WOO!!

Im rather happy today. For why? FINALLY we have sound return to this computer. A wire or connection was lost in the amplifier of the system we were previously using, but not to worry!!

A quick jaunt down to Oxfam by y brother yeilded the positive results of :

(brace yourself, its a good one)

2...really...REALLY...REALLY...REALLY low quality speakers.


Still, the low quality more than makes up for the total lack of sound i have experience for an ENTIRE week. And sitting alone in this room fro most of Thursday and Wednesday on the internet and MSN has been utter hell without the music of Muse, Don Davies, Nobuo Uematsu or even Britney to pacify my moods.

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So, to this blog. Well, im posting for one reason and one reason only. If i see a person before she sees this and berates me for having not blogged, i can hold my head up high, don a really silly (but nonetheless smug) grin, and proclaim, in a proud, steady and happy voice : "YOU WOULD DOUBT ME?! I, MY GOOD WOMAN...HAVE BLOGGED!!" (arm raised in proclamation and granduer. Realise how silly i look and run.)

I've been rehearsing that all day.

Ok, maybe not. The oppertunitymay never present itself, and even if it does, i certaily wouldnt make myself look like that much of a fool knowingly.

So, i had two exams this week, German Listening (Higher Tier) and English Literature (also, suprisingly enough, Founda- i mean, Higher Tier). So, i present these brief reviews of them:

German Listening

Initially, it didnt seem like this exam was going to be much to worry about. I'd done enough revision to know what most of the questions where going to be on, and we'd done a lot of prior preperation in the lessons beforehand, so i was reltively prepared for the format of the exam and the general content of the questions, and how they'd be asked. What i wasn't prepared for however, was what made this examination one of the most torturous i've done :

The acoustics in the school hall

These were, in a word : horrendous (I could have used an obscenity there, but decided against it. Im 16 in a week. Time to grow up methinks.) The echoes bouncing off of the walls of the hall made every sound that came out of the cassette recorder entirely inaudible. Essentially, it was Weebl-ised, at least Weebl as voiced in 'Birthday Wishes'. (If you have no idea who Weebl or his friend Bob is, or do not know about their everyday happenings, you need to get out less.)

So, back to the exam. I couldn't hear a thing, i didnt hear the answers, so i think i failed that one. Ah well, im not doing German by choice, and im not doing it next year for A level. Give me Drama anyday (do i hear the distant voice of David Chandler and Richard Lewis on the wind? What are they saying? Just...through? oh throw...my.....life away. Just THROW my life away eh? Computing dave? and GERMAN Lewis? Ugh, just throw your life away both of you...)

English Literature

Aaaah, pure unadulterated English literary bliss! A whole 105 minute slot of poetry and Of Mice and Men! The Of Mice and Men question presented the easiest 45 minutes of answer writing i had, so i believe i picked up quite a few marks there. I made a bit of a shambles on the poetry question. In retrospect i may have picked the wrong question, but think i scraped enough marks to gain a B or an A.

So, next exam is biology on the 7th, when i am 16 years and 1 day old. Woo... great timing.

Well, thats that blog over and done with. Now to post on another blog...

G'Night
DickyBod

Playing: Final Fantasy VIII
Reading: The Dalek Survival Guide
Listening to: France Gall - Sacre Charlemagne (I GOT IT!!!)
Watching: Jurassic Park earlier
Annoyed with: Biology exam (see above)
Confused about: The Jorange...
Mood: Tired, happy.

I feel the urge to blog once again my fair readers. Why? No idea. Today has been rather dull and repetitive, with only the occasional chat on MSN making the day bearable. GOIng out later this evening, um... did some things..

OOooh tomorrow! Whole day of revision/MSNing

FUN FUN FUN!!

Yeh right... German revision...

Dickybod

1100 hits thank you people!!!

In the latest DickyBod news, nothing interesting whatsoever happened.

FUNNY!!!

I'll be quite now...

A note from me to Sarah :

GET BACK TO YOUR BIOLOGY AND STOP READING THE BLOG!!!

Right, that'll appease the voices in my head.

IN the New Oxfard Croo blog, at the bottom there is a comments option. If you are registered, you can post any comments about the story, or any suggestions for story lines as i go along. Thanks for that :D

Look for an episode of the croo. Go on, look i dare you. Cant see it can you? That because I deleted it! YES!! THE CROO IS DEAD!!! MWHAAAHHAHA

Well, not really. In order to give it its own home (which it rightly deservers) it has been moved to its own blog. Linky to the side. I have the plan, when it's finished, to rewrite the entire thing in a more prose-style approach, since the screenplay format, although adequate, is very restrictive.

Hey, you never know, it may even be a film one day. Not impossible, look on blogger.com's news page.

In other news NO MORE SCHOOL!!! Compulsory education has ceased, and now 14 exams await until the summer freedom and on to sixthform. Huzzah!

G'night
DickyBod

Today has been a wierd day. First the emergence of one Joe Ghandi, an Ed Feist lookalike that has spawned a whole following of loyal Year 11's sporting his image on great badges!

Also, the counting of the Herbertisms came to a head today with the completion of the Case Study, which will be presented to him tomorrow at 3pm.

