Been too busy.....

August was a strange month. It started off with very little happening and ended with a few large events. Basically exam results and my Grans death and funeral. Even with this two major events the latter more so it seemed to me that i was watching from a distance rather than experiencing the events, which was a strange experience I got probably from working for too long with no clear goal and drifting through the summer holidays. But now in September its all go... kind of. Been thinking about Uni and what i need to buy and stuff, but because i don't go for 3 weeks i can't seem to make myself buy the stuff i need, mainly because its all boring stuff like duvet covers and plates. On Friday i went to the space dinner dance. As usual all the girls were dancing from the off in groups with no qualms, whereas most guys have an embarrassment gene when it comes to dancing. By the end of the evening the guys were tearing up the dance floor, we couldn't let embarrassment or Pussycat dolls ruin the evening! This week I've been trying to get a book from the library with an awful lot of difficulty. The book, Asimovs' "Foundation and Empire" for sci-fi fans info, was meant to be on the shelf according the magic library computer but had gone walkies so now I'm left waiting for a supposed branch copy to come in which is seemingly taking a painfully long time. This is completely ruining my literature experience. On a final note, everyone is leaving to go to uni and colleges and because i don't go for 3 weeks, i'm feeling depressed!

August

Well after the dullness of July, August promises to be a more exciting month. On saturday i'm off to see the jazz guitarist John Etheridge for an evening. The week after i'm off to london to see Prince at the millenium dome, then the highlight of the holidays...exam results. Then on the friday afterwards i'm going to the breacon beacons with my brother for 4 nights to do about 90-100miles of walking. Then only 2 more weeks of work presuming i get into uni! I'll spent September dossing about because i've been working all holidays so far. Then Uni!! hopefully

Random signage

This sign at first may seem perfectly sensible, until at closer inspection the words, "attack the fire if possible using the appliances provided". When i saw this i immediately thought, what if you're not in the kitchen, because most appliances like fridges and dishwashers tend to be found there. As the sign says appliances are provided i expected to see washing machines and fridges hung on the walls like fire extinguishes unfortunately none are to be found. Secondly what if you're not able to lift the appliance; I guess this is why the sign says to attack the fire if possible. Finally, what effect is lobbing a fridge onto the fire going to have, maybe cause it to explode which i suppose may lead to the combustion of any flammable items causing the fire to stop. If this is the thought behind it then i can't help but suggest that throwing oxygen tanks onto the fire or propane to achieve not only a more effective fire fighting technique, but a more spectacular one also.

P.s as far as I'm concerned, fire extinguishes are not appliances, they are wall art.

Mishaps

Being Thursday today there was very little to do today at work, so much of the day was spent walking around looking for jobs to do. When I began to do the exciting job of refilling soap containers i learnt my first lesson of the day, don't overfill them or this happens.

It dripped for about 2 hourse afterwards which meant i had to keep coming back to it to wipe away the antibacterial soap. I also learned that if you are in the girls bathroom, do not stare at a tampon machine and press the buttons on it and not expect to get strange looks from girls passing by. In my defense when i did see it i intially thought it may be a hand drier, turns out i was wrong-very wrong and am quite happy that the current batch of american students at the college leave tomorrow.
Another easy day tomorrow so lets hope i can find something to do

Harry Potter

Also sorry the new Harry potter film today, i guess it was better than the others maybe because this one tries to have a feasible story. If you haven't read the book then you won't understand whats going on, if you have like the rest of Britain you may begin to wonder that you could've done something better with your time. Mainly because the final line of the film is guaranteed to either make you cringe, or cry. Please choose the former or i may disown you.

Yet another dull day, but the weather was nice

Commuting to work on the bus is usually a pleasant experience if you've got a good book to read for the journey. Unfortunately in the past few weeks large numbers of foreign students have starting catching the bus to oxford in huge numbers. This may not be so annoying if they queued like the rest of us but they always skip to the front screaming at their friends. Hence whenever the bus stops with its doors at the back of the queue there is always a silent cheer and smug faces from the otherwise grim English. Thankyou for taking the time to read this xenophobic rant.
On non related news work today was a standard Wednesday, lots of climbing up staircases and taking linen bags back down with you. At the end of the day i felt i climbed up and down those staircases enough that i had climbed the equivalent of wittingham clumps, so we're talking extreme heights here. Of course the great height did mean there was a good opportunity to banister sled which livened up the day. The other positive thing about today, was that the weather was nice, HURRAY.

Its about bloody time

I know there is a general uproar about this but it is about time that the nuisance of donkey dung was dealt with and what better way than placing a nappy on the donkey.

• Kenya donkey nappy plan

On a more serious note, was this the best suggestion they could come up with, placing nappies on donkeys. I wouldn't like to know what the other suggestions were, maybe a donkey cull or "plugging" the donkeys with a cork so they couldn't defecate in the city. Sometimes you really have to wonder whats going to come next; maybe tieing song birds' beaks shut with string so they can't cause noise pollution or trying to commute to work on a cheetah to reduce pollution. On second thought that 2nd idea sounds pretty good, where did i put that number for transport department...

