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Busy day today :-)
Went in by car this morning 'cos dad had to go take some books back to Chelmsford anyhow and we weren't sure how the trains would be, as last night there were suddenly no trains between Witham and Braintree. Didn't waste the time for once, but got straight on with writing some more of my (woefully behind and incomplete) project diary for this engineering thing I'm doing.
General Studies was as usual a complete waste of time (state whether these sports are upper or lower class then put them on a timeline... why am I meant to know this, again? oh, and apparently we don't have to know it, it's just to give us 'an outline of how sport and leisure evolved' - it's not biological, grr!) but what can you expect from school? I did manage to waste an hour next, after realising I'd forgotten to pick up my lunchbox this morning and in a fit of momentary insanity buying a Pot Noodle (thankfully I still retained the presence of mind to buy a sandwich too). Also, 'waste' means 'spend time writing', which I'm sure I don't do enough of (Ravine stuff, a bit jumpy and incoherant atm (well, the very *storyline* is jumpy and incoherant, but I guess I could clean it up a little), needs much more work), so I don't feel too bad about that (except that was the time I *should* have been going to help lady with computer again - more on that later).
Then we had PE, where I discovered just how many bruises I have atm... well, I deserve them for running into a wall.
(Playing Quasar, black walls and irregular light... we ('we' being church youthgroup) went to Rollerworld, I sensibly refused to put on my feet anything that reduced my already pathetic sense of balance, and ended up being the only person in the group doing Quasar (although two others didn't skate, they just spent large amounts of money in various other stuff (pool table, mini-bowling-alley, 'air hockey' game, odd coin-cascade thing) which I joined them in (managing to only spend £1.20 on the random stuff) for a bit between games). The first game we played was a fairly straightforward one, although with 30 lives which is quite high, and our team was ridiculously outgunned - we were all the little kiddies vs a load of ppl twice our size. So most of the time we were stuck in our energiser, trying to fight off the ppl who liked to come and camp in our energiser to annoy us. This is the game where I ran into the wall - I thought it was the gap, but I misjudged... I got second place in the team - first place went to the one larger-guy that decided to join us. The second game was free-for-all with far too many people to play that, so I decided to use the camp-in-the-energiser stratagy that appeared to have worked for the other team last time... almost got into a fight with one guy though, who came through quite a few times, and asked 'What's your f***ing problem?!' while trying to bludgeon my gun away. Also saw someone almost get trampled - they fell over by the energiser, and a couple of people charged in and were trying to get in and out quick so they didn't get hit by me, but someone else came by and yelled 'Dead guy on the floor!' at them, so they stopped and let him get up - I quit firing when I saw someone was down. Anyway, that was a long bracketed diversion, wasn't it?)
Volleyball again, not quite so intolerable now although we did get one of the stupid balls (plastic footballs are *not* volleyballs, I don't care what they have printed on them) for practice at one point, so I just avoided it. We started playing proper games today, which was much better, 'cos volleyball doesn't work like tennis with two people playing back-and-forth. (And it meant I got to stand around or sit around when I wasn't on for longer, which is also a bonus :-) )
Duitifully ate my Chicken (fat) and (miniscule triangles of) Mushroom Pot Noodle at lunchtime. Wish they'd just provide the soya pieces and noodles and not bother with the nasty salty stuff - it's not as if it's meant to have any taste anyway, they should quit pretending. The (chicken) sandwich actually tasted worse than the Pot Noodle tho - I have a feeling it was quite thorougly stale. Definately inferior to yesterday's sandwich.
On the subject of food, it was reported in assembly that someone ate 20oz of raw steak for Children in Need and someone else ate quite a bit of spaghetti with no sauce. And people were all going 'eww', and I just thought, 'mmm, I wish I could eat that kind of thing and raise money for charity with it...', 'cos I like my steak as raw as possible and spaghetti (or any kind of pasta) without sauce is goooood (although cheese/white sauce is goooood too).
