so so happy!
Lauren (Lauren from Oz, that is) sent me a videotape all the way from Australia! :) Very very happy :) Love Lauren. Lauren is the dude. And she spent... like £5 on postage as well. ::huggles for Lauren::
Physics was most odd today... we were swinging bungs round our heads on pieces of string. Something to do with centripetal force I think... but it was most amusing.
-- scrawled by Katy on Thursday, October 3, 2002, 11:27 a.m.
Having more teeth pulled out tomorrow afternoon.
Still ill.
On plus side, Lisa gave me cake and Powerpuff Girl stickers. :)
-- scrawled by Katy on Monday, September 30, 2002, 09:31 p.m.
conversing
Me: Which _are_ the Bible states, btw?
Hejira: They go from Just Bought to Couple O' Creases to Chronically Dog-Eared to What Bloody Kid Ripped Out The Ending just like any other book states. :P
Heehee...
-- scrawled by Katy on Sunday, September 29, 2002, 11:16 a.m.
pi is the groove
Sam has regrooved her website because she wrote its address down on her UCAS form, and she put the Pi song that Ryan wrote on it! Also, with marginally less spelling mistakes than the version on mine, but then I'm too lazy to proofread.
Spread the joy of the pi song!
We did lots of stuff to the school website also... still haven't uploaded our changes yet. "This page was last updated 72 days ago." Oops. Ah well...
My head is full of a cold. Actually, only the right side of my head. Ick. But... it's Lisa's party!
Be happy :)
-- scrawled by Katy on Friday, September 27, 2002, 05:43 p.m.
driving is not so interesting
But York is preeeeetty and I want to go there.
-- scrawled by Katy on Thursday, September 26, 2002, 07:30 p.m.
sehr amusant
The boys on the bus got Lisa a bag of charcoal for her birthday.
ROFLMAO!
-- scrawled by Katy on Wednesday, September 25, 2002, 07:16 p.m.
blah
Don't you just hate when you have more than one browser window open, and one of them suddenly makes itself the one your looking at so you click something odd by accident and screw up the computer? Or is this just me and my poor reaction times?
Well, anyway, I am ill and that's why I'm home instead of learning about parametric equations. Well, I say ill... it's more like if I
didn't stay at home, I'd be really really ill tomorrow and since I'm going to York at some ungodly hour of the morning I figured it wasn't the best of plans to go in. Besides, my head's full of cotton wool so if they did try to teach me anything I'd end up just staring blankly at it.
I hate being ill, it makes me watch daytime tv. Although, the Hoobs are very funny. It was about chocolate, of which I heartily approve. Mum has bought 72 profiteroles for Lisa's party this weekend, oddly.
Why is noone online? Ah, timezones, I see...
Got a letter and an fb from Marloes, always groovy :)
-- scrawled by Katy on Wednesday, September 25, 2002, 12:17 p.m.
:)
Happy Birthday Lisa!
-- scrawled by Katy on Wednesday, September 25, 2002, 12:13 p.m.
seach requests
gareth gates thumbnails (uh... no)
i'm in love with katy (why thank you)
kind of red (not any more)
-- scrawled by Katy on Tuesday, September 24, 2002, 02:42 p.m.
sudden thought
Ooh! I'm going to York on Thursday for an open day at the uni. I'll miss physics, but eh. Not as if we ever do any work.
-- scrawled by Katy on Tuesday, September 24, 2002, 02:39 p.m.
further notes to self
Do not read emails from Lauren S while at school. No really. Very, very bad idea.
-- scrawled by Katy on Tuesday, September 24, 2002, 02:38 p.m.
notes to self
School website things:
update list of staff (and for same reason department pages), newsletter, former students page, building page, celebrations page (all of it).
also actually having pages for sport, societies, miscellaneous extracurricular and wider reading may be good plan before linking them.
But, have done lots of things to it already today, e.g. many many 'back to whateverpage' links and changing spellings, background colours, etc.
However, appear to have lost grammar and pronouns.
-- scrawled by Katy on Tuesday, September 24, 2002, 02:35 p.m.
shakeitshakeitshakeitshakeitbaby...
Apparently there was an earthquake today, also.
If you type "go to hell" into google.com (with quote marks) and click I'm Feeling Lucky, it's very funny.
Lisa: roflmaopmfimgd! hahahahahah!!!!!! lol. lisa xxxxxxxxxxxxxx that was sehr amusant. lol like it a lot.
-- scrawled by Katy on Monday, September 23, 2002, 05:08 p.m.
zzzzzzzzz
I spent most of today trying to sleep on the table in G32, our beloved form room. Because I'm sleeeepy, and Dad was at Le Mans Classic until very early this morning so I got the bus.
I was also hyper (hyper
and asleep, hmm...) and proceeded to tell Zara about my theories on everything being maths, everyone being either numbers or words people, and my ability to say the alphabet backwards. I may possibly have irritated her just a little... oops. Although, Aditi and Mel found my backwards alphabet quite impressive.
