29th & 30th - Motivation

Another problem I have is motivating myself and avoiding procrastination. I'll think of some stuff to write here later

Jan 28th - First day of the first term of the last year of school

It's weird.

Really weird.

Almost surreal really. What doesn't help is that the red shirts (as opposed to green) that Westlake 7th formers wear are really conspicuous and juniors looking up at you which was a position I was in about 4 years ago.

Time flew by. At the time it didn't but in hindsight it did. Last year of school. good golly, Miss molly.

Umm yeah, not much to add to that really. It's weird.

Jan 26th & 27th - Leadership

It's inevitable that I will miss a day every week but I'm not going to stop apologizing because that would start the downhill descent of this blog.

So we had the 3rd form initiation day today. I signed up to be a buddy to them, show them around the school, answer their questions and try make them feel at home in as short a space of time as possible. I had a really quiet group except for one kid who always had another question. And not stupid ones you can't just shrug off, actual questions that need answering. Twas interesting. Then we played handball :P

I'm off to bed now - big day tomorrow, first as a 7th former so it's pretty cool.

Jan 25th - Euphoria

Well today I was getting changed (you decide if that's a euphemism or not) after getting out of the pool and my phone started ringing which never happens. I pick it up and here's a loose transcript:

Me: Hello, Logan speaking
Guy: Hello Logan! This is mutter mutter mumble mumble
Me: Pardon?
Guy: This is John with the Spirit of Adventure Trust! did you realize your Mum entered you into a competition?
Me: ...no...
Guy: Well she did and we have just pulled your name out of the draw and announced it on Murray Deaker's Show! You've won a trip on The Spirt of New Zealand!
Me: NO WAY! (and things of that nature)

So I'm pretty amazed with this. I'm more excited about it than I thought I would be but I have been thinking about signing up for it for a while now. Creepiest part is that Mum had been talking about The Spirit of New Zealand a week earlier, prior to her knowing about the competition.

I think the weird thing is that I've been waiting for a new opportunity to come around to meet new people. And then BAM.

In short, I'm pretty stoked :P

Jan 24th - Manliness

In the early hours of this morning, I teared up. I DIDN'T CRY, I just teared up. The reason for this was I had found on youtube the piece by James Horner - The Machine Age.

This piece is the opening credits music to Bicentennial Man, a wholly underrated movie I had an obsession with when I was about 10. The obsession was more with this piece than the movie as I dubbed it onto my personal cassette tape (with the help of my sister) about 3 times on each side. This was my special tape, only amazing things went onto my tape, like the entirety of star wars episode 1, voice acting and all (Doing this and half imagining and remembering was a cool experiment) and I spent 2 hours on the first day we dubbed it listening to this piece over and over.

So here for your listening pleasure is the opening sequence to Bicentennial Man. It is worth watching, perhaps for the music, perhaps for great performances, but I'm in it for the nostalgia. (2.44 onwards gets me particularly)



(The actual sequence can be found here but embedding was denied for copyright reasons *shrug*)

Jan 23rd - New technology

I am writing this blogpost from my wii console. I must say it's not the best medium for writing long distance as I have to point the wiimote at a qwerty style virtual keyboard and press every single letter. The alternative is a phone keypad style thing but there is no predictive. So the remarkable thing about today is that this post took 15 minutes to painstakingly tap out. That sentence inclusive. And that one. But not that one or this one.

dwyyfe2r6ts4qstDzfrrabuiiRDB

Jan 22nd - Beliefs

Today I encountered a religion I had never heard before - Discordianism. Worshipping the Greek goddess of chaos, Eris, this religion believes that reality is acertained through discourse and chaos. When reading more about it, it sounds more like a parody religion than a real one but not to the extent of pastafarianism which I had a sudden craving to read again. 

With my ADD internet browsing style, I now have the complete works of Nietzche, Several bibles of various religions, The Gospel of the flying Spaghetti Monster and The 5 part Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy. I love the internet ^.^

I just found it incredible the wealth of knowledge that is out there regarding people's views on life and I plan to read through as much as possible to try and make sense of this crazy existance

Also for Douglas Adams fans, Eoin Colfer is writing a 6th book! I am truly bipolar in my reaction to this news :S