What Lies Ahead?

Well, i know it's only been 9 days since my last post but I feel as if I should make another, simply for the reason that school returns tomorrow and I thought I would give the lowdown on what I know is going to happen and what isn't.

Of course, one can never predict the future but I know for sure this year is going to be tough, if not tougher, than last year.
I am studying less subjects, yes, but with that comes a heavier workload of which I am sure to feel the brunt of in the coming months.

Anyway, not just school drama this year, but other drama.

Muse at Wembley in less than 4 weeks with Steven and his dad. Ought to be interesting but hopefully enjoyable at the same time. I will also be on a plane on September 11th which is quite a scary thought tbh O_O
Im kinda stressing about tickets coz they haven't been delivered yet but i'm sure they will eventually.

September will be an interesting month. Not only seeing Muse but I have signed up for something called EMA (Education Maintenance Allowance) which means I will recive money for attending school. It is delivered on a weekly basis but only if you have 100% attendance for that week. One absence and you get nada which is a nuisance - my attendance is hardly ever 100% so i doubt i will get it weekly. We shall soon see.
It does just add extra pressure i suppose but hey, money for going to school!

October should be a kinda average month but around November and Christmas will be busy. Schoolwork always intensifies, and there are a few other events taking place around this period.

But Christmas will be a reward for me: Steven is leaving school.

I shouldn't be delusional that he will be gone from my life but he will be missing from a major part of it. After all, there's still that bastard thing called the internet that he can use to contact me :/

Piece o' shit...

He's going to a music course at some crap college btw, which i find hilarious coz he has no musical knowledge at all. He likes to think he does, but he doesn't. He "plays" guitar too. I use the term "play" lightly...

He's awful.

Best of luck with that college course mate! lol

And then after Christmas there's more Prelims/Exams/BS etc. etc.


As for this summer. Well, at least i can't complain that it was uneventful at least...

My breakdown is this :

Spectacular start. Miserable middle. Tepid termination. (or in other words, utterly boring finale)

Meh. Not a summer to remember.

Oh i forgot i was betrayed by my cousin (for the 2nd time, btw) as well, at the start...

Betrayed by two people in one month! Wow, im good!


Anyway, things are drib-drab right now. Not much to post about so this hiatus really is working well. Regarding a date for my "return" ... i don't know. Maybe i'll just post a few times a month or something, just felt like the blog was owed a post today, and it's also it's 150th. So yeh...

Forgot about that Queen poll so here are the two joint songs that won but you probably wont listen coz they're way overplayed. Here's a live version instead.





Cheers,
Rowan

Easter School (Eugh.) and Britain's "Gay Capital"

I woke up this morning (somehow) and the first thing i knew was that i had Easter School to go to today.
Not helped by the fact that the rain was extremely heavy and i didn't get to sleep until at least 2am, so i only got about 5 hours sleep. (I swear msn will be the death of me :P)

I quickly jumped in the shower, got out, dried my hair, had some cereal then went out the door. Luckily my dad was on hand to give me a lift but regardless, i was still in a very zombie-like state.

So when i got to school i eventually livened up a bit, there were more people who i get on with who i didn't expect to be there. Alex was there, Louis was there, Steven wasn't haha, actually i have a funny story about him but i'll tell it later on.

My first class was english, and these aren't normal 50-minute lessons, one class lasts the whole morning (9-12) and the other lasts the whole afternoon (12:30-15:30)
Good thing i got to sit beside Alex, but it was also quite a handy lesson.
The teacher went over the best ways to answer questions from an unseen passage and, admittedly, i did find it quite useful.
One point we were talking about a journalist describing George Bush as a political dinosaur (as you do), then she put me on the spot and asked me another way to describe a dinosaur and i just blurted out "Prehistoric animal" without even thinking....
Got a well done from her and a few nods of approval from other people lol, i was quite chuffed with that :)
Not much else to mention about english tho, was rather uneventful apart from that.

At lunch, i just made a quick trip to cafe as there wasn't enough time to go to the shops on the main road and i returned for 3 hours of maths, what fun....

Sat beside Alex again this time, as well as Louis.
It was quite a good lesson too, the more maths i do, the more i will learn obviously, and therefore increase my mark in the final exam here's hoping.

Overall, Easter School was quite a good thing i think. I'll be back in tomorrow for modern studies in the morning and biology i think next monday afternoon.

But with today's lessons all done with, the only thing left to do was return home so Alex, Alan (the cutie :D) and i got the train home.
Alan had to get off early :(
Me and Alex got off the next stop which is actually one stop before mine but i wasn't gonna let Alex walk home in the rain by himself of course.

So i got drenched. But it was worth it, we stopped caring about the weather and just started laughing about what's been happening with Steven and a three-legged dog we seen being walked in the street lol, which then moved onto a conversation about a no-legged dog being transported around on a skateboard lmao, ahhh good times.
We parted ways tho, still laughing about Steven.

