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Envy is being odd, so I am going to move everything around for a while. But you'll be able to look at all my random stuff again, aren't you pleased?
I thought so.
Well, anyway... um... oh yeah, tomorrow I am having a life, yay me! I'm going to see Monters, Inc. finally. Lala!
--08:27 p.m., Tuesday, February 19, 2002
I am ELMO.--05:50 p.m., Tuesday, February 19, 2002
So, if you want to email me, you'll have to use this address (remove the obvious).
So, yesterday. We went to the science museum (less boring than I expected, but my feet were dying by the end) ... then we went on the London Eye, where the safety gates stuck and they had to smash them open with a hammer! Hilarious! Then we went to Chinatown, then we came back. Oh, and Shooting Stars was on! It was so fab :)
--10:56 a.m., Tuesday, February 19, 2002
!"$^"$%& another wants me to pay for my email. Grr.
They could have given me more warning, it'll take ages for me to resubscribe to everything...
Anyway, I'll talk about London later, busy busy...
--08:30 p.m., Monday, February 18, 2002
Katy's Room-tidying Method #17:
Rearrange piles of stuff so that they're all approximately the same height.
Move piles towards edges of room.
Take any piles that are too near the middle, and put them in a different room.
(I'm going to need about 8 more bookcases, please.)
--03:53 p.m., Sunday, February 17, 2002
Darn, forgot the Friday Five again... last week I deliberately didn't do it, btw. It was all questions like 'where's the weirdest place you've ever had sex?', which would be entirely boring if I answered them. So, this week's:
1. What was the first thing you ever cooked? Ehm... sardines on toast, I think.
2. What's your signature dish? Chicken curry. Mm.
3. Ever had a cooking disaster? (tasted like crap, didn't work, etc.) Describe. I think the exploding tomato sauce was probably the most disastrous. "Get out of the kitchen! Run, flee for your lives!"
4. If skill and money were no object, what would make for your dream meal? Paella. I love paella.
5. What are you doing this weekend? Um... attempt to do my statistics homework, and watch my muppet videos again... and go to work, 'cept I already did that. On Monday I'm going to London, though.
I have two hoopy earrings in each ear! They're so cool. I love them.
Um.... Louis and Rosie were both at work today, I priced crime fiction... sold some books... rearranged the fiction because half of it was in the wrong order (grr)... that's about it.
Word of the day: scapegrace.
--02:49 p.m., Saturday, February 16, 2002
What is with the stupid lycos advert running around on top of my email! Arg!
Still, today ruled, for no apparent reason. It was sunny, and that always seems to make people happy. And I was wearing purple, another good sign.
Um... nothing hugely eventful actually happened, though... in Further Maths, Mr Griffiths was wearing a West Ham top and a leather jacket, which was totally funny. And he was being really strange.
But never mind.
On the bus, I wished Sam a happy day-after-his-birthday, was briefly freaked out by Sam and Ryan having a fight (eep!), ...was highly amused by Ryan's Dougal (from Father Ted, who actually really resembles Ryan) impressions... it was fab.
Lalala... hey, you know what? Shooting Stars is on on Monday! :)
Apparently Boss-Jo phoned. Hmm.... fear.... is she going to yell at me? Shelley got sacked for taking a sickday.
Oh oh! And I got my Muppet videos, I watched all 3 and now want to be a muppet when I grow up :)
I love Fozzie! I'd forgotten his brilliance.
--05:49 p.m., Friday, February 15, 2002
--03:16 p.m., Thursday, February 14, 2002
I really should cut my thumbnails. All my nails are really really short, except my thumb nails, which are long enough that I now have a bleeding gash in my leg and a bloodcovered thumb. Ow.
--02:30 p.m., Thursday, February 14, 2002
Ooooooooh.... the amazon stuff has arrived! :)
--02:24 p.m., Thursday, February 14, 2002
We're having Shrove Tuesday today, because mum was out yesterday and noone else can make pancakes that don't explode. So we had one day of Lent yesterday, and the rest of it starting tomorrow.
Of course, I hate pancakes and don't do Lent, so I'm totally unaffected (other than being confused about what day it is)...
--05:22 p.m., Wednesday, February 13, 2002
48 emails, not bad. Above average for a Wednesday (although I'm still convinced it's Thursday).
Today.... we did dynamic programming in FMaths. I love dynamic programming. It's so fab. Wow.
In PSE we wrote personal statements. I kept thinking of things that annoyed me and rambled on for ages, so then I had to think of loads of good things to redress the balance... it ended up being three pages of really teeny writing.
Well... what else? In physics Mr Bowles seemed to be doing an impression of a Greek man in a bag, although to be fair I wasn't really listening. I was too busy thinking about how brilliant the word 'quantum' is.
And in French we did grammar, and then... had a party, for Stefanie. It was lovely.
--04:54 p.m., Wednesday, February 13, 2002
Apparently, on Chinese New Year people eat angel hair (seaweed) to bring prosperity and dumplings.
Yes, I know she meant dumplings to be the start of a new phrase, but it sounded funny.
--04:48 p.m., Tuesday, February 12, 2002
Blogger insider questions from Froot.
1) What is your favourite time of day and why?
4pm.
On the bus with the lovely buspeople, Rhi, Lisa, unLisa, Ryan, Sam, Jonathan, Lucie, Adam, Florence, Naomi, Peter, etc. etc. all of whom are lovely.
2) Does your 'blog' serve as your journal, or is it an online extension of your journal?
