Today was good. First time ive had such a short day. I have had a good day. I got to miss biology first period, which was obviously good. Obviously i had to catch up when i got back to the lesson. I spent the first period getting a Health & Safety certificate. First time i got 90% then 95% (got a question wrong that i had got right the first time). Finally i got 100%. Obviously i wanted to get a certificate with 100% on cos 95% isnt okay when you can take it again and again until you obviously can get full marks. (Kudos to those who can guess whose speech style was i emulating there).
In maths we found out that we had successfully helped Mr Donohue get his new job (cant say any more really). Got some maths work over the hols, realised i havent picked up the maths.
Signed out at break and went to Borders. Great shop. Also visited Toys R Us thats almost as good. Ikea for free drinks and a Daddy Burger to make an even better day.
T
Thursday, 10 July 2008
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
Been a while
Well it has definitely been a good while since i last blogged. I thought i'd try get back into the habit for the run up to the summer holidays; where we will all be doing our own thing and it may be nice to know what others are up to.
Though if we you are reading what im writing i think we both have enough time to meet up instead. So you can give me a bell then.
Since i last blogged..:
Exams - went swimmingly. Will find out whether i float or drown ages in the future.
Had time wasted by teachers attempting to "teach" A2 modules.
Been to Leeds, Cambridge and Oxford. Leeds and Cambridge have very good courses. Oxford and Cambridge have so much history. Also i gotta choose whether to do a Year in Industry (YinI).
Rugby has restarted - looking good to keep my place in the starting line up (hopefully). Mixture of blistering speed, high fitness and skill should get me the place.
Doctor Who has been and gone - brilliant last two episodes
Top Gear has started. Here's to a great series!
To come:
Sports day - 6th form relay
More rugby
Two weeks work experience
Two weeks free - need to organise things.
Two weeks holiday
All the best
T
Though if we you are reading what im writing i think we both have enough time to meet up instead. So you can give me a bell then.
Since i last blogged..:
Exams - went swimmingly. Will find out whether i float or drown ages in the future.
Had time wasted by teachers attempting to "teach" A2 modules.
Been to Leeds, Cambridge and Oxford. Leeds and Cambridge have very good courses. Oxford and Cambridge have so much history. Also i gotta choose whether to do a Year in Industry (YinI).
Rugby has restarted - looking good to keep my place in the starting line up (hopefully). Mixture of blistering speed, high fitness and skill should get me the place.
Doctor Who has been and gone - brilliant last two episodes
Top Gear has started. Here's to a great series!
To come:
Sports day - 6th form relay
More rugby
Two weeks work experience
Two weeks free - need to organise things.
Two weeks holiday
All the best
T
Saturday, 12 April 2008
It's been a while
Long time no see. Ive just had no urge to blog recently, but am back now. The holidays were good. The tour was great fun. ;)
This last week has been a return to the grindstone. This is a weird feeling; not knowing what to put. Must be cos im out of the habit. Nothing really interesting has happened this week, that i can remember well. 39/40 in one physics cw, not so good in the other (exact mark not given), football cancelled, our rugby future decided - we are gonna go into the colts, Samir sprained his ankle falling over during badminton. Finally got up-to-date with The Big Bang Theory; pretty good episodes. Discovered www.xkcd.com Spent time on Dilbert.com. Yeah so being rather geeky. This weekend im not doing much. May have a match report tomorrow if i can get into the blogging spirit, which i seem to have lost.
This last week has been a return to the grindstone. This is a weird feeling; not knowing what to put. Must be cos im out of the habit. Nothing really interesting has happened this week, that i can remember well. 39/40 in one physics cw, not so good in the other (exact mark not given), football cancelled, our rugby future decided - we are gonna go into the colts, Samir sprained his ankle falling over during badminton. Finally got up-to-date with The Big Bang Theory; pretty good episodes. Discovered www.xkcd.com Spent time on Dilbert.com. Yeah so being rather geeky. This weekend im not doing much. May have a match report tomorrow if i can get into the blogging spirit, which i seem to have lost.
Wednesday, 19 March 2008
Joke
Seeing as I have been, and am still busy I thought I'd post a joke to make up for it:
SINGLE BLACK FEMALE,
seeks male companionship, ethnicity unimportant. I'm a very good girl who LOVES to play. I love long walks in the woods, riding in your car ( whatever make or model, I'm not fussy ), hunting, camping and fishing trips, cosy winter nights lying by the fire. Candlelit dinners will have me eating out of your hand. I'll be at the front door when you get home from work; wearing only what nature gave me.
Call 07898 ****** and ask for Daisy. I'll be waiting...
Over 15,000 men found themselves talking to the RSPCA about an 8-week-old black Labrador Retriever!!!!!!
