Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Mutto for President! ...er...
Actually, Mutto would probably make a very good President. Perhaps - he probably also wouldn't want to.
Anyway, he's a great down-to-earth guy of real integrity, and I'm glad to say I've met him (a few times)..
Gah!! Australian Idol making him on last tonight.. But he made an excellent last, with 'hope' on his hand (and was that a MakePovertyHistory band I saw? ^_^ ) and a great version of a great Switchfoot song. I can't tell if my favourite part was him going around close to the audience and singing to Kyle or whether it was pulling the classic Mutto/Soulframe moves for the camera at the beginning.
Oh, Mutto. Please vote for him if you are willing to part with some phone credit! grr.. he'd better make it through.. grr..
So aside from my Idol!Mutto excitement, I have finished trials/yearly exams. Some I did quite badly, and while people would say I am hyperbolising when I estimate 38%, I can say - yes - I most certainly got at least below 37%! Well, we shall see when we get back the results of Ancient History (which was today - the worst exam I think I've ever done in my life). There goes my mark. I hope that exam wasn't worth as much of my final mark as I think it is.. there goes the yearly report and internal mark.. I just have to not be sick and do really well in the hsc.. Sigh..
On the other hand, I liked English Extension1, with my crime fiction story involving a suburban double murder with carving up of bodies and discoveries of eyeballs and entrails in garbage bins. Great fun. Ha ha.. The other highlights of exams were, of course, the monumental cock-up of English Paper 1, in which I had to write a speech about 'Inner Journeys', while I had fun in History quoting a historian about JFK, Schlesinger's superfluous language never ceases to amaze:
It was this combination of toughness and wit, of will, nerve and wisdom, so brilliantly controlled, so matchlessly calibrated, that dazzled the world.
Oh, Arthur, you really take it to town.
So for a week I'm relaxing and massaging my poor bruise`d hand (four hours of writing a day can be painful) while I rewatch V for Vendetta (because I love it) and have finished rereading The Half-Blood Prince (I still don't want to talk about it. *sniffle* Oh, betrayal!). I'm looking forward to getting my Complete Works of Bill Shakesy back from James; it's a post hsc-ambition to do quite a bit of reading. And writing, as I have said previously. Yay.
Toodle-do. Or 'oo'. I don't think I've ever really been informed. ¶ 8:54 PM
Anyway, he's a great down-to-earth guy of real integrity, and I'm glad to say I've met him (a few times)..
Gah!! Australian Idol making him on last tonight.. But he made an excellent last, with 'hope' on his hand (and was that a MakePovertyHistory band I saw? ^_^ ) and a great version of a great Switchfoot song. I can't tell if my favourite part was him going around close to the audience and singing to Kyle or whether it was pulling the classic Mutto/Soulframe moves for the camera at the beginning.
Oh, Mutto. Please vote for him if you are willing to part with some phone credit! grr.. he'd better make it through.. grr..
So aside from my Idol!Mutto excitement, I have finished trials/yearly exams. Some I did quite badly, and while people would say I am hyperbolising when I estimate 38%, I can say - yes - I most certainly got at least below 37%! Well, we shall see when we get back the results of Ancient History (which was today - the worst exam I think I've ever done in my life). There goes my mark. I hope that exam wasn't worth as much of my final mark as I think it is.. there goes the yearly report and internal mark.. I just have to not be sick and do really well in the hsc.. Sigh..
On the other hand, I liked English Extension1, with my crime fiction story involving a suburban double murder with carving up of bodies and discoveries of eyeballs and entrails in garbage bins. Great fun. Ha ha.. The other highlights of exams were, of course, the monumental cock-up of English Paper 1, in which I had to write a speech about 'Inner Journeys', while I had fun in History quoting a historian about JFK, Schlesinger's superfluous language never ceases to amaze:
It was this combination of toughness and wit, of will, nerve and wisdom, so brilliantly controlled, so matchlessly calibrated, that dazzled the world.
Oh, Arthur, you really take it to town.
So for a week I'm relaxing and massaging my poor bruise`d hand (four hours of writing a day can be painful) while I rewatch V for Vendetta (because I love it) and have finished rereading The Half-Blood Prince (I still don't want to talk about it. *sniffle* Oh, betrayal!). I'm looking forward to getting my Complete Works of Bill Shakesy back from James; it's a post hsc-ambition to do quite a bit of reading. And writing, as I have said previously. Yay.
Toodle-do. Or 'oo'. I don't think I've ever really been informed. ¶ 8:54 PM
