Ramblings

Well, according to dad, the mouse, it turned out to be a mouse, was indeed killed by the cat. Thank god. At least it's good for something. He's finally beginning to leave the wildlife in the wild now too. Well, except the dead rabbit he brought home on Thursday, and the live one he brought home just as I was about to leave for school yesterday morning. But at least he's improving.

Something you may not know. I write fanfics for stargate. (yes, I know, I have no life! But I enjoy it!) But I don't post them anywhere. If you want I suppose I could e-mail them to you. Anyway, I don't write angst. Ever. It's too depressing. But the last 2 I wrote, albeit short ones, were complete angst. I even managed to get one of my friends at school, who usually nothing can depress them, wired person, to read them, and he was utterly depressed for the rest of the day. So apparently I can write angst. And it's good, but I hate it. Cos I have to proof my work, and when I do that I get depressed. Which is why I don't write angst.

I feel like some people are stating the obvious to me a lot lately. And it could just be something small in a lesson or something, but other times it can get annoying when people think that I need something to be spelt out to me. OK, yes, there are some situations that it would be nice if people elaborated their points. But there's other times when people do it without needing to. I dunno, I guess I've been feeling a little sensitive recently. M'eh.

Tomorrow should be interesting. Maybe. Mark has persuaded my parents to take him on an orientering thing at Gibside. Just for the hell of it. Apparently my dad knows one of the guys at work who does this quite often, and its something that mark wants to do, so he' invited me along. And hell, if the weather is as good as it has been this last week I might just go along with them. Be good to get out, away from work. (Ok, so I'm using it as a legitimate scive from doing work on Sunday, but what's your point?!)

It's always this day that gets me. Not Saturday, well, I suppose it is always a Saturday, but I wake up and realise just how quiet it is without my siblings. When it's just me and a parent. OK, so this time there's the cat as well, and any animal that the cat has brought home... But yeah. It always manages o disarm me for a little. And then by the end of the weekend it's fine, and I don't notice the silence, until it comes to something like having tea, or when there's usually a conflict over the TV. I dunno, I guess all the small changes in my life are finally beginning to take their mark on me. Ah well, just another adjustment I'll have to make.

First exam: 30 days
Prom: 34 days
Last exam: 67 days
Holiday: 3 moths, 3 days
Exam results: 3 months, 25 days
18th Birthday: 4 moths, 1 day

Yeah... It's me again

Well, i would have had this update posted sooner... if certain technologies would work... But alas, they have not, so i am updating now. That's the important thing right? I mean, it's not my fault that the stupid school network wouldn't load up the blogger page correctly is it? Oh sure, the page came up... I just couldn't write anything! Stupid school...

Random thought: I wonder if the cat has brought anything wired home today.

You see, so far, the cat has brought home the beginnings of an ecosystem. He's brought home about 8 voles (in various states of being alive), 3 mice, a wing of a collared dove... then a few days later the decomposing corpse of the rest of said dove... but yesterday, he brought home a kitten. And, no, not a cat kitten... a rabbit kitten. So yesterday Judi and i spent about 15 minutes trying to get this kitten out of the kitchen and released. Because the cat didn't kill it... it just brought it home. So eventually we got it out of the kitchen and released, and then Judi went about doing the praise thing to the cat. "You're such a good boy. Yes you are. Yes you are. If you bring home another rabbit I'll have to kill you because i hate rabbits... yes i will, yes i will."

Let's see, what have i been up too... ummm... Well, i haven't been sleeping that well again. It seems to come about whenever i change houses. Must be getting used to a different bed. Of course, i change house every 2 weeks, and so just when I'm getting used to whichever house i happen to be in, i change house, and the cycle starts all over again.

Random thought #2: Wonder if that vole/mouse thing is still there.

See, last night, about midnight, i woke up to this scuffling sound. I turned on the light, and there's this mouse/vole thing running around my bedroom. So i did what any other person would do upon seeing a little vole thing on the floor of their bedroom at about midnight would do... i freaked out!! Yes, i know, the image of me freaking out over a vole, can we calm down now? Thank you! Anyway, i think the cat got it. I mean, i heard the cat go mad about 10 minutes later, about 3 minutes after i heard something scrape under my door. So i think it's dead... it definitely wasn't around in the morning at any rate.

