had double badminton, which was really fun although I'm still rubbish! My partner was feeling ill this week though so I clawed my way up to 8 to her 15 (or something like that). We play at a really big posh school near my one, and we have photos of their sports hall in our prospectus! It is so corrupt! Hehehehe.
Anyway, I had some frees (frees, wonderful frees) where I did nothing really! Then my singing lesson (LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA) where my teacher told me I should be a soprano not an alto and said I had a voice (and I quote), like a 'quite lazy soprano'! Humph. I wasn't that offended to be honest, at least she thought I had a voice! Which is more than many people do. After that I had triple history, which was fairly interesting, and I had the added incentive of chocolate cake to keep me awake (hehe that rhymes!).
I had debating in the evening, about 'modern popular music' being too commercial or something. The whole thing kind of went whoosh over my head really, they were referring to all these bands I had never heard of. My ears pricked up hopefully when they heard the Beatles mentioned, but had to go rapidly down when people started comparing them with yet another band. I'm not that in to pop music really, I'm a metal girl! Hehehe no I'm not, I value my ear drums. Basically, music wise, I live in the past - I like piano and cello stuff. Though Jesta's music is really cool, I love that.
Friday (wow this must be interesting for you!) I had double maths again, we're doing the modulus function ??? but it was reasonably interesting. Then I had lunch, then an assessed practical in chemistry. It was really scary, my goggles were steaming up with stress and all that, but in the end I got the same compounds as most other people. I was really pleased, cos I can't do practicals at all. Anyway, after that I had Biology, where we practised questions (zzzzzzzzzz) and then D of E, where we had to treat pretend casualty people and it was quite funny!
Anyway, see you soon,
lots of love,
Norbert
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[Jan. 20th, 2004|05:31 pm] |
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Hi again! Haven't written for quite a while. Hope you are feeling ok. School today has gone fairly well. Had double History in the library trying to read about popular reactions to the Edwardian Reformation which was q. interesting but maybe not the highlight of my day. I'd get really bored sitting pretty much on my own all day. Tis interesting because until I did my GCSEs I always thought I'd be ok having only myself for company. Then I had study leave. It was SO BORING! Mind you, that could have been the stuff I was revising, but anyway, I need to be with people!
Next lesson, triple Chemistry. Not nearly as hard to survive as usual! I just can't cope with sitting on their stools for two hours - they are really hard and really painful and I feel generally squished! But the Chemistry paper that we had had to sit on Friday hadn't gone nearly as badly as I had feared! I was really worried because it had been horrible. Luckily, the teacher marking it is both really lovely and has great faith in diagrams, so I was ok! I just can't write coherently (as you may have noticed!). After that I had to show a girl round our Sixth Form Centre which was quite fun.
We had our prefect elections today. It was strange... we could vote for up to six people, including ourselves?! It was a bit random. If you were that confident you'd be good you wouldn't see the need to vote for yourself. I wouldn't be very good, I get really scared of little people! Hehehe by the way my sister has to write an essay on the importance of silence in assembly! I was really amuoooosed. It would be a bit pointless though if everyone was silent.
Anyway, after school I went to a thing about medical ethics, which was really interesting. I love reading the 'scenario' things they are always so improbable!
The most amusing one I ever encountered goes like this:
'You have been kidnapped by a world famous evil genius. You are in a warehouse and you are tied to a post in front of a bowling machine and given a cricket bat. The evil genius tells you that in half an hour one ball will be released - WITH A BOMB IN IT!!! (daa daa daaaaaaaaaaa). You are a world famous cricketer (well naturally). Tied to a post to your left is a group of four pregnant women. In the middle are tied four high-profile scientists researching treatment for AIDS and cancer. To your right, four comedians are (you guessed it!) tied to a post (efficient kidnapper isn't he?). You must either hit the ball at one of these groups or leave it, in which case it will hit the wallful of explosives behind you, killing everyone in the warehouse, including your famous cricketer self. WHAT DO YOU DO? And no you cannot aim the ball elsewhere you world famous cricketer you.'
If you know the solution to this ethical dilemma, please leave a comment! Even if you don't, please leave a comment anyway and make me feel loved!
