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2/28/2007 Shopping and Uni. Instead of school.This morning began with a lie in, well, for about an hour. We were up and out by half nine I think. Mum and I decided to take the day off, and go into Glasgow and do some shopping. Not entirely skiving, as I had to go to Strathclyde uni for 1pm for a tour kind of thing. So we did a bit of shopping, lunched, and then got lost trying to find the university building we were supposed to be in. First impressions of the uni - up too many hills, outside too much in the rain, and bloody hard to find anything. Not a good first impression.
However we got in and got a kinda talk thing from various different people, one being the head of Science, one being the careers advisor person, and the last being a huge fat guy who had next to no skills in public speaking, who I think was supposed to be talking about "life as a student." The first two were average and boring, but this fat guy. Wow. I don't know what the hell he was trying to sell about Strathclyde. But it came across as "okay the best thing here, is the fact that you can get pissed every night and the halls of residence are within crawling distance of the student union." Gee thanks. I'm kind of going to uni to get a degree, not get pissed thankyou very much.
Then we got taken by a student to another lecture theatre where a guy in an orange shirt rambled on... And on... And on... About nothing in particular. And he gave the impression that the best thing about Strathclyde is the fact that because there's so many students (it's a huge uni), you are anonymous, therefore when you're failing or misbehaving, noone cares. So it's great for neds basically. From there we were taken up to a skanky lab where we were allowed to play with a "virtual cat" on a slow skanky old computer. Okay so this pretty fun. Instead of universities testing on a real live cat, they made a computer program to mimic the cat. It's heart rate, breathing and muscle movement. And you could administer variable doses of drugs. That was fun. We killed it a few times.
Then we got a very brief tour, where we were basically shown "okay the sports centre is in that direction" and were shown the halls of residence, where there were basically no windows left due to them being smashed. And we were told that you can't sleep due to the fact there's so many drunks crawling about in the middle of the night. Encouraging. And from there we were allowed "refreshments," and this was honestly the best bit. Free Diet Coke and crisps. Woo. And filling out a questionnaire. "Are you going to take up a place at Strathclyde university after participating in this visit?" Nah, my impression was of a shithole for neds who want to drink and fail without getting into too much trouble. No thankyou. It just didn't impress me.
We did a little more shopping after that, and then caught the bus home, ate Chinese while the boys were at football. And now I'm going to bed as I'm tired. I'm back to not sleeping well. Oh joy. =[ 2/27/2007 Trouser ChartToday was pretty fun, Nicole, Hannah and I were
pulled out of regi to go and put up posters for Mrs Mc's Fair-trade group. So we
spent a full hour doing that, wrestling with pins etc. Although there was
the small problem (for H and N) of being out of French, having told Mrs Mc they
had permission. So they're in a bit of bother there.
Chemistry was pretty boring, we were going over the
prelim. I got 72% but that isn't an A, it's a B. Boo. I hate going over things
and having my stupid mistakes pointed out. Especially by Mr J who makes more
mistakes than anyone. Maths was short and sweet, so to speak, because there was
an extended interval due to Mrs Mc having a coffee morning to sell her
Fair-trade stuff. So maths was cut short. But, the title is to do with maths.
Nicole and I have a "trouser chart" for our
teacher. And this is a measure of our teacher's trouser status. We noticed at
the beginning of the year that she wears the same trousers every day, so we
thought we'd make a record to see just how skanky she is. And today, not only
did she break the record and wear different trousers, but she found out. She
comes over to our desk and reads "trouser chart" and says "what's this, is it
safe to ask?" I quickly say no, and she goes away. Nicole totally missed that
due to the fact she was engrossed with cleaning her calculator with her
tie.
PSE. We did our weekly video, which consisted of
Nicole explaining a plan to Hannah to get out of the trouble they go into first
period. And also, we got options sheets out for 6th year. And as I don't know if
I'm leaving or not, I'm filling one in. And don't really have a clue as to what
I want to pick. Meh.
Double English was okay, we had Mr F with the big
ears. And we did some story about ghosts that was written in thick Scots, so me
being English and from Berkshire, didn't understand a word of. Oh joy. We're
getting split into the two other Higher classes next week though, I want to be
in Mrs S's rather than Miss L's. Because Miss L is a blether and does no
work.
My incessant boredom has gotten me into trouble.
Perhaps I should just be happy with my boring little life and stop
thrill-seeking? 2/26/2007 Oh My God.Okay, hey people. Today was the commonly dreaded "back to school" after being off on study leave. And to be honest, I was looking forward to it. I was sick of being at home doing nothing. I get very easily bored (more on this later) and basically, I need excitement in my life, and the fact this may come from the hellhole known as school probably makes me somewhat of a sad lifeless person. But so be it.
