The never ending list

Or more specifically – the never ending list of things to do that seems to dictate my life more than I do.

Over the last 3 months, I’ve watched said list grow and grow as my department shoved more and more assignment deadlines towards me, and watched the things I really want to do get moved gradually towards the bottom. This term has been a rather bumpy ride in terms of deadlines, assignments and exams – and I’m told it’s downhill from here! I’ll write some follow up posts soon showing off what I’ve achieved in creating recently (I’m actually proud of some of it!).

The happiest moment of my life occurred last week, when said list of ‘essentials’ finally reached zero, when the final assignment had been sent to the abyss that is known as ‘DUO’, and the end of term benchtest was over. I’m told that after spending a night out marking this occasion, I was heard celebrating in my room… Which involves me yelling a lot, before your minds jumped elsewhere!

Anyway – I get home, having promised myself a fortnight to enjoy Christmas before getting stuck down to work, and I find myself unable to even get started on that list of ‘want to do’ items. Congratulations to the CompSci department – they’ve killed my work ethic even for things that I enjoy!

Revision Dodging

Right now, I have 26 hours until my next exam (Computing CP4), yet I am sat blog posting! What a mistake-a to make-a!

Anyway, I've now done 5 exams, and have another 8 left to go. Only 13 days left though! They do like to cram these exams into a nice small space of time!

Since I've finished school, I've discovered PKR - a 3D poker game that you play from your computer over t'internet against other people. It's quite addictive - and a very good waste of time! I came 112th out of 400 in a tournament last night, went all-in on a pair of Kings, the other bastard had a pair of Aces -.- Will be back in the tournament tonight, going to beat last nights record!

I've also discovered some more stuff, which I'll post about later today.

Right, who wants a game of Monopoly?!

May Ball

Just woken up after a rather epic night at the May Ball. I expected it to be a bit more emotional, since it is the last time we're going to see everyone, but as soon as the booze was flowing (at expensive rates!) I realised that wasn't true :P

Got a lift there in style (with Daves dad, same as for year 11 prom) and then Rick tried to emulate the prom some more by jumping into a bush... video's will be up later!

Food was crap considering what we paid (£37, for a slab of chicken!), and the DJ wasn't up to much at all!

Started calling in drinks from all kinds of people, got 2 free shots and at least 3 free cider's from various people, including Mr Hughes - you legend! I really couldn't afford much at £3.75 a pint! £3 for shots as well... more than twice the price you'll pay around Poynton!

Anyway, got in at about 2am, after trying to put my key into a wall. Doors are hard to work after a night drinking! Bit worse for wear this morning, but nothing a bit of revision won't fix! 19 days, 1 hour, 7 mins until I'm done with exams :-D Woop!

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I need to get better at this blogging lark, no updates in nearly a month! :-o

I have just got back from completing my Music Tech coursework logs. If anyone from AQA happens to read this - they're a waste of time! I've spent the last 2 days doing nothing but logs, and I bet they never get read. I hate examiners some times!

I've also got A2 exams next week. Eek! Maths C4 and Music Tech resit on Wednesday, and then Physics resit on Thursday. Can't wait...

Still, on the bright side - 32 days left until my last exam :-D Woop!

Bought a Punto!

This is a bit of old news, but been rather busy recently!

Signed the relevant forms to sell the old Peugeot 307 off to a dealer in High Lane, and then went off to find myself a new car :-D

Found a nice Punto at the Hazel Grove garage - 1.2l W-reg with 43k on the clock, for £1,995 - absolute steal! Managed to talk them down by a further £100, and adding in service, MOT and tax (another £200 worth basically). Done deal!

This was all last week, rang up today to confirm collection tomorrow

"Just let me get the paperwork... erm yeah. Not been MOT'd, serviced or taxed yet, should be available next week"

"Bugger off, get it done by tomorrow or I'm claiming my insurance (£5.20 per day) back from you"

Anyway, phoned them back just now, and its been miraculously done in the last 3 hours! I'm collecting it at midday tomorrow :-D Then off to the pub celebrating!

Damn... that means I'm on the J2O's then... going to have to get used to them!

One good thing, though

I passed my driving test :D

Forgot to mention that!

