I think I'm addicted to downloading fanmixes from jukebox_project
Okay so I totally lied and didn't end up editing that post.
Thursday
Science (three hours)
Chem: Think I screwed up the reactivity series one. But apart from that, I don't remember any major hassles. That's a good sign.
Bio: Completely forgot about the carbon/nitrogen cycles and wrote one sentence in a space long enough to write half an essay. Had fun (by which I mean was a bit of a smartarse) on GM! One of the questions was something like "why did the kids of the GM'd goats not produce milk with spider silk proteins in" and at the bottom of my answer I put "Also, kids don't produce milk. That's only the adults, and only the female ones at that." God I'm such a smartarse. And then on the "discuss the dis/advantages of GM" I was like "ethical debates...surely if God/nature/evolution had intended humans to glow in the dark..." Fun times.
Physics: Not so fun times. It asked about the "slope" of a graph a couple of times and I was like [?????????] and left it blank. And I think I screwed something up else up as well because physics is my scientific Achilles heel. But I think I went quite well with one of the questions on a sled or something.
Finished half an hour early and did music theory B)
Social Studies (two hours)
Resources: It was on the London bombings. This (is going to sound really bitchy but) amused me. Not that the London bombings are amusing or anything. Don't ask. I think I did pretty well there. I saw Mr. Beckett on Monday and he said that I managed not to get tricked by the question where they were asking about the effects of the responses to the bombings and half the class wrote about the effects of the bombings. ^-^
Tokelau: Um, what I wrote felt very succinct. I did it in bullet points so that might have been why but I didn't seem to have that much. Hm. Merit, maybe?
And then afterschool I went off to Mary's and watched Johanna being artistic before we went to the library via the waterfront.
Friday
Math (two and a half hours)
Number: I actually did all of this one XD think I did really quite well. I mean, it was money, I can do money; and moreover it was about SHOPPING! XD Confident of at least a Merit, if not an Excellence.
Right-angled triangles: It was about boats! Think I did well on this one, but couldn't do the bearings question, which upset me because I like bearings. Also I think I stuffed up one of the triggy ones with a boat and a ramp and bla.
Graphs: Have you noticed I've been doing my papers in order of ease? :D Um, skipped two parabolas and screwed up another one, and somehow managed to screw up a straight line XD will be grateful for a pass.
Algebra: Watch the mindblank! I can't remember it being overly disastrous nor overly good (because algebra is never good with me), and I completely gave up on the Excellence question. Probably Achieved.
Finished forty-five minutes early (much to Sophie's disturbed-ness) and did music theory, badly it would appear.
Once again, I went off to Mary's (my new hobby! gatecrashing St. Mary's!), during their lunchtime this time, for a 90s singalong in the music room XD there was an entire operation to get me in, with a Louisa-shaped person and a Carina-shaped person's blazer and things. And it was fun times with Spice Girls and serenading people (by which I mean "Johanna") with boyband songs and some people (music students) who evidently hadn't ever heard of closing the goddamn door, no. It's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality. Grace has photos.
In the weekend, I didn't study by as previously mentioned sorting out my LJ Memories (they are very sorted! I just need to add more crap in the way of photo entries now) and uploading photos and video to my MySpace, there were Arabian Nights rehearsals in which we have been shoved into about three other scenes as background, and I txted a lot. I have no life.
Monday
Arvo exam, so I went and visited Johanna at interval :) gatecrashing Mary's is so my new hobby and the best hobby ever. I am so grateful the random people I know who see me and snerk/say hi are not asking me WTF I'm doing on the school property.
Latin (three hours)
Literature: Did this in HALF AN HOUR, WHAT THE FUCK. Went with the English rather than Latin extract because I couldn't quite remember what the Latin meant, think I did quite well.
Comprehension: Also finished obnoxiously quickly. The story was odd, about Scipio giving some Spanish warchief his fiancee back or something. But whatever, think I did well here too.
Translation: It was about Romulus and Remus. XD Have a feeling I stuffed up a few sentences, but still, did it well.