My blog has things I want to remember. Things I don't want to remember but can't get out of my head, I write down and then burn. Works for me!
3) Do you have any phobias? If yes, give details.
I don't think so... I have things that scare me or freak me out, but no real phobias. Things I'm scared of: necks, chickens, scissors, telephones, talking in front of large groups of people, getting lost, forgetting how to read.
4) Your life in a few years time - have you thought about it? Where would you like to see yourself?
In a few years, hopefully I'll be at university, unless something goes seriously wrong. Don't know where, don't really know what other than 'vaguely computer-y'.
5) The Friday Five - any other 'addictions'?
I forget which ones I already put: yoghurt and chilli powder, words, caffeine, sleep, blogs, personality tests, books...
6) Care to share the contents of your 'Favourites' Folder? Alternatively, give the URL's of 5 sites you visited most recently.
All of them? That'd take ages. You can have some. 5 non-blogs.
Script-o-rama. Scripts and transcripts.
Groovetown, land of Red Dwarf filks.
Ardalambion. Just... yeah.
Elfwood, fantasy art place.
Personality tests (now you know where I get them (well, some)).
7) Give one little known fact about yourself
Ehm... I keep a list of names that I think are cool, for no apparent reason.
8) Give one little known fact about where you live
eh... lots of the roads are named after apples. (What? My village is boring.)
--07:40 p.m., Monday, February 11, 2002
The Pi Song, by Ryan Calmus (and one line by me!)
(to the tune of, y'know, that song from Joseph)
And we love Pi (and we love Pi)
It's a long number (ahh-ahh)
It'll make you slumber (ahh-ahh)
If you read it
Three point one four (3.14)
15926 (ahh-ahh)
It goes on like this (ahh-ahh)
5452
But what comes next? I do not see
I can't remember past the three
This number's really far too long
Who's idea was this?
It was a Greek (it was a Greek)
He had a beard (ahh-ahh)
And he was weird (ahh-ahh)
And he liked circles
C over D (c over d)
Will give the number (ahh-ahh)
If you a dumber (ahh-ahh)
3.14!!!
--05:24 p.m., Monday, February 11, 2002
The Maths Song, by Ryan Calmus
(to no particular tune)
Doo Doo-doo-doo (repeat 150 6 times)
We love maths,
The cosine, the tangent
Simultaneous equations
The hypotenuse we like to use
Addition, Subtraction, Division, Multiplication
Doo Doo-doo-doo (repeat 150 6 times)
Isoceles, Scalene, Equilateral Triangles
(Right-angled triangles)
And we love Pi
(cos it's equal to 3.141592654 fi-
-ve)
Doo Doo-doo-doo (repeat 150 6 times)
--05:18 p.m., Monday, February 11, 2002
Hihi! I'm so hyper! :)
After catching up everything I missed up on Friday (nearly everything, still maths and a little bit of French) I did pretty much no work.... I'm still insanely hyper and over-amused by everything... hehehe... no, Katy, les marées noires are not funny. No.
And me and Alice finally sorted out the Careers stuff, first time this term, oops!
On the bus, Rhiannon was depressed, so Ryan (and I helped a bit) composed the Maths song and the Pi song. I'll put these in their own posts. NB: the last few named digits of pi are wrong, we picked them to rhyme.
--05:17 p.m., Monday, February 11, 2002
I can hardly contain my disinterest - the Pop Idol final is on. I can't remember their names (Gareth and Will, okay, but I don't know which is which), but the spikyhaired one is pretty and the other one can sing.
And both have large belts. Or as Lisa said: "Oh my god, they're like 'BELTS!!'". Lisa is so odd.
Mm, I just ate fish and chips. Mm.
Lisa went shopping, and met up with Fouve (?sp), apparently. She bought random stuff, birthday presents, and a top. Exciting.
--07:18 p.m., Saturday, February 9, 2002
I am the nature-loving Jesus. There seems to be nothing that will stop me from protecting the earth and my furry friends. I may also have a hidden passion for sweater knitting.
Take the What Jesus Would You Be? Quiz
Kid Izzard: You still find a way to look at life in an innocent way, even though those around you marvel at your naive opinions. But the world wasn't made just for the grown-ups around you, so dodge your subway fare and get the most out of life!
--06:01 p.m., Saturday, February 9, 2002
Bonjour, I am still ill :(
I woke up this morning, (actually it was the afternoon, just about) and Mum wandered in.
"Get up! Louis phoned, he says he hopes you get well soon. Lisa's gone out. Matthew's watching tv - he's ill so I'm going to the football instead, he wants pancakes for lunch so make sure he doesn't burn down the house. They offered me the job. And Princess Margaret died."
This has been your almost-morning update.
So now Lisa's in town, the parents are at football, Matthew is eating half-cooked pancakes while singing 'Cabin Fever' from Muppet Treasure Island, and I'm reading email, writing this, eating pesto noodles and reading Catch-22.
Man. Hectic, or what?
--02:07 p.m., Saturday, February 9, 2002
I hate being ill :( it's so boring. Matthew is also ill... we watched Hunchback of Notre Dame, Muppet Treasure Island, and Starship Troopers, and also stared into space. I want to be at school! (although it's over in about 9 minutes)
No work tomorrow, either, for poor ill me.
Bleh.
--03:22 p.m., Friday, February 8, 2002
Tomorrow is Thursday and the next day is Friday and then there's only one more week until half term!
