The weekend. Also, exam one.
I may revisit one word titles at some point. I did think it was fun.
Okay, set the time to 6pm Saturday. I've just finished baking my cake, and I'm bringing my iMac downstairs. This produced problems in the form of 10.5.7, the latest Leopard update, failing to pick up my wireless network, and when it did find it, fail to mount my FireWire drive and not load any menu bar items. This messed up my plans heavily, so the iMac went back upstairs.
Now it's 8pm-ish, and most people are here, but my network is failing me on my netbook. Due to Eurovision starting, I had to stop, but these problems are fixed quickly later on.
A few minutes into Eurovision, and we're all laughing at Dima Bilan running through polystyrene, getting his coat stuck and lip-syncing terribly. Overall Eurovision was a bit mad, a bit strange (especially whatever was happening in the interval, that was especially mad), and very awesome (we came fifth, if you didn't hear). Overall, Eurovision was fabulous.
Apart from my Crucial RAM dying on me. I knew I wasn't going mad, about that it wasn't as good as the RAM I got from Dell. Ah well, at least I know now. Waiting for them to email me back now.
Say around midnight-ish, and I'm singing It's Raining Men, as performed by Geri Halliwell, covered by Adam Bennett and myself, on Lips, the video of which will probably be on the internet soon enough. I love Lips now, it's quite fabulous, I could spend 1600 Microsoft Points on songs if I had all of Lips and 1600 Microsoft Points. Ah well.
Make it 7am, and Lips is disappearing due to James Gittings and Adam Bennett going away, so I went to sleep and Matty, Foo and Mat played Peggle for four or so hours.
Then I don't think I did anything else on Sunday.
Today though, and I'm calling this Sam's week of most under-worn Ties. The Thinkgeek 8-bit Pixel Tie was todays.
Had the morning off doing some general revision, looked at some questions for PHAP, the Physics practical exam. Turns out looking at those was absolutely no help whatsoever, as the exam was nothing like anything. Question 1 went a bit iffy, could pick up most of the marks though. Probably not, I didn't know what I was meant to be talking about really, so I made it up. Question 2 was a bit stranger, could get most of the marks but the those on the last part, as I completely failed to answer two of the questions.  I'll never really know though, as it's joined with PA07, which might be a good thing.
That's basically it. Am now off to play Banjo Tooie, revise some Physics and Maths, and sleep.
Lost.
Oh my.
I won't say anything, but that was a bloody amazing season finale of Lost there. Better than Heroes and The Big Bang Theory. Hmm, pretty much on par with Scrubs, as that was also bloody amazing.
Eight months to wait until there are any new episodes.
And even then, will I be able to get them at university? I doubt so, but I will die inside without Lost, My Name is Earl, Heroes, The Big Bang Theory, Mythbusters, Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives. Actually, about all but three are available fo' free on Freeview, pretty close to the US airings.
Still, missing the Lost finale would piss me off.
Oh well, twelve months to work that situation out.
However in other news: EUROVISION YAY and FREE REALMS YAY!
Now.
I was right!
Nothing much else to say really, though this week is a bit of a season finale week of some of the last American TV shows, with Lost, The Big Bang Theory, My Name is Earl (joining Scrubs (what a lovely ending - I did nearly cry), Heroes, Better off Ted and Samantha Who?) ending for a while.
Should be okay for a while, I do have a whole season of Desperate Housewives and half a season of Ugly Betty to carry me through until Big Brother UK and US start. Might keep me a bit interested during revision, which I have officially started with my ICT timed exam now finished. Yayy.
And with good grades on the second M1 mock I did, I'm feeling not so bad about the exams I have next week.
Well, the practical should be no problem at all, M1's going alright, but the lack of me seeing a PA02 paper in a year may limit my progress there. Doubt I can do any worse on 25/90 UMS, though.
To be honest though, you never know. Ah well, time for some Free Realms, The Apprentice, and I may watch Semi-Final One again.
If you didn't see it, IT WAS AMAZING I'VE MISSED EUROVISION SO MUCH YAY.
Ah.
I'm running short of short words to put in for short titles.
Hmmyes.
Basically finished my evaluation today, can't see or be bothered to add any more to it. As it's so boring. Should finish pretty sharpish tomorrow, just need to print off all of my documents out, which shouldn't take so long, being as I've already got 36 sides of drafts and 10 sides of documentation already printed, which is more than half of what needs to be printed. Printy print print.
Other than that, pretty much the same old Tuesday routine: don't arrive until period 2, Maths, Bloomers, time for procrastinaing and lunch, ICT (Exam), then Maths and Band.
Tomorrow, should be pretty much the same old Wednesday routine: form, spend two hours not working, CPL (well, ICT exam this week, hopefully only part of it though), lunch, another hour of procrastinating, and then Maths.
Fun.
Ah well, 34 days, 20 hours, 22 minutes and 3 seconds until my last exam finishes.
Actually, I see that as a bad thing, as I'M STILL NOT REVISING. I plan to not revise further this evening with Free Realms, The Eurovision Song Contest Moscow 2009 Semi-Final One, and probably some Farm Town.
Well.
It appears that I have forgotten to blog this past week.
Maybe because it was just that uneventful.
Had a few highlights though.
Friday evening was just simply fabulous. For Sophie's Birthday Meal we ate in 95 High Green in Cannock. Lovely soup, lovely steak, lovely treacle tart. I might even go as far to say that it was divine. Good evening, anyway.
