Songs
In Concert Band we're doing the theme to Mission Impossible. Today is Wednesday, the concert is on Tuesday. We had a rehearsal at lunch today, there's one on Sunday and we get half an hour missing lessons on Tuesday. As of yet, we haven't managed to succesfully play it all the way through.
I'm also in Choir, we're doing 'Immortality' and 'Stick to the Status Quo'. Neither of them are as perfect as Mrs Bailey would like them to be.
As of today, I joined Wind Ensemble, mostly to get out of an extra half hour of lessons on Tuesday.
As of yet, I haven't seen the music.
Sight
Charli got her glasses. I liked them, but they're too small for her face, she needs wider ones. They made her face look kinda round... Still, it's funny. We were discussing it in economics.
Ah, economics, oh crappy lesson of crappy lessons. Taught by Mr H, it's debateable whether he actually went on a teaching course before he began teaching us. We're the first unfortunate lot to get him for the full two year course, the year above us got one year with the old teacher, it was dropped from the GCSE syllabus for the year below us.
Anyway, I have rock solid proof that he is a total idiot. We were signing our coursework things, saying that they were all our own work and things like that. I signed mine, two A*'s of course. I sat down, and me Charli and Emma debated the reliability of his marking. After our mini discussion, we turned to him.
Me: Sir...
Mr H: Yis?
Me: Does our coursework get moderated?
Mr H: All of it gets marked, yis.
Me: I mean by the exam board
Mr H: Oh! Yis, about ten or so. We'll find out how good my marking is. *laughs*
Me: *fake smiles and laughs*
Mr H: Of course, I give a couple more marks to those who do their work and don't cause me any trouble...
Idiot.
Studying
My German Oral is becoming ever closer, it's on Monday at 10am. I'm doing higher, and while I'm pretty good at talking in my tenses and my structure isn't too bad and stuff, I'm still kind of dreading it. This is 25% on my German GCSE. 15 minutes for 25%, more than a percent a minute. Quit worrying really. I'm going to be so glad when it's all over and I never have to worry about it again.
Thing is, last time I quite enjoyed it, in a strange way. Of course, there wasn't a microphone and recorder or anything. Maybe I got a weird form of adrenaline from it. I'm such a loser...
Of course, another important thing about studying is the necessity to take frequent breaks. I use many a website for excessive revising relief.
http://www.youtube.com ~ Obvious, I will be compiling a list of things to search for. The Lost bloopers are hilarious though.
http://www.unfortunateevents.com/forum/ ~ Once you're integrated into it, this is a really great community to be a part of.
http://uk.myspace.com/ ~ Myspace, I like myspace. Only people that I actually know in person are accepted as friends however...
http://www.pointlesssites.com/ ~ Har har, some of this is very very funny.
http://www.imdb.com ~ For movie fixes. I'd reccomend making an account to post on the message boards which are very fast moving.
http://darkufo.blogspot.com/ ~ This is the main reason I created this Blogger account, so that I could post in the comments in the spoilers section. It's all about Lost.
http://www.zanorg.com/prodperso/jeuxchiants/index_eng.htm ~ A good games website. I especially like "Double Jeu", I'm the reigning champion at it.
http://www.foon.co.uk/ ~ I don't use it much but people in my economics class use it as it isn't blocked by the school servers...
http://www.google.com/addurl/ ~ This isn't so much a fun page as a useful page. It's where you add your URL to the google server so it comes up if someone performs a search. Try google searching "xylophonefairy", they're all me!
http://www.milkandcookies.com/ ~ I usually actually use this for finding solutions to things, usually found on pointless sites.
http://www.eyemaze.com/ ~ I love all the little games, I'm quite good at them 'cause I've done them so many times. Can't do chronon without walkthrough still though!
Am going to go back to the topic of this section now, and revise my German Orals. I hope some of these websites are of some vague interest to you!
Wednesday, 25 April 2007
Monday, 23 April 2007
My first Blog
What an inspiring title. It's basically what it says on the tin. Though it isn't a tin, that's a stupid, over-used phrase. I think it originally comes from a paint or oven cleaner advert a few years ago:
"It does just what it says on the tin"
Come to think of it, I've seen one of those advert recently. A guy painting his decking, starting right in the middle with a swoosh of some dark brown paint, which hardly seemed the most logical place to start. But them, I'm not an expert in decking painting technique.
I'm trying to think of ways I can make my blog quirky. I never really wanted to start a blog, in fact, I already have a LiveJournal. Maybe that's like, a cardinal sin in Bloggerworld, to use LiveJournal. But should anyone actually be interested enough, you can get to my livejournal by going to the URL at the top and replacing "blogspot" with "livejournal". Yes, I really am that original.
