Let's See... Umm... School, QI, Spotify, Birthdays, Celebrities and Cheese Sandwiches

I've been back at school for a week now and nothing of any particular change has taken place. Things just pretty much picking up where they left off i suppose.

No miraculous change in Steven, although it seems as if such a thing will never be on the cards.

The workload is already pretty heavy, they're throwing it at us and saying "COMPLETE IT!!!" while they do so.

Think i should have thought more carefully before picking two languages to study at the same time at this level. Ho hum.

I was busy seeing teachers all last week to try and get some percentage scores back from my exams. I haven't got all yet, but here is what i have so far :

Music - 91% (and I got 30/30 in my performance for both guitar and bass, which i was not expecting *at all* ^^)

French - 96%

Modies - 94% (Beat my friend Louis who i had been contesting with all year, scraping for the best results, he got 92%)

Biology - 70% (which is literally just an A, but it's still an A)


And thats all for now in terms of results, and school for that matter.


Recently, i've been quite obsessed with two things - QI and Spotify.

For those who don't know, QI is a British panel show hosted by the legendary Stephen Fry. It's funny, topical and factual at the same time. I've talked about it on here before but yeh, i've been quite obsessed with it as of late. It saddens me that there are only the first 3 series released on DVD so i have a request of you. my followers.

http://www.petitiononline.com/qidvd/petition.html

It is a petition to get QI series D and onwards released on DVD. It takes literally 1 minute and think of it as a birthday present to Stephen Fry himself, who turns 53 tomorrow :)


And so, Spotify.

I've had it a while now. For those who don't know (i sound like a teacher) it's a free music service which allows you to listen to loads of music. My use of it has increased rapidly over the past few weeks coz i realised that there are loads of albums and artists that i haven't, and really should have listened to by now (call myself a musician!? :P)

But yeh, i confess to never hearing a U2 or Lou Reed album from start to finish until yesterday. I've also not listened to a full album from Pink Floyd (not available on Spotify), The Who, Rush, Thin Lizzy, Smashing Pumpkins, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin (also not available), Guns N Roses, Jethro Tull, Radiohead and the list goes on but i am on my way to rectifying this immediately. As i type, i am listening to Coldplay's "A Rush of the Blood to the Head".

Forgive me, i've never heard it before!

Unfortunately, The Beatles are also not on Spotify so I still have to wait until i listen to one of their albums from start to finish for the first time - Calm down, I am buying Sgt. Pepper's later tonight on Amazon!

So as you can see, music is occupying a lot of my time at the moment. Spotify uses internet access but aside from that and a few social networking sites, my internet usage has been very minimal recently (a joint decision by myself and my mum) But i'm thinking it's a shame there isn't a Spotify version for movies, there are some really shocking films i haven't seen, that i have no excuse to have not watched... E.T *hides*


Anyhoo, this week is a mini-big week - A certain family member's birthday (who i shall not reveal) is today. Stephen Fry's is tomorrow :P

I said i'd finished talking about school but i forgot to mention a few things.

On Thursday, i am interviewing a fairly well-known British celebrity/singer/songwriter/presenter/talent show winner... in Media Studies. Tbh, i say she is well-known, but only probably in Britain. Anyway, she is coming to the school and each person in the class gets to ask her questions, should be fun.

I'd like to say who it is but i'm not gonna so please don't ask questions about it :)

And in English, the class has been writing reflective/imaginative essays. Well, im the only one of 30 people doing one purely imaginative and it's pretty dark O_O
It's to be handed in on Thursday, so if it goes down well i might post it on here but i'm making no promises.


In other news, it's 19 days until Muse at Wembley, 25 days until my one year blog-aversary and i'm currently eating a cheese sandwich.


Rowan <3