Spent yesterday cleaning my Peugeot, going to try and sell that next weekend, and find myself a nice little Fiesta to knock around in! Can't wait!

When will it end?!

This week is going to be another bad one!

Not got another free between now and Wednesday - including lunchtimes! They're taken up from now until Friday with doing Battle of the Bands in school! Damn Music Tech!!

Got a Cub meeting at the fire station tonight, should be entertaining... for the Cubs! Group leaders meeting on Wednesday night as well.

Oh, and on top of that I've got school, homework, coursework, the usual crap! Goodbye week!

Back from Kent - alive!

I made it back from Kent in one piece!

Journey went as follows... 18 hour day :|

Up at 5.30 am, breakfast and then out to catch 6.23 train from Macclesfield. Train was on time (for a change), but it was cold :(

Underground from London Euston to Victoria at 8.50am, crammed onto the tube like a sardine, and I'm sure I had a businessman feeling me up!

Victoria to Canterbury West at 9.19am, arriving at 11.07. Taxi to the university, ripped me off! Cost about £7 for a 5 min journey!

Had a very nice day looking around the university - absolutely excellent facilities!

Bus + Walk back to Canterbury East, train to Victoria at 16.02. Victoria to Euston on the tube, crammed in even tighter this time. Had to throw myself out of the tube at Euston, wasn't going to get out otherwise!

Caught an earlier train than expected, 18.35 to Macclesfield, supposed to be arriving at 20.20. Bad idea.

Firstly, couldn't get a seat because the train was that packed. Ended up sat on the jumpseat outside the toilet, although I was well off - most people were sat on the floor! Anyway, I tucked into my Sausage Roll and Apple Pastry, bought from Euston station for £3.95 - what a freaking rip off! They both tasted the same as well, and I think I caught a disease off the Sausage!

Here's where the fun really began... train suddenly stopped, and stayed stopped for about 20 minutes. No word from driver, and none of the "Train Managers" were about, they'd gone into hiding/bailed out. We finally start moving (slowly) when the driver comes on the intercom:

"Errrr, we've been diverted off the West Coast Mainline, due to errrmmm. We'll be about 1 hour late into Stoke-on-trent"

Brilliant, thought I.

Then managed to find a member of staff...

"We've been diverted through Birmingham, but we're last priority now, so we could be here for a while, probably 90 mins late"

Bloody brilliant, thought I.

Anyway, arrived at Stoke late, and then Macclesfield at 21.20, an hour late. No compensation either, not allowed to claim unless I'm more than 2 hours delayed. Its a freaking joke.

Moral of this story:

• Don't go to Kent on the train
• If you must go to Kent on the train - don't go with Virgin

Bed at 10.30 - 18 hour day. I'm still recovering!

Sat inside on a sunny day

Waiting for Amtrak to arrive with a parcel.

What a fun and exciting thing to do on a sunny day like today!

Fun night

You've got to love the snow! Ended up on Chester Road at 11.30pm last night, throwing snowballs across the road at each other, after a nice session at Ricks! Haha :D

Got to bed about half 4 (crammed in a 2 person bed with 3 other people... how does that work?!), and got to sleep about half five. Up again at half eight for bacon butties.

I'll sleep well tonight!

My life: update!

I'm annoyed at my computer right now. Are there any trojans going the round right now? :S My PC seems to slow to a crawl one minute, and then be fine the next :( I think its dying/infected - and either way I want rid of it!!!

Managed to get next draft of Physics coursework done this weekend - but then the bloody printer ran out of ink, and I've got none spare :( Have to wait for a Viking order to come through now!!! At least I've got an excuse for not doing Computing coursework though :D Hehe

I'm fed up of Poynton. That's enough said on the matter, although things are looking up slightly! School still blows though...

Thats about it for my life at the moment... interesting isn't it?!

Musical Tastes

Rather disturbed at my own musical tastes at the moment:

Daniel Bedingfield - Gotta Get Thru This - He Don't Love You Like I Love You

And I'm enjoying... catchy lyrics, and he's got a pretty good voice. I'm sure this is Music Tech eating me from the inside out!

Someone kill me or make me do something manly - QUICK!

