My ne laptop finally came. On Tuesday, but the Vista CD I ordered didn’t come till Friday so I couldn’t really use it until then, as Ubuntu didn’t like any of my hardware, and refused to install drivers. Anyway, it’s working now; I spent most of today trying to download and install TF2… until I was informed that I could copy my game files from my old computer and use them… this turned out to be infinitely quicker (though it ws a little annoying that I had waited over nine hours for Steam to download it (It consistently reported ‘5 Hours remaining’)).

TF2 is soo much better when you have a decent PC (Dual core 2.7GHz, Nvidia 9600M, 4Gb RAM) to play it on. No fps lag, instant control, and a better sense of being in the game. Oh, and the fire is beautiful. ^_^

All in all, my laptop is great. Well worth the £650 I paid for it.

Now for other stuff… remember that engineeering scheme that I talked about in the unusually long post earlier that nobody commented on? I didn’t get into it. I was a bit gutted, tbh.

Also, lots of my friends have gone on this expensive trip to Vietnam that I couldn’t afford to go to. (£1800!!) Though I was kinda happy that I’d saved £1800, I really did want to go on it. Seeing them leave school early, with their custom Vietnam themed shirts was a bit disappointing.

Add to that, my grades weren’t good. Straight B1s, except a B2, B3 and a C2. Hopefully, my mum won’t find out. >_>

All in all, not the best week ever. Really the only highlight was being able to play the games I already owned properly for the first time (Playing as a heavy on my old PC was lag lag lag lag shoot lag shoot bang lag lag shoot lag shoot die lag lag doctorrr!!), which was nice. ^_^

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Remember me? Yeah, I used to write on this blog. 

I’m going to try and write more from now on. 

I LOST MY IPOD.

I lost my iPod. Thursday at breaktime, I think. I was putting it into my pocket, and that was the last time I remember I had it. I suppose someone could have taken it from my jacket when I was in the sports hall, but… anyway, it’s unlikely I’m going to find it. 

I have asked everyone I could possibly ask… but nothing. One teacher did say he’d found an iPod but it wasn’t mine.

WEB DESIGN

I made a web design site, and I’m making custom designs. the link is sorrelmedia.co.cc, if you’re interested. I’ve emailed a couple of local businesses to see if they want a website… hopefully they do and I can start saving for a new iPod. 

I also redesigned rikkit.co.uk, if you haven’t noticed… as well as changing the layout of the VOX archive. My next thing to do is customise the layout of this here blog, to match it.

HOMEWORK

Graaah. I’m doing Further Maths for A levels - it’s split into mechanics, pure and statistics. I’m finding mechanics quite easy, and pure is ok too… but statistics is mind boggling. It doesn’t help that I have a teacher who teaches at twice the speed of light, and shouts at/embarrases you if you ask a question. At least I’m not planning to do economics or accounting.

ENGINEERING

There’s this thing called the Engineering Education Scheme at my school - basically, you are put into a group of four and are partnered with an engineer from a local company (such as e.on, or British Gas), in order to solve a porblem they have. At the moment, there are about twenty people who want to do this - so I have to fill in a form online and sit a couple of interviews… the first real interviews I’ll have ever done, so I’m a bit nervous.

The reason I’m doing this is because I’m interested in engineering (obv.), but this would generally look good on a UCAS form. I chose my subjects to cater for either engineering, architecture or physics at uni (maths, physics, art), so for now, I don’t have to decide.

GENERAL SCHOOL

I’m doing five AS levels. That’s one extra than most people in my school - I’m doing Italian as an extra subject. I have to do it before school though, so I only get 1 1/2 hours a week; I get about five in my other subjects. >.>

That’s it for today, I think…

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