Tea. While we're waiting for the world to come to an end. Very British.
The psychology thing in the VUWsci06 (as me and Johanna have taken to calling it because we are cool, ie. lazy) was fascinating. We got lots of lollies (apparently the psych department has a budget for them). I completely missed a six foot gorilla walking through the middle of a basketball game and waving (on a video). I seem to have a pretty good memory for words (the average was five to nine, I was getting more ten to eleven). I also seem to know more than the average teenager on mental illnesses.
I have decided I like lecture theatres and the cablecar. Not at the same time obviously.
Geology was interesting, sort of, I didn't like the sheet-based course-things, but I do like rocks. And you have to be smart to be a Ranger leader, I've concluded, because we have three at the moment and two are doing law degrees and the other is doing her PhD.
Chemistry was amusing, we made the stuff that goes into glowsticks. It involved a lot of waiting around so we ended up playing lots of Hangman and discussing Ireland going to war with France and at one stage Ben and I started doing the waltz until someone cracked a joke about having chemistry in the chemistry lab harhar not really. I was, naturally, the screwup of the group; while everyone else had nice white chemicals I had a brown mess. In the end, Tim knocked my beaker over with his so we chucked the remnants of both ours and both our other (still intact) solutions into the one beaker and ours glowed better than Ben's which had looked perfect all the way. XD
Physics was also very amusing, and we got blasted with a lot of information in the one hour-odd so naturally I can't remember any of it really. We did get to play with radioactive things though, and I scared everyone tossing around a copper bar that had been in liquid nitrogen that was frosted over from having also been in water.
The lectures from PhD students and random graduates really showed us the power of good and bad speakers. Someone managed to make forensics boring. (It is apparently not as glamorous as CSI portrays and they don't go round in Armani suits.) On the other hand, other people made an anticancer chemical compound found in sea sponges fascinating to the extent that Johanna and I scribbled down the molecular structure of peloruside A in a joint effort.
Along with an evaluation and a quiz on what we remembered (and how well we worked as teams), we did a little hands-up poll on science and uni.
"Who here is planning on continuing science in sixth and seventh form?"
All, except Caryl: [hands up]
"Perhaps that should be who isn't planning on continuing science in sixth and seventh form?"
Caryl: [hands up] "Wah."
"Who's going to do a science degree in university?"
All except about five people naturally including Caryl: [hands up]
"...so who isn't doing science at university?"
Handful of people: [hands up]
Caryl: "YES, I'M NOT ALONE!!"
After the science thing Johanna came over for a sleepover and we watched lots of movies and stayed up until 3AM without even talking that much.
Coyote Ugly: The last thing I saw Piper Perabo in was Imagine Me & You so it was extremely odd seeing her American, blonde, a bargirl, and singing. Although she got dubbed in with LeAnn Rimes' singing voice even though she apparently sang them originally. Huh. That was disappointing finding that out. I liked it. Though Violet's singing voice did annoy me. Very weak. I know she's not meant to be a singer, she's meant to be the songwriter, but it still bugged me.
Shakespeare in Love: Okay, we watched this one at like 11PM with headphones on. The parallels with Romeo and Juliet and itself were amusing, and I rather did like the progression of Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter to the play we all know and love. Shakespeare was really rather hot, the first several times he came on we were just kind of like [gape]. Violet (again!) was an awesome character I thought, and the nurse was just brilliant. The ending, though. That was the randomest ending in the history of random endings.
The Notebook: We actually watched this one this arvo while vaguely wondering if Johanna's family had gone off to Ohau without her. It was so sweet and sad and Allie's crazy and it was so very Imagine Me & You! Only the other way round really considering the Notebook was out before IM&Y. Seriously, all three of these movies there would be scenes when I'd start whistling Happy Together. But I loffed it. But who didn't loff the Notebook?
The weather has been ridiculous lately. Especially Wednesday: TelstraClear got knocked out and there was no cable for those poor sods on Saturn and no Internet for us. Walking to uni, I almost got blown over and had to grab the nearest fence. The ferries weren't running and the traffic to the Hutt was terrible and the Wairarapa and Masterton are flooded. Yuck. It was a lot better today though. What a waste, the one day I don't go outside.
But I've decided I have good reason to avoid the outdoors, I am still quite well and truly Ill. Sniffling and coughing and occasionally sneezing all over the place. I've been attempting to combat this by taking more Nurofen Cold and Flu and Strepsils than lollies (which isn't saying much considering my usual average lolly consumption, but then we did get all those lollies from psych) and drinking lots of orange juice and eating mandarins but it is not working. I think I just need a proper sleep, I haven't been sleeping right because of uni (but that's ridiculous, it's about half an hour more sleep than I get for school) and then Johanna coming over (I got what, four and a half hours sleep? before I woke up pre-empting some idiot ringing at 7:40AM). This is really incredibly bad timing for being Ill, I have an audition tomorrow for some Bulwagan Association-organized musical Deck the Malls and even my speaking voice has gone to hell in a handbasket. (And some family friend asked Mom if I'd sing at her kid's birthday party on Sunday. Can't, voice still in hell.) Bugger. Also, I need to pick a song for said audition. Bugger again.