So here's the story :

For the past few days, Steven has been in Brighton. Brighton is also renowned for being the "gay capital" of Britain.
Steven goes down there with his dad maybe once or twice a year as his grandparents live there.
So anyway, he has been sending me a few texts one saying that the weather was sunny, 27 degrees celcius and another said "English girls are hot and think i'm hot too"
Lol, you wish Steven.
So i thought i would share some of these texts around with a few friends coz i just knew the reception they would get.
And i was right, everybody just laughed lol.
So i sent a text back saying that 27 degrees celcius doesn't exist in Britain, let alone in April.
And he's all "Well my granda's barometer is really accurate"
"What? More accurate than the Met Office?"

So everyone was laughing at the crap he was spouting there.
But of course, the main point is Steven and his dad actually being in the so-called "gay capital" of Britain.
Two of the most unlikely people you would think of going there.
And then, before he goes there, being all talk as usual, he's giving it large about how he's gonna go to Brighton and turn everyone straight "the way they should be"
Aye, just get walking.
Pretty glad to see the back of him last week to be honest :P

Wish i had grandparents in Brighton lol, that would be cool.
Funnily enough, one of my cousins goes to university in Brighton....wait a minute....naah, she's got a boyfriend from what i know :P

And speaking of cousins, in a few posts time i have something very cool to mention about when i will be seeing them next, it's gonna be cool!


Love you guys,
Rowan




Hehe :P

Just gotta love that guitar solo, no?
One of Queen's longest from what i know.....

Back to School. :( .....or not :D

Don't you love snow? :D

Well today i do!

So much recently that the bus never came today to collect us.

Still had to wake up at 7AM, quick shower, breakfast, then out the door but hey. (it was also apparently -7C outside this morning)

My mum was already fretting about the bus not showing up so she said i could come home if it didn't arrive on time.

Yay!

Stood around for like 30mins (was freezing!) decided i'd had enough and went home.

Then to sleep. :P

Honestly, i hardly got any sleep last night. 4 hours tops.


The holidays always mess up my sleeping pattern, which couldn't get much worse at the best of times.

I swear i have some sort of sleeping disorder.

So got like 3 hours between 9 and 12, then did an essay, very casually, which i would have had to rush if i didn't have today off. And now i'm here.
That's what my day consisted of : Sleep, essay, computer.

Indeed, i still have another essay to do, but it's a lot easier than most.



Erm....just something i wanted to add at the end here.

I'm sure most of you are aware that Mirrorboy will be shortly departing us. :(

Yes, t'is sad but i understand his reasoning and others should as well.

His post today saddened me.

Most of the comments were supportive and understanding of his reasons but a few weren't.
And he was angry about it.


Either way, i think people need to accept that if he wants to go, he will.
I haven't been here long enough to follow through his tough times and be supportive but i've tried to be here.

The blog seems something of legend to me anyway. So i hope when his inevitable leaving day arrives, he will leave his blog open as a source of inspiration to others.



Anyhoo, tomorrow will most certianly be back to school.
I can't afford to miss much at this moment in time so i will be surprised if i am allowed to stay off tomorrow as well.
Still not looking forward to it, and by text i found that Alex and Steven were both in today, so i hope they don't think i'm trying to avoid something....

Cheers,
Rowan

Back to Shhhhhchool/Sweet Dreams

It's always awful going back to school after a week's holiday,

- You don't wanna go back
- You're getting used to not being there
- You're sleep pattern has been interrupted


It was mostly the 3rd one for me,

Over the past week i have been staying up to really stupid times such as 2/3am in the morning and waking up at about Noon.
The same applied this morning except i couldn't sleep till noon unfortunately, so i didn't end up having the best of days.

I did actually go to bed at the fairly reasonable time of Half Ten last night but i couldn't get to sleep for love nor money, so i just listened to music on my phone and tried to drift off. Still wasn't working so i switched the phone off.....still nothing.
So i layed there, eyes open and out of nowhere i had this flashback to when i was about 3 years old....one of my earliest memories of life.

I don't remember much of that time period of course but i remember this particular incident.
My best-friend at the time lived across the street and i had this tricycle that i used to ride on our pretty much car-less cul-de-sac street. One day, i was cycling (or tricycling it) across to my friends house and the next thing i know i'm staring at the front of a black BMW.  

And that's it! This memory just randomly occured and for some reason it prompted me to take a trip down memory lane and for the next hour or two i re-called various memories from my early childhood. I was actually surprsied at how much i could remember. It was the strangest thing!
I re-called my memories before school, then nursery/pre-school and the first few years of school. It was actually a really nice and peaceful experience, recalling this stuff while staring up at the sky, undisturbed, in complete silence.

This, however, did have it's consequences as i only got about 4 hours sleep and had to got to school, which pretty much killed me lol.

Nothing much eventful happened, apart from i learned that one of my favourite bands, Wolfmother, will be touring the UK in January, with tickets being released this Wed-Fri, so hoping to get some, me and Alex will probably go. Can't wait!

Also, i have my 2nd Music Prelim next Thursday on guitar, which i'm not so confident about. Hence why i made sure it was the 2nd Prelim, giving me longer to learn the pieces.

Will probably post again later this week, although it will be quite busy, i want to speak about the week beginning 9th November, which will be very eventful indeed, so that should hopefully come sometime after Wednesday :D

That's about it for now,

Cheers,
Rowan







P.S Here's a Wolfmother video for y'all (it's a bit out of sync)
















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