jason came on the bus today with a big smile and a prefect's tie. it's come this far. kes's most vehement marxist is now at the head of the establishment and happy about it. i'm joking of course, i was very pleased for him. jason's just an all round great guy and he deserves to be a prefect ( Read more... )

today was actually a pretty difficult day for quite a few of us at school. my got the news at morning registration that mrs gleed, who was my from tutor for years 10 and 11, had died. she'd had cancer and they thought they'd got it all , but it came back just before summer last year and recently they'd began to realise it was only a matter of time ( Read more... )

just got back from the last minute cambridge union debate contest which was actually rather fun. especially laughing at all the private school toffs we were up against. classic quote ( Read more... )

another weekend over and done with. friday night i worked until 9 and then went out for a drink with my mother. which then turned into ten drinks with my mother and other people. luckily, i got to lie in on saturday, because i didn't have to work ( Read more... )

i am dreading my chemistry exam now. i just did the specimen paper, which involved an 11 mark question on the relative reactivity of the halogens. now, if we hadn't done that experiment two days ago in class i would not have known where to start. i only really remembered it because the results went pretty colours ( Read more... )

i am currently avoiding writing a sonnet essay and drinking wine. this means by the time i have finished avoiding getting round to doing the essay i will probably be slightly tipsy. oh well, last time i wrote part of an essay whist inebriated, i got an 'a', so i figure it can't be worse than my efforts when sober ( Read more... )

i went to see 'Venus and Adonis' tonight and it was so good. so i decided to post this. it's very lovely, but i hope it isn't true...

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i really have to get to the opticians... i'm having the worst headaches and i swear it's because my prescription is wrong. not looking forward to tomorrow. i have to go to a history conference that involves me listening to about four hours worth of lectures on henry VII. all of which i am supposed to be really interested in, but in fact i find ( Read more... )

just got back from rehearsals and i'm at home, where i shouldn't be. because i was supposed to be seeing david, only he sent me a text message earlier saying (in an overly poetic way) that he was really hungover from this party he went to last night and so could we postpone our date ( Read more... )

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