One way in which I'm disimilar to Garfield

Well, another near-lessonless Monday, come and gone. I took my old laptop into school today, the one with no battery. Managed to get some Visual BASIC done for my Computing project, in between watching Monty Python DVDs. When I started doing the latter, I said that if anyone asked, I was programming in Python. Rather depressingly, out of the five or so people in the room, Skippy was the only one who got such a geeky joke.

I got a fair bit of actual work done, though I would have liked to get more done. The basic groundwork is certainly in place and I just need some advice from my teacher on how to link together a few parts of it. Assuming I don't come under much more pressure from tests or other projects, I should be able to get it done by the end of term deadline.

Unfortunately, I have utterly failed to do any other homework, including the large amount of Maths that's either overdue or due in very soon. I did manage to rattle through some Physics, but since it's due in tomorrow, I didn't exactly have much choice in the matter.


Beyond that, several people, myself included, got some university places confirmed today. I mentioned before that I had got a couple of unconditional offers for Edinburgh's Computer Science and Physics courses but I hadn't quite realised just how impressive that was until I mentioned it to a girl in my class. She pointed out that only two people from our school got accepted into Edinburgh last year and promptly gave me a large hug.

Then we both got confirmation of places at Aberdeen, which was where she really wanted to go, so that led to much screaming and joyous phone calls while the rest of us just stood around looking somewhat bemused.

What this means for me is that I'm basically just waiting to hear from St Andrews, which is where I really want to go, though I haven't entirely ruled out Edinburgh yet. In turn, this means that I'll probably be using my iPhone a lot more at school, checking my emails once a minute.


Oh, come on, NeoOffice. How can you not have a problem with “email” but think that “emails” isn't a word? Bah, nuts to it.


I think I'm going to sign off now and head to bed. I'll probably have to spend a fair chunk of first two lessons tomorrow trying to do Maths homework and revision.... And I've just remembered that I'm going to be getting in late. Possibly problematic, methinks...

Ah, well. It'll sort itself out. See you tomorrow, when there should hopefully be more information on this whole GameSpot firing incident.