Physics test wasn't too bad.. I got 50/56, and wrote 'I am a fish' all over it in 6 different languages for luck.
On the bus, talked to Susan (who is such a dude, you know) and gave everyone Blues Brothers-type name biro-tattoos. Hee!
-- scrawled by Katy on Monday, September 23, 2002, 05:01 p.m.
day-making!
So, you know how I went to the Discworld Convention? And also, you know how I love Paul Rood because of this?
Well... I found a photo of when he was talking to me! Sadly it's the back of my head, but ah well... it's definitely me...
Look look!
-- scrawled by Katy on Sunday, September 22, 2002, 02:05 p.m.
blah
Am ill. And tired.
And, stupid PS2 won't play my Blues Brothers DVD anymore.
Am annoyed.
-- scrawled by Katy on Sunday, September 22, 2002, 01:16 p.m.
happy Mabon
Like it says, happy Mabon, and all that. Y'know, I really think I must be ill. I had 14 hours sleep and I'm still exhausted, plus I had really, really odd dreams about email and people killing themselves and things. Not fun.
Got a lovely email from Kerry... apparently I was the 42nd person to send her a birthday card, which has to be good, right? Also she says I'm her favourite Essex girl... heehee.
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde is a fabulous book (Bjorn was right about the Richard III audience participation bit... still laughing...) and everyone should read it.
And, to be festive, I am now reading Jostein Gaarder's The Christmas Mystery. Which is... odd. Good, but odd.
-- scrawled by Katy on Saturday, September 21, 2002, 02:54 p.m.
it's finished!
Today, I finally handed in my UCAS form. It's off into the world (well, on Monday, once Dr Parrott puts my reference on it) and maybe I'll get offers soon.
Freaky.
I am
so tired...
Anyway. Kathryn agreed with me that Trinny and um... Susannah (possibly?) from What Not To Wear actually wear pretty hideous clothes themselves. I helped Sam with rearranging the school website (it's now navy and light blue instead of that skanky turquoise... when it goes online at least I'll be able to look at it without cringing...)
Matthew appears to be murdering Lisa. Hm.
Ooh, and it's Lisa's birthday next week. Coolcool.
-- scrawled by Katy on Friday, September 20, 2002, 05:22 p.m.
suuuuuuuperfab
Welcome to version superfabulous, by the way.
I was feeling kinda... blah (Mercury retrograde, don'tyaknow) and so I purpled it.
Pretty :)
-- scrawled by Katy on Thursday, September 19, 2002, 08:05 p.m.
a dog with a caramel toffee
I have just removed the last pencil mark from my UCAS form with my supersnazzy Miffy rubber, and now it's done! All I need is for a parent to give me money for the application fee, and I can give it to the office to be sent off. Woohoo!
I just posted 5 things, and all were to different countries. Adrian the PO guy was not amused. I had... two
LMAOs for Quinn (England) and Donna (Australia), two letters for Marloes (Holland) and Bonnie (Hong Kong), and the GB sticker I promised Poeie (US) a looong time ago.
I need only £1 more to have enough money to preorder Red Dwarf Series 1 on DVD from Amazon. Lalala...
Dad is apparently at home, but I've been here for hours and seen no sign of him, so I assume he's ill.
I went to the library, also... And I got The Eyre Affair (Jasper Fforde), as recommended by
Bjorn (who was sitting at the same table as me at DWCON), Nothing But Blue Skies (Tom Holt), 100 Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Márquez), as recommended by Marloes, Destroy All Monsters (Ken Hollings) and The Christmas Mystery (Jostein Gaardner, who is a dude).
And the random-looking title is because:
KRYTEN: At the moment, I'm working on ambivalence, which means feeling two opposite, irreconcilable emotions about the same thing. As you can see, I haven't quite got the hang of that one yet. I look like a dog with a caramel toffee.
-- scrawled by Katy on Thursday, September 19, 2002, 02:50 p.m.
she's just nowhere
Spent the entire day trying to find Mrs Dye to get a UCAS form, but could I find her? I swear she doesn't really exist.
On the plus side, I got full marks in a test I didn't revise for, which is always fun.
-- scrawled by Katy on Wednesday, September 18, 2002, 03:29 p.m.
I love him really, you know :)
-- scrawled by Katy on Tuesday, September 17, 2002, 05:55 p.m.
argh
Grr... Ryan called me a baby-eating Satan worshipper.
Beast.
-- scrawled by Katy on Monday, September 16, 2002, 04:51 p.m.
movie madness
I've just been writing in a land mail art object about films, so I decided to put the 11 I picked as favourites into the etcs. So, go
here to read them.
I'm
idmbing to find more.
-- scrawled by Katy on Sunday, September 15, 2002, 05:23 p.m.
Whoa, seventy thousand emails. Fun.
Today I went to school in my Discworld Con costume, for the amusement value. Ha.
-- scrawled by Katy on Friday, September 13, 2002, 06:32 p.m.
j0
It's Kerry's birthday. happy 23rd, Kerry :)
Buzz Aldrin punched some conspiracy theorist. Heh.
