Gotta Take the Good With the Bad

So on Tuesday, i didn't go into school in the morning even though i said i would....

Oops.

But i did go in.....in the afternoon.

I woke and still felt like crap, slightly better but crap overall. Then i had a realisation. All my tests were in the afternoon, so i suggested to my mum if i could just go in for the afternoon so i didn't miss the tests. She didn't like it for some reason but my dad did and so it eventually ended up that way.

I went in and did the 1st part of the maths paper. I thought i would be sitting the one i missed on Monday but i just slotted into doing the same (calculator) test with the rest of the class, which was an annoyance coz i was more prepared for the non-calculator.
But i needn't have worried. The paper was pretty easy, and for me, thats saying something. I answered all the questions and i felt quite good about it, was only the first half but at least i did my best.

Music theory test came after this and it was bareable. Difficult enough but not to the point of impossible.

I don't need to say anything about biology apart from it was crap.


And so, today.

2 tests.

Maths part 2 was the 2nd half of the calculator paper and it was a lot harder than the 1st half. Loads of angles and volumes and triangles and circles.

Ugh.

Think i did ok but i wont get my hopes up yet.

And the media exam which counted for 20% of my final exam result was after lunch. I found out we had to leave english 15 minutes early, that was good, we got an hour to do the paper.
45 minutes just isn't enough and the extra 15 were really helpful.
Still had to write quick but i got to fill in some of the gaps after i finished. Didn't really stop writing at all so i have quite a good feeling about it although analysing the front page of The Sun isn't really anything exciting.


I was so relived when i plonked myself down on the bus after that test. Still got a sore head and i feel quite tired but the only thing i have to worry about now is the other maths paper tomorrow.

So, when got home i thought, due to the majority of my tests out of the way i would play my bass for a bit, some Muse, always cheers me up....



EXCEPT WHEN THE FUCKING NEIGHBOURS COMPLAIN ABOUT THE NOISE!!!

Which btw, they've done before.

I hate our neighbous on both sides. We live in a terraced house. 4 houses joined to each other. Pretty small, we're one of the middle houses which sucks coz we're surrounded on all sides.
If we had one of the houses on the end then i could make more noise but as only one wall divides our houses, it alters my bass playing.

That pisses me off greatly.

I'm in the middle of having pretty much the only fun i'll get today then my mum tells me i have to stop.

All coz of our moany neighbours, who, i shall say, i have never got on with and i never will. And the thing is, i've played it louder than i was playing it just there and they haven't said anything....

But getting interrupted like that really puts you on a downer. I'm actually quite angry right now.
I'm quite surprised they can hear anything being that fuckin old but there ya are....


To be honest, the title of this post doesn't really make much sense. Should be more like "Gotta Take the Bad With the Bad" coz this week has been nothing short of awful really.
I've missed tests, missed important school work, been feeling ill and now i can't even....reward myself.

And now i'm probably making everybody else feel bad coz they've got to read about me feeling bad.
Sorry, wasn't quite what i had intended. This post was going to look a lot different up until half an hour ago.

Thank my neighbours.


Cheers,
Rowan


Times like this calls for some loud, angry Rage.
I know i've posted this song before but turn that shit up!

Meh....

Ah, so today wasn't so bad. I just laid in bed all day, slept a few hours then finished my Muse book and started to read my Stephen Fry book too.

Missing school today wasn't as bad as i first thought it might be.

Still its bad missing school this close to exams but i called round a few people and asked how the tests were that i missed. Turns out that only the maths test took place, with biology being tomorrow and media on Wednesday.

Tomorrow will still be full of it tho.
The afternoon in particular, 3 periods of back-to-back tests after lunch. Maths then music then biology.

Fun, fun, fun.

And it's not really a question of whether i go into school tomorrow it is i will be going into school.
I told my mum i need to go in by hook or by crook so even if im spewing my guts up she's under orders to send me in.

I got off with it today just about, but missing tomorrow would be a disaster.
Maths is now going to carry on till Thursday so i wont get my mark back until easter school which is a pain in the ass.


But anyway, this illness. It's nothing major, just a small bug or a really annoying cold.
So where did it come from?

I'll tell you....

Alex.

Yeh, all last week he was complaining of being unwell and wasn't in school on Friday so i dont see where else i got it from. (And no JJ, it wasn't your hugs and kisses, but even if it was, it doesn't bother me :P)


So maybe tonight i will get some decent sleep and perhaps feel better in the morning. I don't feel much better right now but at least i've got some food down me and i've had a nice, warm bath.

Just need to cross my fingers and hope for the best....