More work stuff-therefore very exciting

To enable you to get a better feel for the excitement of my job i have enclosed some pictures that really capture the essence of the jobIn this picture you can see a 4ft pile of unsorted linen called "linen pike"
Below the linen has been sorted into its various piles, on the left is the "flat sheet ridge" which is worryingly damp and leads to "duvet cover mountain". There are also other smaller piles of pillowcases and such which adds to the sorting excitement.

This shows linen sorted, counted and bagged into eleven linen bags. Thios job took about 1.5 to 2 hours and was surprisingly enough quite boring, but it least it very little effort. Thankyou for taking the time to begin to fully appreciate the many aspects of my job. It may also be worthing mentioning that i'm partially allergic to the linen as it is washed in bio washing powder-which provides a degree of daring to the job that i'm sure all can understand!

Long time, no writing

Well its been almost 2 months since i wrote anything here, mainly because i couldn't think of anything to say. And in that respect not a whole lot has changed. Now exams are over I'm working at lady margaret hall in oxford which is not a alltogether thrilling unless of course you enjoy moving linen around rooms all day. Since i do it by myself it is even more boring because it is so solitary. Since school is over life is alltogether more dull and i occupy myself looking forward to going to Durham if i get the results which makes results day rather more stressful because i really want to go there. Of course i'm also looking forward to getting paid which makes work worthwile because i'll finally be able to buy a computer for university among other things. But until then, back to the lonely hard graft of work for another few weeks.

Revision woe

I used to think there was nothing worse than revision.
It turns out there is, doing revision and having a cold. Its fantastic!

Muck up day (revision leave day)

What a day! I woke up at 7:00 at got in to school at 8:00 feeling that i was quite early. On my arrival i discovered that the school has already been "decorated". Apparently people had been in school since 4:30 in the morning. I just wasn't prepared to make that kind of commitment. Notable acts: in the morning the bus park was converted into a airport with authentic over-zealous customs officials. Every time a new bus arrived someone would run round shouting and pretending to be a suicide bomber before being taken out. Very authentic. On the main school buildings giant banners with the face of the headmaster cunning photo shopped to look like a symbol were hung from windows in the style of banners hung to support communist leaders. There were propaganda posters around the school with clever captions such as : Mr Turner (headmaster) says make your women work, using a picture of a Princess Ann turning over the first sod of the sports hall with the headmaster in the background. Also a Russian guy in our year recorded a communist speech to add to the atmosphere. There was a very "clever magic trick" and a water park which consisted of a bouncy castle, 2 paddling pools and some slides. Much of the day was spent there and since everyone in the 6th form was armed with waster pistols its not hard to imagine what happened. A proposed fight that was going to take place on one of the school fields using inflatables and the like was cancelled unfortunelty due to exams. But all in all a great day and a brilliant way to leave school. Now sadly I've got to really start cramming for exams, which won't be as much fun. Lets hope i manage to get some work done!

More ramble fun...

Today was a unexpected gem, kind of. When i got told i was going to win 2 prizes at prizing giving i felt great. But today i find out the prestigious prize was going to win will go to someone else because I already have a prize, I'm understandably bitter.

On a less angry note watching a programme on old drivers yesterday on TV was definitely a laugh. Not because there were old people crashing but because the programme was blatantly aimed to make old drivers look bad. They concluded from seeing that 2 OAPs couldn't parallel park that all OAPs can't drive. They reinforced this message by showing clips of cars crashing with OAPs at the wheel. I can't parallel pack very well and there are lots more clips showing young drivers crashing then there are of young drivers. Meaning that the programme was really a bit of a waste of time. Finally the presenter, Jo Brand was telling us about how dangerous OAPs are on the road at the same time as driving and looking at the camera. It really makes you wonder sometimes quite how hypocritical somepeople are...

On yet another completely different note, school has decided that Friday will be called Revision leave day as opposed to Muck-up day. Apparently we are expected to attend all lessons and are to be excused for a BBQ at 12:00. But then in assembly the master then said that we shouldn't cause any damage to the school or offend anyone. If its a normal school day why would we. Someone in school can't make their mind up, and therefore these talks we keep getting on the subject are frivolous. Obviously no one will be going to lessons anyway since they've been cancelled by the teacher who takes them because no one will turn up anyway, so we're free to Muck around all morning. Should be a laugh so I can't wait.

Yes I was bored

Last week little did i know that today i would have started a blog. Having tried a journal once, then realising that i was too lazy to write in it was the end of my diary days. However since this is online, whenever i'm procrastinating i can do this; anything to get away from revision.
On the subject of revision and exams, first one is a fortnight today...., luckily its just a stats exam. Think Gcse stats and times it by a difficulty factor of 1 and you get Statistics 1. Its worth turning up because its worth as many marks as the hard Maths paper c4

School ends in 3 days!!! Worrying in some respects, but after today it doesn't seem so bad. No lessons till lunch, but i still had to be in school. State schools have the upperhand there, pupils there are allowed to go home during their frees. But at least private schools get the better education.......apparently. And i only pay a few thousand a term for the privilage.
Only 1 math lesson left and 3 biology and then I'm out of secondary school forever. Hurrah!