Ah, immense relief July 22, 2007
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Well, I finished the final instalment of Harry Potter only about 20mins ago. It is such a great relief to have finished it and I don’t think I could be more satisfied with the ending. I agree with what Rowling said – it really does finish the whole story very nicely. The only other time a story has finished so much my way was Life on Mars, which felt so extremely satisfying that I could hardly believe it even existed but this feel like so much more than that. Having been given so long to read and re-read the books getting to know and love these characters the ending just felt so right. I’m just so pleased
Similarly now I feel I can go back to doing things I normally do which I had put on hold to make sure that I didn’t collide with any spoilers. I don’t think I can do anything but be pleased at the moment.
How lovely.
School based fun further developments May 22, 2007
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The site I mentioned I was working on in a previous post is still being worked on albeit more slowly. The actual news is that I decided to buy hosting and a domain for pretty dirt cheap from tengun.net and go daddy respectively. Go daddy are having a sale on .info domains so I grabbed tehdurka.info for about £0.64 in total for a year. I don’t really think you can get a better deal than that. Hosting equates to about £1.04 per month with PHP and MySQL although register_globals is off so I have to change quite a lot of code to make it work properly but at the same time it makes my code better and more secure so its all good really. I reckon that it costs a lot more than £1.04 a month just to leave my computer on during the day (electricity costs) so it seems like a very good deal for me and it means the site will always be online and working at a good speed so its good for the users as well.
I might see if I can get some Google adsense going to pay these little costs, I dunno whether they would accept me though. I also would like to revamp the site both visually and code wise but I’m going to put most of that off till after my exams since I’ve been told teachers go very easy on us for the remainder of the term. I also ought to do some more university research as well and try and pick out some more places to apply to, I’d like to feel ready by the time it comes to writing personal statements etc. I also need to go on some open days but they tend to be during the holidays so I can’t do that yet.
Ok that really is it for today, I seem to have gone a bit overdrive for some reason.
Exams – yucky May 22, 2007
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So yeah I’m on exams at the moment, not much fun. I had my critical thinking exam on Friday which I think went well, particularly the argument paper as I am more inclined to the analysis of arguments given how many there are on this big ol internet. Today was my psychology exam which was pretty tough actually, a few days ago I realised how unprepared I was for this exam and I really wasn’t the only one. I didn’t hear anyone saying they felt good about the exam before or after. To me I’m just glad to have gotten rid of it and I’m just not going to worry about it anyway, which is quite a relief.
My next exam is English literature on Friday, which should be er…fun? I somewhat doubt that I will do particularly well but there isn’t that much I can do about that, except reading the texts and learning quotes. In reality I don’t really care that much about it, I will make some effort to learn some quote for the poetry as I can already remember quotes for the play (Cat on a Hot tin roof). Other than that I will be doing some reading with a bit of daily lit. Quite a helpful website, shame it doesn’t have more books that I am interested in.
It was my sixth form’s may ball on Friday, meaning that lots of people got drunk (including one of my best friends) and it was generally a lot of fun, raving and such. Although I enjoyed having some alcohol and was sort of on the verge of being drunk at one point I managed to avoid it despite having drunk nearly a bottle of wine, a baileys and a malibu with coke (the latter two being one of my friend’s suggestions that I just went along with). The idea behind it is generally a leaving do for the year 13 so it will be “ours” next year. I look forward to it.
Rather crazy day May 15, 2007
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Well, I’ve been feeling ill today and yesterday which has just contributed to the general crazy-feeling of today. I guess the most important thing would be finding out that instead of the C I thought I got in my first Chemistry module I actually got a B. This really pissed me off in some ways since I really wouldn’t have retaken the module had someone actually told me I had gotten a B, I assumed that for the score I got the grade boundaries were the same across all the subjects and modules, which would be logical since they are scaled up from the actual mark you get on the paper. Finding out that was wrong made me check the AQA website and after some digging found the grade boundaries, revealing that I had in fact gotten a B.
Another part of it lies in that I was asked for another £5 for the May ball. Now I’m absolutely certain that I had paid enough (I was giving in the money for me and a friend, we both owed £25 and so I gave over £50) but as I walked into my first lesson I was told I was £5 short. I didn’t really want to argue at the time because I figured my friend must have owed more than he thought so I just paid it. Later however, in Chemistry, my friend was asked for £5 as well. He told them he had already paid and they went away but I don’t think they will drop this. Now we’re completely sure that we owed £25 each and I’m absolutely sure I handed over £50 (I didn’t have any money left afterwards, I know that for sure). I figure £10 of that must have been lost in transit or something, so essentially I’ve been scammed out of £5. I guess I’ve got to have the grace to let it go, I want the ball to go ahead and if my paying extra £5 helps that happen then I should be happy, I suppose it makes up a bit for my lack of enthusiasm towards fund raising. I guess I just don’t like getting ripped off in such a way.
At least writing it down seems to have helped me get over those little things, what with feeling pretty ill it hasn’t been a great day really. I’m off to bed now, tommorow I just have one lesson first period then I’m going shopping to sort of piece together a suit for the previously mentioned may ball…
Realisation May 8, 2007
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The kid who didn’t realise I am a guy briefly talked to me today. He seemed genuinely surprised that I am actually a man. Not a great boost to the old self-esteem there. Of course, its actually just funny that he seems to have difficulty recognising my…err…being a male.
Today has been quite a hazy day, feels a bit like a dream. Pretty crap really. Nothing really happened bad or anything it just feels sort of strange. Everything is pretty much on target otherwise, not much to report to the all seeing internet, although I do have the joy of “looking forward” to the may ball next Friday, no idea how that is going to go, I guess we’ll see.