Okay, so today was prelim results. Computing I passed with an A, go me. I thought I had passed it, but not with an A, considering the most I studied for it was the hour between the biology exam and the computing exam. So I'm proud of myself for getting such a result with little effort. Plus, computing is my subject that it's okay to fail. Because wanting to do science-y courses at university, computing ain't getting me anywhere. The rest of computing was spent going over the paper, and Mr Q arguing with people over marks. I get really quite pissed off when someone fails by a few marks, and has to pick up on every question and go "Sir, I want another mark here," just because they want a "pass" rather than a "fail." There's no point in trying to cheat your teacher out of giving you more marks that you wouldn't have gotten in an external exam. That's just cheating you.
Ah, okay, so biology. We had Mr J for biology *groan* but we did get sections 1 and 2 of the prelim back. I appear to have done not as well as I'd hoped, but still I got a B. I'm gutted that I had to miss out questions in the multiple choice due to lack of time. So I thought, having Mr J there, I'd ask him how I got on in chemistry. I almost got an A! But alas, I have a B. Which I'm very pleased with to be honest.
I went home at lunch to be greeted with a ranting father. (He's off work this week. Urgh.) I don't even know what he was ranting about, but I listened, and in return got a lift back up to school. So English. I knew I'd failed English. So to be given my papers back and to discover I had an A in essay writing and a C in close reading was like WOW. So I have an overall B for English. Which I am honestly over the moon with. I really honestly thought I'd effed that right up.
Maths, I was also pretty sure of failing, damn my persistent pessimism. But I achieved a B in both paper 1 and paper 2. The annoying thing is, I did the big mark questions, and got stuck at the easy ones. Mainly because I can't add, I can't do simple algebra and I can't remember the general equation of a circle, despite the fact it's written on the formula sheet. Doh. Chuffed with the B though.
So overall, I could go home and tell my parents I got an A and four B's. They were well chuffed. So chuffed in fact, I was allowed to eat Jelly Beans for my dinner.
- This part was deleted due to me feeling like a complete bitch -
And here's some news, my brother is in respite this weekend. So my parents and I may be doing something that may prove remotely interesting. I don't know what yet, but I'mma make it fun. 2/24/2007 Girls Night Out.Okay, first off a small rant. I got out of my bed
at 8.30am this morning. A rarity I know. To see if I could get T in the Park
tickets. So I thought, I'll get two for me and Joe on the laptop, and call the
disabled hotline to get two for Mum and Ben. Bearing in mind this is a premium
rate number and shall cost me a bloody fortune. So I spent 35 minutes clicking
with one hand and phoning with the other. To get.... Fuck all. Nothing. Zilch.
Except for a £70 debt from calling the hotline.
I'm pissed at this, because we were on the phone at
exactly 9am. When tickets went on sale. So we couldn't possibly have been
earlier. Plus, the fact that we're being charged an extra £70 just because my
brother has a wheelchair, I think is out of order. Especially seeing as we got
nothing in the end. Rediculous.
Secondly, I'm pissed at the fact that people have
like 20 tickets on auction on Ebay at like 3 minutes past 9. First, how can they
have so many tickets when it's 2 per person per credit card? Second, how can
they click on 10 computers at once? And third, how come they didn't have to
"wait 15 minutes in line" on the website like the rest of us. They're selling
these for fucking £500. Bastardssssssss. They're probably fake
tickets.
Rest of the day, I have done nothing. Then I went
out at night with Nicole and Hannah on a small girl's night out. We went on the
train to Hamilton, only paid 60p or something, went to McD's for unhealthiness.
(We were going to go to Pizza Hut but didn't think we'd be served and finished
in 40 minutes.) And then we decided to go to ASDA for sweets. We spent rather
too long choosing sweeties, and walked into the cinema to discover there was
next to no seat left.
So we sat alone. Well I sat with a couple which was
rather funny because the guy kept laughing and because I was laughing as well,
the girlfriend got jealous. We were seeing Hot Fuzz, which was hilarious! Such a
good movie. I think there was a little too much blood, and maybe too many gun
fights, but overall excellent.
Also, a memorable car journey home, as we spent the
journey laughing about the mishaps of my father. Who missed the turning to go
home and left tire marks on the grass verge. Idiot. So in general, a really fun night. I never get to spend time with Hannah
and Nicole, so this was a really good time. Ty ladies!
