Hold your head high, heavy heart

thursday progressed as normal, with computing homework done (shock) in extended registration, and also a vote held for the next head of house boy.. thing.. in which we basically got told that our vote would only matter if we voted the right way. woo, another victory for democracy!

computing was more theory, and in history, we played 'castles'. if you don't know.. don't ask. our team won, actually, although the only prize was glory. pfft. sucky prize.

break was followed by english, which was in turn followed by the f:netix meeting. it went so well that we organised another one for tomorrow lunchtime ¬_¬

very little happened 7 and 8. me and matt wandered around for a bit.

Frail, yet so full of fire

Two english coursework essays down.. none to go. okay, so since i never handed them in BEFORE the deadline, i won't get feedback on them. but all that means is i don't know my sucky grade in advance, i guess, since i never change work i've finished. if it was going to get a D, i'd PROBABLY change it, although changing it would likely involve starting from scratch, so imight end up just handing in D standard work.

in other news, reports were given today, although we'd seen them before. mine was alright, grades ranging from A to C, although no subject with one consistent grade, all of them B,A,B or C,C,B or something like that, and there were no amazingly henious remarks from teachers, like "Rory hasn't been in my last six lessons. Why is that?" or "My money all went missing, and Rory was the only one in the same room as my wallet, therefore, he must DIE" or something along those lines. and it wasn't a standard report, but an end of year-y one, so it wasn't even POSSIBLE to get any of those little x's I love so much which mean I've been being me and not doing any homework <3

so, what else? alex skived off of japanese 'cos he's ghey. vicky made dave extremely worried by having an uber-sulk, but she seemed okay in japanese. she claims that the chocolate made it aaaaaaaaall better. also, matt had about 50 coke cans. now, i can understand how it's cheaper if you buy 12 cans of coke for about three quid than buying about three for around £1.50. however, if you then give about eight of those coke cans away for free, you are in fact, not saving any money.

unless it's just me.

Illicit Feedback

guess who's feeling stupid? no, apart from you. yes, me. why, one might ask, am i feeling stupid? English. now that could technically be seen as enough reason, all by itself, but no, i'm not confounded by the big words, but no, what's got me is what gets me every time, and has for the past ALL OF MY LIFE.

still confused? don't know me all that well then, do you, because if you did you'd know i was talking about homework. or more specifically at the moment, coursework. we can only hope i'm not stupid enough to miss the deadline on thursday.

anyway, other things happened, i guess. like the whole fact of me not being properly alive today, due to about two days of not sleeping properly (read as: getting one hour of sleep per night) again, a smart move.

it can be extremely worrying when someone you don't really know hears your name for the first time or whatever and says something along the lines of "oh.. so YOU'RE Rory.." or similar. this is not helped by paranoia induced by insmonia, and all sorts of crazy conspiracy theories start rushing through your mind. incidentally, everyone is ACTUALLY trying to kill me, so it doesn't count as paranoia.

Withdrawal symptoms

Hurrah, and other proclamations of victory, etc. why? because since monday, i have not had a working computer! that in itself is not cause for celebration, of course. but the fact that i'm typing this now should infer that i have now in fact got access to a computer. and how! if i hadn't had to go without internet for a week, i'd have called it a blessing in disguise. now it's just compensations. what am i talking about? well, our old computer didn't get fixed. we got a new one. which is better. so woot. also, the old one isn't just being thrown away, a lost cause, no, it's being sent away to people who know about these things, and being threatened with hammers or some such similar thing until it behaves. which means we will have two computers. and by we, i mean my family, and by two i mean the family will have one and i'll have one locked up in my room if i have any say in the matter. which will mean i can essentially do what i want.. mwahaha!

evil plans of world domination aside, i can't have blogged for like.. a week. i dunno if anything amazingly worth mentioning happened.. the usual me slacking off, when i should be working, i suppose. i did a young enterprise exam on tuesday, which was ok, and other things happened. i have two english essays to write before monday, or i shall suffer death IN THE FACE because it's sort of coursework. and you know, the whole holiday in a week thing. with the deadline being.. then.. yeah..

i'm probably in trouble anyway. but that's nothing new.

i'm currently performing the arduous task of downloading the FFXI updates (I've had to install it 'cos of the new computer-age..) so, yeah.

can't remember anything else as majorly standing out this week, so woo. computerage.

