The fabulous thing about writing coursework is the things your brain chucks out there, in random desperation that you might stop.
Looking through my browser history, I discovered that the exam period was apparently also the right time to...
> Revisit your childhood love for X-men:Evolution and learn How to Throw Playing Cards so they cut through fruit and stick in walls.
> Research First Aid...just in case. I know know what to do in case of major bleeding, unconsciousness, heart attack and stopped breathing. Arguably useful when imperilled by exams?
> Read up on politics. Particularly the Pirate Party, who have 50% of my support and 50% of my severe disapproval. Art should be free, but also owned by its creator for longer than five years. How do you balance something like that?
> Make safe my Facebook account. This took longer than expected. But also much reading around the topic, particularly on the EFF...
>Consider buying a "corporate America" flag, with the stars replaced by famous logos.
> Read XKCD. Natch.
> Discover my lousy sense of smell has a fabuloso Greek name and is a real condition. Cue Calypso attempting to make me a "disabled rep".
> Haircare. Learn how to do victory rolls and 1920s starlet hair waves. Then spend longer in the bathroom than ever before (1 hour!) achieving the aforementioned, then spend more on haircare products than ever before (I mean in total, not in one go: £1) to go professional. Ace!
> Learn how to get into Urban Explore. Research dilapidated London buildings and, from my sofa, contemplate breaking-and-entering dangerous abandoned properties after exams are over. Gaze in awe at the chaps and chapettes of Sleepy City, who scaled the Victorian tunnels behind the Niagra Falls, and once UrbEx'd the London Underground...
> Collecting more bad music, from Music for Maniacs and the 365 project.
> Are the Jehovahs Witnesses as bad as they seem? After they came to visit, multiple times, I thought I'd better make sure. As it turns out, yes, yes they are - thanks Wikipedia, impartial moral arbiter that you are...
> attempt to defeat sweatshops, on the principle that Victorian Whitechapel has merely been outsourced to the developing world. Work out that putting companies in a position to pull out of the developing world will actually be worse for workers who no longer have a job. Give up on campaign. Blake would be ashamed...
> fall in love with George Formby. Irritate fellow housemates.
> troll Fitfinder
>research Synesthesia
> save oodles of printable Dolls House furniture...for that Dolls House I don't own
> research an actor from a webgame I played once
> Origami, natch
> take a survey about AntiDepressants for a Kings study. Confirmed what I already sort-of suspected; that I have what could be regarded as actual medical depression not just a tendancy towards melancholia. Balls. The study suggests I'm about 75% depressive, but I scored very highly on the self-esteem, self-image sections. Proud and confident of my opinions
> Leant how to talk about racism on the internet. They're mostly trolls, and to be honest most of the rules are stupid, counter-intuitive, and lead to people talking about how they should be talking about things. But at least now I know how to do it if I ever need to, and some of what I've learnt has helped in real-world terms, for talking about all sensitive subjects. I suppose it's like all systems - being dogmatic is stupid, but that's not to say there isn't also some good.
> google "How long does mead keep". Obviously fancying a tipple...
> ebay, Doctor Who section. I try to kepe all my DW stuff pretty nice, as I know some of it will ultimately be valuable. One of the exceptions is Avon, my cuddly Adipose, because it's a darned soft toy and there to be cuddled. Ironically, of everything I own, this is at present the highest selling item...£30 or £40 in a nice condition. Not that I could ever sell him, but still! Another interesting was So Vile A Sin selling for only £10, a book known to go for about £70. Is it worth jumping in there as an investment? LoL at naming him Avon. At the time, the joke was I wanted to name him something unsuitable and something alliterative. First bash was Adric, but that backfired as Adric really is little and cute. Avon becomes more of a bad joke by the day...
>Fandom secrets, natch
> The Fanfiction archive. WHY WAS I THERE I DON'T EVEN READ FIC.