Another fun weekend

Went to the poshest party of the year last night! Out in High Lane...

• Huge House
• Bouncers on the gate
• Invite only
• £2k worth of Marquee
• FREE BAR

Yeah it was a fun night...!

Next weekend will be even more epic though... Friday - Monday of solid drinking! Woop woop!

Licensing

Just got myself kicked out of the Vernon Arms, just because it was after 9pm. Even though I ordered a Coke.

How the hell is that right?

Is there some magic law that prevents them serving soft drinks to minors after 9pm - even when accompanied by responsible adult?

Absolutely ridiculous

Still, its that cheap that I will be in there come Thursday lunch... :D

Food poisoning - Tech style

So here's the story so far:

Had Music Tech period 3 today, right before lunch. We happened to have a bass set up and mic-ed with 20 mins to run before lunch, and no-one was using them... so in I jump!

Get Ric on the bass, and started recording for one of my coursework pieces. 20 mins later we're just getting into it, so Dom goes off down to poynton pantry and returns with a cheeseburger for me. "Excellent!" I thought, "No need to go out for lunch, just carry on recording!".

Then I started on the burger in question. Safe to say it tasted rather crap. In fact, I'm pretty sure crap was one of the main ingredients. However, I ate it anyway.

Get to Maths period 4, and slowly but surely I start feeling immensely ill. Not even a little bit, utterly and completely ill. Like said crap is eating my insides.

Managed not to puke on my book, and now I'm home writing this.

Now... do I take tomorrow off school and miss a lot of work, or go in and hope to hell I don't hurl on a teacher?!

Things I Hate right now

• Webhosting UK Live Support
• FTP
• Firewalls
• BT Home Hubs
• iPhones (cause they're expensive)
• School
• Coursework

I may update this when I start liking/hating more things.

Wasted weekend

And not in the sense that I was wasted.

Spent all of Saturday doing Maths homework, and then all of Sunday doing various bits of coursework. I think its fair to say that I'm pretty peeved.

FsPortal is nearing release, only 27.5 days left until it gets unveiled to the public... and yet I can't spend my time on it!!! I'm losing out on revenue! And you know I need the money if I'm to get my hands on one of those iPhones. Damn you Steve Jobs.

Anywho... back to the same old monotony for another 7 days. I may just have to start a countdown until I leave this awful school and finally start to live again.

Still... 21 days until Family Guy, and a few less until Halflife 2: Ep2 (which I have ordered :D Before I realised I needed the money elsewhere :( Ah well)

I have a fairly crap day at school tomorrow. 2*Physics, 1*Maths and 1*Tech. Probably no blog tomorrow... will be too busy screaming into pillows. Seems to be a regular occurrence now. Who the hell is responsible for this timetable?!?!?!

Too much work, too little play

This is getting ridiculous... 3+ hours of Maths homework (not even vitally important stuff), 2+ hours of Computing coursework for next Friday, couple of hours needed on Personal Statement asap...

When am I supposed to breathe again?

Oh yeah, and I've got classes. Lovely.

My Day

Now the HL2 rant is over... more about me :D

My day was crap! Started off with a couple of okay Music Tech lessons, went downhill with Computing theory, and then double Maths finished me off.

I actually came home and screamed into a pillow at the end. 2 * Maths just isn't meant to happen.

Fortunately, it only happens until middle of October, when I get to go and sit in with Year 12 lessons. Whoopee. Plus Taylor is now threatening to join them as well. Whoopee * 2.

(I know its hard to tell sarcasm over the net. So here's a hint. That was sarcasm -.-)

Anyway, got home, lost my Clarinet (hoping its somewhere in Music... fingers crossed), found out that I killed the FsPortal server already (not really... but you know!) and then played HL (see earlier post).

Now I'm off to bed, just to get up tomorrow and do it all again.

Should I start counting down the days until I am released from the horrors of college? May be sad enough to work it out one lesson...

College Blues

Figured out today that I really really don't like what's coming up with Music Tech this year, but don't want to drop it, because the classes are amazing. What do I do?

Oh and the one girl I'd finally got with after 3 years went off with another guy and then somehow turned it round on me. That was nice.

So yeah, nice day. At least I get a lie in tomorrow.