I'm reading the Horse and his Boy at the moment it is really cool. It has always been my favourite Narnia book, I don't really know why. Now I had better go because I have a timed essay tomorrow! Gah. I hate essays. Anyway, have a lovely day. |
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[Jan. 10th, 2004|03:01 pm] |
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'THE SPECKLED BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND!!!!!' Aaargh. How dense was she? Why couldn't she be normal and say 'the spotty snake' or something a little less... how to put this delicately?... STUPID? Anyway, worry not your overworked brains, my friends. I haven't been attacked by a scary snake. I just felt like being dramatic!
I had this weird dream last night where the index finger and middle finger of my left hand kind of came off. And my skin was perfectly healed underneath, but I just carried the fingers around for a while in my pocket for safekeeping. It was really really strange. I suppose it could have been either Lord of the Ringsy or His Dark Materialsy but as I haven't read any of them recently I just don't know where my dream came from. I suppose it could have been Star Warsy in a way except that the careless boy lost his entire HAND didn't he. 'I SENSE THE GOOD IN YOOOOOOOOOOU!!!' Hehehe FOOLISH EARTHLING! Sorry, as you probably noticed, THE CAPITALS ARE BACK! Not that they ever went away, they were just *dramatic sob* sleeping.....
I'm reading the Narnia books at the moment. They are so good! I'm in the bit in 'The Magician's Nephew' where Narnia is created. The Cabby keeps spoiling it though! It's all intense and singy and beautiful and then his horse does a poo or something like that and kind of takes the edge off the drama! (Sorry, my taste is still hiding). There's no finger-loss in that though, is there? I suppose Jadis seriously abuses that lamp-post though. Oh, I'm sorry, I mispronounced that didn't I? How could I say that when I clearly meant lamPPPP-*loads of spit*-post. Sorry. Private ANNOYANCE. Gaaah, evil BBC Lucy.
Anyway, I'm going to town now I hope, when my sister decides to HURRY up.
Have a great day,
lots of love,
Norbert
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[Jan. 9th, 2004|05:37 pm] |
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BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I had my driving lesson today! It was ok - I drove nearly all the time, and I sped on a 30mph road and then a 40mph road! Naughty me. It was purely lack of control though, not evil intentions. I stalled the car waiting for the traffic lights at the end of a 40mph road though - my driving teacher forgot to tell me to change gear. It was... interesting, but q. fun.
Anyway, today's been ok, apart from me having a really annoying cold. It's not that bad, it's just feeling stuff sliding around inside your nose and all the sneezing and coating your hands in mucus business. But I have a feeling I'd better shut up now, as this is rapidly leaving the realms of taste (it's q. ironic that that is one of the senses you lose when you've got a cold)!
I had the Gustav Mole quote in my head all the way home from school today. Jes, you'll know it I think. It's in the Fox's song when he goes: 'It's time I cry, my te-ars will lie like pop-sicles on-n my neu-heu-heu-heuse (i.e. nose)' in a really mournful voice. Tis most touching. Weird tense though. And popsicles on your neu-heu-heu-heuse might get a little annoying after a while.
We did First Aid in D of E. It was really amuuuuuuuuusing. Like 'If somebody in your group has a heart attack whilst they are falling off a cliff, you should...'. Kind of makes you a bit nervous though! Along with the: 'these warming bag things HAVE to be orange. It's so you can be seen from the air'. ??????? Will we need to be seen from the air?
Anyway, have to go to choir now. Have a lovely day/evening!
Lots of love,
Norbert
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| Little fishy |
[Jan. 8th, 2004|08:25 pm] |
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Why is this thing called an event? I'm a bit confused. Anyway, nothing very eventful has happened today, apart from me and my sister being really psychic. We were walking home from school and suddenly we started singing exactly the same song at the same time in the same key (for once!) - it was really scary.
Anyway, my day started with double biology (well, technically with me waking up with my hair looking like a brillo pad - in fact many many many brillo pads, and thumping my radio alarm clock thingy). That was ok - the little fish behind me were still alive (I'm actually not trying to be offensive and am talking about the goldfish as opposed to the people behind me... for once). I'm glad we have fish - they're so pretty and swimmy and cute. Better than locusts anyway, which we had when I was about fourteen. Honestly, my last school had hamsters! Although that was probably its sole good point...
And then I had Badminton, which was really really fun. Admittedly I lost my first game 2-15 (I was tired!!!), but I only lost my doubles match 14-15. But that was very probably due to the skill of my partner rather than me. I just made it more interesting for her by missing absolutely everything that came my way (deliberately of course...). Although I had one or two very flukey serves that were quite sneaky. I ran out of words to describe my friends' shots - the only ones I could think of were 'crafty', 'sly', 'sneaky', 'fox-like' (I was running out of inspiration, ok!), and finally, 'cunning', although to be honest someone else thought of that for me!
