Saturday, May 28, 2011

Schools out!

Down side: Test starting on Monday
Up side: No more English class for three months! :D

It's hard to describe the sheer blandness of English class, to describe the voice of my teacher Ms. Howlin, only to say that if she were the one reading this to you you'd be deeply asleep. I sometimes forget I've even been in an English class.

And so we turn to tests (hopeful grades in brackets), English (B) itself is up first on Monday, for which study will not be needed, just a quick read over of apparently Nobel-prize winning poetry. Then to Music, Irish and DCG (B,B,A), Chemistry (A), Construction and Physics (A and A), and last day for Maths (another A). My test schedule has actually worked out fantastically, as anything I need to study for is on a solitary day. So hopes are high, yet I should probably be studying instead of blogging. Ah well.

Anyone willing to over me a job for the Summer?

Over and out.

Sunday, May 22, 2011

Doctor Who as of Season 6 Episode 4

Well it seems as if the writers of Doctor Who have finally admitted it. Who was always on the extremely soft side of the sci-fi scale, but as of this season it seems to have finally come out of the closet as a fantasy show. The plot devices and regular Doctor Who Deus ex Machinae have gone beyond the boundaries of sci-fi and into the more forgiving realm of space-fantasy.

Yes, the aliens are still there, the time-travel's still there, but the contrived science behind the show is getting increasingly far-fetched. Nurse-mermaids entering from parallel universes due to a simple reflection? What happened to the TARDIS nearly dying when the Doctor last tried to cross parallels? Or the fact that David Tennant sealed them off?


Don't get me wrong, I still love the show, and Matt Smith is fantastically filling the considerably large boots left behind by Tennant. Like Tennant, he seems to have a dark, nasty side underneath the mountain of quirks. He's the college professor everyone craves, and the ADHD kid everyone loves, all wrapped into one; topped off of course with a lavish helping of good ol' British cheese.

The season has started off fantasically with the two-part Silence episode (yes, Moffet has added more reasons not to sleep at night), I felt the pirate episode to be a bit of a lull, but Neil Gaiman's 'The Doctor's Wife' was a fantasic episode, as required by now from an amazing writer.

We expectantly await more.

Over and out.

I'm so, so sorry. And I won't do it again. Maybe.

*looks at feet*
I may have left you in a rush of excitement for the glitz and glam of YouTube and vlogging, and I'm quite guilty about that, so I've returned here, tail between between my legs, as I'm having trouble making vlogs due to hardware failure...

I think I left due to the pressure of 2-3 blogs a week, and the closing in schedule of school work, but as of next week I'm officially off school for the summer! I hope to bring a schedule of about 2 blogs a week, 1 a blog, the other a review of movies/games/tv. And if my webcam gets fixed I'll try not to leave you again...

Forgive me?

Over and out.

p.s. I also intend to start a cricket blog for the English cricket season if anyone's interested.