I had my brace tightened yesterday, and now I can't bite. So I'm inhaling noodles.
Yesterday, in memory of 9.11, the BBC showed a repeat of the Vicar of Dibbley instead of the lottery. I was confused. I watched the first part of a documentary about 9/11, these people with camcorders who were with the firemen in the towers. It was amazing.
Email from Naomi, she's still alive! But Matthew P has still not told me his results, damn him. Although he was in the paper for being Mort in a play (called Mort, coincidentally. A Discworld thing.)
Today we had photos. Bleh. I hate them.
-- scrawled by Katy on Thursday, September 12, 2002, 01:41 p.m.
at school
I broke another square off my brace, while eating pizza, yesterday. Slightly less ridiculous than pasta or toothbrushes, but not much. And I'm going to the orthodontist later today.
BTW, I'm at school. I have a free right now. I love frees :)
Note to self: Find link to Discworld photos for Dad. Also, what is wrong with the spacebar on this stupid keyboard?
-- scrawled by Katy on Wednesday, September 11, 2002, 09:16 a.m.
ok so I didn't write yesterday
cause I'm laaazy. Wow, Byker Grove is really annoying.
Yesterday it rained, a lot. And since I live in a hut, I had to walk through the rain many, many times. Hmm, what lessons did I have... oh right. Further Maths, PSE, Maths and Physics. Further Maths was with Mr Griffiths (his beard! ahahahaha!), we're doing iterations still. The Newton-Raphson method, which is very groovy. In PSE we were speeched at about the joy of interviews for university. We have to have like 6 mock interviews! Ack. Apparently there'll be a list in the common room, but I haven't been in there since Friday. Maths was... I forget. Not hugely exciting. And Physics was physicsy and boring. Mr Metcalfe said I didn't need to resit anything.
Also I worked out I only need a 72% average in my 7 maths exams this year to get 2 As. Woohoo!
So today first of all was physics, in G1, which is half of the old biology room. I was asleep in most of it, ha. Not the most exciting of lessons, other than Mrs Murray wandering in having lost the class she was supposed to be teaching. Then was Further Maths and then Maths, or possibly the other way around. I forget. More iterations, and then binomial expansions. Joy.
I had frees all afternoon, so I did my maths homework. There was a lot. I haven't finished it.
And now I must write my personal statement. I still don't know where I'm going, you know? So indecisive.
-- scrawled by Katy on Tuesday, September 10, 2002, 04:54 p.m.
weekend insanity
So I owe Dad £9.50, and Stephen's giving me £3 on Monday for that Manson book, so that's £6.50, and I have £30 to spend this month, which means I have £23.50 to spend on Lisa's birthday present, Kerry's birthday card, postage for Quinn's book and whatever else I feel the need to buy. Should be okay.
Did anyone see that quiz show, The Chair, last night? What a great concept. They measure your heart rate and compare it to your base rate, and if it goes over a certain level you aren't allowed to answer the question and you lose money until it gets back down again. This one contestant, he had a pulse rate of about 102, and then some one mentioned his girlfriend.
It shot up to around 130.
I was most amused.
Anyway, i's 11.50 and I'm still pyjama-ed, so I guess I'll shut up now.
-- scrawled by Katy on Sunday, September 8, 2002, 11:39 a.m.
discworld
Hah. I wore my GOFAD badge today (Guild of Fans and Disciples). Anyway, here are my favourite quotes from Discworld II, which I replayed the other day.
"If I was any wiser, I'd be a leopardskin bikini!" - S.T. Ungulant.
"I think I've had this deja vu before." - Rincewind
"Bladders? Are you taking the pi-" - Rincewind (noone seems to get why I find this funny, oddly...)
"I wish I'd had a mother, because if I'd had a mother, I could cry out 'mother!' But I didn't, so I can't. Blast." - Death
-- scrawled by Katy on Friday, September 6, 2002, 05:31 p.m.
joy
What a strenuous week that was. Two whole lessons.
We had admining for the first hour, and I wrote 147 words of personal statement... I probably should finish that soon, I guess. But it's so boring. Then I had maths, with MD, doing matrices. I think she expected us to remember how to do them, even though I haven't looked at them since last November.
Then I had a free. I went and sat in the new common room, with Zara and Emily, and did my maths homework... and they did their biology I think. Well, whatever. Then it was lunchtime, obviously. Most of the time we just talked about university and UCAS and things like that. And driving lessons.
Sarah and me decided that science people should have multiple-choice questions instead of a personal statement because we do science so that we don't have to write essays. And English people should write theirs in iambic pentameter or something, ha?
There are so many new people on the bus this year, we almost had no room to sit. Daisy came and shouted at us for not sitting down, while she was standing up at the front of the bus. Everyone laughed at her, most amusing.
And now it's Friday!
-- scrawled by Katy on Friday, September 6, 2002, 05:28 p.m.
