Archive for May, 2006

So I’m lying naked in bed, at 10am, pondering to myself whether I can be bothered to get up, reheat the cup of tea that’s on my desk, and make some crumpets for further pondering. Then, something happens that completely obliterates my half-sleeping thoughts. The doorbell rings.

As I’m used to getting ranted at by my neighbours for having to collect shipments from couriers because I wasn’t in, I pulled on some trousers and legged it downstairs as fast as I can, hoping to save myself from a whingy neighbour. However, I opened the door to a short, hand-bagged creature, not far from the one known as Nanatoo. However, she wasn’t a demoness of the highest order, she was in fact trying to sell religion to me.

Now, as a semi-clothed, long-haired, smelly young man, who’s looking quite flustered due to the pace of his arrival at the door, I can’t imagine what Nanatoo-not was thinking, other than, “he’s probably doing something terribly unholy up there”. After she attempted to get me to subscribe to a magazine, I told her neither I, nor any of my family would be even remotely interested in said magazine, then she tried to carry on conversation. Seeing as I was getting rather cold by this point, I wanted nothing more than to slam the door and re-heat that tea, but using her Jehovah mind powers, she bound me into a conversation about my exams, that she knew nothing about them and wanted to know more.

But in her moment of weakness I managed to overcome her powers and say that I really needed to get on with my revision, and closed the door.

The thing that really annoys me is that they treat religion as something that others must have, and attempt to force it upon them with their evil mind powers. I decided long ago that there was no higher being, and all I ask is that they respect that, and leave me to eat my crumpets in peace.

After a few days of pulling my hair out over trying to learn my German oral presentation, I finally managed to get through the exam with no problems at all, to be told that I must have learned it well. I laughed. Last night saw me panicking in a frenzy when I realised I only knew the first 3 paragraphs of my 10 minute presentation, and then trying to remember what the rest of it meant in English. However, somehow (I don’t even know how), I managed to remember enough of it in the actual thing to rattle off something fluent, authoritative and authentic-sounding about the beautiful city of Stuttgart.

The day was made better by meeting Caley after school and then going back to hers for a little while, before coming home to chill (and feel generally shattered). Then my mum presented me with the keyboard carrying bag she’d ordered for me a while back (which makes gigging so much easier), and cooking maultaschen for dinner (a Swabian speciality that Max’s mum gave me before I left Germany). Today was a good day.

I feel quite bad about not updating my blog for such a long time, mainly because I’ve been too lazy to do so, and I feel like I’m wasting my money paying for hosting that I’m not really using except for storing junk and writing my musings. Still, here’s a list of my exams, when they are, and my thoughts.

I’ll update this as I do the exams with my comments.