2/23/2007 AhhI love being off school. The last two days have
been spend sleeping 'til midday, then watching an hour or so of tv, before
tidying or cleaning. Pure heaven. Yes I'm weird. I clean in the nude. Apparently
because of this fact, I'd make a perfect wife.
I've cleaned my whole house, and today I filled in
my holes with white stuff, which was hilariuos because if you squeeze it too
hard, it spurts out everywhere and makes a mess. I'm talking about filling
cracks in the wall with polyfiller by the way. Dirty minded little..
It's currently nearly 3am. I'm listening to Josh's
show on Subliminal FM. It's rather good. He played Hey There Delilah. WOO HOO!
Okay why am I hyper and tired at the same time. Weirdo again.
=P 2/20/2007 [Biology] [Computing] And overToday was pish. Biology wasn't THAT hard, but I
didn't get it finished in time. I did my essays (two pages EACH bitch) and went
to go back and answer those i'd left out, but ran out of time. So fail me. At
lunch Nicole and I went up to Mr Q's to study, then Nicole went away and we
actually studied. Woo. Computing was hard though.
I couldn't confidantly say I've passed it. But time shall tell.
I went to Calidonian Uni tonight, for an interview
thing. That was quite cool, the guy has offered me a place in Biomedical
Sciences on condition of BBCC in biology, chemistry maths and english. That's
not bad really. But it means that my parents are wanting me to drop computing.
Because I don't need it.
We got to play in the labs at the uni as well,
which was fun. And then got a tour of the place, it's so lovely! I so want to go
there! I'm gonna work hard to get the results, because I really like that
uni!!
I'm going to bed, at 11:30pm, despite the fact I'm
off tomorrow. I'm just so tired with all the staying up cramming. I'm going to
sleeeeeeeeep for three days. Goodnight.
2/19/2007 [Maths]I failed maths spectacularly today. I completed
question 1 of paper 1, and then gave up. I couldn't do it. I missed out all the
big mark questions and wrote crap for the other ones. Paper 2 wasn't much
better. I don't even want to talk about it. I'm really pissed off at the people
who are like "omg you've obviously passed." No, I haven't.
But yes, it was a bit of a kick up the arse. And I
have studied this evening. For biology and computing.
2/17/2007 Nothing InterestingHas happened lately. Honestly. Friday I spent doing
nothing, because it was my day off. And today, well some guy woke me up, ripping
out our bathroom suite. Which meant there was no water or heating for most of
the day! ArGH! Like I'm not usually cold anyway! But when Dad and Ben went to
football, we nagged the dude, and he got it fixed. Yay heat!
I've still not studied. I'll study tomorrow, well
maybe. 2/16/2007 [English] [Chemistry]I was utterly shitting myself yesterday morning, I
was up all night studying English quotes and stuff. But yes, the English exam.
Close reading was actually okay, apart from the passages were about George Best,
who doesn't intrest me in the slightest. Also, I totally misjudged my time and
ended up having half an hour to spend on the last question. Eek.
The essay writing started out okay, I dod my essay
on setting in Wuthering Heights which was okay I think, despite the fact my
memorising of quotes about Heathcliff. Hmph. Then I goes onto find a poetry
question, and there's no bloody question to suit anything I've done. So I wrote
an essay and twisted it to suit a question which, in all truth, had fuck all to
do with the poem. Oh well. Failed English I guess.
We ended up having an hour between English and
chemistry, so we studied. The exam was okay actually, really rather easy. Okay
there was a few I got stuck with, but I reckon I've passed it.
I'm so glad today is
over. 2/14/2007 I am in love.So happy Valentines day. Mine's been good actually.
I got such a cute necklace, and chocolate, and perfume from Joe. Thankyou so
much babe, I love you tonnes!!
School was really pointless today. Although it's
the last day of our regi teacher who I hate. And we celebrated her departure by
eating her lollipops. Maths was pointless. We went over a past paper that we
were supposed to have done for homework, but hadn't. Pointless. Computing, we
just sat and "revised", aka, done nothing! English we were with Mrs S again, and finished going over the close
reading. Ahh! And chemistry, had a small arguement with Mr J. He forgot to
inform us that we need to revise Standard Grade. Meh.
I'm kind of shitting myself for the exams tomorrow.
I know fine well I'm not prepared. But I don't actually mind if I do fail
something, because that will give me the kick up the arse I need to get me to
prepare for other exams. So I'm going to go and read my chemistry notes. And
english. And hope some of it sticks in my brain. Ahhh....
2/13/2007 HeheheOkay. I'm really sorry for not writing these last
few days. I have no excuse other than I have nothing interesting to write about.