Anyway, I am really annoyed with the Google toolbar, it measured the importance of my website as 0/10! How offensive?! Although it gives my random musings 7/10... I suppose it does claim to have blocked fourteen pop-ups, so I'll have to allow it to live. Aside from the fact that I have no clue how to get rid of it.
Hope you're ok, and have a lovely life!
love,
Norbert
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P.S. Missing you, Jes!
P.P.S. Still haven't worked out the parsnip... |
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[Jan. 7th, 2004|09:08 pm] |
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Hi again. I'm back. As you probably realised. Anyway, school was fairly interesting. Double maths at the beginning - aaargh. And our 'Concise Textbook of A-level Statistics'. I have never seen anything less concise in my entire life. And it's such an eyesore as well! It has this massive faded orange 'A' against a dark green background with a 'Statistics' watermark - it is nasssssssssty my precioussssssss. Still, I q. like maths so I suppose I can't really complain!
I think I have biology and history tomorrow. Oooh, and badminton, which might be q. fun - I haven't played it for ages. It's such a random game! It's really bizarre, kind of like butterfly - what kind of weirdo invented that? It's really inefficient, it looks stupid and splashes everyone around you so if you don't die by drowning when you finish the other people in the pool will probably kill you. It's not exactly a win-win situation. Or even a lose-win one. Btw, has anyone seen Scary Movie? When everyone kills the annoying girl in the cinema?
Supper was really nice - we had CHEESE SOUFFLE! My favourite. Sorry about the capitals - having had my netiquette lesson this afternoon it's pretty inexcusable! But anyway, it adds more interest to my life. 'What a boring life!', I hear you cry. You're dead right. But it's getting progressively more interesting - and more stressful! Random thought - I was reading my sister's magazine today (whilst doing statistics and making muffins!), and it said my ideal boyfriend would be a parsnip. ??? I was veeeeeeeeeery confused. If you can shed any light on this or you are a parsnip in need of a girlfriend, please leave a comment. Actually, if you really are a parsnip, don't. That would be too scary.
Bye!
love Norbert
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| School arrrrgggghain.... |
[Jan. 7th, 2004|08:34 pm] |
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Hi! Hope you're all ok and happy and bright and smiley and all that kind of stuff. I'm ok. Just spent a few hours trying to multitask by doing statistics and making mini lemon muffins at the same time! They're for History tomorrow, although I left a few as an offering for my family (who were all really grateful 'til they realised they were the sticky ones)!
Anyway, today has been reasonable - woke up at 6.45 (how do you do capital numbers? Maybe SIX FORTYFIVE!!!!! or something like that). Went back to bed without realising. Woke up probably at about 7.15 which was ok - I still had time to wash my hair and eat my muesli! Btw, I was really annoyed cos I always thought cereals were pretty good for you judging by the nutrition information, but then I actually got bored enough to weigh out a 'serving' and it was MINISCULE!
And at school we all had to listen to a looooooooooong talk about careers and UCAS forms and it was SCARY. Aaaaaaaaaaargh.
Anyway, suppertime! My stomach calls...
Lots of love,
Norbert
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| School tomorrow... |
[Jan. 6th, 2004|05:38 pm] |
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Hi! I'm back. Again. And I'm still really tired! Sorry, this must be such a bundle of laughs for you poor people reading it! I went to the Blood Donation Centre today it was really scary. The people were all really nice but then one of the women told me I'd tested positive for a test. I was REALLY scared - I thought she meant hepatitis or something, but she just meant my blood group (which she wouldn't tell me)! I was v. annoyed! The people were lovely and really helpful though.
Anyway, I have school tomorrow. I really need another week! At least I don't have any tests except for chemistry (grrrrrr) when I go back. I missed our last triple chemistry lesson though - I was on a Medlink course. So I know nowt aboot the halogens or grps 1 and 2. Tragedy. I suppose I'll just have to sensible and look in my textbook!
