Jonny’s Blog

Right, exams are now over so I have more time to concentrate on other things.

I have a list of things I’d like to do over the summer. I won’t go into them as I don’t want to be tied to anything in particular, but it includes numerous Bongo enhancements, other SynCE stuff, finally some maemo developing, and also some Debian-specific stuff.

I’ll blog about any specific developments in the future though.

A few things to ponder over:

• This new theme for Wordpress is lovely! I edited it a little to remove the left sidebar, add the description to directly under the header and to remove all tag support. I love it!
• My UCAS form is totally complete and now out of my life. Well, I lie- I still need to decide what college to apply to at Durham- any suggestions?!
• Half term is coming up and a few things on the card: Linuxworld Expo (yay) and visiting people…
• I watched Revolution OS which was a bit of a laugh to listen to Stallman, Perens, Eric Raymond, etc. but was informative at the same time! Pointed out my ignorance of the actual roots of the GNU project.
• Funny- my sixth form tutor is learning LaTeX!
• Got the Old Dispensary Concert after half term in which I’ve playing the first movement of Brandenburg 4 and Meditation from Thais by Massenet- I should really do some practice soon.
• Oh, and on the music front- the House Music Competition is this Thursday! It is bound to be a laugh with School House singing Feeling Good, a version by Michael Buble, in the ensemble; and as a whole house singing “Masachism Tango” by Tom Lehrer!

That is all, for now.

Today, instead of having double maths, my teacher decided not to turn up, so I had double spare - great! I was knackered (even though I had gone to bed at 10PM the night before) and tremendously hungry (even though I had four slices of toast with chocolate on, and milk, for breakfast) and I was looking forward to lunch. On a side note, looking forward to lunch is a terrible thing and should not happen (except it’s Friday)- On one hand, your dreams can be fulfilled and you get a nice lunch. However, the probability of this happening is extremely low. On Fridays, there is the routine FCB (Fish, Chips & Beans) so all is well!

Anyway, I went up to lunch to fill my stomach just before the dreaded “Study Centre” came up and took over the dining hall (I say dining hall, but I much prefer the term Monastic Barn- it does down the awesome building to call it a “dining hall”, ahem). So I grabbed my tray, plate and cutlery and went to be served. This is where my day was ruined: The so-called Dining Superviser came up with some rubbish stories to stop me eating lunch. I’ll refer to her as MC from now on, as it sounds funny! Here are the series of events at lunch that stopped me eating:

1. According to MC, there were not enough seats for us to sit. There were roughly 5 out of 15 tables free.
2. After arguing this point, she said that she would have to serve all the others from Senior School (my school). However, there were only 6 of us up there at this point.
3. Then out came the usual excuse: “I don’t make the rules…“. Oh my God…
4. So as we were forced to wait for our food, we all knew what was going to happen- the Study Centre were going to come up, and we would be forced behind yet another queue.
5. The dreaded deed happened and my lunch went from bad to worse.

I know, I know, this might be a little petty, but it was very big to me…

Today (or should I say yesterday, looking at the clock) I had my final exam- physics. I’ve just finished going through AS June modules, and I’m terribly pleased to be over with them.. I only had nine modules in total (other people I knew had 15+) but that was nine too many to me:

• Maths: S1, C1, C2
• Phyics: Physics in Action, Understanding Processes
• Chemistry: CHM1, CHM2, CHM3
• Music

I am generally pleased with the outcome of the exams but I’m pleased they’re behind me. I have several aims for this summer:

• Get started on PHP-Site properly and get it sorted out.
• Learn C++
• Get a job
• See loads of friends..

These will be more documented in later blogs me thinks, so stay tuned for another exciting installment. Hopefully I’ll get into this blogging malarky soon and this’ll flow more! After all, I only got this site up and running a few hours ago!