h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Sorry to disturb the tumbleweed... but hello!

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Unfortunately, no one ever drops by. You're the first visitor I've had in ages. Yay!

Aww!
Well, it did look a bit... empty here. I thought some of the tumbleweed had other places to be, it's got a lot of places to tumble in.

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The only people who ever used to drop in were Red Dog and Lisa, but I haven't seen either of them around for ages.

Aww!
Anyway, how's life going?

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Well... I'm starting off in L6th, and have far too much free time to play Startopia in

I've got a concert on Saturday night, followed by shooting training at Pirbright on Sunday morning bright and early... looks like I won't be getting much of a weekend ...

Don't worry, if you're doing Further Maths all that should change at some point...
(Unless you're the class genius who gets As without trying. )

Cool!
And what's a weekend again??
(I w*rk 9-4 Saturday and 9-1 Sunday, then do things like homew*rk )

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Well... last year doing GCSE I suspect I /was/ the class genius who got As without trying... *embarrassed *

But yeah, as soon as our Further Maths classes actually get going I'm expecting life to get very interesting, very quickly...

So did I. This is no longer the case...
But, dammity, it /will/ be... *grits teeth and wonders if she will ever bother doing homew*rk)
And if doesn't get interesting fairly quickly, tell your teacher to get a move on, you can't afford to waste time on the easier bits... unfortunately...

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Mmm... this I suspected.

I should really get off the internet and go and do some horn practise - I have an audition this afternoon!

And I have stats prep (homework, soz) for tomorrom.

BTW, I've said nice things about you on my h2g2 homepage (have I posted this already? am I repeating myself? aaargh...)

Anyway, you could be the genius.

Oh, what's the audition for?

Feel free to call it prep... but I may forget that it is homew*rk.

*looks* Oh, thanks!
I'm afraid you've got to make do with the same links I give everyone else.

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I've never understood how those links work. It's all far too confusing.

The audition /was/ (phew) for the Oxford Academy of Music. And I got in, thank goodness. And I got in. (I was playing the horn).

...and I'd much rather you'd put my link in a word other than "duck". But hey.

First letter of your name is the letter of the link.
And there might be a 'black' in my page somewhere, would you prefer your link in there?

Oh, cool! Well done!
What is the Oxford Academy of Music?

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"might be a black" - or 10 or so. Yes please.

Well, how it works is that if you're a member you get instrumental lessons 1/2 price and you have to go to the Oxfordshire Central Music School on Saturday mornings. (This means that I have to miss Saturday morning school, and one of my teachers is being /very/ grumpy about it.)

Anyway, I think it's pretty cool. And I don't mind having to work a bit harder at my Physics to catch up, because Physics isn't that boring, IMHO.

Done!

Cool! I wish there was some sort of scheme like that round here... and that there was a bassoon teacher... And your teacher should be more supportive. Anyway, it's your problem if you miss his lesson, not his. And you're lucky your Physics course isn't boring, because mine is... and I will NEVER forgive them for calling one module 'Space' when it had nothing to do with space.
Damn Edexcel.
What exam board have you got for it?

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I'm not sure...

...but hopefully not Edexcel.

The concert last night went really well, and I had a great time (and bought a new badminton racket ). And this morning we practised the ETR gallery match. Yay... it involves lots of running and shooting (but not at the same time, thank God). I did okay, considering the fact I haven't shot in a few weeks - 26/30 and 23/30.

Anyway... what sort of rifle do you usually shoot? .22 or 7.62? We use CCF rifles - you know, the horrible Cadet GP version of the SA-80 - it's chambered in 5.56, and has the worst sighting system I have ever seen... but I also fire .22 indoor in our school range.

I hope you don't have Edexcel as well. And hopefully they won't be around much longer...

Cool.

.22. It's the only rifle I've ever shot, I've nothing to do with any cadets whatsoever, and I don't know where the nearest club to me is that shoot full bore... So I've no idea about any other sorts of rifles.

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So what sort of rifle do you have? We use Anschutz rifles - really old ones...