Sunday and Monday were spent in my house, kind of trying to study. But I'm the
kinda person who gets VERY easily distracted. And boy was I being distracted.
Okay enough of that. Umm..
My Dad and my brother have been off yesterday and
are off today, and also tomorrow. Boo hoo. They're so annoying. My father
insists on hoovering at 8am and my brother needs to have football on every
television in the house. Oh God save me. I think I've persuaded them to go out
today.. Which is good.
I shall write something more this evening, provided
that something worth writing about happens. Which isn't very likely. I'm not
wanting to go back to school tomorrow. And shit. Exams start on Thursday.
Fuck. 2/11/2007 ShoppingThis is Saturday's blog. I was woken up at like 8.
So I decided instead of going back to sleep, I'd get up and study some. But then
Dad decided he wanted to go out to get some biography by some footballer. So he
suggested we go to EK. So I went along. See men, they will go all the way to EK
just to buy a book. What the hell! There's like another 100 shops. So yes,
mother and I went shopping.
I didn't actually buy all that much, just my usual,
shoes and underwear. Heh. And we went to Pizza Hut for tea, as noone was
volunteering to cook. That was good. And tonight I did study a bit, but got
sidetracked with Joe. He's thee biggest distraction.
:P 2/10/2007 Hmm EnglishToday was boring mostly, had to study English. I
didn't get much of a lie in as I was woken up with some woman phoning me. What
the hell! So I've studied English and cleaned my house today. And then I went up
to Nicoles with Rob and Biff and we watched Rent. That's quite a good film! It's
a bit long and has a lot of random outbursts of song in it [as it's a musical]
but it's good. And quite sad!
Then I came home and talked to Joe all night.
2/9/2007 E-NumbersToday was a fun day. English wasn't all that fun to
be honest, neither was Chemistry. Biology was okay though, we got our Unit 2 NAB
results back. 37/40. Highest in the class. Woo for me! And we did past papers
which were very hard. Mmhm.
I was down the street for lunch with Cole, as she
had a situation which needed cleared up. So we "destroyed" the evidence of the
problem. And all was fine. We bought a load of shite, and sat and ate it in
maths. So got uber hyper, and double maths was suddenly FUN!
Tonight we went out for dinner and I studied. Woo
for me. Thankyou so much to Dave who is being a willing participant in my
chemistry revision. i'm not doing experiments on him or anything, don't worry.
I'm just throwing facts at him and explaining things. Because if you explain it
to someone else, it's kinda like explaining it to yourself, so it's good
revision. 2/7/2007 HappeeeeWell hello there. Today was much okayness in the
morning, will get to the afternoon though. Grr! Assembly was stupid. But we got
to miss a bit of maths, and maths consisted of Miss L giving us an overview of
the course, which was really quite helpful I think. I think I'm actually okay
with maths now. Computing was boring, we're
doing past prelim papers and I don't actually know all that much. This is
probably due to the fact computing is for sleeping and sleeping is what I do in
that class. Plus, it's got boring now and I'm not turned on. Hah.
We were in Mrs S's class again for English, going
over a close reading thing. I thought I was getting back my Personal Study, but
turns out it's been lost. Very helpful. So I'll have to print that out again and
hand it in again and hope it gets marks ASAP. School can't do anything right.
Chemistry however, was rather helpful as we went over bonding which I totally
understand now, which is good.
Now Wednesday is usually my go-and-study day. But
seeing as Miss C was ready to kill me if I didn't turn up. I went to Games
Development, my name actually being on Textiles (why??). It was sooo boring. For
the first period, Nicole and I copied out some thing we typed out. How fun. Not.
And utterly pointless. During 5th and 6th I went to Textiles to see if my name
was on their register, it was, and I was marked absent. So I thought, I'm damned
if I'm making the effort to turn up and getting marked absent! So I went to see
Miss C, who marked me present!
Then for the last period. We did absolutley
nothing. Yes we have prelims in a week. And we waste two hours of our valuable
time to do NOTHING. Very sensible of the school. Because that's really going to
help us pass. Nice logic there. What is soooooo wrong about wanting to study?
Seriously..
Tonight I attempted to study English, by writing
essays from past paper questions. But I can't do it. I can't just sit there and
write an essay. I tried, twice. So then I had to help my brother write a speech
for his friend who died. Then I had to have dinner and blah blah and did a bit
of chemistry. Then I decided enough was enough and now i'm going to bed.