In Economics we had a short-answer-test, which I was only limited on by writing speed, then attempted to go to sleep on the desk for a bit while everyone else caught up. Result - 75/80, with absolutely no checking whatsoever (if I'd've checked my calculations I'd've caught one mark, the other four I'd just got a table the wrong way round, no way I'd've caught it). Economics = yawn, can we take the exam already?
I'd agreed at lunchtime to meet up with Naath in the Electronics computer area to sort out train times for tomorrow (*is going to see Harry Potter, despite not having read any of the books*), but Dr Stallard threw me out of that room on account of there being a lesson in there next, so we went up to the library instead. We found some times which my mother informed me were really stupid, so I'm going to get the 10:03 down which gets in at 10:24, and hope Naath decides to read her email (or maybe I'll lock a LJ entry in all-caps just to her or summat). Then I thought I had enough time to catch my train so left, after trying and (as it turns out thankfully) failing to convince Naath to come to the station with me.
On the way down I passed the old-peoples-home and remembered the computer-helping-with I was meant to be doing, so I decided to drop by and hope she was still in. She seemed perfectly happy for me to arrive then, showing her how to attach stuff to email wasn't too hard (the hardest bit was finding the files she had 'somewhere on her computer' that she wanted to send, and I had to give her back her OE toolbars 'cos her cousin had stolen them when he used the computer), then I sat around and chatted to her (or rather, listened to her talk about how Direct Line Insurance had messed her around lots) for ages 'cos I had to wait for the next train by then. I like talking to people who want to talk at me...
Train stuff not a problem, except it was unusually crowded, but there were armrests between seats so ppl didn't have as much of a problem as usual with other ppl sitting next to them. Got home and started sorting out engineering stuff for tomorrow (I'm apparently meant to be 'gathering statistics on the average head restraint', so I've found a bunch of stuff that *almost* fits the brief, and where to find out the rest, but I think we're going to have to write off for it or summat). Spodded a bit, read LJ, wrote this massive post... and now it's about 10mins to off-the-computer time.
Went in by car this morning 'cos dad had to go take some books back to Chelmsford anyhow and we weren't sure how the trains would be, as last night there were suddenly no trains between Witham and Braintree. Didn't waste the time for once, but got straight on with writing some more of my (woefully behind and incomplete) project diary for this engineering thing I'm doing.
General Studies was as usual a complete waste of time (state whether these sports are upper or lower class then put them on a timeline... why am I meant to know this, again? oh, and apparently we don't have to know it, it's just to give us 'an outline of how sport and leisure evolved' - it's not biological, grr!) but what can you expect from school? I did manage to waste an hour next, after realising I'd forgotten to pick up my lunchbox this morning and in a fit of momentary insanity buying a Pot Noodle (thankfully I still retained the presence of mind to buy a sandwich too). Also, 'waste' means 'spend time writing', which I'm sure I don't do enough of (Ravine stuff, a bit jumpy and incoherant atm (well, the very *storyline* is jumpy and incoherant, but I guess I could clean it up a little), needs much more work), so I don't feel too bad about that (except that was the time I *should* have been going to help lady with computer again - more on that later).
Then we had PE, where I discovered just how many bruises I have atm... well, I deserve them for running into a wall.
(Playing Quasar, black walls and irregular light... we ('we' being church youthgroup) went to Rollerworld, I sensibly refused to put on my feet anything that reduced my already pathetic sense of balance, and ended up being the only person in the group doing Quasar (although two others didn't skate, they just spent large amounts of money in various other stuff (pool table, mini-bowling-alley, 'air hockey' game, odd coin-cascade thing) which I joined them in (managing to only spend £1.20 on the random stuff) for a bit between games). The first game we played was a fairly straightforward one, although with 30 lives which is quite high, and our team was ridiculously outgunned - we were all the little kiddies vs a load of ppl twice our size. So most of the time we were stuck in our energiser, trying to fight off the ppl who liked to come and camp in our energiser to annoy us. This is the game where I ran into the wall - I thought it was the gap, but I misjudged... I got second place in the team - first place went to the one larger-guy that decided to join us. The second game was free-for-all with far too many people to play that, so I decided to use the camp-in-the-energiser stratagy that appeared to have worked for the other team last time... almost got into a fight with one guy though, who came through quite a few times, and asked 'What's your f***ing problem?!' while trying to bludgeon my gun away. Also saw someone almost get trampled - they fell over by the energiser, and a couple of people charged in and were trying to get in and out quick so they didn't get hit by me, but someone else came by and yelled 'Dead guy on the floor!' at them, so they stopped and let him get up - I quit firing when I saw someone was down. Anyway, that was a long bracketed diversion, wasn't it?)