Anyway, today... I failed to understand Further Maths, but Anna explained it and now I nearly do. Physics was monotonous as ever - wait, I missed PSE. Just a video about cars.
And French was about Big Brother and the like.
On the bus, Sam stole my dictionary, so I stole his French book. Me, Rhi, Sam and Jonathan had a large argument (in French) about it... eventually everyone ended up with the right books, but it was very funny.
--04:57 p.m., Wednesday, February 6, 2002
Envy (my usual host) is ill. So the site only redirects to my pita for a while.
Oh, and if you leave off the www. it won't work.
--09:35 p.m., Tuesday, February 5, 2002
I'm rearranging my website. Wait a mo.
--09:24 p.m., Tuesday, February 5, 2002
Arg, my parents are both in a really bad mood today. My mum was at some meeting, so she got home late. And immediately started yelling at me for not having closed the curtains/cooked the dinner and for letting Matthew have Daniel round (despite the fact that he got home about 1.5 hours before me and Daniel went about 2 seconds after I got back). Noone ever told me I was supposed to cook (although I concede the curtains thing) - all she said was 'I'm going to be a bit late, make sure you don't miss the bus because I don't want Matthew here on his own.' Despite the fact that he gets home about 15 minutes before we're even let out. Arg.
Anyway, until I got home, today was quite good. Our (mine and Sam's) Physics experiment worked quite well (except for the thermistor exploding, but that wasn't our fault, honest!), and I slept through most of Further Maths (roots of cubics, boring boring... although more pretty alphas and betas), and I didn't say anything too stupid in French, which is always a plus. Maths in the afternoon was also good, me and Gemma were ahead of most people so did very little work.
Sam had his giant Q on the bus again, and all was very jolly. We (me and several PurplePeople) discovered that the set-text on le ville sans voitures says 'the mayor is green' in it twice. Random.
Anyway, the bestest thing of the whole day happened at lunchtime.
I was sitting in the formroom, eating lunch and doodling, as per. Dr Gwyther and Dr Cox came in - unsurprisingly, as G2 is a chemistry room and they're both chemistry teachers. They were acting very suspiciously, peering round and going 'where is she?'
Then, Dr Gwyther spotted me. 'There she is! That's Katy.' Dr Cox looked very happy and scuttled over. 'You're Katy?' 'Yes...' 'Katy Robinson?' '...yes...?'
All very scary.
Anyway, it turned out that they remarked my chemistry coursework from last year, and my mark's gone up to an A*! woohoo!
Isn't that just the most hilarious thing ever? I'm so bad at chemistry! Ha, to the chemistry teachers who mocked my ability!
:)
--07:11 p.m., Tuesday, February 5, 2002
Linkytown:
The inevitable downsizing of the digital divide will put an end to post modern political climate.
--05:27 p.m., Monday, February 4, 2002
Today's bus journey was bought to us by the letter Q. Sam had a big Q that he found in 'Room B' (somewhere in his school - they have a Room X, yatly, which is an RE room), very Sesame Street.
But the day started before that, ne? First was maths, we did conditional probability and independent probability, which was stuff that we'd done about two years ago anyway. Oh, nts: do tons of homework, yes. And in French we were reading about une ville sans voitures (a town w/o cars) - I almost managed a coherent sentence, but sadly not quite. Damn. Oh, and on the way to the lesson, most of Lisa's form shouted hi to me down the corridor, scarily.
Then I had a free... read me book (I'm reading Trainspotting. It's great, but it's mostly written in a Scottish accent (well, obv.) which gives me a headache. I don't even understand slang from here, what am I s'posed to do?), did French homework and some Stats... stared into space...
After lunch was Physics, we were doing a practical, for which I must finish drawing graphs, yes. Not too difficult. (Y'know, I think that Physics is the easiest of the sciences, with the amount of complaining I've heard from Chemistry/Biology people in my form.)
Oooooh, email from Taylor. Yay.
Jo said that apparently the Stats exam is at the same time as one of the Physics ones. Do you know why this is bad? Because we may have to spend the night at school/at a teacher's house, under surveillance to make sure we don't cheat. Bleh.
--04:57 p.m., Monday, February 4, 2002
Today I have to fix the computer, which is ill. Obviously email-checking is a vital part of this procedure :)
--12:15 p.m., Sunday, February 3, 2002
Do you want to know something weird? Lisa noticed this a while back, I've been meaning to type it here but keep forgetting.
Here is a list of people from my primary school who also a) go to either my school or the Grammar school (for the boys) and b) get the bus I get home, and which houses they were in at primary school.
Me - St. George's. Lisa - St. George's. Adam - St. George's. Edward - St. George's. Rhiannon - St. George's. Lucie - St. George's.
Weeeeird.
--03:49 p.m., Saturday, February 2, 2002
"Surprise! Rizzo the Rat is your dream man. He has a healthy appetite and a keen sense of fun. I'm certain you two would have a fabulous time together." no no, Rhi is marrying him. I'm marrying Gonzo. Gonzo. Not Rizzo. Although he's quite cute too.
--03:39 p.m., Saturday, February 2, 2002
Actually, this bizarre American is quite nice really. And now famous!
And happy Imbolc.
--03:05 p.m., Saturday, February 2, 2002
My brother says we're having Chinese tonight. Why? I know not. But never mind.
And Amy is also coming to eat it.
A very strange American keeps thinking I am someone called Katy Brogden and won't leave me alone. Arg.
And a fantastic quote from the Wind-up Bird Chronicles:
"To tell thw truth, sleepless nights are as unusual for me as sumo wrestkers who look good in berets."
