I can't stop listening to One Man Guy - Rufus Wainwright.

I love this song! The folk-ish melody and simple guitar strumming really captures me. It's cute at first when you think of the whole Rufus Wainwright being gay and having a song called One Man Guy, but as Aditi pointed out, the song is about something else. But it's a nice double entendre nevertheless, intended or not.

Before I go back to class, I need to spread my overwhelming joy at having finished my ToK essay! I finished the last three paragraphs last night, in about 2-3 hours, a major improvement from the 2hours/paragraph before. I managed to squeeze the arts in 550+ words but I still have stuff to add and the essay's too long anyway. 1856 at last count. I'm so proud of myself!!! It was probably the second most challenging essay I've ever written, only because the Extended Essay required so much more research and was 4000 words long. Or maybe they tie.

As I was writing the penultimate paragraph, I was involuntary seized by spasms of joy on the verge of erupting into something dangerous. Ironically, it was these great happy waves that hindered my progress, because I was so happy at the prospect of finishing I could hardly drag myself to actually finish it. But I did in the end, at 12 midnight, and was bursting into people's rooms and proclaiming my unending rapture and doing jigs and floating floating floating! *sighhhhhhhhhh*

ToK is DONE! =)

I'm still alive, I promise.

I feel bad for having neglected this for so long. I wanted to post, really. But I've recently developed a habit for procrastination that I find most worrying. Anyway, from whence you saw me last, nothing new has happened in my most unillustrious life. =)

Exeat weekend was just over, without much fuss or internet connection (sadly) and my ToK essay draft is too long yet too short. By this I mean, we were meant to write on 2 areas of knowledge with a word limit of 1200 - 1600 words, so that'd mean ~700 words per area of knowledge, ideally. Unfortunately, I've written 1000+ words on knowledge, opinion and propaganda in history alone and have thus given up trying to cram knowledge, opinion and propaganda in the arts and a conclusion in 500 words. I don't really know what I'm waiting for...some form of divine intervention perhaps. Like my ToK teacher, or Aditi. *offers the sacrificial carrots* (cause Aditi's vegetarian) =P

Moving on from ToK, I'm having a bit of a headache over uni options. It's PR status, parents, accomodation, course options, fees, scholarships, and a missed prerequisite test (the UMAT) all crushed into one big painful and tedious mess. Well okay, it's probably less that I'm making it out to be, but nonetheless, rather uncomfortably distracting.

I'm currently reading Harry Potter, more out of curiosity than a burning desire to follow the gripping life of The Boy Who Could Say Voldemort Without Twitching And Gets Annoyed At Other People Who Couldn't. A little past halfway, as I've just started for a couple of hours yesterday in any free time I could squeeze in. I think I'm getting bored, if not downright annoyed at Harry's obsession with Malfoy. I don't believe any twist in the plot later on can justify his obsessive stalking and suspicions. And I'm beginning to wonder about the cliched-ness of Rowling's obvious use of character names to reflect their personalities. You know, like, Snape sounds like snake associated with slyness, evilness etc. Sure, it's a literary technique which a lot of writers use, like Charles Dickens and his character Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times (among other characters). But I feel Rowling used it to the point of clichedom, and that it's a technique that gets old really fast. Or maybe I need to remember that when she first wrote her target audience were younger kids and maybe that's why she's signposting so much.

I read Flowers for Algernon not too long ago. What a great book! I may post a little more on my personal response to it when I find time, because I don't remember a book that I've been able to relate to my present self so much before. I have a feeling, TP, that you will really enjoy this book too. Go read it! If you haven't already. Then we can rave about it together. Hehe. =)

Anyway, the trials are inching closer, and I feel extremely guilty for not having done any Physics revision. I don't have Physics classes anymore you see. The Standard Level students were finished with the course like a month or two ago, giving me extra spares in my timetable where any Physics lesson was. *whimper* I'm not stressed, really! =)

I have 2 minutes now to eat my lunch before I go for my lunchtime Math lesson. Gotta run!