Yeah, we had an ALIS test today. (Thanks a lot, University of Durham. Don’t you have better things to do?) It’s one of those annoying IQ-type tests where you’re not given enough time to answer the questions, and even if you did have time, you have to be one of those people with spatial awareness to fold the net of a cube in your head. I may have flopped the Maths section too. Not to worry, because it’s only useful for ‘predicting your A level grades.’
Of course, the prediction could be wrong, so the easiest thing to do is ignore any predictions and just get on with the work. Which is what I’m doing this evening – as all my homework somehow built up into a little cascade tonight.
I also felt vindicated at not going to the ‘photo reading’ taster session the school ran on Friday. I strongly suspected from the start it was all a con – and from what I hear I was proved right. Hooray for sceptical thinking! And let’s try and get the words ‘con’, ‘photo reading’ and ‘Marilyn Devonish‘ into Google shall we? All together now…
For Kate Moss at least, the penalty for allegedly snorting cocaine appears to be losing your modelling contracts, rather than any kind of legal process.
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First off – kudos to Pingu for his brilliant megamix tonight. Wonderful mixing and choice of tracks… lovely way to end an evening. Thanks!
I haven’t really been doing much this weekend… although I should be off buying new trainers. One of those things that I know I have to get but I find incredibly dull shopping for and, sadly, can’t really be purchased online.
My excuse is that my debit card was lost\stolen on Friday sometime so I can’t really buy anything anyway. I got home and realised it was missing from my wallet (nothing else was though) and figured it was safer to get it cancelled straight away rather than waste time looking for it and live to regret it. Hooray for internet banking as well – so I could see nothing had been taken from the account. It’s a minor inconvenience really, and highlights one benefit of the Chip and PIN system.
I also got paid on Friday to go through some IT questions (mostly relating to spyware\adware\malware) with someone. So when I get my card back, I’ll have more to spend! (H)
Finally, at type of writing there have been no deaths reported from Hurricane Rita. Always worth repeating good news with the word ‘hurricane’ in it.
Oh and yes, as noticed already, there are a few updated graphics on the site and a slightly revamped search feature. Enjoy… (“Is is worrying that I can’t get ‘You Broke My Heart’ by what is described as the girl-equivalent of McFly – Love Bites – out of my head? I think it is”)
Today was INSET – giving me the chance to (finally!) catch up on some missing sleep from the Gordon Brown trip last weekend. I got up at the leisurely time of 11, did some Maths homework (there is something very satisfying about solving an equation) ate a Pizza and then set off for canoeing. It was my choice out of the various ‘Enrichment’ activities happening on Wednesday afternoons and a few of us decided to go today on our own. (Technically it’s actually a kayak but meh)
It’s really quite fun going up and down the Sainsbury’s Canal at Ladbroke Grove – learning how to paddle faster, turn round, glide through the water etc. More exciting than learning Latin at least, which was also on offer 
And then this evening was Open Evening. The whole Self clan seemed to descend on the school actually… I was helping to take a tour group around, Tash was in the Gym while Mum and Katie went for that exciting ‘move to secondary school’ feeling. Hiten delivered a speech, which was reportedly excellent, while I grabbed a few biscuits (They actually included our ‘high GCSE achievers’ photo in the welcome pack so hey, we’re famous.) It was very polished actually this year – a glossy welcome pack, even a few specially shot videos (with apostrophes in the wrong places). Wasn’t like that in our day!
As I said though – I am now exhausted and will have to sleep so that I’m able to do more school and more Maths homework tomorrow.
But before we get to that, I forgot to add earlier that there was a murder in a house on my road while I was away, and we now have a police man\woman stationed there at all times. 
Now on to nicer news – NASA has announced that by 2020, they will put a man on the moon! Imagine that! This will surely be a turning point in civilisation – a new era of space exploration while a world of peace and love will develop here at home! Yessss… exciting times. At least it might shut the snake-oil conspiracy theorists up, unless they think it’ll take the US government 15 years to make another dodgy film in a top secret bunker somewhere. (I am actually very happy about this – I just think it’s interesting how we’re replaying the 1960s. We’ve got Arabs to replace Russians, Iraq to rerun Vietnam and now this!)
See you in the moonbase…
Helen on It’s (waiting) time.: “Fabulous news, congratulations to you both! X” Jun 8, 21:51