Um thats about it. I can't post the next Croo unfortunatley, but i will have time tommorow, i promise!

Dickybod

Ladies and Gentlemen, your attention please.

It has come to my attention that a monumentous occassion has taken place.

'Teh DickyBlog' HAS HIT 1000 HITS!!!

Thank you to all those who read this pile of moo every day!!

And in your face Teradud!!!

In my previous post i mentioned the Eurovision song contset. the song in question that won Eurovision was Wild Dances by Ruslana. Imagine the below sung to the tune of a tribal war dance, in a very heavy Russian-esque accent.

Just maybe I’m crazy,
The world spins round and round and round
shi-di-ri-di-duy, shi-di-ri-di-da-na
shi-di-ri-di-duy, shi-di-ri-di-da-na

I want you to want me as I dance
Round and round and round
shi-di-ri-di-duy, shi-di-ri-di-da-na
shi-di-ri-di-duy, shi-di-ri-di-da-na

Forever and ever go, go, go wild dancers!!

Day-na-day-na Wanna be loved
Day-na Gonna take my wild chances
Day-na-day-na Freedom above
Day-na-da-na-da I’m wild ‘n’ dancing

...alternatively I'll send it to you, or you can get it yourself you lazy buggers.

So, in DickyBod News, nothing much has happened. I have my German oral exam in 14 hours, and i have done no preperation for it, I haven't done my cue card for it, and, hey let's face it, i'm not going to do the former. The latter's kind of a nessacity...

Had a very strange MSN conversation earlier, about which i will mention no names, but the perpertrator can rest assured that he/she is in no immediate danger. Though, blackmail purposes... makes me wish i really had saved the convo... Ah well.

Well, i bring news that the next installment of Das Croo will be posted tomorrow, for no reason other than my life is quite a bit less interesting. Ciao

G'night
DickyBod

Playing: Jailbait on Interstate I-0 (don't ask)
Reading: Left Behind 10 - The Remnant
Listening to: Ruslana - Wild Dancers (Still. Too damn catchy!)
Watching: The Last Samurai (Nice one Chris :D)
Annoyed with: Sacre Charlemagne (if anyone can get me that i will love you forever)
Confused about: JESSICA-ANN JENNER!!!
Mood: Tired, serene, happy. Kinda confuzzled...

Ciao

The Eurovision Song Contest.

The name brings to mind so many image and thoughts. The country uniting as one, to expect many things. These include:

The terrible quality of the song
The technical mishaps (sure Jemini...'technical' problems)
Wogan being completey drunk at the end of the evening
The voting will be the most biased pile of turd in existance

I had managed to avoid all 48 previous Eurovision competitions for various reasons (not yet being born was quite a good one i thought) but yet, last night i found myself to be on a sofa, phone next to me with a piece of card on it with "Ukraine" stamped on it, sitting in a room with several others, watching what was perhaps one of the most interesting moments of television i had seen all year.

Essentially i had accepted the invitation to attend a 'Eurovision Partay' which basically entailed me being assigned a country (Ukraine) along with others, ad then having to give my own score for each countries entry as it came on TV. Admittedly it was much simpler after Spain's entry had shut up, because i then had managed to get the gist of the evening. Now, those who know me know that i am at heart a very cynical and sarcastic person. Which led to my fellows jurors incredulousness when i revealed i hadn't given any country above an 8. Now, those of you who really know me (Duds im looking at you here) would know that my taste in music is dubious, to say the least. Hence more incredulousness from my peers. I then sneak a look at Greece's marks, and see 2 nul points and at least 5 douze points.

Actually on the topic of Greece, i almost managed to kill her. ON Eurovision and all. I believe it went:

Ukraine : "But look, thats so cheesy!"

Greece : "At least he's doing something original (take bite of sandwich)"

Ukraine : "What, singing in key?!"

(Let choking commence)


The rivalry between us was heated during the voting. (Sibling rivalry was nonexistant. I had 200 points before my Bro even got any.) With us both fighting for the top spot, it become tense, until Ukraine was honoured by three countries in a row (no idea which countries. They sang something though, no idea what...) with the full douze points. So victory was assured. And for the Ukrainian victory, i recieved two Terry's Chocolate Oranges (mine, not Terry's.) One was given to my brother as a sympathy vote (3 points snigger) and i gave the other to Greece, for the simple reasons that i had almost killed her, she had come second (i think... maybe third, i dunno) and that my dental state would have meant that my teeth would have disintegrated the moment any of the orange came into contact with my teeth.

Oh, and for the record, Jessica-Ann Jenner, if you read ths, i'd like to know where your theory about the above came from.

Well, that was a fun evening. Loved that Ukrainian entry :D

G'night
Dickybod

Playing: Quake Interactive Fiction (finished it, but meh)
Reading: Left Behind 9 - Desecration
Listening to: Ruslana - Wild Dancers (Ukrainian Entry. Not good without the leather)
Watching: The Reduced Shakespeare Company
Annoyed with: Sacre Charlemagne STILL!!!
Confused about: Why i havent posted the next croo...
Mood: Happy. Bloody tired, got no sleep last night...