SINGLE BLACK FEMALE,
seeks male companionship, ethnicity unimportant. I'm a very good girl who LOVES to play. I love long walks in the woods, riding in your car ( whatever make or model, I'm not fussy ), hunting, camping and fishing trips, cosy winter nights lying by the fire. Candlelit dinners will have me eating out of your hand. I'll be at the front door when you get home from work; wearing only what nature gave me.
Call 07898 ****** and ask for Daisy. I'll be waiting...
Over 15,000 men found themselves talking to the RSPCA about an 8-week-old black Labrador Retriever!!!!!!
Sunday, 16 March 2008
He returns victorious
After a couple of days off from the blogging i return victorious. For those of you that arent interested in rugby, skip to the bottom.
Today, for me, started at 7:40. It was rugby time again. We had an 80 minute journey ahead of us. So i got ready and we went to pick Samir up, late as usual. He had only woken up 20 mins before. After a long sleepy journey we turned up to the car park, and just as i remarked "is it me or do you not recognise any of the cars?" loads of our team turned up. We messed around in the changing rooms for a while before Gary, our coach, turned up. He told us it was gonna be an 11:30 kick off instead of 11. We decided to go out and warm up. Though for the first 20 mins we just kicked it about and got cold. Finally we got sorted and started the training drills, trying some new moves in the backs.
Jumping straight to kick off, we were against a side in a division above us that looked like they were really up for the game. The kick off wasn't good for us as they reclaimed the ball. But the forwards worked well to get us the ball. We started to take control. Suddenly Ryan burst up the right wing so i drifted across to keep up with him in case he came inside. Instead he kicked it over towards me, i chased and pressured the full back and he ended up fumbling and dropping the ball. The bounce was good, popping straight back up into my hands. I had a clear run for the line and scored! Adam converted to make it 7-0. I enjoyed that so much. My first ever try in a real game. Great feeling. The game continued with Morley dominating. I got subbed for Rob not long afterwards. While i was off Chris K scored a try, and Rob was supplied for another one. He had almost scored not long before. We controlled the whole game scoring 3 more tries from Ryan, Samir and Jake. They did score one against us in the second half but that was after one of our subs forgot to come on and we were playing with 14 men for part of it. Also there was one of our players between the ball and the ground. I think the referee gave them it out of pity.
Since the game i have been looking for a new phone. I have narrowed it down to three alright, yet not too expensive ones. Its only 5 days until the tour!
Highlight of the day - my try. The team were more successful than England against Ireland yesterday!
Today, for me, started at 7:40. It was rugby time again. We had an 80 minute journey ahead of us. So i got ready and we went to pick Samir up, late as usual. He had only woken up 20 mins before. After a long sleepy journey we turned up to the car park, and just as i remarked "is it me or do you not recognise any of the cars?" loads of our team turned up. We messed around in the changing rooms for a while before Gary, our coach, turned up. He told us it was gonna be an 11:30 kick off instead of 11. We decided to go out and warm up. Though for the first 20 mins we just kicked it about and got cold. Finally we got sorted and started the training drills, trying some new moves in the backs.
Jumping straight to kick off, we were against a side in a division above us that looked like they were really up for the game. The kick off wasn't good for us as they reclaimed the ball. But the forwards worked well to get us the ball. We started to take control. Suddenly Ryan burst up the right wing so i drifted across to keep up with him in case he came inside. Instead he kicked it over towards me, i chased and pressured the full back and he ended up fumbling and dropping the ball. The bounce was good, popping straight back up into my hands. I had a clear run for the line and scored! Adam converted to make it 7-0. I enjoyed that so much. My first ever try in a real game. Great feeling. The game continued with Morley dominating. I got subbed for Rob not long afterwards. While i was off Chris K scored a try, and Rob was supplied for another one. He had almost scored not long before. We controlled the whole game scoring 3 more tries from Ryan, Samir and Jake. They did score one against us in the second half but that was after one of our subs forgot to come on and we were playing with 14 men for part of it. Also there was one of our players between the ball and the ground. I think the referee gave them it out of pity.
Since the game i have been looking for a new phone. I have narrowed it down to three alright, yet not too expensive ones. Its only 5 days until the tour!
Highlight of the day - my try. The team were more successful than England against Ireland yesterday!
Thursday, 13 March 2008
World Record Holder
Great day. We very cool people that went along are now world record holders. We constructed the longest model chain of DNA ever. It was over 20m long, was intensely colourful and contained 1118 base pairs. Making it over 3 times as long as the previous world record!
The bus journey to hudds as usual wasnt fun. I hate buses. Met Beckie at the station. I went and grabbed a second breakfast from mcdonalds and ate it on the way to the university. Got there 30 mins early so hung around until Anthony and Lucy turned up. We were the first people to arrive, apart from those helping set up. We didnt have to wait too long for Miss Lewis to turn up. Safia and the other two asian girls didnt turn up until after half past 9, when everyone was supposed to be ready!