Q for Vendetta

so yeah. how about that recent current event of some sort? pretty wild, huh?

i am so with it.

anyway, what happened on that craziest of days, friday? i don't know, lets ask me. what happened? the usual lessons and stuff i suppose. there was an essay in comms, which we'll get back next friday, and in english we read TWO whole pages of heart of darkness. we're not just slow readers, we had about an hour of discussion and ten minutes of reading. fun. we have like 6 pages to go, so thats what, two weeks worth of lessons? i also have to get a draft of my english done for monday, oh joy of joys.

a bunch of us got dragged into watching the rehearsal of sammi/becky/some other girl (also called becky)'s comms presentations. i found this incredibly odd, what with me not wanting ANYONE in my presentation, but whatever. the free periods seven and eight went remarkably slow, with seven mainly boring and then more people around eight, so it was slightly more interesting. tom and gillis were playing liero on my mod, which meant they were showing it off to everyone. i should probably remember to prod a bunch of people next time there are some lieroable people online.

it was also saint patricks day (hmm. i forgot about that, lol) which meant people reminding me i'm irish a number of times. i got pinched for not wearing green, but i pinched back 'cos i was. so yeah. that meant there was a big family outing to EAMAYL with us all decked out in green, and food. also, alcohol, but limited amounts. i've decided that on less reserved occaisions, i'm not going to waste time by mixing vodka . unless shitloads of non-alcohol is used, it just spoils the taste of whatever it is (as opposed to improving the vodka) and seeing as 'it' is usually coke.. neat vodka it is. and then coke, to take the taste AWAY.

then today was the trade fair. didn't really wanna get out of bed when i did, but i would've had to for karate anyway, so i dragged myself out. the day was largely boring, but there were interesting bits. i now have an evil balloon bunny minion. his name is bob. he is red, cos we didn't have any black balloons. F:Netix won best customer service (!!!) and we came either second or third in best stall, and either second or third overall too. the oddest people talk to you at these trade fairs. and about crazy things, too.

hamilton showed up at the end with his beth, and announced they were going to see V for Vendetta and did anyone want to come, so me, ellis and tom said 'yes'. rob also said yes, but apparantly couldnt make it. it was quite cool, but V was no Batman. also, it got extremely, retardedly mushy near the end, which sort of detracted from the rest of the stuff. might have to read the original. it was weird watching the houses of parliament blow up, though.

hmm.. well i don't know how to end this other than LOOK A BEAR

The truth is you should have stayed in bed

so i woke up today, feeling ill, and tired, but looking forward to one less lesson due to an absent teacher. got to school, did the.. at school.. things, and went to computing. where the door was locked. we hung around for a while before it transpired that dr bond was not in the building. or even anywhere in the school. so, not only was history cancelled, as expected, but computing seemed to be too. so i had four free periods. mainly spent wasted around the common room, annoying everyone with only the prospect of one lesson. i technically did some work period 3, cos i read through an essay about racism in heart of darkness. i'm supposed to annotate it though. i should probably do that.

anyway, break was short, i 'complained' about having to go to a lesson. and then, i went to english. and found out that due to 'interviews' or some such nonsense, it was also cancelled. i think i may have started giggling feverishly at this point, because i was very tired and i'd appeared to come into school for pretty much no reason at all. when i could have been at home. in bed. asleep.. ;_;

i invaded the other computing class, who, despite the lack of teacher, were all sort of working on coursework. i 'attacked' dave, and proclaimed my last potential lesson of the day had been cancelled. for some reason, he took offense to this and proceeded to try and kill me. again. i spent most of that double bored, because everyone was doing WORK in their computing class. but whatever.

i probably should've gone to the compulsory YE meeting at lunch, but my head hurt. at this point (or, indeed, the start of period 5) i should have gone home, but the prospect of that walk was just.. blech. so lunch happened, and neil was ranting about last week, with the caffeine tablets and whatever. i think he told about 50 people. he also proceeded to give people superhero names. i got 'the caffeine kid'. other names were 'woman man' and 'mr amazing' (which surprisingly was neil himself). so i floated around period 7 + 8, prodding matt, and eventually the day ended. i got home, and crawled into bed, only to be rudely dragged out of said warm, comfortable, relaxing.. bed. should go back, but then again, i'm lazy. damn stairs, making a mockery of my desire to sleep!

