this is a quick one, because I want to repay my sleep debt.
so this is what I ate/spent:
hot chocolate coffee------------$2
dark knight--------------------$6
nydc mudpie-------------------$13
marks and spencer's biscuits---$5.50
opaque black tights------------$14
total spent: $40.50
and that was my day.
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Saturday, August 23, 2008
I interrupt the mind-numbing, disappointing, caffiene crash-inducing EYAs to bring you-- Neil Gaiman's definition of slash:
Lastly, for those who wrote to ask what the "slash" in yesterday's entry meant -- and, honestly, I suspect that questions like that are just trying to egg me on -- I give you Mr. G writing on April 10, 2002:
.....slash fiction is basically erotic fan fiction, normally TV series based, pairing off two (er or more I suppose) members of the same sex who don't normally couple for the cameras. From the "/" mark in the middle of "Kirk/Spock" or "K/S" fiction, which is where it all started. ("But Spock," said Kirk, huskily, realising, finally, irrevocably, what his true self had been trying to tell him ever since the beginning of season one, "it's so huge. And it's green." "And it would be logical for you to... touch it, Captain," said Spock. And so on. It's normally written by extremely nice ladies. I have several very sane, respected, and respectable friends who write slash fiction, and do not try to make me read it.)
The Star Trek fandom looks promising...
Lastly, for those who wrote to ask what the "slash" in yesterday's entry meant -- and, honestly, I suspect that questions like that are just trying to egg me on -- I give you Mr. G writing on April 10, 2002:
.....slash fiction is basically erotic fan fiction, normally TV series based, pairing off two (er or more I suppose) members of the same sex who don't normally couple for the cameras. From the "/" mark in the middle of "Kirk/Spock" or "K/S" fiction, which is where it all started. ("But Spock," said Kirk, huskily, realising, finally, irrevocably, what his true self had been trying to tell him ever since the beginning of season one, "it's so huge. And it's green." "And it would be logical for you to... touch it, Captain," said Spock. And so on. It's normally written by extremely nice ladies. I have several very sane, respected, and respectable friends who write slash fiction, and do not try to make me read it.)
The Star Trek fandom looks promising...
Sunday, August 17, 2008
I can't stand it.
I want to go away for all the wrong reasons.
I don't even have munny to go away.
But I have to go away really really really really really badly.
I have to take this opportunity and RUN FOR IT or I'll be too old, or never get to go anyway.
I'm getting old! I'm 16! I'm not going to be 16 again, ever.
And then before you know it, I'll be 25, and regretting all the things I should have done earlier.
Because when you get old, you get less impressionable, more judgemental, less idealistic... experiencing things won't be the same anymore!
People say it's a big decision, going away, but I've decided. I'm running out the minute... I have the money to. Which is the biggest problem at the moment, besides, of course, my gpa.
Actually regarding money, I can take an education loan and things, but you can't exactly get a loan for your gpa.
Which makes the EYAs seem more like a large green monster, with sharp teeth, a cavernous mouth, and of course the menacing grin.
But but but I so badly want to be financially independent, though of course older more experienced people will go: "You don't know what you're getting yourself into."
*sigh* because being financially independent obviously means more than being able to buy what you want; it entails paying bills, paying income tax, paying off debts, managing the household accounts, GETTING A JOB, among other things.
Another reason why I have to get away, is because my parents have separation anxiety.
Okay going away is not exactly the solution, but I have this theory, that the sooner I go away, the sooner my parents will get used to me moving out permanently.
MY MOM hasn't moved out all her life.
Which will be a *little* problem when I try to convince her.
Said mum has also been looking through my mail. This is preposterous! Isn't it against the law to do that? *will look it up*
I don't look through her mail.
I don't look through her overdue phone bills, credit card bills and traffic fines.
And Kayley from fiveawesomegirls [this group on youtube, which includes kristina from the parselmouths and lauren from the moaning myrtles] is 16. She gets to go to terminus [a hp convention], and is going to azkatraz next year. But it helps that she stays in the same country these things are held.
I want to go away for all the wrong reasons.
I don't even have munny to go away.
But I have to go away really really really really really badly.
I have to take this opportunity and RUN FOR IT or I'll be too old, or never get to go anyway.
I'm getting old! I'm 16! I'm not going to be 16 again, ever.
And then before you know it, I'll be 25, and regretting all the things I should have done earlier.
Because when you get old, you get less impressionable, more judgemental, less idealistic... experiencing things won't be the same anymore!
People say it's a big decision, going away, but I've decided. I'm running out the minute... I have the money to. Which is the biggest problem at the moment, besides, of course, my gpa.
Actually regarding money, I can take an education loan and things, but you can't exactly get a loan for your gpa.
Which makes the EYAs seem more like a large green monster, with sharp teeth, a cavernous mouth, and of course the menacing grin.
But but but I so badly want to be financially independent, though of course older more experienced people will go: "You don't know what you're getting yourself into."
*sigh* because being financially independent obviously means more than being able to buy what you want; it entails paying bills, paying income tax, paying off debts, managing the household accounts, GETTING A JOB, among other things.
