The past whatever, 28 days.
Fun 28 days or so. That mainly orientated around A Level results.
I got a D in Physics (346/600 UMS), a D in Maths (339/600 UMS), and a B in ICT (476/600 UMS). I was quite annoyed with the 4 UMS I was off an A in ICT, but it doesn't matter any more, as I'm going to my first choice university. Which I'm really happy about. Like, ecstatic. =)
Still, my student loans aren't in the best standings. Though I do have a loan confirmed, it's not means tested, so I'll not be getting the grant, so I won't be able to eat. SLC say they're working through stuff sent in at the end of June, so we should have our stuff re-evaluated for the third time soon enough. Hopefully in the next three weeks.
Also applied for a Natwest Student Bank account, I mean - who hasn't? That five year railcard is just so appealing. Thought I'd messed it up by trying to open a savings account which needed me to make an initial deposit from my Natwest account, which I didn't have yet, so I cancelled it, but the forms arrived no problems this morning, so that's all filled in and I've just sent it back.
Starting university in three weeks and two days should be fun, if hectic. I've got most of the things I need now. I'd be tempted to say I've got everything I need. Can't wait though.
One problem with moving in is the mass of stuff happening in the weeks I move in. Namely, Joe Brooks has a gig on the Sunday, The Mission District has a gig on the Monday, Halo: ODST comes out on the Tuesday, Scribblenauts comes out on the Friday. Then two weeks after that, KH: 358/2 Days comes out. Television-wise, The Big Bang Theory and Heroes starts the Monday after I move in, Desperate Housewives starts the Sunday after that, and Ugly Betty starts the same Monday that KH comes out. And Mythbusters starts again in October.
However, I'll be far too busy partying or doing work to care.
Mmm, this is a nice omelette. What a strange word.
Anyway, other stuff.
In the past few weeks, I've been to Chasewater three times and had some nice sandwiches and fed some ducks with friends. Plus we took over the fort and were awesome. I've got some photos that I need to upload actually.
I've also been to Newhall Farm, Mill Farm, Jimmy Spice's, and The Village Lodge. Still can't cope with paying for poppadoms (I care not for the 14 other variations Wikipedia suggests) at that last one. Plus the meal didn't taste very nice. They did do a good keema naan bread though, I will give them that.
Regarding my iMac, ohmigah it died. My HDD started clicking far too loudly, giving me loads of "fun" new error messages. Thank fuck for AppleCare, £5 for a university student was the best thing I bought with my iMac. Got my screen replaced, HDD replaced, and my disc drive too. All within a week.
However, that week was spent on Ubuntu. I hated every minute. I could never just get into it and enjoy it, or be able to use it. It took me about half an hour to install Flash. Anyone who says Linux is the future, is plain and simple wrong, unless you're in very specific circumstances. It's just too un-user friendly.
Anyway, back to Apple products, I'm quite excited over Snow Leopard coming out this Friday. Though it means I'm down £25, it does mean I get some new sexy features and some hard drive space back. I'm probably just gonna stick Snow Leopard on top of Leopard, as it's been installed for two weeks now. I've always got my Time Machine back ups anyway.
Also bought into a 1Password upgrade. Clearly the best application on a Mac, I use it everyday, so £12.62 to keep it running sounds like a good, sexy bargain (The version 3 interface being the sexy component, of course.)
Games wise, I bought two XBLA games and one XBLIG, those being Trials HD, Shadow Complex and I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1.
Trials HD is a wonderful game, I just need more people on my friends list that play it. It's great fun, and infuriating. But it's very addictive game play, really enjoyable.
Shadow Complex was a game I wasn't expecting to buy, but then really enjoyed the demo, so I bought it. Another fabulously fun game, lots of 'splosions and stuff. But anyway, just buy it. =)
Finally, I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1 is another fun game. But it only costs 80 MSP. Look at this gameplay. Come onnn, that's like 69p.
This week, I had some sexy free fruit and nuts from Graze.com. I got some grapes, dried pineapple, pecans, and some banana coins. Though it usually costs £3 per box, I used a promotional code (AF8PPXY) and then you get a free week, and one week 1/2 price. You do have to provide a debit/credit card details but they don't charge for a free box and you can cancel anytime. I did. And my box was yummy. =)
Today was the day I learned that Panic at the Disco had lost two of it's members. Which sucks. But Panic! at the Disco (huzzah for retuning exclamation marks) has a new single that is quite awesome. Plus, P!ATD still has the better two members. The members that left and formed a new band also have a new song, but MySpace doesn't want me to be able to hear that one. Ah well.