Volleyball again, not quite so intolerable now although we did get one of the stupid balls (plastic footballs are *not* volleyballs, I don't care what they have printed on them) for practice at one point, so I just avoided it. We started playing proper games today, which was much better, 'cos volleyball doesn't work like tennis with two people playing back-and-forth. (And it meant I got to stand around or sit around when I wasn't on for longer, which is also a bonus :-) )
Duitifully ate my Chicken (fat) and (miniscule triangles of) Mushroom Pot Noodle at lunchtime. Wish they'd just provide the soya pieces and noodles and not bother with the nasty salty stuff - it's not as if it's meant to have any taste anyway, they should quit pretending. The (chicken) sandwich actually tasted worse than the Pot Noodle tho - I have a feeling it was quite thorougly stale. Definately inferior to yesterday's sandwich.
On the subject of food, it was reported in assembly that someone ate 20oz of raw steak for Children in Need and someone else ate quite a bit of spaghetti with no sauce. And people were all going 'eww', and I just thought, 'mmm, I wish I could eat that kind of thing and raise money for charity with it...', 'cos I like my steak as raw as possible and spaghetti (or any kind of pasta) without sauce is goooood (although cheese/white sauce is goooood too).
In Economics we had a short-answer-test, which I was only limited on by writing speed, then attempted to go to sleep on the desk for a bit while everyone else caught up. Result - 75/80, with absolutely no checking whatsoever (if I'd've checked my calculations I'd've caught one mark, the other four I'd just got a table the wrong way round, no way I'd've caught it). Economics = yawn, can we take the exam already?
I'd agreed at lunchtime to meet up with Naath in the Electronics computer area to sort out train times for tomorrow (*is going to see Harry Potter, despite not having read any of the books*), but Dr Stallard threw me out of that room on account of there being a lesson in there next, so we went up to the library instead. We found some times which my mother informed me were really stupid, so I'm going to get the 10:03 down which gets in at 10:24, and hope Naath decides to read her email (or maybe I'll lock a LJ entry in all-caps just to her or summat). Then I thought I had enough time to catch my train so left, after trying and (as it turns out thankfully) failing to convince Naath to come to the station with me.
On the way down I passed the old-peoples-home and remembered the computer-helping-with I was meant to be doing, so I decided to drop by and hope she was still in. She seemed perfectly happy for me to arrive then, showing her how to attach stuff to email wasn't too hard (the hardest bit was finding the files she had 'somewhere on her computer' that she wanted to send, and I had to give her back her OE toolbars 'cos her cousin had stolen them when he used the computer), then I sat around and chatted to her (or rather, listened to her talk about how Direct Line Insurance had messed her around lots) for ages 'cos I had to wait for the next train by then. I like talking to people who want to talk at me...
Train stuff not a problem, except it was unusually crowded, but there were armrests between seats so ppl didn't have as much of a problem as usual with other ppl sitting next to them. Got home and started sorting out engineering stuff for tomorrow (I'm apparently meant to be 'gathering statistics on the average head restraint', so I've found a bunch of stuff that *almost* fits the brief, and where to find out the rest, but I think we're going to have to write off for it or summat). Spodded a bit, read LJ, wrote this massive post... and now it's about 10mins to off-the-computer time.
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