And thus I finished a three hour exam in two hours. I was rather stunned with this, and then rather bored, and then I illustrated the translation in a letter to Johanna, badly, and then I was bored again.
Idol was my favorite elimination show ever! It was hilarious! BEN was in the safe five, and then VICTOR WENT HOME XD seriously MADE MY EVENING. And then Grey's Anatomy from the start was all aww.
Tuesday
English (three hours)
I hated the prompts, I really, really did. We'd done all this crap in class about how x, y, and z helped you understand the themes, and then only only about a third of the questions were on the ideas. But this was kinda good because I hate writing about ideas. But then the rest of them were shitty prompts anyway.
Unfamiliars: I seemed to lose steam as I went through, I was going overboard in the first few then not filling the lines by the end...and I mentioned the PLUPERFECT TENSE! WHAT THE HELL CAME OVER ME?!
Shorts ("Porirua Friday Night" - Sam Hunt / "The Outsider" - Graeme Lay): Describe an interesting character in each of the texts. Explain what made them interesting. I did very ordinary girls and was like "they were interesting because they were so ordinary and we could relate to them!" And then I started going off into "these girls were not New Zealand-based Hermione Grangers" and "these girls were not princesses or witches or lady knights" and "it's hard to see yourself saving the world but it's easy to see yourself behind the shop counter". Good times. Merit plz?
Film (What's Eating Gilbert Grape? - Lasse Hallstrom): (I was actually planning to do novel before film but the prompts sucked so.) Describe at least three visual and/or verbal effects. Explain how they helped you understand the mood/atmosphere and/or main ideas. I decided to make life awkward by doing how the music helped you understand the mood and how the camera angles/SFX helped you understand a main idea - in two different scenes. But I couldn't think of anything else for the other prompts. God I hated the prompts. God I hated WEGG?. Only two main paragraphs, only two pages, doubt I'll get even a Merit ._.
Novel (To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee): Describe a problem faced by a character. Explain how the problem affected one of the main characters. I did the trial affecting Atticus because his kids got attacked...again, only two main paragraphs, only two pages ._.
Formal: Oh, I had FUN with this one, I got so bunnied - I negated that txting is just a way of avoiding real conversation. I spent a paragraph arguing that "real" conversation can be "remarkably inane" and txting can accomplish the same, then said it's easier to talk about serious stuff via txt because it "almost has the intimacy of a sleepover" (darkness of a sleepover - can't see faces, phones - can't see faces) and the character limit forces you to say what you mean (okay so I was talking out of my arse here), and finished off saying txting is just as real, I mean what about MSN, Yahoo, MySpace (I seriously went through EVERY INSTANT MESSENGER I COULD THINK OF), the phone, letter writing, Morse code, smoke signals eh? Now that I think about it, it was probably pretty crap. XD But it was fun. Merit plz.
I went off for lunch with my parents :D at Satay Kingdom down on Cuba, which is yummy. When Mom had to go back to work, me and Dad went shopping, by which I mean "looked at phones", until he had to go back to work; upon which time I went back to school and hid out in a music room frantically practicing Scarborough Fair before singing lessons. My finger started spontaneously gushing blood (seriously, it wasn't just bleeding, it was gushing) on the bus there so the first thing I did at Megan's was ask for a bandaid. I apparently have to pronounce everything in Scarborough like I'm on Doctor Who. And it seems Megan knows Becks! "I only ever turned [Idol] on once, and I was like, 'ooh, it's my friend Becks, she's so much better than everyone else, I'M GLAD', heheh!"