Also, have been allocated a room at Derby Halls. Which made me really happy. Room 3, Flat 6, Ground Floor, Peak Court. Exciting. =D
Actually, I think that was it.
Plenty of not so good things though. Another four hours of my ICT exam been and gone, even more C4 maths that I'm not totally following, the student finance application process, and having to appreciate that at the time of writing I have 883 hours until my last exam starts. Even worse is the fact that my first exam is in 183 hours time.
Yikes. I should get started with the revising.
Ah well, Sophie's party, Eurovision Semi-Finals 1 & 2, and the Eurovision Final in the next week. But then it's my first exam. Agh.
Oh well, three of my exams before half term, then half term, then I have a free week, then all of my exams within two weeks.
Then drinking, prom, Elliot Minor, my Open University deadline, and then university moving in itself.
Oh, as a side note, I like the word parallelly. I think it is fabulous.
My plan failed.
The plan of sleeping early so that I'd work today. It failed in the sense that I actually slept for 15 hours. Gah. Good sleep though.
However, so far today, it's been productive.
I've been listening to this years Eurovision entries (so far I'm liking Ukraine, Greece and Finland).
I've done some ICT (gasp). Specifically, I updated my designs, improved them, and also improved my user requirements (mainly by making it about requirements, rather than just talking about the wrong things).
I researched getting a 2 GB RAM upgrade for my upcoming Mini 9 (delivering in a few days, I hope). And I've decided that Crucial have a good way of telling me what RAM I need, and then giving me a good price on it. Gonna wait until my Mini 9 arrives first to make my mind up.
I'm now off to eat ice cream and implement some stuff. Almost fun times.
Political Voting
is a bitch.
The best two in the big four are in joint last place. Sweden should have been so much higher up. And Spain should have been so much lower down.
Oh well.
Oh, how to not start voting for Eurovision (redux, numero dos):
Throwing a ball. AGAIN!
But this one was totally more awesome as it was a bigger ball, a basketball.
ESC Final 2008
Hmm, this opening ceremony makes me wonder what it would have been like if Verka Serduchka did win last year. And it's also funny, cause instead of looking like Megan Hanson, she looks like female Hiro from Heroes, in my opinion. Hooby doo.
And what the hell was the camp "party host" doing on the sing-a-long. He was interrupting Sir Terry. Paddy O'Connell's comments at the end of songs was bad enough on the semi-finals, but that's just obtrusive, rude, and a bit terrifying.
Anyway, songs timeee. Song by song. ALL 25. Muaha.
I still don't like Romania's entry. I just think it's too much of a love song.
Andy Abraham's performance was quite good for the UK, though that weird thing in the bridge where he went to sing to the backup singers was a bit weird. Pyrotechnics at the end were better than in the semi-finals, so it's not that bad.
Albania's went well, I thought. Some freaky background hearts though.
Eep, Germany's sounds quite bad live. Not the worst of the Big Four entries this year though, it can be said.
I count 38 Qele's for Armenia. That's all.
Bosnia & Herzegovina has a nice song, terrible acting, and the two main performers look like George and Zezi, the new hosts of BBLB. Don't denyyyy it.
Israel has a nice sounding song, but I don't really like it. It's hell hard to sing along to though.
Finland are still trying to match Lordi, but fail in the face department.
The old man for Croatia is still ruining their song.
Poland has a nice song, it's probably work as some form of Final Fantasy song. Could do well. Exciting teeth, too.
Iceland's entry is like a club song. Not that there's anything wrong with it, it's a good change from the love-y crap.
Turkey has that weird feeling about it. Not a bad song though.
After how everyone was screaming "PORTUGAL" as the envelopes were being opening to announce the finalists on Thursday, it can't be a bad entry. I don't like it though. Therefore, I am wrong.
OMFG Pirates!!!!1qone!e. Vocals could be better, but that applied on Tuesday, however with a song like it is, with pirates onstage, it doesn't really matter. Latvia for the awesomes.
Sweden was awesome again. Although how the hell was she grey scale until the first chorus? I'm so confused at that.
Nice performance from Denmark again. Sir Terry's introduction (though it was masked by the Steven Spooblabonk party host) was not as good as Paddy O'Connells, to the postcard that is.
Georgia are depressing optimists. What a contradiction, there, eh?
Ukraine has a nice entry, could win. Box thing is funny. One of the better props this evening.
(Between entries, Sir Terry's insults to the actual trophy made me laugh.)
France's entry makes me happy. It also amuses me that some French official is annoyed that he's singing in English. Sounds terrible live though, should have stuck to the studio version. He soooo didn't stick to the lyrics.
Azerbaijan - yeah, that pitch still hurts my ears. Interesting silvery-glittery hair I didn't notice last time though.
Greece has an interesting song, and an interesting postcard. Catchy song.
Spain is simply appalling. Worst Spanish entry I've seen. Worst of the Big Four, if not worst in the entire competition. Euro-bysmal indeed, weird Eurovision fairy.
Serbia sounds and looks like the introduction ceremony for the semi-finals. Minus the horse-man, of course. Didn't like it last year, either.
Russia had an awesome performance again, doubt we'll see ice skating on stage for a while.
Norway had a good performance again. I don't like it though.
Enough of one post, as I think Wordpress might explode. =)
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