[OLD BLOG; IMPORTED POST] Boredom is inversely proportional to time before a major test. Discuss

Lately, life is boring, except for last week.

OK, I'll rewrite that.

Last week was the most interseting week in a lacklustre term. Why? NO SCHOOL!!!

No, I'm not in year 12. It's just that:

• On Monday, the whole of year 8 skipped the whole day due to some random stuff on "Collective Identity". The chap who was running it came from the US, and would have voted for Obama...if he got his vote in on time.
• On Wednesday, there was a strike. First three periods gone.
• On Thursday, we had an Agriculture excursion. 8AG4 went to "Mad Boer Goat Stud Farm" [sic] and to "Tizzana Winery". I thought the guy who lead the tour around the winery looked a bit like that guy from The Chaser.
• On Friday, I took a sickie and skipped periods 1 through 5, then went to an awards ceremony and played hangman with Shelley. Some words included "boredom" (me) and (damn, I can't remember. Moving on!)

And now, back to schedule. EXCEPT!!!

The ESSA (Essential School Science Assessment or some crap like that) is today. Well, perhaps not today per se, as it's still Monday in my book. Which reminds me:

FREE ITUNES MUSIC! YAY!!!

Also, I've discovered BitTorrent, which I've mostly used for:

• Quantum of Solace
• Barbie and the Diamond Castle (for my sister)
• Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D (no, really. It's a bloody pain in the neck)
• Doctor Who
• Doctor Who
• Doctor Who.

No, seriously. It's either movies or TV episodes. Movies tend to be recent releases; and TV episodes Doctor Who. Maybe I should download teenage trash e.g. Gossip Girl or 90210. Or, or, or...Pink music videos! (Speaking of which, they should make "This Is How It Goes Down" a single. It's good.) Or maybe more Chaser's War On Everything. Which reminds me; I also downloaded a Chaser sketch (actually a sort of song) on:

• Doctor Who

Maybe I should get a life, or start researching "The practical applications of [something something] in planetary colonisation" for Jenny. As Han said, I almost feel sorry. Not that Jenny isn't nice.
In English today (or yesterday), McFadyen set us a little task: to come up with a "interesting" topic for a speech, which he would randomly distribute among the class. I set "Discuss the role of science in popular media, and how the media influences the direction of science" which Tina said was a good and interesting topic, but would be hard to research, which went to Myuran. I got "Contemporary Hip-hop" in return. However, Tina had more reason to complain. She got Peter's topic: "Pies".
Life in 8T is weird, but I think I've gone into withdrawal. Although, David is quite nice (and intellectual, to boot). THAT WAS NOT A CONFESSION OF LOVE, JIM! Sorry. Just in case.
In conclusion, I believe the above post proves that boredom on a graph with time forms a parabola, concave down, with its vertex at time: midnight before the exam. Now someone stop me before I go into a talk about a Doctor Who episode called "Midnight", which I think McFadyen should play in Stage 4 classes about SF rather than that B&W episode of the Twilight Zone ("The Sixth Finger") and before I go on to discuss how that plot was used differently in another recent Doctor Who episode...