There were talks throughout the day that were pretty interesting. We asked to sort ourselves into pairs, and were then given a set of DNA molymods to use for the day. These had the specific pieces needed for the piece of the Insulin gene each pair had to make. Me and Anthony were doing the 9th sequence. They gave us information on how to construct it. Like do the complementary base pairs in order first. Have the holes towards you and the sense strand was on the right. The 5 prime end had to be at the bottom of the sense strand, with a phosphate group on the end etc. We had 2 practice runs at it so we knew what we were doing.
The food wasnt bad. There was quite a lot of it. So i was happy. When we made it for the recor Me and Anthony managed to build our strand in about 8mins. Lucy and Zoe beat us but they started with fully constructed phosphate-sugar backbones (cheaters). But we were the first table to finish and so asked for T-Shirts, which we should be getting! The 51 sequences were strung together at the end and hung up to produce a 20m long double helix of DNA.
I will add a little more tomorrow but it includes a surprise that i dont want to spoil in case they are reading this.
We got chocolate eggs at the end which was great. Train back home with Beckie and Lucy. Off out to An Inspector Calls tonight!
The bus journey to hudds as usual wasnt fun. I hate buses. Met Beckie at the station. I went and grabbed a second breakfast from mcdonalds and ate it on the way to the university. Got there 30 mins early so hung around until Anthony and Lucy turned up. We were the first people to arrive, apart from those helping set up. We didnt have to wait too long for Miss Lewis to turn up. Safia and the other two asian girls didnt turn up until after half past 9, when everyone was supposed to be ready!
There were talks throughout the day that were pretty interesting. We asked to sort ourselves into pairs, and were then given a set of DNA molymods to use for the day. These had the specific pieces needed for the piece of the Insulin gene each pair had to make. Me and Anthony were doing the 9th sequence. They gave us information on how to construct it. Like do the complementary base pairs in order first. Have the holes towards you and the sense strand was on the right. The 5 prime end had to be at the bottom of the sense strand, with a phosphate group on the end etc. We had 2 practice runs at it so we knew what we were doing.
The food wasnt bad. There was quite a lot of it. So i was happy. When we made it for the recor Me and Anthony managed to build our strand in about 8mins. Lucy and Zoe beat us but they started with fully constructed phosphate-sugar backbones (cheaters). But we were the first table to finish and so asked for T-Shirts, which we should be getting! The 51 sequences were strung together at the end and hung up to produce a 20m long double helix of DNA.
I will add a little more tomorrow but it includes a surprise that i dont want to spoil in case they are reading this.
We got chocolate eggs at the end which was great. Train back home with Beckie and Lucy. Off out to An Inspector Calls tonight!
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
World Record Tomorrow!
Today started slowly with nothing happening for the first hour. When we arrived at mechanics (happy Zainab?) we found out that adarsh has the same dress sense as mrs harker! His jumper had the same pattern as her top. That caused great amusement as you can probably guess. We went through the stats paper, very few people payed attention. Chemistry was not much to mention, punctuated with Mr Lund's usual bad jokes. At break i finished my packet of jaffa cakes and gave Amy the orange cellophane, which apparently is cool. Her and Shannon looked through it at each other, and Ola was disappointed that they got so close but didnt kiss...
Physics we got shouted at for leaving the room in a messy state yesterday. With that over we went through the coursework write up, not much fun. But it is different to the normal science ones we do. Biology, we tried to get out of cos we lost our protected free for the practical yesterday. Didnt work, so most people ignored her whilst she read from the notes. Adarsh spent the lesson wearing Ola's hat, acting like a gangster. Didnt manage to pull it off really.
Skills; waste of time as ever. During the free we went and played badminton. Great fun! Maybe basketball or rugby next week! Mechanics turned out to be stats; going through the last of the paper and practising what we had done badly on. I almost got moved for talking to samir... The end of the lesson was very welcome.
Since then ive sorted out how im getting to the world record attempt tomorrow. Should be good fun. Then i have An Inpector Calls to look forward to in the evening in good company. They know who they are!
No rugby this evening due to "adult" pantomime. So stuck for things to do! Will watch torchwood later probably.
Physics we got shouted at for leaving the room in a messy state yesterday. With that over we went through the coursework write up, not much fun. But it is different to the normal science ones we do. Biology, we tried to get out of cos we lost our protected free for the practical yesterday. Didnt work, so most people ignored her whilst she read from the notes. Adarsh spent the lesson wearing Ola's hat, acting like a gangster. Didnt manage to pull it off really.
Skills; waste of time as ever. During the free we went and played badminton. Great fun! Maybe basketball or rugby next week! Mechanics turned out to be stats; going through the last of the paper and practising what we had done badly on. I almost got moved for talking to samir... The end of the lesson was very welcome.
Since then ive sorted out how im getting to the world record attempt tomorrow. Should be good fun. Then i have An Inpector Calls to look forward to in the evening in good company. They know who they are!
No rugby this evening due to "adult" pantomime. So stuck for things to do! Will watch torchwood later probably.
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