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Harriet, no, Elliot Minor + The Mission District.

What a fun day it’s been.

After what I believe was a night of no sleep, I arose from my room around 12, and cleaned my room some more. Spent about an hour trying to get my books to stay on my shelves right, but they’re still constantly falling off. How persistent and annoying.

Anyway, got dressed and ready for the gig tonight, which would be Elliot Minor + The Mission District.

Had McDonald’s.

Queued.

Saw David from The Mission District. He was awesome. He gave us a leaflet.

Then we were inside.

It was oh, so very hot. (Almost like there has been a heatwave recently.)

Anyway, The Mission District came on. They were awesome for many reasons, mainly for they sang awesome songs (including the best Lady Gaga/Rihanna/Michael Jackson mix you ever did hear), and they were awesome. They were also sweaty, as jumping + thrown water + bad ventilation + lots of lights was true.

Elliot Minor were on next, obviously, as they were headlining. They came on to Jessica, which somehow caused me to go from basically the back of the room to essentially the front. Which made the evening a lot more enjoyable, I must say, Played some good songs, a few new songs, maybe a few too many, but they were still very good.

Also, fun merchandise. Signed Elliot Minor poster for £5 was a bargain and is awesome. Also got David from The Mission District’s signature. May go see them live in September, if I can drag my self away from Fresher’s fortnight at Derby.

Then McDonald’s again, but only for a drink this time.

Then we were on the Last Train Home, (Lostprophets in 2059 hours baby).

That was an experience, I must say.

So we’re (Aimee, Adam and I) sitting around a table, as you do, then Calvin comes to sit with us.

And we were terrified by his speech, the self harm marks, the fact that he was smoking, was drunk, and was talking about being nice.

He also didn’t believe us about Elliot Minor (or as he kept on saying, Harriet Minor), though we had three tickets, about ten flyers and a big poster.

Which scared us all. Thankfully, he left at Tame Bridge.

Then Aimee drove us home, which was nice, and now I’m finishing this blog post after having a shower to remove the sweat from my person.

Farewell!

The past week.

Starting with Thursday, Prom. Was a fabulous evening, meal was alright, tunes were fabulous, and more importantly I won the Accessorize award. Oh yes.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday went past quite quickly really. Most of the time was spent playing Monkey Island 2 and Banjo Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts. And I’ve finished both of them. Starting Curse of Monkey Island later.

Yesterday was strange, had a fun time un-networking and re-networking in different areas, and being introduced into four new Playfish games. Which are very exciting. And addictive.

Today has been pretty boring too, however my 1 TB hard drive arrived and I have lots of space available to me for the first time in months. Lots of good times.

Boring week really.

Gig, day out and parties in the next few days though, so that should be fun.

Farewell!

Omg she got off the plane!

Friends season finale for the fourth time since I started this blog. How amusing.

Quite surprising to me, sort of, as I haven’t really been watching Friends this past run through.

Anyway, yes, the past few days I suppose.

On Monday, I spent most of the day being cool and playing Burnout Paradise, finishing about 50 events and 50 road rules to get the Burnout Elite License, which is now awesome.

On Tuesday, it was Matty’s barbecue which was nice, as there was a steakwich and some burgers. Fun day really, as I saw some friends for the first time in a week or so. Also figured out the reason as to why I stopped playing Nuts & Bolts, which is because it was so boring. I may finish the story, but I just can’t be bothered.

Today was quite mediocre, got my hair cut and attempted to learn the Single Ladies dance for Prom, which isn’t going so well. However, got around to getting ScummVM working so I can play me some Monkey Island.

Obviously also watching Friends season finale, which has just finished. Planning to spend the evening being a pirate in Monkey Island 2, and maybe go back to finally finish Half Life 2: Episode 2. Maybe Oblivion and try to go through the side quests as well as the actually quests, as I managed to avoid most of them last time. Also trying to see if I can spend some money on Firebox to take advantage of a 20% off offer they’re having.

Anyway, farewell!

The last few days.

Thursday was good fun, went to the pub with Chemistry and Physics teachers and got a free drink and dessert from them, and got a meal for £3.50, which was lovely.

Friday was also fun, as I went to Ikea and came back with some frying pans and a spatula for university, which was exciting.

Saturday was also very, very good fun, as there was lots of bouncing involved. This was because Aimee had a bouncy castle at her 18th birthday party, along with a barbecue and booze. There was lots of bouncing, even to the point where after the party it felt weird that I wasn’t bouncing. I’m alright now, though, which is awesome. But it was a fantabulous evening.

Today should be pretty mediocre in comparison, as I’m probably going to end up sitting here, playing Burnout all day, along with sifting through the 120 photos from last night. Alright times.

Wednesday the 17th.

Uploaded a new blog header image that was more appropriate to my current circumstances. Unless you’re currently on Facebook. Which is cool. But you’re so missing out.

Today was great, went off to Birmingham. Traded in my Wii and an additional remote and nunchuck for £110 trade in at Gamestation, which was nice. I then used that credit to get me a Microsoft Points Card and Lips, with brought me down to £60, which is still a lot of credit that can be spent on some other games later.

Went around, can’t quite remember when. But anyway, bought Aimee’s birthday presents, bought Alan Carr’s autobiography and Russel Brand’s latest book, hardcover, ¬£6 for both, which was awesome. Also got some Sharpies to replace the black one that died in November. And they have a fine-liner tip, which I thought was pretty ninja to be honest.

Then we headed home and I played Lips for about five hours. And as expected, spent an entire points card on DLC songs. Got another one coming tomorrow/Friday though, which I’m not going to spend. It’s going to sit there until something I actually want comes online.

