In that, I wanted to quote a song, preferably a Queen one, and this one seemed to fit today. It's been a long day, and it's still going. So let's get into what has been a hell of a Saturday (in a good way).
I woke up at 7:20 (which, really, is sleeping in for me), and I'm still half-waking up when the parents bustle me off to Rebel Sports about 20 minutes away for my brother's footy boots (AFL. I'm sure I've already said this.), as well as to get me some new sneakers (this pair's falling apart. Almost literally.). So we get to the shops, and there's this guy on one of the up escalators walking down. About 50 years old, so not a kid or anything. Just picture it: a 50 year old guy just staying in one spot, walking down the up escalator as if that's perfectly normal. And we have to go up that escalator, so he just stops, turns around, and goes up the escalator. And, he was looking at us strange. He was looking at us strange. Anyway, we get to Rebel, I get my shoes, taking around 10 minutes, while EJ (my brother) is getting his boots. I wander over, he's still getting his boots. Wait around 15 minutes, come back, still getting them. It's a miracle we ever got out of there. We get out, grab a doughnut and a strawberry milkshake, and end up going to Borders. Sweet. I got another Brian Greene book called 'Fabric of the Cosmos.' I can't wait to read it. We got home, and I ended up having to clean my room and do homework. Joy. I can't do it tomorrow, because I have cricket. (Oh, that reminds me: I was thinking of titling today's post 'The Final Countdown' because of the cricket final, but it didn't really sum up today. Bugger. After I got that out of the way, I went on my laptop for a while, going on Scratch, MSN, net-surfing, you know, the usual.
We left our house at around 5, to go to Shay's house. I went on the Wii, playing Wii Tennis against Lachlan and EJ (losing both times), and playing baseball with EJ (drawing.) Next, we had dinner, and then we got into handball. Shay and Lachlan play a bit differently, but then, so does everyone. We played for a while, and at the end, the game just started to fall apart. But, really, we were having more fun, 'cause we didn't care what we doing. It was great. I gave Shay my glasses, thus disabling both of our visions, and attempted to play handball. Which, as you can imagine, was both mindbendingly difficult, but really fun and carefree. It was like being drunk, sorta. When we went inside after about 1 and a half hours outside, Shay and I got on our computers (I brought my laptop), and EJ and Lachlan got on the Wii. So here I am, at 9:30, just sitting with my laptop, music blaring in my ears (the song stuck in my head today is 'Everything I'm Not' by the Veronicas. Yesterday, I forgot to mention, was 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen.), and blogging.
My day isn't finished, but this post is. Because chances are not much is going to happen from now and when I go to sleep. Of course, I could be wrong, but in that case I'll just resort to the tried-and-true method of putting off today what I can do tomorrow, and put it in the next post. (Oh, I won't be on MSN from 10 am to 6:30 pm tomorrow most likely, because of the final.) One thing's for sure: I definitely won't be sleeping in tomorrow. Unfortunately.
Tomorrow will be a busy, busy day,
AB
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
The Weekend Calls
What a day today has been. Oh, I'm typing on Shay's computer, and it seems fine, except for the lack of MSN. Well, let's get into my day before I forget what actually happened.
Jo dropped me off again, and I got to school and find three people not there: Ian and Shafi, who were at the excursion, and Matt. Don't know why he's away, but who cares? Period 1 was Science, and doing some work on complete and incomplete combustion. Riveting, I know. Next came Geography, which was doing essentially nothing. All Johnson talked about was yesterday's trip to Windang. Hooray for doing nothing! Assembly was auctioning off the teachers' hair. Hmm. Perhaps I should explain. Each year for Shave for a Cure, teachers offer to shave or colour their hair, and the kids bid for the rights to do basically whatever they want to their hair. The highest bid this year was Milner, who ended up being bought by Years 9, 10, and 12. Altogether. That ended up being $1000 to colour (and hopefully shave) her hair. I'm chipping in $5 or $10. Assembly ran massively overtime, and Recess ended up beiong something like 10 minutes. And Periods 3 and 4 were 35 minutes each. That should give you a general picture of what happened. Recess was spent chatting, the usual.