Here is the full list of everything I wikied:
A Secular Humanist Declaration - Agincourt - Altered book - American Revolutionary War - Anosmia - Artist trading cards - ATC - Baklava - Battle of Agincourt - Beliefs_and_practices_of_Jehovah’s_Witnesses - Blissymbols - Bobby pin - British America - Cadaeic Cadenza - Care Bears - Carl Fletcher - Cave Clan - Cheyenne language - Cinema of Iraq - Colonial - Colonial history of the United States - Continental Army - Crack - Crack cocaine - Criticism of Facebook - Criticism of Jehovah’s Witnesses - Crossmodal - Culture of Iraq - Danger Man - Daniel Tammet - Darwin Day - Database management system - David Rees (author) - David Tennant - Diest - Disposable camera - Epilepsy - Facebook - Fall Out (The Prisoner) - Feynman point - Finger wave - Found art - Freedom Tunnel - French colonization of the Americas - Futuroscope - Gallifrey - Essentialism - Gender_essentialism Geni.com - George Formby, Jr. - Golden line - Grapheme–color synesthesia - Great Britain in the Seven Years War - Greek language - Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner - Hauntology - Herpes labialis - Herpes simplex - Hi5 (website) - HumanLight - Human Rights Day - Humanism - Humanism (disambiguation) - Humanism (life stance) - Humanism and Its Aspirations - Humanist Manifesto - Humanist Manifesto I - Humanist Manifesto II - Hundred Years War - Hyposmia - Ido - Interlingua - Intravenous therapy - Iraq - Iraqi literature - Jamie Kane – Jehovah’s Witnesses – Jehovah’s Witnesses and blood transfusions – Jehovah’s Witnesses and child sex abuse – Jehovah’s Witnesses - Joani Blank - Karl Fletcher - Kim Peek - Kwanzaa - La damnation de Faust - Lady Gaga - Latin - Legend tripping - Lexical-gustatory synesthesia - LinkedIn - List of Care Bears - List of Doctor Who serials - List of Doctor Who writers - List of dystopian music, TV programs, and games - List of social networking websites - List of writing systems - Lojban - London Underground - Lots Road Power Station - Mamihlapinatapai - Midnight (Doctor Who) - Model (art) - Model - Modular origami - Mole Day - Mole people - Multimodal integration - Nadine Coyle - Napoleonic Wars - National Labor Committee in Support of Human and Worker Rights - Ning (website) - Novial - Number form - Occidental language - Olfaction - Olfactory receptor neuron - Orkut - Outnumbered - Outnumbered - Phantosmia - Pi - Pi Day - Piphilology - Prisoner - Private network - Reality hacking - Recovery position - Repdigit - Rochester Subway - Savant syndrome - Section 28 - Secular humanism - Sextus Propertius - Shamu (SeaWorld show) - Silentlambs - Simple English Wikipedia - Simple English - Six (band) - Skyrock - Skyway - Smell - Smound - Social media - Social network - Sonobe - Special:Random New features - Square Root Day - Storm drain - Susan Pevensie - Sweatshop - Synesthesia - Synesthesia - Tetragrammaton - The_Brave_Little_Toaster_(film) The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland - The Lion King - The Prisoner - The Prisoner (2009 miniseries) - Time travel - Treaty of Paris (1763) - Trespass (album) - Twin Peaks - Underground - Underground City, Montreal - Underground city - Underground living - Urban exploration - Virtual private network - Volapük - Volcanic ash - West Park Asylum - White Mountain (song) - Wikipedia:Wikipedia logos - William Hartnell - World Humanist Day -
Looking through my browser history, I discovered that the exam period was apparently also the right time to...
> Revisit your childhood love for X-men:Evolution and learn How to Throw Playing Cards so they cut through fruit and stick in walls.
> Research First Aid...just in case. I know know what to do in case of major bleeding, unconsciousness, heart attack and stopped breathing. Arguably useful when imperilled by exams?
> Read up on politics. Particularly the Pirate Party, who have 50% of my support and 50% of my severe disapproval. Art should be free, but also owned by its creator for longer than five years. How do you balance something like that?
> Make safe my Facebook account. This took longer than expected. But also much reading around the topic, particularly on the EFF...
>Consider buying a "corporate America" flag, with the stars replaced by famous logos.
> Read XKCD. Natch.
> Discover my lousy sense of smell has a fabuloso Greek name and is a real condition. Cue Calypso attempting to make me a "disabled rep".
> Haircare. Learn how to do victory rolls and 1920s starlet hair waves. Then spend longer in the bathroom than ever before (1 hour!) achieving the aforementioned, then spend more on haircare products than ever before (I mean in total, not in one go: £1) to go professional. Ace!
> Learn how to get into Urban Explore. Research dilapidated London buildings and, from my sofa, contemplate breaking-and-entering dangerous abandoned properties after exams are over. Gaze in awe at the chaps and chapettes of Sleepy City, who scaled the Victorian tunnels behind the Niagra Falls, and once UrbEx'd the London Underground...
> Collecting more bad music, from Music for Maniacs and the 365 project.
> Are the Jehovahs Witnesses as bad as they seem? After they came to visit, multiple times, I thought I'd better make sure. As it turns out, yes, yes they are - thanks Wikipedia, impartial moral arbiter that you are...
> attempt to defeat sweatshops, on the principle that Victorian Whitechapel has merely been outsourced to the developing world. Work out that putting companies in a position to pull out of the developing world will actually be worse for workers who no longer have a job. Give up on campaign. Blake would be ashamed...
> fall in love with George Formby. Irritate fellow housemates.