Random thought #3: so this is what it feels like to be paranoid. I always wondered.

Anyway... School has been, well school. Although A- block decided we needed a swimming pool. See, we've had some builders come and resurface the roof of A block, but the work wasn't being done over the holidays, so they decided that as the weather had been so nice prior to the holidays, they wouldn't bother putting the covers back. And because this is the North East of England, it rained. And the roof of A12, A14, and apparently A11 and Wells' office sorta, um... collapsed! So now there are only 4 working computers in A12. OK, so there were only 6 before the roof collapsed, but the school isn't going to admit that, are they? I mean, what would be the point? This way they get more fixed because of the insurance. But it makes peoples ICT lessons interesting.

Um... Oh, learning about the Plague in Biology. Something i haven't actually done since about year 7 or so... may have been 8... cant remember. Not quite sure how it relates to biology, but apparently it does. Still, it makes for an easy lesson last thing on a Thursday when no-one can really be that bothered to do anything. I swear, half of the class had gone "to look stuff up elsewhere" by 20 minutes in. In fact, only Kiri and I were actually still in the classroom at the end of the lesson.

Still, it's better than my psychology lesson yesterday. OK, so we were doing coursework, and most people had been to see the teacher about it, and i was going to see her about it after school yesterday, but she said that if we knew what we were doing we could go... so half the class left before the lesson even began. And then the rest of the class left 10 minutes later. So it was just me in the classroom for about 40 minutes yesterday. But hey, i wasn't exactly complaining... at least it meant that i could get my questions answered. Going over it, it seems that for me to be able to get the mark that she thought i should get, i have to add something into each section. So i basically have to rewrite the whole report. I don't have to redo any of the data collection, or statistics or anything, but yeah. Guess I'm going to be busy with that for the next few weeks.

Not to mention that i have got my maths coursework to finish. I thought mine was easy. It wasn't a linear correlation, i.e. It wasn't a straight line, so i couldn't do any of the tests that the rest of the class have been told to do. So i showed Johnson what i had done... and he came up with about 3 other things i had to do instead of the 2 things that i wasn't doing. Stupid Karma thing.

Random thought #4: Hey, this PC has just connected tot he internet. Why's it done that? I didn't tell it to connect to the internet. Stupid PC.

Random thought #5: Wonder if dad knows that his PC is screwed up? M'eh.

Oh, got a holiday booked for the summer! 3 weeks in the states!! wOOt!!! (I'm a little excited by it). So far, i know that we're flying into San Francisco, going to Sacramento, Breyer's canyon, Grand Canyon, and i think we're going to Phoenix, before heading to long beach, then up the coast to LA, and then flying out of San Francisco. And then having to get up in the morning on the next day to get my exam results. I don't think there is a word to describe just how unbelievably knackered I'm going to be on the 18th. But hey... 3 weeks in the States... I can forebear it!

Oh... haven't done this in ages:-

First exam: 32 days
Prom: 36 days
Last exam: 69 days
Holiday: 3 months, 5 days
Exam results: 3 moths, 27 days
18th Birthday: 4 months, 3 days

yeah, I'm alive

Um... hey. sorry i aint updated in a while, but in my defense i've been incredibly busy. Strange thing is i cant name why i've been so busy. Just trust me. I'm sorry that i havent gotten out, well, really at all this holiday, to see people i wanted to see, but life seemed to get in the way.

Let's see, what have i been up to? Um, well, been playing inie minie minie mo with unis... a game i still have to play. Been doing work, and work, and work, and then some more work. and then had the weekend, and then on Tuesday i took my brother to town and we sorta may have accidentially intentionally bought Stargate series 4-7... And i wasnt going to buy anything. OK, that's a lie, i was going to buy ONE series. ONE!! Ah well, at least we split the costs. Judi cant understand us, and hell, sometimes i wonder about us, but still, it is done, and at least i spent my money on something i love right?

Dad had an open day at his work on Saturday. Got to see what exactly he's been up to for the lsat 2 years or so. See, he's been moving people from one office block to a completely new one that he had designed, and also basically halved the size of the factories due to some take over or other that i didnt really understand and so wont go into. Suffice to say it was pretty cool.

So yeah. Like i said, i've been busy but i cant place where exactly all my time has gone. But ah well. It has. LTS to dwell on times past. I heard that somewhere, and it seems to make sense.