--02:35 p.m., Saturday, February 2, 2002
Damn, damn... I always forget the Friday Five (and always mistype it as the firday give).
1. Have you ever had braces? Any other teeth trauma?
One of my teeth grew threw the back of my gum and fused to the one next to it. I have this big, mutant tooth that goes in a loop through my gum now.
2. Ever broken any bones?
No, fortunately ('cause I'm a chicken).
3. Ever had stitches?
No, again. I tend to avoid situations where I'm likely to be injured (paranoid?).
4. What are the stories behind some of your [physical] scars?
I don't have any scars.
5. How do you plan to spend your weekend?
So far I've been to work... now I'm going to read 45 emails, read this thing about burquas in my French book, practise the piano, read and play FFIX if I can get on the PS2.
--02:22 p.m., Saturday, February 2, 2002
Hi, bunnies! Today was a lovely day (which always seems to be the case when I wear purple clothes and dangly earrings. Odd.).
First was maths... on Thursday we had a mock for the P1 (Pure Maths module 1) exam, and today we got the results - 92%! Lala. And then we were doing further differentiating. I like that, it requires concentration. Goodgood.
General Studies was talking about feminism, a subject which never fails to interest me. Alice said there was no point in burning your bra, because then you'd just have to buy a new one. Heehee. You know, feminists often seem to go too far the other way... to try and be treated equal they totally de-feminise themselves, they dress like guys, talk like guys, don't have kids... and that's just as unequal as they think it already is. You can't treat males and females the same, because they aren't the same. They look different, they sound different, they think differently, their bodies are designed for different purposes... the whole point is to have equal amounts of respect, not to be treated as the same, when you aren't. I think the YaYas have it right... powerful, but still definitely female. Yes.
I love arguing :) ... although I suppose, being at an all-girls school, I have a distorted view of sexism.
Did you know, girls do better in single sex schools, while boys do better in mixed schools? That's really odd. And, less oddly, in single sex schools, girls do better in the traditionally masculine areas (like science) than at mixed schools.
Like I said, a subject that interests me.
Well. In French (I had to walk up two flights of stairs twice in these high-heeled boots... but if I'd worn trainers as per, I'd have just tripped on the ends of my trousers.) we were doing about tv. Yet another case of me speaking English instead of French, but ah well. We were talking about how people are addicted to tv, and everyone watches tv for hours every day. I, OTOH, don't. I go on the Internet and listen to the tv... I hardly ever watch programs. I watch Frasier and the Simpsons on Fridays, and Strange Dawn on Saturdays. 1.5 hours a week.
The thing is, my favourite programmes are pretty obscure (well, here anyway) and noone's really heard of them. I watch Red Dwarf, WLiiA?, Drew Carey, Strange Dawn and Adam and Joe. The only one on at the moment is Strange Dawn, and DC and WLiiA are only ever shown at around 2 in the morning. These are the only programmes that I insist on seeing every episode of, and since they're rarely shown, I don't watch a lot. I sometimes have the tv on for background noise, but I don't really watch anything else.
Is that weird? But there's just no other programmes that I think are good on at the moment, and I'd rather be online or reading than watching wallpaper tv (tv that requires no concentration, mum's description) that I really don't care about.
At lunch I did homework... and read more of The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. A nice, long book this, taken me a decent amount of time to read, and I'm still not done. Haruki Murakami is a very good author, yes indeed. I'm going to have to read more of his books... three is just not enough! Books are so much better than tv, you know. They require concentration and aren't loud. Although, whenever I read in public, people ask me if I'm alright. No, I have book reading disease, argh argh. I mean, for goodness' sake.
After lunch was my semi-free... I read more of my book, wrote (uploading soon, when I've typed it up) and talked to Anna (who almost forgot to do her Discrete 2 homework.
In Further Maths, we got new books (I now have 6 maths books. Madness.) for Pure 5 and 6. We started P5, doing roots of polynomials (I just love that word) which was very beautiful and involved a lot of algebra and Greek letters.
On the bus... Florence told me I was pretty :) (my hair was actually behaving today), Lucie, Rhiannon and unLisa all admired my earrings, and Ryan said I looked like the Queen. Bizarre.
And me, Rhi and Sam talked about LotR (with occasional input from Jonathan) wherein I scared them with the prospect of Legolas/Gimli slash, we decided that Ryan was Gollum, and I expressed my hatred for Eowyn. She's so annoying.
Then... I came home, drank orange/lemon tea (the teabag exploded so there was all mank in the bottom, weirdly), then mum made her insanely piled up pizzas - I had ham, mushroom, cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms, onions, celery, tomato puree and herbs. Mm.
Then I watched the Simpsons... and now I am here.
This has been very verbose, but eh. Bye!
--06:42 p.m., Friday, February 1, 2002
I hate maths tests. However, I love Bombay mix, so I am eating it for lunch. Mm.
--02:26 p.m., Thursday, January 31, 2002
Today was just a hoot!
First of all was Further Maths, boring boring as per... although I can actually do Critical Path Analysis and Cascade diagrams. Weird.
What do you call a gingerbread man with one leg? Limp Biscuit. (Joke of Lisa).
Laugh Lab - psychology experiment to find the world's funniest joke (not the Sherlock Holmes one, then). Link from Claline :)
Second lesson was PSE. Heehee! We changed teachers this week, and noone knew where they were. The entire year were wandering around the school for ages. Haha! Eventually we ended up in Mr Bennet's lesson, watching a video about car maintenance.