Another reason why I have to get away, is because my parents have separation anxiety.
Okay going away is not exactly the solution, but I have this theory, that the sooner I go away, the sooner my parents will get used to me moving out permanently.
MY MOM hasn't moved out all her life.
Which will be a *little* problem when I try to convince her.
Said mum has also been looking through my mail. This is preposterous! Isn't it against the law to do that? *will look it up*
I don't look through her mail.
I don't look through her overdue phone bills, credit card bills and traffic fines.
And Kayley from fiveawesomegirls [this group on youtube, which includes kristina from the parselmouths and lauren from the moaning myrtles] is 16. She gets to go to terminus [a hp convention], and is going to azkatraz next year. But it helps that she stays in the same country these things are held.
Thursday, August 07, 2008
We're going to have a serious topic today! EYAS.
So lately everyone's been agonising about how close it is, how important it is, how much the teachers haven't covered. It doesn't come as a surprise when people start crying, pulling off all-nighters, complaining, and sometimes acting weirdly. It's scary, a little, how an exam can affect us so much. But looking at the bigger picture, it's not the exam itself, but the implications of having a mediocre gpa, the pressure everyone feels and sometimes the attitudes the teachers have.
Personally, I think the stress everyone feels is exacerbated by the fact that people around you are all studying and worrying about grades, and then you feel like you haven't done enough when people announce how far they are on their revision schedule, or what they have not done. There isn't anything much to solve this problem; most people in our school are like that-- i.e. they need to achieve as much as possible, and do the best they can. They are admirable qualities, and I'm not faulting anyone who is like this. It's just that when you put a bunch of overachievers together [and an underachiever, me, in the mix] the energy/ pressure produced is greatly increased, than if the ratio of overachiever to underachiever (not counting people who are neither) was more equal.
Another factor also increases this stress: teachers. Sometimes it's in an active manner-- take a physics teacher, Mrs Q. She rushes through the syllabus quite quickly, and scares everyone by saying that our exams are near, and leaves lots of time for revision. This pushes people to get cracking on their revision, to bring "good questions" to the next class. Sometimes it's in a passive manner-- a chem teacher, Mr P.S., is very inspired by Socratic questioning and aspires for all of us to attain understanding on our own. Which is great, of course, because I remember things better this way, but not when we're 2 weeks from the EYAs! So people start to panic because there's so much more he has not covered, and they rush to finish the syllabus on their own, and do their own work.
Ah, the consequences of the IP system. If, say, I were having the olevels, I could do all my revision / mugging on my own, because the curriculum is standard and doesn't differ from school to school. It would be so much easier because there's a set syllabus to follow, and if you manage to do well on other school's prelim papers, and keep on doing questions, you're all ready. But the downside is that the olevels test things you learnt in lowersec, so you have to dig up your old notes, and waste time revising them all over again. haha like angle properties of circles. Still, I'm happy that I'll get to finish 6 out of 9 subjects at the end of august, and start celebrating early.
So lately everyone's been agonising about how close it is, how important it is, how much the teachers haven't covered. It doesn't come as a surprise when people start crying, pulling off all-nighters, complaining, and sometimes acting weirdly. It's scary, a little, how an exam can affect us so much. But looking at the bigger picture, it's not the exam itself, but the implications of having a mediocre gpa, the pressure everyone feels and sometimes the attitudes the teachers have.
Personally, I think the stress everyone feels is exacerbated by the fact that people around you are all studying and worrying about grades, and then you feel like you haven't done enough when people announce how far they are on their revision schedule, or what they have not done. There isn't anything much to solve this problem; most people in our school are like that-- i.e. they need to achieve as much as possible, and do the best they can. They are admirable qualities, and I'm not faulting anyone who is like this. It's just that when you put a bunch of overachievers together [and an underachiever, me, in the mix] the energy/ pressure produced is greatly increased, than if the ratio of overachiever to underachiever (not counting people who are neither) was more equal.
Another factor also increases this stress: teachers. Sometimes it's in an active manner-- take a physics teacher, Mrs Q. She rushes through the syllabus quite quickly, and scares everyone by saying that our exams are near, and leaves lots of time for revision. This pushes people to get cracking on their revision, to bring "good questions" to the next class. Sometimes it's in a passive manner-- a chem teacher, Mr P.S., is very inspired by Socratic questioning and aspires for all of us to attain understanding on our own. Which is great, of course, because I remember things better this way, but not when we're 2 weeks from the EYAs! So people start to panic because there's so much more he has not covered, and they rush to finish the syllabus on their own, and do their own work.
Ah, the consequences of the IP system. If, say, I were having the olevels, I could do all my revision / mugging on my own, because the curriculum is standard and doesn't differ from school to school. It would be so much easier because there's a set syllabus to follow, and if you manage to do well on other school's prelim papers, and keep on doing questions, you're all ready. But the downside is that the olevels test things you learnt in lowersec, so you have to dig up your old notes, and waste time revising them all over again. haha like angle properties of circles. Still, I'm happy that I'll get to finish 6 out of 9 subjects at the end of august, and start celebrating early.
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