That's about it.
Apart from Lostprophets!
It was an awesome gig. The Dead Formats were a bit creepy. The Young Guns were okay. Lostprophets were great! Fun songs. Bloody loud though. And lots of jumping. Had to get out by 10.15 as it was really quite hot and my knee started killing me. Bit mad really, but still a great night. Plus Kids in Glass Houses and The Blackout just appeared to turn up. Quite crazy really.
And that's about it. Probably another month of blog silence ahead. =)
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. =)
Monday, 8th of June, 2009
I'm not sure if it was the fact that Facebook now posts notes to everyone's home pages, but I had 7 comments in 24 hours. Which were also the first comments I've had in 10 months. Good times. =)
Anyway, today, I officially started revising.
I mainly did PA04 today, and by did, I mean I read through a revision book. I also watch six episodes of Mythbusters and four episodes of American Dad!
I then bought three tickets to see Lostprophets.
I then thought about extending my Wordpress blog to use Facebook Connect to allow anyone to comment on the blog with their Facebook details. In turn, it would allow people to post comments onto their Facebook profiles, and allow me to not have to use Notes on Facebook to show posts. In the end, I had three different plugins tried out, and though each would post, they all produced either: an ugly layout, 404 error messages, terrible speeds due to having to connect to Facebook multiple times, or bad user management.
One of my favourite plugins also allowed people to comment on Facebook, then also posting the comments locally on the blog, and vice versa, which I thought was very ninja. However, it didn't connect with the wall or peoples home pages, which made me sad.
However, at the end of five hours and three plugins, I came back with nothing. Apart from a new favicon. Which, you have to admit: it's pretty sexy.
Look at thatt. You know you love it.
In other news, whilst doing this waste of time, Apple hosted their annual WWDC keynote, which had a few good and exciting announcements.
Most of it to me, was truly useless.
However, the announcement of Snow Leopard for $29 was an amazing and epic announcement which made me happy, as I expected the price to be four times more expensive. Also, if I were an iPhone user, or a to-be iPhone user, OS 3.0 would make me pretty happy. However, the iPhone 3G S does look nice, but I can't afford it. Which sucks totally.
Now I'm watching Family Guy, and am off to bed (along with watching some more Mythbusters, American Dad! and probably listen to some Lady Gaga) so I can start learning PA07. I truly mean start. We have an awful, awful teacher.
Oops.
I forgot to post again.
All week.
So it's time for a mega long recap.
Problem there, is I've done very little, all week, making both the need for a post each day futile, as they'd all end up like the posts I made throughout May last year. (I'd recommend not clicking onto the May 2008 archives, it's truly awful) Still, I did do a few exciting things. Or witnessed a few exciting things.
This week has mainly been about Britain's Got Talent, in the same way the week before was all about Eurovision, and the week starting tomorrow will be mainly about Big Brother. However, what a wonderful week of Britain's Got Talent it was, loads of exciting peformances and fabulous acts, really enjoyed Diversity and thought they were a deserved winner.
Another exciting thing was recieving my RAM replacement. Instead of putting it back into my netbook (awh, Dell are discontinuing the Mini 9), I decided to put it into my iMac to give it a boost from 2GB to 3GB. I never really noticed the difference when it was in the netbook, so it seemed a bit futile to keep it there. Plus, with The Sims 3 RAM requirement of 2GB, putting the extra may make me a bit more awesome.
Or something like that. To be honest, I don't really see what RAM does. I believe bigger is better, though.
Oh well.
A third exciting thing was the arrival of my Bacon Salt. As suggested by Matty, it does smell like (Barbecue?) Pringles, but it tastes a little like bacon. Am planning to try using it on many things over the next months. Oh yes.
That's all for highlights.
Another, sort of highlight anyway, is the fact that I've done much revision at all. Like, nothing. I still don't know much Core 4, and I have a mock exam on Tuesday.
Though I'd count that as a highlight, it led into the biggest fucking lowlight ever. I've basically completely given up on exams now, as I just can't be bothered because of how Mechanics 1 went two Fridays ago. It's also made me think about how I'm not going to get the grades I need to get onto my university course, and whether I'll be able to manage and cope on the course if I do get upon it. Then I started thinking about what I'd do if I failed my course, or even if I failed to get on the course in the first place.
='(
Plus, because of the hot weather and my hay fever, I've been sleeping even more erratically than usual. Like, trying to get to sleep at 11pm, yet not falling asleep until 5am, then waking up at 8am because it's so bloody hot.