Physics.... Mr Bowles was trying to mark our homework and teach at the same time, so I spent most of the time doodling the stripy worms from Sesame Street and talking to Sam about Red Dwarf and homeopathy.
I love how, every time I get an Alchera email, it says at the top "Oh my gosh! You're receiving an e-mail from an Alchera member! You must rock.".
At lunch I did FM homework... read more of me book (The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami)... ate food... drank caffeine... stared into space...
Then we had French all pm, which was much less painful than I expected. We were doing about extreme sports, and also Mrs Murray gave us the prerelease materials for the exam.
And on the bus I read some of them, and talked to Rhi and Sam and unLisa and Hitler and Edward. And Rochine came and sat with us, bizarrely.
Thursday tomorrow :)
--04:51 p.m., Wednesday, January 30, 2002
--07:15 p.m., Monday, January 28, 2002
60 emails in one day.
Argh.
--01:48 p.m., Sunday, January 27, 2002
More search terms that have found me:
relationships are like pencil sharpeners
"pink hairspray" +photo
introvert+shy+weird+crazy+serious
illuminous jellyfish pictures
--07:58 p.m., Saturday, January 26, 2002
::walks into room with enormous pile of books::
Dad: Been to the library?
Me: ...only a bit.
I love libraries, have I mentioned this? I was feeling very literature-ish after some random bloke came into the shop and asked me what the difference between Fiction and Literature is. (I came up with 'the Literature ones are on a different shelf'. After he left, Random Bloke #2 shouted 'pedant!' at him.) I have:
-Little Altars Everywhere, by Rebecca Wells (kind-of sequel to Divine Secrets)
-Anita and Me, by Meera Syal
-Trainspotting, by Irvine Welsh (Lit!)
-The Wind-up Bird Chronicle, by Haruki Murakami (I love the word 'chronicle')
-The Skies of Pern, by Anne McCaffrey
-Catch-22, by Joseph Heller (Lit, and I can't believe I've not read this already.)
I love books. Yes?
Don't you love how, on UBBs, the smileys that roll their eyes move?
Anyway, what else...
Oh yes, I went to the Village Hall. There's a big presentation about what facilities places in the surrounding area need (skatepark, youthcentre, minibuses, CCTV (no!), etc.). Quite interesting, considering that my geog. coursework last year was about that.
--03:54 p.m., Saturday, January 26, 2002
Friday Five (damn, it's Saturday already? <g>)
1. What cologne or perfume do you wear? None. They're itchy.
2. What cologne or perfume do you like best on the opposite sex? I don't really care. I have a pathetic sense of smell.
3. What one smell can you not stomach? Bacon.
4. What smell do you like that others might consider weird? Shoepolish :)
5. How do you plan to spend your weekend? Revising for my Pure 1 Mock (zzz)
--03:49 p.m., Saturday, January 26, 2002
Oh. My.God. That was hilarious.
Windows Media Player, 8 minutes.
--06:04 p.m., Friday, January 25, 2002
Ooh, many emails.
And I'm so so so hungry!
Argh!
Anyway. I think people should say the word 'lo' more. It's a great word.
Um... what did I do today, you ask? Well... as little as possible, really. I discovered critical path analysis is nowhere near as scary as it sounds, me and Lauren applied for a taster course, and... I finished reading LOTR (finally).
And on the bus, Stephen tried to kiss Ryan. It was most amusing.
Hitler: You know Mr Ben?
Me: Yes, he was in my class at primary school.
Hitler: What?? I thought you said you were 28!
Me: ...and you believed me?
Hitler: Well, you look older than 17.
Me: I'm 16.
And lo, much laughter was had by all.
--05:11 p.m., Friday, January 25, 2002
Bookfest! Ranma 1/2 Vol. 2!
Lalala.
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--03:24 p.m., Thursday, January 24, 2002
How cool is this?
--02:30 p.m., Thursday, January 24, 2002
Zz.... tired. I read loads of LotR:RotK today, I must finish it! Arg, another.com won't let me in. Let me in, damn you!
For French I have to write a thing about the first time I went bungee jumping.
...I've never been bungee jumping.
--04:51 p.m., Wednesday, January 23, 2002
Not a good day, mathswise... I hate stats.
--04:59 p.m., Tuesday, January 22, 2002
Well, today was okay. About a 6/10 day, not bad but not spectacular. Statistics was boring... had problems with a few of the questions, but I worked it out explaining it to Rhiannon and unLisa (Lisa, but a different Lisa to my sister). French... we're still doing feminism and working mothers, not too interesting but the vocabulary seems to be sticking in my head all right. Then was a free.... oh, the canteen ran out of change and owes my £9, how much does that suck? And Physics was all afternoon, except not :)
Most of my Physics class had an exam during last Tuesday's lesson, so we did the stuff that other people had done then. And so we finished really, really early.
::pokes another.com with stick:: hurry up! Give me email! Ooh, email from PurpleMatthew :)
--04:53 p.m., Monday, January 21, 2002
Well hello! That was a truly excellent party. Vodka, PSE-style debates, The Exorcist, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Bridget Jones's Diary and church. We love.
Although the jellyfish guy (he was stung by a jellyfish and then went to heaven, but was sent back, apparently) was weird.
Does anyone else not find the Exorcist at all scary?