Wednesday
After getting to town stupidly early because of the bus schedule from Westside, I hung out in the Hungarian Garden for half an hour and pretended not to be watching this cute guy who was looking at the Hungarian stuff. Then I gatecrashed Mary's to see Jo :P and was spotted by Erica and a whole bunch of Johanna's form class, but they don't seem to have dobbed me in so that's alright then. It was very warm. Except of course we had to sit in the shade because otherwise there wasn't a wall to lean on. And we were total badasses on the back courts ^-^ After that I went off and went Father's Day shopping. (In school uniform. I must have looked such a wagger.) Spent half the time on the bus, a quarter just wandering around Cuba wondering what the hell to get but being newly inspired as to places to get random crap for people I don't know what to get at Christmas, and the last quarter cabbaging around in Whitcoulls trying to decide what to get. I was very tempted to get this book, What Not to Drive, but then I realized Dad doesn't read, so in the end I settled on The Italian Job on DVD. No idea if he'll like it. But if he doesn't, hey, I've been wanting to watch it for a while! XD
Music (one and a half hours, to everyone's shock)
Aural: Chords should be fine. As usual I was lousy at melodic notation but alright at rhythmic. I took off my bandaid and then my finger started gushing again so I couldn't finish the last transcription T_T
Materials: The first extract was from West Side Story's America, which amused me greatly. I kind of made up about a quarter of the stuff because I wasn't sure, and then I did the last page in the last five minutes ._. I had no idea what a freakin' hautbois was! I couldn't think of any instruments between flute and clarinet, it was most frustrating; and I just found out on Google it's an oboe. Brilliant.
Me and Talia went to Parliament because it was sunny there and lay down in the grass (getting our skirts a bit muddy). Some random old guy came and threw lollies at us for making the best use of the grass he'd ever seen or something and told us stories about American highschool. It was very odd. But hey, candy from strangers, woohoo. After this we went and gatecrashed Mary's again and took a Johanna off to the Station for our weekly walk up the platform.
I got my Play It Strange letter back, hurrah. Didn't get through, wasn't expecting to so that's alright :) and I got a free sticker!
And that is all. I obviously have far more of a life when I have school than I do without, as today all I accomplished was playing LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of Sims and doing my laundry and getting godknowswhat out of the library in a rushed attempt to garner reading material for the roadtrip to and fro skiing this weekend. Off tomorrow, back Sunday, I don't expect much fun to be had. xD
Thursday
Science (three hours)
Chem: Think I screwed up the reactivity series one. But apart from that, I don't remember any major hassles. That's a good sign.
Bio: Completely forgot about the carbon/nitrogen cycles and wrote one sentence in a space long enough to write half an essay. Had fun (by which I mean was a bit of a smartarse) on GM! One of the questions was something like "why did the kids of the GM'd goats not produce milk with spider silk proteins in" and at the bottom of my answer I put "Also, kids don't produce milk. That's only the adults, and only the female ones at that." God I'm such a smartarse. And then on the "discuss the dis/advantages of GM" I was like "ethical debates...surely if God/nature/evolution had intended humans to glow in the dark..." Fun times.
Physics: Not so fun times. It asked about the "slope" of a graph a couple of times and I was like [?????????] and left it blank. And I think I screwed something up else up as well because physics is my scientific Achilles heel. But I think I went quite well with one of the questions on a sled or something.
Finished half an hour early and did music theory B)
Social Studies (two hours)
Resources: It was on the London bombings. This (is going to sound really bitchy but) amused me. Not that the London bombings are amusing or anything. Don't ask. I think I did pretty well there. I saw Mr. Beckett on Monday and he said that I managed not to get tricked by the question where they were asking about the effects of the responses to the bombings and half the class wrote about the effects of the bombings. ^-^
Tokelau: Um, what I wrote felt very succinct. I did it in bullet points so that might have been why but I didn't seem to have that much. Hm. Merit, maybe?
And then afterschool I went off to Mary's and watched Johanna being artistic before we went to the library via the waterfront.
Friday
Math (two and a half hours)
Number: I actually did all of this one XD think I did really quite well. I mean, it was money, I can do money; and moreover it was about SHOPPING! XD Confident of at least a Merit, if not an Excellence.
Right-angled triangles: It was about boats! Think I did well on this one, but couldn't do the bearings question, which upset me because I like bearings. Also I think I stuffed up one of the triggy ones with a boat and a ramp and bla.