I'm off to go lie down and attempt to sleep, ready for my single revision session tomorrow. Actually, I do wonder if we have an ICT session tomorrow. Not that I care, to be honest. Ah well. I'll end up probably listening to some Lady Gaga and maybe watching some Big Bang Theory.
I hate this part right here. Like the song though.
/violin
Tuesday.
That was the official day of the week for May the 19th, 2009.
I didn't do much. Mainly went to revise at school, or watch Mythbusters, or listen to some classic Eurovision songs, or calculate what I really want to buy from Lips DLC (costing me 2760 Microsoft Points, gah, so many good songs, I mean check out this Spotify playlist), and having a nap.
Oh, doing some revision at home too, as I do have some exams on Thursday and Friday.
Ah well, all over in 28 days.
That's becoming really soon. And I don't know most of the C4 content I need to know. Fails.
However, for Sam's week of most under-worn Ties, today I wore my Union Jack tie. Tomorrow should be something fabulous.
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.
Oh.
Apparently I was lying, no frisbee-ing at all.
Spent the day doing a few things, however.
Spent about an hour preparing, readying, installing and tinkering with the process of putting Windows 7 onto my Dell Inspiron Mini 9. Glad I did, runs smoothly and Aero is so pretty. One problem I'm having is that it's constantly hot, all the time, which I only got before after Audiosurfing for a few hours. Not such a major problem though, oh well.
Spent quite a bit of time doing some M1 revision, going over some vectors stuff.
I didn't spend my time playing Banjo Tooie though, which I hope to remedy tomorrow by buying another Microsoft Points card. If that one doesn't work, I'll be really quite annoyed. I hope the one I have now works at some point before the weekend, or I'll be making some calls. As I want those points. =(
Back to school tomorrow, exam hour number eight. Also, two hours of Maths. Gah.
So.
Fun past few days?
Well, in general, the Volvic Challenge adverts still confuse me heavily. I fail to see the challenge. Also, I fail to see what makes Volvic cheeky, as it were. Advertising, eh? What a futile idea. I ignore them anyway.
But, on Wednesday, I did very little. Aimee and I watched some American TV in our free periods, had hour five of our timed ICT exam. That was about it. I think we talked about the Volvic Challenge then, too. I also handed in my last copy of my ICT coursework, gaining a total of 75/80 marks, which I am happy with.
However, on Thursday, we did some things. Like a practical exam that I thought went relatively well, which at the time of writing is now only 15 days away oh my god i'm going to die aghh. Also, hour six of our timed ICT exam.
Nevertheless, on Friday, I had an M1 mock. It was going so well. Question One, easy. Question Two, easy. Question Three, well, part (a) wasn't that bad. However, from there, it went downhill exponentially. And also, hour seven of our timed ICT exam. Which is halfway through. And I'm only a user documentation, camera ready copy and an evaluation away from finishing. Also, I need to embolden some words.
I like that word.
Yet, on Saturday, in the day, Adam Biddulph, Mat Bowker and I went to Birmingham. In the end, I spent about £20, which got me transportation there, a Chicken Tikka Masala and a Pepsi from Wetherspoons, a Venti Signature Hot Chocolate with a shot of Hazelnut syrup, a present for Sophie, a 2100 Microsoft Points card (THAT DOESN'T WORK, SO I CAN'T PLAY BANJO TOOIE, SO I HAVE TO WAIT FOR EVEN LONGER, WHICH SUCKS MASSIVELY SINCE I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR A BANJO TOOIE N64 CARTRIDGE SINCE 2007, HOW FAIL), and an Apple Pie. Walked loads too, plus had a look round the art gallery. How very cultured of us. Good day, to be honest.
On the other hand, on Saturday evening, I went to a house party at Jay's. It was awesome, fun people, fun games, fun drinking. To be honest, I can't actually remember much.
And today, I revised some M1 due to the catastrophic failure I experienced on Friday. I also watched about 15 episodes of Mythbusters (I love that show so much), got caught up on Britain's Got (More) Talent, prepared to put Windows 7 on my Mini 9 on Tuesday, and spent roughly 37 minutes tagging each song from the Eurovision 2009 Album. Eurovision is defiinetly the only time of the year where looking at my albums in Cover Flow makes me sad, due to the 42 Eurovision covers in there. Still, it's good fun.
Basically, yes, it has been fun.
Not like anyone was asking. But I've told you anyway. So there.
Should be having a fun May Day in Cannock Park tomorrow, frisbee-ing and all.
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