Period 3 was English, which was reading from the workbook, as well as Sandy deciding to attack a fly. There was a fly buzzing around, and Sandy being Sandy decides to get rid of it. So he starts smashing this workbook against the wall again and again. (He got it, by the way.) Next was Maths, which was also doing squat. Really, I love these days where nothing happens. Lunch was talking to mainly Cam and John, about a lot of things really. Everything and nothing. Period 5 was Drama, in Vercoe's old room. Which was, again, a bludge fest, as Sandy was moved after a space of 5 minutes. He has to take this pill (I think he's got ADHD), and I figure he either needs to get more or less of it. I don't know which. Last came Commerce, which due to the lack of people (relatively speaking) due to the excursion, involved packing 45 people into one room to watch a video. Genius, really. And when I say video, I mean video: Lucky if you can find a DVD within this school.
I got home, blah blah blah, and go to cricket training at 4:45. We did some work on preparing for the semi-final on Sunday, which goes from 10 to 6:30 (and, no, I'm not kidding). I'll keep you posted. After training, my Dad and I went to get dinner from the local shops, and then proceeded to go straight to Shay's house. I thought we were going to my house first, but, eh, what are you gonna do. We played handball, then I went on their Wii and did WiiFit. I checked my BMI, and I'm something like 21. Which apparently is normal. Sweet. We went on like that for a while, in the process showing that I will never be good at yoga, until I decided to get on the computer and blog finally. So here I am!
This, I suppose, wraps up my day. Hopefully I'll get to sleep in tomorrow, making it the first Saturday in a while that I've slept in on. Awesome. I end with something I just feel like saying. Because I can. That and I can't be bothered to think on a Friday night.
Peace Out,
AB
Jo dropped me off again, and I got to school and find three people not there: Ian and Shafi, who were at the excursion, and Matt. Don't know why he's away, but who cares? Period 1 was Science, and doing some work on complete and incomplete combustion. Riveting, I know. Next came Geography, which was doing essentially nothing. All Johnson talked about was yesterday's trip to Windang. Hooray for doing nothing! Assembly was auctioning off the teachers' hair. Hmm. Perhaps I should explain. Each year for Shave for a Cure, teachers offer to shave or colour their hair, and the kids bid for the rights to do basically whatever they want to their hair. The highest bid this year was Milner, who ended up being bought by Years 9, 10, and 12. Altogether. That ended up being $1000 to colour (and hopefully shave) her hair. I'm chipping in $5 or $10. Assembly ran massively overtime, and Recess ended up beiong something like 10 minutes. And Periods 3 and 4 were 35 minutes each. That should give you a general picture of what happened. Recess was spent chatting, the usual.
Period 3 was English, which was reading from the workbook, as well as Sandy deciding to attack a fly. There was a fly buzzing around, and Sandy being Sandy decides to get rid of it. So he starts smashing this workbook against the wall again and again. (He got it, by the way.) Next was Maths, which was also doing squat. Really, I love these days where nothing happens. Lunch was talking to mainly Cam and John, about a lot of things really. Everything and nothing. Period 5 was Drama, in Vercoe's old room. Which was, again, a bludge fest, as Sandy was moved after a space of 5 minutes. He has to take this pill (I think he's got ADHD), and I figure he either needs to get more or less of it. I don't know which. Last came Commerce, which due to the lack of people (relatively speaking) due to the excursion, involved packing 45 people into one room to watch a video. Genius, really. And when I say video, I mean video: Lucky if you can find a DVD within this school.
I got home, blah blah blah, and go to cricket training at 4:45. We did some work on preparing for the semi-final on Sunday, which goes from 10 to 6:30 (and, no, I'm not kidding). I'll keep you posted. After training, my Dad and I went to get dinner from the local shops, and then proceeded to go straight to Shay's house. I thought we were going to my house first, but, eh, what are you gonna do. We played handball, then I went on their Wii and did WiiFit. I checked my BMI, and I'm something like 21. Which apparently is normal. Sweet. We went on like that for a while, in the process showing that I will never be good at yoga, until I decided to get on the computer and blog finally. So here I am!
This, I suppose, wraps up my day. Hopefully I'll get to sleep in tomorrow, making it the first Saturday in a while that I've slept in on. Awesome. I end with something I just feel like saying. Because I can. That and I can't be bothered to think on a Friday night.