Graphs: Have you noticed I've been doing my papers in order of ease? :D Um, skipped two parabolas and screwed up another one, and somehow managed to screw up a straight line XD will be grateful for a pass.
Algebra: Watch the mindblank! I can't remember it being overly disastrous nor overly good (because algebra is never good with me), and I completely gave up on the Excellence question. Probably Achieved.
Finished forty-five minutes early (much to Sophie's disturbed-ness) and did music theory, badly it would appear.
Once again, I went off to Mary's (my new hobby! gatecrashing St. Mary's!), during their lunchtime this time, for a 90s singalong in the music room XD there was an entire operation to get me in, with a Louisa-shaped person and a Carina-shaped person's blazer and things. And it was fun times with Spice Girls and serenading people (by which I mean "Johanna") with boyband songs and some people (music students) who evidently hadn't ever heard of closing the goddamn door, no. It's much better to face these kinds of things with a sense of poise and rationality. Grace has photos.
In the weekend, I didn't study by as previously mentioned sorting out my LJ Memories (they are very sorted! I just need to add more crap in the way of photo entries now) and uploading photos and video to my MySpace, there were Arabian Nights rehearsals in which we have been shoved into about three other scenes as background, and I txted a lot. I have no life.
Monday
Arvo exam, so I went and visited Johanna at interval :) gatecrashing Mary's is so my new hobby and the best hobby ever. I am so grateful the random people I know who see me and snerk/say hi are not asking me WTF I'm doing on the school property.
Latin (three hours)
Literature: Did this in HALF AN HOUR, WHAT THE FUCK. Went with the English rather than Latin extract because I couldn't quite remember what the Latin meant, think I did quite well.
Comprehension: Also finished obnoxiously quickly. The story was odd, about Scipio giving some Spanish warchief his fiancee back or something. But whatever, think I did well here too.
Translation: It was about Romulus and Remus. XD Have a feeling I stuffed up a few sentences, but still, did it well.
And thus I finished a three hour exam in two hours. I was rather stunned with this, and then rather bored, and then I illustrated the translation in a letter to Johanna, badly, and then I was bored again.
Idol was my favorite elimination show ever! It was hilarious! BEN was in the safe five, and then VICTOR WENT HOME XD seriously MADE MY EVENING. And then Grey's Anatomy from the start was all aww.
Tuesday
English (three hours)
I hated the prompts, I really, really did. We'd done all this crap in class about how x, y, and z helped you understand the themes, and then only only about a third of the questions were on the ideas. But this was kinda good because I hate writing about ideas. But then the rest of them were shitty prompts anyway.
Unfamiliars: I seemed to lose steam as I went through, I was going overboard in the first few then not filling the lines by the end...and I mentioned the PLUPERFECT TENSE! WHAT THE HELL CAME OVER ME?!
Shorts ("Porirua Friday Night" - Sam Hunt / "The Outsider" - Graeme Lay): Describe an interesting character in each of the texts. Explain what made them interesting. I did very ordinary girls and was like "they were interesting because they were so ordinary and we could relate to them!" And then I started going off into "these girls were not New Zealand-based Hermione Grangers" and "these girls were not princesses or witches or lady knights" and "it's hard to see yourself saving the world but it's easy to see yourself behind the shop counter". Good times. Merit plz?
Film (What's Eating Gilbert Grape? - Lasse Hallstrom): (I was actually planning to do novel before film but the prompts sucked so.) Describe at least three visual and/or verbal effects. Explain how they helped you understand the mood/atmosphere and/or main ideas. I decided to make life awkward by doing how the music helped you understand the mood and how the camera angles/SFX helped you understand a main idea - in two different scenes. But I couldn't think of anything else for the other prompts. God I hated the prompts. God I hated WEGG?. Only two main paragraphs, only two pages, doubt I'll get even a Merit ._.
Novel (To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee): Describe a problem faced by a character. Explain how the problem affected one of the main characters. I did the trial affecting Atticus because his kids got attacked...again, only two main paragraphs, only two pages ._.