--02:34 p.m., Sunday, January 20, 2002
The French translation of 'Interesting Times' (by Pterry) is called 'Les Tribulations d'un Mage en Aurient'. The Tribulations of a Wizard in the Orient. Snappy.
Wouldn't February be a great name? You could have twins, February and Wednesday.
Here is a BtVS quote which shows me why my sister likes it (other than the appearance of James Masters): "I'm not gonna waste the perfect comeback on you now. But don't think I don't have it. Oh, yes! Its time will come!"
--04:13 p.m., Saturday, January 19, 2002
Friday Five (except it's Saturday, oops)
1. What do you have your browser start page set to? sadly, this page. It used to be google.
2. What are your favorite news sites? Ananova.
3. Favorite search engine? google.
4. When did you first get online? I don't remember... sometime while I was still in primary school, so about 6/7 years ago.
5. How do you plan to spend your weekend? At the shop, then at Alice's.
--03:00 p.m., Saturday, January 19, 2002
Take The Scooby-Doo Test!
(she was definitely my favourite)
(pretty accurate I guess)
--05:43 p.m., Friday, January 18, 2002
I just finished watching the Wicker Man, and... OMG! It was so freakish and weird. But I loved it.
What happened at school today, you ask me? Um... Well, in Maths we did the binomial theorem/Pascal's triangle, which is mind-numbingly boring. In General Studies Mr D was as generally scary and irritating as normal, and the subject was as boring as normal. French... I couldn't open the door of T13, which was quite amusing actually. And them Mrs Murray evilly made us translate this article about government statistics into French. Ek.
At lunch I was trapped in a VetSoc meeting - some guy from Colchester Zoo talking about wolves/entering the competition for 'person who says "perpetuating the myth" the most times in one speech'. So I doodled and read more of LotR 3. In the free before Further Maths, me and Joyce actually managed to find a 4x4 magic square! Yay us! It was really horribly difficult, but we did it :)
And then we did the tremendously exciting flow diagram things again. Ho hum.
Still, tomorrow I'm going out, so that balances it...
--05:31 p.m., Friday, January 18, 2002
Today, Rochine asked me if I was Rhiannon's mother.
Rhiannon is 5 years younger than me. Do I look that old? I'm only 16, for [censored] sake!
Well, anyway... boring day... doodled all the way round my Physics notes and completely failed to get iron filings in my eyes.
--05:25 p.m., Wednesday, January 16, 2002
gangrel: A vagabond; a drifter.
doughty: Marked by stouthearted courage; brave.
(LoTR: TTT - 4.5 chapters to go!)
--08:56 p.m., Tuesday, January 15, 2002
“Oh my God!“ screamed Elizabeth. “I bet a photon could traverse the length of your tumescent organ in less than a picosecond! In a vacuum!“ (from Eve)
--05:38 p.m., Tuesday, January 15, 2002
--05:07 p.m., Tuesday, January 15, 2002
Arg... disastrous exams, fortunately GS: Maths and Science isn't too taxing, so I should still do okay (fingers crossed).
But the rest of today was pretty good... nothing very remarkable, though.
Zz...
--04:54 p.m., Tuesday, January 15, 2002
Arg... just don't even ask about the Physics exam. It was awful, and that's all you need to know ;)
Also, finally got my passport done.
--06:45 p.m., Monday, January 14, 2002
You will marry NEO (played by Keanu Reeves) from The Matrix, live in a big metal ship trying to escape from a world controlled by computers, and spend your days travelling through phone lines, hacking into the Matrix, and dodging bullets in slow motion.
What's YOUR M * A * S * H future?
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Villains fear me.
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According to the Which Sanrio Character Are You? quiz, I am: |
--04:06 p.m., Sunday, January 13, 2002
Man, I hate tidying my room.
Mind you, it's better than revision.
--03:08 p.m., Sunday, January 13, 2002
A woman awakes during the night to find that her husband is not in bed. She puts on her robe and goes downstairs to look for him. She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee in front of him. He appears to be in deep thought, just staring at the wall. She watches as he wipes a tear from his eye and takes a sip of his coffee. "What's the matter, dear?" she whispers as she steps into the room. "Why are you down here at this time of night?" The husband looks up from his coffee, "Do you remember 20 years ago when we were dating, and you were only 16?" he asks solemnly. "Yes I do," she replies. The husband pauses. The words are not coming easily. "Do you remember when your father caught us in the back seat of my car making love?" "Yes, I remember," says the wife, lowering herself into a chair beside him. The husband continues, "Do you remember when he shoved the shotgun in my face and said, OEEither you marry my daughter, or I'll send you to jail for 20 years?¹" "I remember that too," she replies softly. He wipes another tear from his cheek and says, "I would have gotten out today."
--12:03 a.m., Sunday, January 13, 2002
"If I did your A-levels, I'd climb to the top of my tallest platform shoes and leap to my death."
Isn't Carrie great?
Mum's word of the moment: Peacemonger.
--11:25 p.m., Saturday, January 12, 2002
According to 'Divine Secrets', ripopée means 'gang of obnoxious children' (though I can't find it in a dictionary of the French variety). Good word.
--03:04 p.m., Saturday, January 12, 2002
Eep. Scary-girl emailed me. Ah well.
Louis is still not back... but, he sent me a Happy New Year/Exam Luck card all the way from Hong Kong! Isn't that just lovely?
I did go to do my passport, but I left some of the money at home. Whoops. Never mind, I can do it on Monday, and I don't need it for aaaaaaaaaaages so it's cool, yes?