Anyway, a photo of me revising Physics is shown to the right (or just somewhere on Facebook). Isn’t it so fun.

In other news, oh my god Sree is so annoying why don’t the bloody housemates nominate him so he can go awayyyy, and they should stop nominating Halfwit as I find him amusing.

That’s about it.

Pub today for lunch, pub tomorrow for something. Should be fun whatever happening. Slightly feel a bit bored that I’ve not got anything planned for Friday. I’m sure I’ll cope, I do have access to about five games I want to finish, Scrabble Live, Bejewelled Blitz (if it ever comes back from maintenance), and Zynga Poker.

Oh, and Restaurant City. That’s become quite addictive.

I’m bored, or am out of things to say.

Therefore: fareewell!

Happy happy happy! Exam eight.

Oh wow, that exam went so amazingly well. Compared to what I was expecting, anyway.

It wasn’t so bad, to be honest. Some questions I just didn’t get, and some questions I got completely the wrong answer, but for the majority of the paper I understood what was happening and got some plausible answers.

Happy!

Woo!

Plans for the future include: Clearing out all the crap I’ve collected from GWPAHS over the past seven years, finish writing this blog post, move the printer downstairs, clear out under my bed, clear out drawers and shelves, box my Wii so I can trade it in, scan everything into Delicious Library, re-read the Harry Potter books, finally finish FFVII and FFXII, tag every photo in my Flickr account (mainly Florida + Vegas, so many untagged), watch all the episodes of Mythbusters I have, catchup with Ugly Betty, catch up with Desperate Housewives, catch up with Big Brother, play The Sims 3 for a long time, sort out the genres on iTunes, have a go at C#/GameMaker, and think of more things to add to this list.

Eheh.

Farewell!

Waste of time: Exam Seven.

C4 today.

Question Two was fine, I do love a good binomial expansion. Worked out quite well and did it quickly, which was awesome. Question Two was also great, trapezium rule and integration, same as other people: fabulous.

Then it went downhill, real fast. Answered only bits of questions from then on. Happy that there was no differential equations question, but the big 14 mark question on vectors was a complete fail.

Which I believe, according to my shaky and approximate maths, I’ve gotten a D in Maths. Which means I should be aiming for 85/90 (roughly) UMS tomorrow to get a C, to guarentee a place at Derby. Which plainly and simply will not happen, ever. So I just hope I get an A in ICT and Derby like me.

Gonna start revising for PA10 in a bit, which should be fun going through 4 modules. Or 4 and that bit of the optional that everyone had. Should probably find out, to be honest.

23 hours left. Dreading the last two, but can’t wait either.

Farewell!

Another fun day.

Woke up at 4.30am today to claim facebook.com/samuel, but was too slow. Therefore, I have http://www.facebook.com/samuel.maycock instead, which isn’t that bad.

I then tried to go back to sleep, which didn’t happen. Which then set me up to go in to Derby for an Open Day on three or so hours of sleep. Not the best, but it’s about normal for me anyway.

Had a letter inviting me to the Great Wyrley Performing Arts High School Oscar’s. For my contribution to the arts. I’m not sure where that happened. But I’m sure I’ll find out soon enough. Very exciting. Click on the image to the right to see the text of the letter.

Left the house late, so we arrived at Derby late, obviously.

Got on an accomodation tour for Peak Court, as it’d be nice to see where abouts my actual room will be in about three months and a week. Turns out it’s very nice. Rooms were very similar to York’s rooms, just a bit shorter and a bit wider. Bathroom was identical, and the kitchen was bigger, so it’s all good. Not far from anywhere either, which is also nice.

As we were late, we had no chance to go talk to the course leader before the talks started, so we decided to go to the Computing talk for the third time. Thought it was great that my mom could identify Project Natal when others in the room couldn’t. Talking to the course leader and some students made me feel less terrible about me probably not getting my target grades. Which is still killing me. Gonna try hard to do as well as possible next week so I can get a few more marks. Maybe even a C? That would be nice.

Went into the city centre afterwards to have a look around, which looks fun. Lots of fun shops. Went home. Now I’m home. And off to revise. So I can maybe get a C.

Farewell. =)

Things are going alright.

For once. It’s quite great, I do have to say. Had a lie-in this morning, exam was good, I’ve gained lots of money, my record of achievement has reappeared, and I’ve gotten two free songs off of iTunes.

ICT went really quite well. Which is obviously the only exam where I’m going to come out thinking that, with C4 and PA10 next week. Most of the questions went really well, apart from a few.

And that database question was awful, mainly because it wasn’t normalised! It annoyed me so much.

Anyway, I hope I’ve got a B there, which will hopefully get me an A overall, the only decent grade from my A Levels. Unless I do get a D in Physics, which is what I’m expecting. Not really a good grade, though. Especially not good enough for my university choices.

Off to Derby again for another open day to go see Peak Court and talk to the course leader.

Weird that in 93 hours I’ll be done with exams. Eep, should probably start learning C4 soon.

Farewell. =)

Terrible day.

Oh god, it was awful.

Morning was relatively alright. It was nice outside, a moderate temperature, revision was going well with consistently good marks on past papers.

Then midday.

Went to Tesco, and I had burnt bacon on my sandwich, which disappointed me. I then had PA07, which was truly awful. I then had PA04, which was truly awful. Basically 2 hours and 45 minutes worth of sitting in a freezing cold library, doing relatively nothing at all. However, my predicted awful performance on PA07 has pushed my self predicted grade at a D, which gives me a total self predicted UMS of ADD. Which is 240.

Which is not enough.

After finishing the exam, I was stuck in the rain for 10 minutes, and got quite soaked.

And now I’m here.

And I’ve missed the first half of coach trip.

How disappointing.