> troll Fitfinder
>research Synesthesia
> save oodles of printable Dolls House furniture...for that Dolls House I don't own
> research an actor from a webgame I played once
> Origami, natch
> take a survey about AntiDepressants for a Kings study. Confirmed what I already sort-of suspected; that I have what could be regarded as actual medical depression not just a tendancy towards melancholia. Balls. The study suggests I'm about 75% depressive, but I scored very highly on the self-esteem, self-image sections. Proud and confident of my opinions
> Leant how to talk about racism on the internet. They're mostly trolls, and to be honest most of the rules are stupid, counter-intuitive, and lead to people talking about how they should be talking about things. But at least now I know how to do it if I ever need to, and some of what I've learnt has helped in real-world terms, for talking about all sensitive subjects. I suppose it's like all systems - being dogmatic is stupid, but that's not to say there isn't also some good.
> google "How long does mead keep". Obviously fancying a tipple...
> ebay, Doctor Who section. I try to kepe all my DW stuff pretty nice, as I know some of it will ultimately be valuable. One of the exceptions is Avon, my cuddly Adipose, because it's a darned soft toy and there to be cuddled. Ironically, of everything I own, this is at present the highest selling item...£30 or £40 in a nice condition. Not that I could ever sell him, but still! Another interesting was So Vile A Sin selling for only £10, a book known to go for about £70. Is it worth jumping in there as an investment? LoL at naming him Avon. At the time, the joke was I wanted to name him something unsuitable and something alliterative. First bash was Adric, but that backfired as Adric really is little and cute. Avon becomes more of a bad joke by the day...
>Fandom secrets, natch
> The Fanfiction archive. WHY WAS I THERE I DON'T EVEN READ FIC.
Here is the full list of everything I wikied:
A Secular Humanist Declaration - Agincourt - Altered book - American Revolutionary War - Anosmia - Artist trading cards - ATC - Baklava - Battle of Agincourt - Beliefs_and_practices_of_Jehovah’s_Witnesses - Blissymbols - Bobby pin - British America - Cadaeic Cadenza - Care Bears - Carl Fletcher - Cave Clan - Cheyenne language - Cinema of Iraq - Colonial - Colonial history of the United States - Continental Army - Crack - Crack cocaine - Criticism of Facebook - Criticism of Jehovah’s Witnesses - Crossmodal - Culture of Iraq - Danger Man - Daniel Tammet - Darwin Day - Database management system - David Rees (author) - David Tennant - Diest - Disposable camera - Epilepsy - Facebook - Fall Out (The Prisoner) - Feynman point - Finger wave - Found art - Freedom Tunnel - French colonization of the Americas - Futuroscope - Gallifrey - Essentialism - Gender_essentialism Geni.com - George Formby, Jr. - Golden line - Grapheme–color synesthesia - Great Britain in the Seven Years War - Greek language - Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner - Hauntology - Herpes labialis - Herpes simplex - Hi5 (website) - HumanLight - Human Rights Day - Humanism - Humanism (disambiguation) - Humanism (life stance) - Humanism and Its Aspirations - Humanist Manifesto - Humanist Manifesto I - Humanist Manifesto II - Hundred Years War - Hyposmia - Ido - Interlingua - Intravenous therapy - Iraq - Iraqi literature - Jamie Kane – Jehovah’s Witnesses – Jehovah’s Witnesses and blood transfusions – Jehovah’s Witnesses and child sex abuse – Jehovah’s Witnesses - Joani Blank - Karl Fletcher - Kim Peek - Kwanzaa - La damnation de Faust - Lady Gaga - Latin - Legend tripping - Lexical-gustatory synesthesia - LinkedIn - List of Care Bears - List of Doctor Who serials - List of Doctor Who writers - List of dystopian music, TV programs, and games - List of social networking websites - List of writing systems - Lojban - London Underground - Lots Road Power Station - Mamihlapinatapai - Midnight (Doctor Who) - Model (art) - Model - Modular origami - Mole Day - Mole people - Multimodal integration - Nadine Coyle - Napoleonic Wars - National Labor Committee in Support of Human and Worker Rights - Ning (website) - Novial - Number form - Occidental language - Olfaction - Olfactory receptor neuron - Orkut - Outnumbered - Outnumbered - Phantosmia - Pi - Pi Day - Piphilology - Prisoner - Private network - Reality hacking - Recovery position - Repdigit - Rochester Subway - Savant syndrome - Section 28 - Secular humanism - Sextus Propertius - Shamu (SeaWorld show) - Silentlambs - Simple English Wikipedia - Simple English - Six (band) - Skyrock - Skyway - Smell - Smound - Social media - Social network - Sonobe - Special:Random New features - Square Root Day - Storm drain - Susan Pevensie - Sweatshop - Synesthesia - Synesthesia - Tetragrammaton - The_Brave_Little_Toaster_(film) The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland - The Lion King - The Prisoner - The Prisoner (2009 miniseries) - Time travel - Treaty of Paris (1763) - Trespass (album) - Twin Peaks - Underground - Underground City, Montreal - Underground city - Underground living - Urban exploration - Virtual private network - Volapük - Volcanic ash - West Park Asylum - White Mountain (song) - Wikipedia:Wikipedia logos - William Hartnell - World Humanist Day -
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