Look! a bear in a bear costume!

so, things. (and people say the english language is degrading. what do they know, eh?) ok, so i dunno when i last posted so we'll just recap from saturday, shall we. i probably posted on friday, as i remember mentioning the whole bleurgh thing, but i probably didn'tpost on saturday. could just check, but i'm lazy so i won't.

well. karate happened. min was pissed, because people hadn't gotten in their licence applications which she had to give to the ryubokai people about an hour after our lesson. so karate wasn't so much fun. and then ellis and simon had to go work on their chemistry, so there was no hanging round or whatever.

but that was ok cos dave organised a small gathering for saturday. at his house. minus his parents. it was only me, dave, andy and another guy called rory (it wasn't very confusing at the time. however, when talking about saturday, people seem to think i'm referring to myself in the third person for some reason. even if i say something like 'me, dave, andy and rory'. anyway, alcohol was consumed. dave's sort of in trouble now, but it was fun. andy did ask me not to blog about it (not that there's any big sort of scandal we're covering up or anything. not at all) so i won't go into detail. we had to carry rory home though. (thats part of why dave is in trouble) but it was good, and merely served to reinforce the idea that i don't get drunk nearly often enough.

anyhoo, loads of people were away on monday due to a maths conference, and matt was supposed to be away, but wasn't. this week heralded the end of dossing during comms periods instead of doing coursework.. no more lesson time is being given over to coursework now. which sucks, but whatever.

then today, everyone of import was there, as far as i can recall.. comms may have taken away the free time for coursework, but apart from a ten minute appointment to discuss my coursework one on one, i had my english double free. needless to say, i haven't even started the draft. don't be silly.

history, break, computing. computing dragged on, and i'm still not entirely sure what i should be doing specifically. i know in a general sense.. but apart from that..

there was a YE meeting (ugh. the tuesday meetings have been made compulsory. well, at least till after the exam. which is next week..) and then a thing. comms lesson. we read through some more essays.

also, i'm vaugely ill. i have a sore throat, stuffed nose and a headache. the words ow and eurgh in combination would sum up how i feel. i'll probably get some sleep tonight instead of reading all night, like last night. and the night before. meh

In which our hero fails to die, severely annoying several people

yay. so yesterday, the computer broke, and today, i broke. and by broke in the first case i mean failed to load up windows when turned on, andthe latter case i mean overdosed on caffeine tablets and then threw up some time later, but suffering no adverse affects other than said throwing up. tch. who'd have thought that overdosing on a drug would have negative consequences? well, most people. including me. it might be asked, by an inquisitive person, or indeed, maybe even someone who didn't care and wasn't really even curious, why i took 25 caffeine tablets. i wouldn't have much of a response other than 'um.. well' so it would be a bit of a pointless question really.

so, what else is new?

In soviet russia, fuck you!

i can't really be bothered to talk too much about today (not that too much happened)
i could sum up a lot of how it felt with that well known phrase, 'fuck fuck fuckity fuck fuck!' but then again that would be rather crude. oh damn, i appear to have already summed it up so. oh well.

Anger is like a soul that gets things accomplished

hurrah for spending the day with a sense of overwhelming.. thing.. eugh, i don't even have the words. and it's not even like my vocabulary is terribly limited or anything, i just don't know how to describe it without sounding like a moron. so we'll just leave that be, shall we.

so. march. and apparantly, lent. I considered giving coke up for lent, but as i'm now no longer always carrying several cans of coke, and have been an atheist for god knows how long ^_^ i thought it was a little pointless. also, it only occurred to me to give something up after lent had started. so, not much good then.

the profile thing was/is today, and as may be pointed out from the lack of mention of it, i didn't realise i should be getting a ticket till the other day, and then they were sold out. which is annoying me now, 'cos i'm missing it, but i'll be over it. by tomorrow, probably. assuming andy/dave/whoever else don't decide to point out that missing it was a big deal. although i'm more likely to get annoyed at them, for trying to annoy me, or whatever. at least i wasn't the only one to not get a ticket. misery loves company, and all that.

karate today was normal, but we did some weird self defence stuff instead of katta and basics and whatnot. which meant simon throwing me around (well, and me throwing him around. but that wasn't painful for me, so it doesn't stand out as much) and i hung around with simon, ellis, dave b and mark(who also didn't have a ticket), for a while, until they went of to profile, and me off to.. home. to be bored, largely.

i may well be starting to feel nervous about the upcoming comms presentation. not entirely sure i want ABL and matt to be watching. or gills, really. not to mention the other guy in our group for presentations. and why in the name of all that is right and good in the world would i want mr warner to watch my presentation?

which i have yet to write. i'd say i was a master of procrastination, but it couldn't be proved. that'd mean putting effort into procrastinating, which would be a little contradictory.

i should write that thing tomorrow. speech on monday..

yikes.