I still think it was a bit stupid to have to come into school Monday and Tuesday this week, but hey, tomorrow will be the last day of term! Hoorayality! (That’s my new word for the day.) And it’s not like we’re doing much work in the last two days either… although we did face a particularly exciting pub quiz in Mr. Drummond’s history lesson. Exciting because we (Sophie, Lawrence and myself) triumphed over impossible odds (Fabio) thanks mainly to highly specialist knowledge (the members of Take That – thanks Sophie).
12Q also practised our highly informative assembly on Islam that we must give in the first PSHE lesson back. (Yes, we still have PSHE, yes, it’s still worthless.) I was told not to make jokes, but I’ll probably ignore that, because otherwise reading out a list of Arabic contributions to science and culture is rather dull. And if there’s one thing that assemblies don’t need any more of, it’s dullness.
Selfless act of the day – walking into a lamp-post on the way home. Selfless because it made Rishal and Clare laugh no end. 
Oh and I really must mention that Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the World Wide Web, is now blogging. Just… subscribe.
We got our candidate statements of entry for the AS exams in January today, and I found out that on the 17th I will have English in the morning and Physics in the afternoon. Which is kinda good, I guess, because if I have a good day I can storm through and get it all done. I won’t bother to type ‘But if I have a bad day…’ because I’m sure you’ve already worked that out for yourself.
I also have an ICT exam a few days before on Friday 13th. (Great date for an exam…) I haven’t really blogged much about ICT, because I’m really keeping it a bit quiet. Basically I’m having a go at the thing without the whole going to lessons\doing the homework business. I’ll be doing the coursework over Christmas or something, and reading through the book. Y’know, if it works it works. If not, I’ll have proved that school really is useful once and for all 
In all its glory
Yesterday we had an English trip to Queen Mary’s College for 4 lectures on Angela Carter’s Wise Children. Without naming names – one of them was brilliant, one was quite good, another was dull and the last… well, he didn’t seem to have been told what the title of his lecture was supposed to be. He was making good points, but thoroughly unconnected, and he kept pausing awkwardly after each one as if we were supposed to applaud. And his shirt wasn’t tucked in. 
Lecture Notes
Wow – the PTFA Quiz Night was a lot more fun than I was expecting. Rishal, Clare, Joshua and I were on scoring duty so we got our own table on the stage complete with free drink and free fish and chips. (So thanks for that, taxpayer!) Interestingly the three winning teams were all teachers… which could make for some combative parent-teacher evenings in the future! Scariest moment of the night – my Physics teacher marching up to us at the end after the scores were announced – and they didn’t win – to complain. We hid under the table.
I also saved a potentially explosive situation by phoning home and making sure the capital of Turkey was Ankara.
Nice to see teachers more relaxed than at school… and with the boot rather on the other foot as we were the ones marking and they were the ones disputing scores! Congratulations to Mr. Munchmoore as well – a fitting winner for someone who retired after many years of service.
Surprisingly no hangover as well. Yayness!
Because I’m nice, I’m helping to mark the PTFA (Parents, Teachers, Friends… you get the idea… of QPCS) Quiz Night tomorrow night. And you can be rest assured of fairness, cause I’ve sourced the other markers from my AS Level Maths class 
Here’s some other fairly random bullets about school you may or may not be interested in:
- I had a Physics test on Wednesday which went OK, I think. Not amazingly but not a flop either – or so it appears from my preliminary look at the marking
- I think I got the most book vouchers ever in one go – a whole £18! For, ur, turning up to school each day last year. And yes – I plan to spend them on something frivolous like a Doctor Who script book or Spam Kings
- Talking of Doctor Who – have you seen the new Cybermen? Now you have! All great apart from the shoes…
- Since I’ve drifted off school anyway… I want to cheer my new Nucleus Disciple status. Woo, yay, houpla!
Final quote of the post must go to Mr. Moore (English teacher, and a bloody good one too):
Me: Phew, I’ve just finished a Physics exam
Him: Well Dominic, it is your fault for choosing Physics…
(Note – the emphasis on the last word with the tones of bitter arts\science rivalry. Can’t we all just get along?)
P.S. Physics still rocks though. What other subject asks you to measure the distance between the feet of two ice-skaters?
Helen on It’s (waiting) time.: “Fabulous news, congratulations to you both! X” Jun 8, 21:51