Cheers,
Rowan


P.S Today i was looking to find some blank discs and i came across a disc with a load of my Grandad's old documents on it. (He passed away 4 years ago)
I wasn't snooping but i seen one entitled "Hugging", it interested me, i read it and i thought it was really nice so i'm going to put it on here now :


"Hugging is good medicine.
It transfers energy and gives the person hugged an emotional uplift.
You need four hugs a day for survival, eight for maintenance, and twelve for growth.
Scientists say that hugging is a form of communication because it can say things that humans don’t have words for.
And the nicest thing about a hug is that you usually can’t give one without getting one back."


Really nice, no?

So hugs to everyone reading this, love you all!

Damn It

Bad news. I didnt get much sleep last night and neither am i feeling any better this morning :(

I woke up and i could immediately sense that nothing had changed after my few hours of sleep.
My head is still sore, as well as my throat, my eyes are sore and heavy....

No way would i be able to sit any tests today.
I would absolutely fuck them up if i was to sit them. I am just not in the right frame of mind at all to be doing any tests.

So i went straight to mum and told her exactly that (minus the fuck) and she said i could stay off but questioned if i was unprepared for the tests to which i said i was ready for them.

I wanted to go in today. I wanted to get these tests done. Missing them is just going to cause all sorts of complications....

*sigh*

Dunno what else to say, just thought i would let you guys know


Rowan

Next (Short) Week

This week is going to be one day shorter as the Easter holidays start on Friday so only four days of school this week!
Which you may think is a good thing but seeing as there are only four days, the teachers have pretty much decided to cram everything they possibly can into this week.

Let's see, i have at least half a dozen tests in the space of these four days.

Tomorrow : 1st part of maths, then biology test, then 20% of my final media studies exam.
And those tests are right after one another by the way, no restbite tomorrow morning.

Tuesday has the 2nd part of the maths test and a music theory test. Both, incidentally, after each other as well.
Im good at music practical but so crap with theory....

Then Wednesday has the 3rd part of the maths test.


Really, the maths is the backbone of the week, covering three days.
It has also been called a "2nd prelim" and can be used in an appeal for the final exam.

Now, as you know, maths is not my strong point and naturally, i am still really worried about this test.
Also doubled with the fact that i feel quite unwell right now and have had 5 hours sleep in the past 48 hours doesnt help me at all.

I will be ok tho. Just a sore throat and head and some good night's sleep should see me ok tomorrow, or so i hope.
However, today is Sunday.....SSS much?
Never usually get much sleep on Sundays but i'm ready to nod off right now.


Anyway i find it quite strange how last week, quiet and boring, will be so different to this week.

*sigh*

School.....

I can't wait for these holidays.....actually it makes no difference, i still have easter school to attend during the holidays on a few different occasions, so thanks to school i can't really even have holidays....

*another sigh*

I knew these few months would be tough but it's only when you get there do you realise how tough it really is.
And i'm not even in the "eye of the storm" yet.
That comes during mid-May.

The music theory final exam is on 28th April but the exams come thick and fast starting May 13th with English.

I'll talk about my timetable closer to the time.....


Bur for now, im off to the land of nod.....hopefully.


Cheers,
Rowan


Fumy oak juice

Boring Week

Yeh, hence the lack of posts this week :P

Pretty uneventful to say the least so i've tried to let things build up to make a bigger post so here we are.

I did go to the maths supported study on Tuesday and i thought it was pretty useful. Just sat down and did a past paper (old exam paper) and whatever question i got stuck on there was always a teacher on hand to help.
Gonna keep going as much as i can, kinda regret that that was my first one tho and there can't be many left....

Complete contrast the next day tho in Biology.
The teacher was useless, she hardly taught us anything just kinda rushed through stuff, too fast for me to get a grasp of. Alex was there too and he thought the same.
I thought we would be getting the same teacher as the week before, who actually explained stuff, but we didn't.
I'll keep going tho, i need to.
Got in test in biology on Monday too, as well as a few other tests.

It will be crap on Monday. 3 tests.
Maths is the first. It's the "2nd" Prelim.
And it will last three periods of that week.
After that is biology.
Then after biology i will have a media studies exam. Yes, exam. Analysing the front page of a news paper which will count toward 20% of my final grade so i won't even get the mark back until August.
But i will get maths and biology back.....dunno if i want them tho :P


So yeh, i seem to be talking about next week instead of this week, simply coz there isn't a lot worth mentioning.
Well stuff i dont know is worth mentioning but i suppose i will anyway :

I was sitting on my computer last night and my mum came in and said my hair has been looking nice recently :P
(Random, but nice)

Then she said she is going to the hairdressers soon and i should go just to get the ends trimmed and then one day she said she would straighten my hair coz it would look better and be way longer lol.
I just said ok and shrugged.

