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So what happens if you box your starter?

Eminem is the only rapper I actually enjoy listening to. Got his greatest hits album back out recently due to his new song (which I don't particularly like, incidentally). Some good stuff. My favourite song is definately Without Me. Weird how even if you dislike a genre in general, there always seems to be one artist you you don't mind. For example I tend to hate crappy female pop singers, but I don't mind Lily Allen. I tend to hate rap music, but I don't mind Eminem.

Ah. We did Electoral Systems, Scottish Politics, Global Security and British Society. Fun times. Not.

Hahaha a bit random. Are the curriculums much different? I'd imagine stuff like Modern Studies would be changed alot. Theres a big focus on Scottish Parliament etc in that that I wouldn't expect is in the A Levels.

It's the one about soldiers who came back from war and went mental. Hence the name. So lots of nice blood imagery that is easy to write about. How come your doing English A Level anyway? That one of the quirks of the private school you go to?

The two I wrote essays for were A Streetcar Named Desire and Mental Cases (poem by Wilfred Owen). Choose a play which portrays a difference in value between character and setting (Streetcar) and Choose a poem which portrays an emotion (anguish, Mental Cases). Got pretty lucky with the question choice really, they both fit really well. I decided to only learn one poem (out of laziness...) and had I chosen my other one (Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy) none of the questions would have fit and I'd have been screwed.

Anybody else do the Higher English exam today? It was crazy how much of the marks were allocated to "Explain in your own words". You could literally get a B with just those questions, I'm pretty sure it was something like 30 of the 50 marks. Not that I'm complaining. Unless they are anal about the wording of the questions I'm pretty sure I got near enough 50/50 for the Close Reading, and the essays went fine. Should be a comfortable A.

Looks like the conspiracy theory idea is out, then.

I love the way they have a sort of love-square with them. You'd expect it to turn it the two criminals and the two doctors, but the island-leaving left them with one of each. Also, a shame for Juliet how they both ended up wanting Kate more.

He was bad-guy ex-husband in Dexter, which is what I know him from. Dunno what else he's been in.

"It's not that I'm better than this, it's just that I'm much smarter than you need to be to work here"

I suppose the equivalent in the game is Victory Road.

Who called it? I called it. Also, when did Med School teach high precision firing at long distance with an old fashioned pistol? Cause Jack aced that class.

The 3-5-2 we used to play under O'Neill will always be the Celtic team I remember. It was the team of Seville, and it was the team that was around when I started getting serious about supporting. I can still remember the whole team sheet: Douglas Mjallby-Balde-Valgheron(sp?) Agathe-Lennon-Petrov/Sutton-Lambert-Thompson/Moravcjik Larsson-Hartson/Sutton What a team! Looking at it now, it was dodgy as hell defensively. But having both Lennon and Lambert in midfield, it sort of worked. Then with Petrov/Moravcjik/Larsson as creative players, Agathe bombing down the wing, Thompson whiping in crosses for the three attackers who were all outstanding in the air...

Got my CD from goaferboy today. Had a quick look at the track list, from which I only know lostprophets and Rise Against, both of which I like. Looking forward to listening to it, though it may be as much as Monday before I get a chance to sit down and listen properly.

I agree with alot of what you say. It is very noticeably more upbeat than their older stuff, but I don't necessarily dislike that. It's just different. In fact, I quite enjoy the contrast between Aaron's vocal style and the music. I love the little animal allegories. Good fun, but also theres something a bit more there to think about. One of my favourite lyrics of theres is "A speckled bird that walked across the road, when it could have flown, and it made me smile" and it's like they took that, and the Spider songs, and just expanded on them. My primary concern is how in-your-face the religion stuff now is. Like when they go into "What a beautiful god they must be" and repeat it like 10 times, it just makes me cringe. I've taken to skipping the track at that point, in fact. Before the religion was only ever there in some of the imagery that they use, but it's now much more explicit. And whats this about it being the final album?

If it makes any difference, I'm using Stretchable 3.

I never really got into Fallout 3. Combat for me wasn't that fun, and the exploration, while I can see the appeal, didn't excite me much. Always intended on going back to it at some point but never have as yet.

Today was one of those days when you just question everything. Started out pretty good but I'm in one of those moods again. Trying real hard not to have a repeat of my 3000 word essay I did last time I felt like this.

Highers this year for me. English on Friday, followed by Maths next week, Physics/Modern Studies consecutively the following week, rounded off by Computing at the start of June. Not bothered with them at all. I don't seem to feel much pressure with stuff like this. Only ones I'm slightly worried about are English and Mod Studies, as they are essay based rather than the more sciency stuff like Physics/Maths which has definite answers. Only problem might be is if the essay questions are a little awkward / write too much and don't get finished in time.

Yeah, I know. It's just the way she said that today though, and some stuff from before. Like I told her I like her but she knocked me back, and seems to think she's out of my league or something. She would expect to be able to find someone better than me. So if she is alone, and I'm not, then that will knock her back a bit. And at this point, I would enjoy that.

Little update on me and that girl I posted about a while ago. Today was the last day of this year of school. So the last classes, essentially, of all the stuff I'm not taking next year. Just so happens this is the last time I'll be in the class with her, and therefore probably the last time I'll really speak to her. There was a bit of banter as usual, whatever. But there was one comment she made which stung me as odd: I made some jibe to her, and her response was something along the lines of "yeah well screw you I hope your single and alone forever". I didn't any deal of it, just pretended to not hear / bother about it. But it's stuck with me, because I can't work out why that would be the reaction. Like theres something there, but I'm not sure what it is. I wonder if she even knows. Perhaps it's a dislike to me shes had since I told her my feelings, and my jokes about it being the last class rubbed her the wrong way somehow. I dunno, feel like I'm over analysing again. I don't think I even really like her now; it's more the fact that she turned me down, and I hate that she is kinda condescending to me at times. At the end of the day today she said "finally, they year is over. I need someone to hug" and I was just like, wtf? I thought we were meant to be mates? Also, the other day she told me she had "good news" to tell me, and that she'd "tell me later". Dunno what it was about, and she never brought it back up. Could be nothing. Oh, and her and a group of others (most of whom I am friends with) are going out Friday night, to which I've not been invited. I'm quit disappointed in this, perhaps people don't like me as much as I thought. It frustrates me. Got my eye on another girl now anyway, who is gonna be at a party on Saturday. Hopefully we'll hook up, the signs have been good there. If not it should be another boring summer. And I hope we hook up in front of "her". Just to let her know that I beat her to finding someone.

Came in to post that ^

I shall play.