In more cheerful news, Doctor Who!! I feel like the only person who likes Barty Crouch Junior David Tennant, swordfighting and all. Completely lurrrrrved the constant references to tea of course.
I have decided I like lecture theatres and the cablecar. Not at the same time obviously.
Geology was interesting, sort of, I didn't like the sheet-based course-things, but I do like rocks. And you have to be smart to be a Ranger leader, I've concluded, because we have three at the moment and two are doing law degrees and the other is doing her PhD.
Chemistry was amusing, we made the stuff that goes into glowsticks. It involved a lot of waiting around so we ended up playing lots of Hangman and discussing Ireland going to war with France and at one stage Ben and I started doing the waltz until someone cracked a joke about having chemistry in the chemistry lab harhar not really. I was, naturally, the screwup of the group; while everyone else had nice white chemicals I had a brown mess. In the end, Tim knocked my beaker over with his so we chucked the remnants of both ours and both our other (still intact) solutions into the one beaker and ours glowed better than Ben's which had looked perfect all the way. XD
Physics was also very amusing, and we got blasted with a lot of information in the one hour-odd so naturally I can't remember any of it really. We did get to play with radioactive things though, and I scared everyone tossing around a copper bar that had been in liquid nitrogen that was frosted over from having also been in water.
The lectures from PhD students and random graduates really showed us the power of good and bad speakers. Someone managed to make forensics boring. (It is apparently not as glamorous as CSI portrays and they don't go round in Armani suits.) On the other hand, other people made an anticancer chemical compound found in sea sponges fascinating to the extent that Johanna and I scribbled down the molecular structure of peloruside A in a joint effort.
Along with an evaluation and a quiz on what we remembered (and how well we worked as teams), we did a little hands-up poll on science and uni.
"Who here is planning on continuing science in sixth and seventh form?"
All, except Caryl: [hands up]
"Perhaps that should be who isn't planning on continuing science in sixth and seventh form?"
Caryl: [hands up] "Wah."
"Who's going to do a science degree in university?"
All except about five people naturally including Caryl: [hands up]
"...so who isn't doing science at university?"
Handful of people: [hands up]
Caryl: "YES, I'M NOT ALONE!!"
After the science thing Johanna came over for a sleepover and we watched lots of movies and stayed up until 3AM without even talking that much.
Coyote Ugly: The last thing I saw Piper Perabo in was Imagine Me & You so it was extremely odd seeing her American, blonde, a bargirl, and singing. Although she got dubbed in with LeAnn Rimes' singing voice even though she apparently sang them originally. Huh. That was disappointing finding that out. I liked it. Though Violet's singing voice did annoy me. Very weak. I know she's not meant to be a singer, she's meant to be the songwriter, but it still bugged me.
Shakespeare in Love: Okay, we watched this one at like 11PM with headphones on. The parallels with Romeo and Juliet and itself were amusing, and I rather did like the progression of Romeo and Ethel the Pirate's Daughter to the play we all know and love. Shakespeare was really rather hot, the first several times he came on we were just kind of like [gape]. Violet (again!) was an awesome character I thought, and the nurse was just brilliant. The ending, though. That was the randomest ending in the history of random endings.
The Notebook: We actually watched this one this arvo while vaguely wondering if Johanna's family had gone off to Ohau without her. It was so sweet and sad and Allie's crazy and it was so very Imagine Me & You! Only the other way round really considering the Notebook was out before IM&Y. Seriously, all three of these movies there would be scenes when I'd start whistling Happy Together. But I loffed it. But who didn't loff the Notebook?
The weather has been ridiculous lately. Especially Wednesday: TelstraClear got knocked out and there was no cable for those poor sods on Saturn and no Internet for us. Walking to uni, I almost got blown over and had to grab the nearest fence. The ferries weren't running and the traffic to the Hutt was terrible and the Wairarapa and Masterton are flooded. Yuck. It was a lot better today though. What a waste, the one day I don't go outside.
But I've decided I have good reason to avoid the outdoors, I am still quite well and truly Ill. Sniffling and coughing and occasionally sneezing all over the place. I've been attempting to combat this by taking more Nurofen Cold and Flu and Strepsils than lollies (which isn't saying much considering my usual average lolly consumption, but then we did get all those lollies from psych) and drinking lots of orange juice and eating mandarins but it is not working. I think I just need a proper sleep, I haven't been sleeping right because of uni (but that's ridiculous, it's about half an hour more sleep than I get for school) and then Johanna coming over (I got what, four and a half hours sleep? before I woke up pre-empting some idiot ringing at 7:40AM). This is really incredibly bad timing for being Ill, I have an audition tomorrow for some Bulwagan Association-organized musical Deck the Malls and even my speaking voice has gone to hell in a handbasket. (And some family friend asked Mom if I'd sing at her kid's birthday party on Sunday. Can't, voice still in hell.) Bugger. Also, I need to pick a song for said audition. Bugger again.
In more cheerful news, Doctor Who!! I feel like the only person who likes Barty Crouch Junior David Tennant, swordfighting and all. Completely lurrrrrved the constant references to tea of course.