Goodnight. 2/6/2007 Revelation!I didn't blog last night because I was unsure about
how today would pan out. Yesterday was much of a muchness. In computing however,
I was sitting looking highly bored and Mr Q comes out with "Sammi, I'm worried
about you, you used to love this subject and now you seem to have turned
off from it." And I reply with "Sir, no offense, but you've never really turned
me on." LMFAO! See the things I come out with because I don't think...
Oh yes and we had a biology NAB. Which was totally
easy. Aaaaand English we were in Mrs S's class doing close reading again. Which
was pretty boring really. Maths waas funneh, I have pics of Rob looking like a
walrus, and then an old man. Ha! Love that boy!
Anyway last night, David said he wanted to make up
with me, and I didn't want to announce this to the world because well, the last
time didn't really work out. So I thought I'd keep it quiet until I saw what
came of it. But today I went and spoke to him at break and gave him a hug, and I
honestly think we're going to be friends again. Which of course is probably the
best news I've got in months.
The day was good, mostly because I was so happy and
hyper. We got to play with the laptops in Chemistry. Maths I was just happy and
PSE was hyper! We have a video of PSE. And a video of Nicole and I playing the
Wedding March on an imaginary piano. LOL! And then waltzing out the school
yelling the Penis Song at the top of our voices. After lunch double English was
pretty okay, had Mr F again and did the rest of the Crucible. Fun
fun.
I'm just so happy. =] 2/4/2007 OwlsSaturday was pretty boring, didn't really do much.
But on Saturday night I kind of stayed up until 8.30 this morning. Yeah, Joe and
I thought it would be fun to stay up all night. Was fun actually! But I'm soooo
tired now!! I was having a wee competition with Joe to see if we could stay up,
and I won. =P
Then I was woken at 9 am. Woo 30 minutes sleep!
Today I was full of good intentions of washing my car, but I was too tired, so
didn't. She's a skanky slut. Haha. We took Ben to respite in the afternoon, and
then went shopping, and then went out for dinner which was nice.
Oh, and other news. I have got a conditional for
Strathclyde uni too. For Immunology and Microbiology on condition of BBB
including biology and chemistry. And of course I have my conditional for Glasgow
too, for Molecular and Cellular Biology, on condition of BBB, excluding English.
Woo.
I'm off to bed, I have a biology nab tomorrow but
I'm too tired to study for it. So meh. Goodnight. =] 2/2/2007 Rant.Okay. This is Thursday's blog. Thursday was quite
good, did a lot of catching up in Biology which wasn't very fun. And the maths
NAB. I passed Wednesdays practice NAB. Only lost 2 marks I think, for forgetting
to put the limits in on the integral. Duh. Umm, the actual NAB was okay, I think
I've passed it. :)
And then at the end on Maths, Miss C pulls Nicole
and I out of maths and demands to know our whereabouts on Wednesday afternoon.
Now as YOU guys know, we handed notes in saying that we would be off with
parental permission. But Miss C clearly didn't know this. So after many failed
attempts at explaining ourselves, we FINALLY got a word in, and told her about
the notes. To which she retorted "that's not acceptable, you must have
permission from the school to be absent." Now I know for a fact this is
bullshit. Your parents permission overrules what the school wants you to do.
It's not like if you're ill, you have to call up Miss C and check that it's okay
for you to be off sick. That's utter shite.
So yes, we got completely yelled at, totally in
trouble and weren't even allowed a chance to explain the current situation. Miss
C knows not a lot about the situation, so for a start, she doesn't really have
much right to even BE involved and also, she has no right to speak to us like
that and not let us even get a word in edgeways. We were SO pissed off. Honestly
I was raging.
Today (Friday) was pretty okay, I was a bit late
and missed the majority of first period. Woops. I hate double Chemistry. It's so
boring honestly. Maths was good, we're back to doing differentiation and you
know how I love Calculus <3 Computing, well Amy left me on my own, subjected
to bullying by my class of men. Humffff!
I went down the street for lunch with Nicole, we
got chips which was nice. Ain't had chips in pure ages! And thus as a result of
our down-the-street-ness, we were late for English. Late twice in the one day!!
I was in Mrs S's English class today to go over close reading in our teacher's
absence. Which was okayish, apart from the fact she chose the exact moment I
walked in (late) to demonstrate tone buy yelling "GET OUT OF MY CLASS..... That
was an angry tone."
Biology was also a good laugh, we played Jeopardy,
5th years against 6th years. We won of course. =]
I'm meant to be going to this Panto thing that
Nicole and Hannah are in tonight. And I'm meant to be going with Rob, but I
don't have his number, so can't get in contact with him. I'll update if
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