And the VCR miraculously managed to record Strange Dawn for me, even though I thought I'd [censored] it this morning.
Mum: Dad and Matthew have gone to the football, and Lisa's gone to the pantomime.
Me: Okay.
Mum: You're supposed to say...?
Me: 'Oh, no she hasn't.'
Bit slow today, Katykins?
I accidentally bought some books. But, I've been looking for them for ages, so it's okay, right? Well, so now I'm reading fourteen million and eighty nine books at once, but never mind, eh? I bought 'Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood', by Rebecca Wells, and 'Memoires of a Geisha', by... um, someone, I can't see it when it's in a bag like that.
Arthur Golden.
So, today's been mostly good and serendipitous (fantastic word). And and, Rhiannon signed my guestbook :)
--02:46 p.m., Saturday, January 12, 2002
Links: one two.
Anyway, today was not the most interesting of days... in Maths we did sequences (yawn), and I doodled an ankh, Death and OctopusFishtankMan. Then we didn't have General Studies, so I ate lunch, did some Physics revision, and read more of LotR: tTT.
And my Blogger code (see link 2) is apparently:
B9 d t- k+ s+ u- f+ i o+ x e l++ c--
French was mostly just this listening comprehension. Everyone hates listening, I don't know why. I quite like them.
Ooh, Chris emailed me.
And here is another link, to a demo of a program that talks in different languages. It's mildly entertaining.
And in Further Maths, we did allocating. Which is quite fun, you cross things out and take away numbers until it works, and then say 'aha!'. Always good. And plus, you get to say 'augmentation' which is a fantastic word.
Ooh, American Celebrity Weakest Link is on. Funfun.
I was talking to Kathryn earlier about [censored]. She says she hates him so much, she's going to send him pasta (she hates pasta).
On the bus, Lucie and Lisa were having conspiracy theories, and I was alternately talking to Sam, Ryan and Rhi.
Ooh, Dervy's online! :) Anyway, going now, bye.
--05:04 p.m., Friday, January 11, 2002
Blogger Insider questions from Meghan.
>1. Where were you on the night of the 31st of the 12th?
In my house. We had a big party, and I got to watch lots of people who have always been 'mature adult friends of my parents' get totally drunk. Always good for blackmail material :)
>2. What's the first Music video you can remember?
Um... 'No Limit', by... 2 Unlimited (I think. I know they spelt their name weirdly, anyway.)
>3. Sci-fi or Comedy, Romance or Drama. Horror or Action. Which is your favourite type of film?
Comedy, any day.
>4. Are there any films that you know off by heart?
I don't think I know any films off by heart... I'm on the way to knowing some episodes of Red Dwarf by heart, though.
>5. What books have you read recently?
Stargirl, Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings.
>6. Which of the above book would you recommend?
All of them! My favourite was Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World. It's by Haruki Murakami.
>7. What three cds/videos or dvd would you save if your house was on fire?
My tape of stuff taped from the tv (Lee and Herring, Comic Relief, Baddiel and Skinner, etc.), and.. Red Dwarf: Camille, and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).
>8. Do you have a pet?
No, but my sister has fish.
>9. Do you have a favourite band?
Mull Historical Society. Very few people have heard of them, but they're cool.
>10. What cd do you regret buying?
Alanis Morisette: Jagged Little Pill. I went off it very quickly.
>11. What was your favourite film of 2001?
Shrek. Definitely.
>12. What film from 2001 did you think was a waste of your time and money?
American Sweethearts, or something like that.
>13. Tiggers are..? (complete in fifteen words or less.)
#Bouncy bouncy fun fun fun...#
>14. Favourite Simpson's song/musical episode?
Absolutely has to be the Mary Poppins spoof. Sherry Bobbins, or something of that vein.
And email from Carrie :)
--03:53 p.m., Thursday, January 10, 2002
School was fairly dull... Alice and Mel were off in the morning, because they had an RE exam in the afternoon, and I'm at home now that it's afternoon. Fun.
But the Post Office wouldn't let me renew my passport, because they needed proof that I'm still me. I've changed a lot since the photo five years ago. I was 11 then... argh.
Since I was eleven, I've:
o Had my hair cut short.
o Dyed my hair blue. (So it's blue-ish now)
o Had my ears pierced, twice.
o Had my nose broken, by Matthew.
o Got glasses.
So I have to fill out this whole other form...
--02:18 p.m., Thursday, January 10, 2002
"what's a homepage? is it like a shoebox?" --Clara.
(NB: Clara is a shoe.)
--05:32 p.m., Wednesday, January 9, 2002
Land of eighty thousand emails! (49, but eh). Today was your standard Wednesday it's-the-middle-of-the-week ugh.
We got Discrete 2 books in Further Maths... just as boring and impossible as Discrete 1, if not worse. In PSE we had a talk about 'choosing your course and uni' - basically, we have to phone every university in the entire world by the end of the week, and get all our applications in yesterday (while the actual deadline is not until next January).
Multiple people don't even have vague ideas of what they want to do yet. I know my course... (AI) but only about 8 really-far-away universities offer it... off to ucas.com I go.
Physics was a revision lesson, in which I decided that I'm just going to fail everything instead of revising, which is a much less boring idea. Although not a very good one.