Formal: Oh, I had FUN with this one, I got so bunnied - I negated that txting is just a way of avoiding real conversation. I spent a paragraph arguing that "real" conversation can be "remarkably inane" and txting can accomplish the same, then said it's easier to talk about serious stuff via txt because it "almost has the intimacy of a sleepover" (darkness of a sleepover - can't see faces, phones - can't see faces) and the character limit forces you to say what you mean (okay so I was talking out of my arse here), and finished off saying txting is just as real, I mean what about MSN, Yahoo, MySpace (I seriously went through EVERY INSTANT MESSENGER I COULD THINK OF), the phone, letter writing, Morse code, smoke signals eh? Now that I think about it, it was probably pretty crap. XD But it was fun. Merit plz.
I went off for lunch with my parents :D at Satay Kingdom down on Cuba, which is yummy. When Mom had to go back to work, me and Dad went shopping, by which I mean "looked at phones", until he had to go back to work; upon which time I went back to school and hid out in a music room frantically practicing Scarborough Fair before singing lessons. My finger started spontaneously gushing blood (seriously, it wasn't just bleeding, it was gushing) on the bus there so the first thing I did at Megan's was ask for a bandaid. I apparently have to pronounce everything in Scarborough like I'm on Doctor Who. And it seems Megan knows Becks! "I only ever turned [Idol] on once, and I was like, 'ooh, it's my friend Becks, she's so much better than everyone else, I'M GLAD', heheh!"
Wednesday
After getting to town stupidly early because of the bus schedule from Westside, I hung out in the Hungarian Garden for half an hour and pretended not to be watching this cute guy who was looking at the Hungarian stuff. Then I gatecrashed Mary's to see Jo :P and was spotted by Erica and a whole bunch of Johanna's form class, but they don't seem to have dobbed me in so that's alright then. It was very warm. Except of course we had to sit in the shade because otherwise there wasn't a wall to lean on. And we were total badasses on the back courts ^-^ After that I went off and went Father's Day shopping. (In school uniform. I must have looked such a wagger.) Spent half the time on the bus, a quarter just wandering around Cuba wondering what the hell to get but being newly inspired as to places to get random crap for people I don't know what to get at Christmas, and the last quarter cabbaging around in Whitcoulls trying to decide what to get. I was very tempted to get this book, What Not to Drive, but then I realized Dad doesn't read, so in the end I settled on The Italian Job on DVD. No idea if he'll like it. But if he doesn't, hey, I've been wanting to watch it for a while! XD
Music (one and a half hours, to everyone's shock)
Aural: Chords should be fine. As usual I was lousy at melodic notation but alright at rhythmic. I took off my bandaid and then my finger started gushing again so I couldn't finish the last transcription T_T
Materials: The first extract was from West Side Story's America, which amused me greatly. I kind of made up about a quarter of the stuff because I wasn't sure, and then I did the last page in the last five minutes ._. I had no idea what a freakin' hautbois was! I couldn't think of any instruments between flute and clarinet, it was most frustrating; and I just found out on Google it's an oboe. Brilliant.
Me and Talia went to Parliament because it was sunny there and lay down in the grass (getting our skirts a bit muddy). Some random old guy came and threw lollies at us for making the best use of the grass he'd ever seen or something and told us stories about American highschool. It was very odd. But hey, candy from strangers, woohoo. After this we went and gatecrashed Mary's again and took a Johanna off to the Station for our weekly walk up the platform.
I got my Play It Strange letter back, hurrah. Didn't get through, wasn't expecting to so that's alright :) and I got a free sticker!
And that is all. I obviously have far more of a life when I have school than I do without, as today all I accomplished was playing LOTS AND LOTS AND LOTS of Sims and doing my laundry and getting godknowswhat out of the library in a rushed attempt to garner reading material for the roadtrip to and fro skiing this weekend. Off tomorrow, back Sunday, I don't expect much fun to be had. xD