Or if you're realy lazy (though a lazy person wouldn't want to go read a pessimistic 15 year old online diary) I have very thoughtfully provided a link. http://xylophonefairy.livejournal.com/
How kind I am to you?
I only made this because DarkUfo decided to make the Lost Spoilers page Blogger or Google users only. I actually have a google account, but I can't remember the email, and anyways it's basically my name, then a full stop, then my second name. My second name is quite quirky, so I'm not allowed to give it out. It makes me too traceable. Especially as it is quite likely that I will at some point let slip where I live, and then you only have to go to my town and flip through a phone book and find my name. We're the only ones in my town.
However, my first name is far more common. I am called Rebecca, as if there weren't already enough Rebecca's in the world. There's several in my year. Two others are on a similar intelectual wavelength to me, so I seem to share a million classes with Rebecca F and Rebecca O. I'm Rebecca A. There's also a Rebecca B (though I think she's in jail in Somerset or something) and a Becky S (who is actually Rebecca but she went to my Primary school and has always been Becky). We could make a club.
Rebecca O is more popular than me, it was quite depressing in PE Theory when Sam called out my universal name and I turned around and he said "not you" which was actually slightly rude. He was calling out to Rebecca O.
I then had the happy moment of finding out that I got 90% on my coursework, which was only actually out of 10, and is only worth 10% of the final grade, so actually 'twas 9% that I'm going into the exam with. Lucky me.
I live in Hertfordshire, which is a Home County and is considered posh. But my town isn't posh, it's a concrete jungle in the middle of pretty countryside, but it had very good motorway links. People often say that the best thing about my town is that you can get out of it quickly, which is hardly a compliment. But I live on a nice road in the nicest area, so I survive. I also go to a nice school, this is overuse of the word nice.
I won't bore you any more with news about myself, and shall instead leave you with my thought of the day:
"The average man has less than two legs"
Think about it!
"It does just what it says on the tin"
Come to think of it, I've seen one of those advert recently. A guy painting his decking, starting right in the middle with a swoosh of some dark brown paint, which hardly seemed the most logical place to start. But them, I'm not an expert in decking painting technique.
I'm trying to think of ways I can make my blog quirky. I never really wanted to start a blog, in fact, I already have a LiveJournal. Maybe that's like, a cardinal sin in Bloggerworld, to use LiveJournal. But should anyone actually be interested enough, you can get to my livejournal by going to the URL at the top and replacing "blogspot" with "livejournal". Yes, I really am that original.
Or if you're realy lazy (though a lazy person wouldn't want to go read a pessimistic 15 year old online diary) I have very thoughtfully provided a link. http://xylophonefairy.livejournal.com/
How kind I am to you?
I only made this because DarkUfo decided to make the Lost Spoilers page Blogger or Google users only. I actually have a google account, but I can't remember the email, and anyways it's basically my name, then a full stop, then my second name. My second name is quite quirky, so I'm not allowed to give it out. It makes me too traceable. Especially as it is quite likely that I will at some point let slip where I live, and then you only have to go to my town and flip through a phone book and find my name. We're the only ones in my town.
However, my first name is far more common. I am called Rebecca, as if there weren't already enough Rebecca's in the world. There's several in my year. Two others are on a similar intelectual wavelength to me, so I seem to share a million classes with Rebecca F and Rebecca O. I'm Rebecca A. There's also a Rebecca B (though I think she's in jail in Somerset or something) and a Becky S (who is actually Rebecca but she went to my Primary school and has always been Becky). We could make a club.
Rebecca O is more popular than me, it was quite depressing in PE Theory when Sam called out my universal name and I turned around and he said "not you" which was actually slightly rude. He was calling out to Rebecca O.
I then had the happy moment of finding out that I got 90% on my coursework, which was only actually out of 10, and is only worth 10% of the final grade, so actually 'twas 9% that I'm going into the exam with. Lucky me.
I live in Hertfordshire, which is a Home County and is considered posh. But my town isn't posh, it's a concrete jungle in the middle of pretty countryside, but it had very good motorway links. People often say that the best thing about my town is that you can get out of it quickly, which is hardly a compliment. But I live on a nice road in the nicest area, so I survive. I also go to a nice school, this is overuse of the word nice.
I won't bore you any more with news about myself, and shall instead leave you with my thought of the day:
"The average man has less than two legs"
Think about it!
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