I need to get everything ready - my school stuff is still strewn all over my room, and I have NO clue where my games stuff is. Probably not a strong enough excuse to get off Games... At least I'm doing Badminton (I hope!) this term - that's quite fun, it's just the running around at the start of it! I'm sooo unfit. I have my last ECDL lesson tomorrow (european computer 'driving licence' or something equally annoyingly named!), and then I start General Studies, which some people think is q. interesting. I don't know if I'm going to be one of them! At least for ECDL we didn't get homework! But to be honest I didn't have a clue how to make slides go whoosh or what 'http' stood for before I did the modules, I usually just fiddled until it worked! |
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| The Jellicle Moon is shining bright... |
[Jan. 5th, 2004|08:26 pm] |
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| | the sweet music of my family walking around REALLY LOUDLY! | ] |
Hi again. I feel exhausted. Just had dinner - food makes me soooo sleepy! I was q healthy today! I had a big fruit salad & cereal for lunch in an attempt to cancel out the aforementioned rolos!
I sooooo want to see CATS again! I wasn't v. coherent when I did my first entry! It was FANTASTIC. Tugger was so funny! He kept on dancing in the background of all the songs that weren't about him, and it was most amuuuuuuuusing. And Misto was really sweet, but q. destructive! I was shocked! The set was covered in really pretty lights that kept flashing while he was doing his dance.
I'm so jealous of people who can dance! (Hence the green flashing flower thingy). I wish I could, but I'm so inflexible it is untrue. Apart from that it is. I always feel inspired to have a go, after seeing stuff like CATS or Billy Eliot. But I always get brought down to earth fairly rapidly. Both literally and metaphorically.
CATS was really so great though, and I saw the Growltiger thingy which I'd never seen before. It was fantastic. Tugger as a pirate was so funny! And the stripy tops they were all wearing were really really cool. I love stripes!
I'm in an ok mood at the moment I suppose. I'm really missing Jes though. Hello if you're reading this! I really enjoyed staying over. I was so psychic in that Go Fish game! I felt really mind-reading. Reading the quotations book was great fun. And go Cassio! Evil Iago. |
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| Bonjour mes amis! |
[Jan. 5th, 2004|05:02 pm] |
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| | nowt my friends apart from the hissy noise of my computer | ] |
Hello again. I'm really tired! Not done much today, apart from recovering! Oooh, and I went to the gym as well! I felt really healthy, but as soon as I came out I ate loads of Rolos so there wasn't all that much point in going... It was really depressing too - this girl who used some of the machines next to me looked seriously ill - her skin was all yellow and I could see all the veins in her legs - her ankles were incredibly thin. It was really upsetting seeing her using the rowing machines and looking like a skeleton, and a very tired looking one at that!
My own level of fitness was also a bit worrying - I was trying to use one of those cross-country skiing thingys and my arms completely died! I went with my really really sporty sister, so it was a bit confidence-destroying! I realised a little too late that I had no pockets, so I didn't have a clue where to put my gym pass. I thought maybe I could stuff it in my bra like in movies, but being the most flat-chested person I know, I kind of had to give up on that one! I just clutched it in my sweaty little mitt and watched as it got progressively soggier...
I spent my afternoon writing about the Ottoman Empire (v. exciting! I just wish I had a memory), and now I'm making ginger biscuits! I love cooking - it's such a crafty way to make people ill and be grateful to you! Hehehehe i am evil!
I'm going back on school on Wed (#25). I suppose it's not that bad really - I really enjoy all my AS subjects (maths, chemistry, biology, history), it's just the overwhelming feeling of exhaustion and seeing everyone around me get really stressed! And I don't even like coffee, so I can't use that to get my energy levels up! I have to resort to chocolate... (#16)!
Anyway... have a lovely day! |
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| Hello! |
[Jan. 4th, 2004|05:18 pm] |
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| | Sister playing three blind mice on the guitar! | ] |
Hi! Hope you're having a lovely day!
Thanks for looking at this, tis most kind of thee.
Anyway, I went to see CATS yesterday! It was fantastic. We had pretty good seats and Skimbleshanks and Rumpelteazer both spoke to my little sister. I spoke to Old Deuteronomy! He signed a leaflet for me in pretty gold pen, and wrote 'Old Deut' instead of his actual name, it was really sweet!
I put on face paints with my best friend and a friend I hadn't seen for ages. It was really cool to see her again. I'm really tired now! I spent a LOOOONG time talking!
Nearly the end of the holidays! :( Hope that turns out as a smiley! I really don't know how to use this!
Bye! Please leave comments,
lots of love,
Norbert
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