In French we were doing about the Euro. You know, one Euro is worth 62p, and they have different pictures on to show which country they're from? I didn't know that, until I read it in Authentik (this French magazine we get at school). The Greek one has a king, and Zeus turning into a bull (as far as I can tell), the Portugese one has the coat of arms of Alphonse the Conqueror, the Dutch one has the profile of Queen Beatrix, the Belgian one has King Albert II, the French one has a tree and a hexagon, and the motto 'liberté, égalité, fraternité', the Luxembourgeois one has Duke Henri (I think), the Italian one has the Leonardo de Vinci picture of a man with four arms in a circle, you know? The Irish one has a harp, the German one has an eagle, the Finnish one has swans, the Spanish one has King Juan Carlos, and the Austrian one has Mozart. Funfun.
Today was the first day back for the Grammar School people, which means it was Matthew P's first day of mock GCSEs! Good luck to him :)
And that's about it.
--04:56 p.m., Wednesday, January 9, 2002
If a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. Ernest Hemingway
--05:13 p.m., Tuesday, January 8, 2002
Isn't it funny how Legolas fans have started calling him 'Legs'?
--04:53 p.m., Tuesday, January 8, 2002
Today was the Queen of Days.
Seriously.
Loads of talking with lovely people... especially Sam, Mel, Alice, Megan, Nina, Joyce, Anna, Emily, Kathryn, Chloe, Lizzie (who got in to Cambridge!), Lauren, Meera, Gemma... etc.
Lessons were boring, but no worse than usual... ehm... I managed to get through Further Maths on total autopilot without saying anything too dense... Gemma gave me a lift into town, so I got my passport renewal form andgot home early... and lots of email!
--04:45 p.m., Tuesday, January 8, 2002
Today was the Queen of Days.
Seriously.
Loads of talking with lovely people... especially Sam, Mel, Alice, Megan, Nina, Joyce, Anna, Emily, Kathryn, Chloe, Lizzie (who got in to Cambridge!), Lauren, Meera, Gemma... etc.
Lessons were boring, but no worse than usual... ehm... I managed to get through Further Maths on total autopilot without saying anything too dense... Gemma gave me a lift into town, so I got my passport renewal form andgot home early... and lots of email!
--04:45 p.m., Tuesday, January 8, 2002
"all the fours plus a fat lady minus one and a half ducks: 49" --bingo numbers, on 'Aargh! It's the Mr Hell Show!'
--03:03 p.m., Monday, January 7, 2002
Well, the parents are at work, Matthew's at school, I'm going to school tomorrow, Lisa's ... somewhere, I know from the empty tuna tin in the kitchen that she's eaten something today but I can't find her (so she's either really quiet in her room, or out), I've packed my bag (and in it I put...) and delivered letters for mum. So, what now? I'm bored.
Although I have fifty thousand emails to read. So that's okay.
And, it's Katie 'chelle's birthday today! ::everyone hides, as she's now old enough to drive::
Happy Birthday, Katie!
What else... hmm, another email about DWCon. Groove. And one about that eBay auction.
Bored, bored... want to go back to school... aargh.
--02:36 p.m., Monday, January 7, 2002
"And she called *you* random. If that isn't the pot calling the kettle “random.“ "
--Poeie, leaping to my defence :)
--03:09 p.m., Sunday, January 6, 2002
Hi! So, school is nearly here again... I was getting a bit bored of the holidays, to be honest. At least with school there's something to do (revision doesn't count. I've done some, and on the test paper I did the other day I got 89%, so I'm happy).
And I'd forgotten how impossible it is to sleep when I've just had my ears done. I can't sleep on my side, 'cause it hurts, I can't sleep on my front 'cause I suffocate, and I can never sleep on my back. And I was hallucinating mice all night, so I couldn't sleep anyway.
Mainly because I read TAMAHER. Which is fantastic, read it now. I'm going to go and write two more review on ricecakes now... TAMAHER, and Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.
An interesting fact I read today - during the 2-3 generations since World War II, the average Briton's IQ has risen 27 points. Which I think is quite a lot, really... especially considering how much easier everyone is supposed to have it right now, with puters doing everything for you.
Note to self: Stop buying books when you're in the middle of reading about 8 others! Seriously, I'm reading Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man, First King of Shannara, and War & Peace (as usual - I've been reading it for 2 years, on and off. I hate it, but I will finish it.
And, for people who are in frames (click here if you aren't and you want to be), do you like my update thingy? Wave your mouse over the first few links. Fun, no?
And this has become a really long entry.
Much as I hate to watch channel 5 (there's not much good on it, and I get tragically bad reception)... did anyone watch Strange Dawn on Saturday morning? I thought it was quite good, although possibly that's just because I now love practically anything anime-y at all. (Try pronouncing that) Emi and Yuko. Cool.
I bought Wicker Man on eBay! Lalala...
And now Decemberfest time is officially over. I have a big pile of cards here just to prove it. Am I the only person that keeps all their cards in a box? Well, it's fun.
The Smallest Card: Lisa's
The Tallest Card: Megan's
The Most Glittery Card: Kathryn's
The Coolest Card: Kerry's (it has Rimmer on it. I mean, how cool?)
The Most Identical Cards: Poeie's and Derv's
--01:58 p.m., Sunday, January 6, 2002
So, I went shopping... bought The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents, by Pterry, a blue top, and extra holes in my ears (ow ow ow ow ow).
--06:10 p.m., Saturday, January 5, 2002
"Dad! I am not a lobster!"
Just watching the hour-long Frasier special on 4... new series :) and oh my god! Niles is bearded and looks satanic!
"Don't keep blaming yourself. Just blame yourself once, and move on." I love the Simpsons.
--10:08 p.m., Friday, January 4, 2002
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