Peace Out,
AB
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Excursion For The Win-dang
I had 3 titles yesterday, and today I can barely think of one. Hmm. Today was... well, not bludgy, because there was nothing to bludge in. It was an excursion. 10MERI went to this place called Windang (here's another Wikipedia link. I really like this article, because of the 'Suburbs around Windang.'). I'll get into my day.
I got driven to school, and everyone was waiting just outside the gate, in mufti of course. We got into the buses around 8:45, and started off to Windang. Which took about 2 hours. I brought two books, the same two I had yesterday. I ended up finishing the first book, and went on to the second book. I also played 13 with Tan, Osmond and Alex Tieu (I think), as well as listening to my iPod. We got handed name tag stickers and a texta in the bus.
If I can make a short aside: must every girl who make those things have to have hearts and stars (Oh, and Jayson). Luckily, I learnt long ago that there are some things in life man is not meant to understand. And I'm not being sexist when I say man, because I really mean man. Not understand women.
We got to the place at around 11, and split into 3 groups. I ended up being with basically the whole group: Cameron, Eric, John, Kevin, Mango and Victor. We went to the beach, and this guide told us about sand dunes and something called bitou bush. (Riveting, I know.) Then it was time for Recess, where some people found humour in feeding/scaring/imitating the seagulls. Then it was time for the only real work we actually did, which ended up being split into 3 parts: sketching, sketching, and reading a map, in which I sucked, sucked, and bored me respectively. This took another 2 hours. Fun. Then it was Lunch, which lasted all of 15 minutes, and in which I forgot to take my lunch out of the bus. So when we left, I just ate my lunch in the bus. On the trip back, I got out my iPod and finished my book while having an hour long Queen marathon (Queen: thy rock gods. I dare you to listen to 'We Will Rock You,' 'Another One Bites the Dust,' 'Killer Queen,' hell, everything they've ever written, and not like it. I dare you.) on my iPod. When that album ran out, I started listening to such songs as 'White Noise,' 'Disturbia,' etc. Oh, while we're on the subject, the song stuck in my head right now is 'Love Story' by Taylor Swift. I got home around quarter to 4.
Well, I guess that sums up today. Tomorrow will hopefully be bludgy, since 10NO will be on the excursion, and so teachers may not do much. Hopefully.
Excursion's a beach,
AB
I got driven to school, and everyone was waiting just outside the gate, in mufti of course. We got into the buses around 8:45, and started off to Windang. Which took about 2 hours. I brought two books, the same two I had yesterday. I ended up finishing the first book, and went on to the second book. I also played 13 with Tan, Osmond and Alex Tieu (I think), as well as listening to my iPod. We got handed name tag stickers and a texta in the bus.
If I can make a short aside: must every girl who make those things have to have hearts and stars (Oh, and Jayson). Luckily, I learnt long ago that there are some things in life man is not meant to understand. And I'm not being sexist when I say man, because I really mean man. Not understand women.
We got to the place at around 11, and split into 3 groups. I ended up being with basically the whole group: Cameron, Eric, John, Kevin, Mango and Victor. We went to the beach, and this guide told us about sand dunes and something called bitou bush. (Riveting, I know.) Then it was time for Recess, where some people found humour in feeding/scaring/imitating the seagulls. Then it was time for the only real work we actually did, which ended up being split into 3 parts: sketching, sketching, and reading a map, in which I sucked, sucked, and bored me respectively. This took another 2 hours. Fun. Then it was Lunch, which lasted all of 15 minutes, and in which I forgot to take my lunch out of the bus. So when we left, I just ate my lunch in the bus. On the trip back, I got out my iPod and finished my book while having an hour long Queen marathon (Queen: thy rock gods. I dare you to listen to 'We Will Rock You,' 'Another One Bites the Dust,' 'Killer Queen,' hell, everything they've ever written, and not like it. I dare you.) on my iPod. When that album ran out, I started listening to such songs as 'White Noise,' 'Disturbia,' etc. Oh, while we're on the subject, the song stuck in my head right now is 'Love Story' by Taylor Swift. I got home around quarter to 4.
Well, I guess that sums up today. Tomorrow will hopefully be bludgy, since 10NO will be on the excursion, and so teachers may not do much. Hopefully.
Excursion's a beach,
AB
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