Then this morning i went and took my shower as usual and my mum did another strange thing.
She told me she got me a packet of razors and some shaving cream :P
It's never something we've talked about much before. I normally just took one out of my dad's packet, used it for me and he never used it.
He must have noticed one was missing and decided to buy me my own.
That was cool.
Just in case you're confused....i never used the same razor as my dad. I took one and kept it in my little "case" in the bathroom. I know not to share a razor coz you can get infections but now there really isn't a chance of that happening.

Also, another...."grown up" thing happened today.
I got my National Insurance card in the post. Now i can legally work :P
They usually don't give them out until you are 16 but i think they're starting to give them out a little earlier now, still 2 and a bit months till my birthday in June.
So yeh, i'm becoming a man now lol

Probably a good amount of time until that fully happens tho. I can have some fun for another few years at least!
(I heard it goes downhill when you become an adult :P)

Oh and while on the subject of birthdays....it happens to be a very special day for a very special someone.
That someone is JJ. XD
Happy birthday JJ!!!

Go say happy birthday if you haven't already :P (link is in the blog roll)


Cheers,
Rowan





Apparently they're singing happy birthday to a BBC show called "Saturday Club" for an anniversary i would assume but let's just pretend it says "to JJ" instead of "to Saturday Club" :P

Mondayzzzz

I was quite tired today, as i normally am on a Monday due to what i call Sunday Sleep Syndrome or SSS
I stay up till like 2/3am on Friday and Saturday night so i'm never tired when Sunday night rolls around and i tend to sit on my ipod until really late. Must have been about 2am last night so i only got about 5 hours of sleep.
It's not healthy for me i know, and sitting browsing the internet for hours on end reading random things really gets me in a deep thinking mood like it did last night.

I won't go into detail about what i was thinking last night, simply coz i'd rather not but the topics vary and cover a wide range and really leave my head in a mess on Monday.

So i hope you understand that Monday is hardly ever a good day.

Not that today was bad, just wasn't anything special.

Music is getting boring, as the exams are finished there is no need to play instruments any longer so all we will do from now until the exam is listening. *yawn*

Maths and Biology are gradually becoming my main priorities now, what with my low scores, i have to attend extra classes and stuff like that. It sucks but i do not want to be doing either next year so i am determined to pass them.
I think there is an extra maths class on tomorrow after school and there definetely is one for biology on Wednesday.
So i will be in attendance.

A cool thing happened today at lunch.
It was rather boring until Alex suggested we play thumb wars and arm wrestling lol.
This is where i want to introduce a new, very good friend of mine called Louis (French spelling but just pronounced like Lewis)
He is small and skinny with medium length, jet black hair.
To be honest my three best friends probably are Steven, Alex and Louis.

But back to the story - arm wrestling.
Steven, as i have mentioned, is all talk and wouldn't hurt a fly, he doesn't have the strength to haha, and this was proved when Louis beat him in an arm wrestling battle :P
Everyone really took the mickey out on Steven as i don't remember him winning a match but there ya go.

I wanted to challenge my cute friend Alan to a match today but he wasn't around, maybe tomorrow :D

Erm, PE was surprisingly good. We had exactly 22 people playing football so we got to make full teams and have a full game which is always fun, was sunny too, just a shame i was too tired to fully get into it....

That's all that really happened today, hope i get some better sleep tonight, i think i will, it's only usually Sundays that are a problem.

Cheers,
Rowan


P.S There is a new blog i want to let you guys know about. Drucloud has a blog. He comments regularly on here so it's the least i can do is link and  follow and i hope more people do so too.
Here is the link : http://thisishowitfeels-drucloud.blogspot.com/

Saturday Morning Maths

6:30am is no time for a 15 year old boy to be awake on a Saturday morning, let me just say that.

But i was this morning, due to this maths class at school.

I just lay in bed after my alarm went off thinking "What did i do to deserve this?" The answer : I failed my prelim.

But to wake myself up i listened to Rage Against the Machine really loudly, then had a shower then a bottle of Lucozade just before i went out the door and i was actually feeling ok.

That's what i was not looking forward to - being tired. Class is just an absolute no when you're feeling tired so, feeling alive enough made it better than i had anticipated.

I was expecting there to be nobody i knew there but there was a good few people, Freddie was there too but i didn't really get the chance to talk to him as he was at the other side of the room for the 3 hour duration but i at least got to sit next to someone i was friendly with and could work together with too.

That's what probably made the class better, not feeling tired and sitting with someone i get on with.

And the teacher made things better too, i prefer his teaching methods to that of my normal teacher and the way he does stuff just got through to me better.

It wasn't a complete waste of time, far from it.
So i'll be looking forward to it a bit more next time (as much as somebody can look forward to maths on a Saturday morning)


Just going to the class tho isn't enough, i need to do other studying and i will.
The fact that i will have to re-do maths next year if i fail the exam has made me determined to pass it.


Cheers guys,
Rowan