Following the crowd

It's what everyone on the internet always says when they haven't blogged/vlogged/tweeted/whatever for more than a week - I've been really busy! But, well, I have been really busy, and it looks like I'm just going to get busier!

It is, however, nice busyness. A large chunk of my homework is set/completed via e-mail or the school VLE (website), which is nice from an eco-friendly perspective. The teachers don't actually do it because it's eco-friendly, it's just that the school budget has been slashed. Apparently the science department only has fourteen paper towels to share between them at the moment!

I'm still working on the church website whenever I have a spare minute, although not much has progressed since the first time I posted about it! All that really remains now is to move pages across from the old one, however. I was worrying that I'd have to spend ages writing new content for the Sunday Club and TIG pages, but as some huge co(god)incidence our new youth worker asked me last Friday if it was possible to create sections just like them! So at least I'll have some backup on that. I've also plonked the video I made of Soul Survivor onto the TIG pages, you can see that in glorious HD on Youtube here.

There seems to be inevitable push for university stuff at the moment, too - I keep getting people rattling off at me about how I need to write my personal statement and all that. I went to Warwick on Saturday, and I love it there. Their engineering department is superb! And all their accomodation seems pretty nice and modern.

In a vague attempt to organise my life a bit better (and because it's rather fun), I've bought a PDA off eBay. The HP iPAQ rx3715 was only £25, and it is from 2005 (running WM2003SE), but it does everything I could possibly want it to do! Synchronising Google Mail/Calendar has to be the most useful feature, although the Contacts sync doesn't work for some reason I'd rather not investigate too much in case I accidentally delete all my contacts (and therefore also wipe them and all their recognised faces from Picasa).

There was an ominous-looking letter in the post today - apparently having ignored the letters that the Scout HQ has sent me over the past year asking me to attend training (as they said at the original training I only needed to attend three modules and I definitely did that, and nobody ever told me off afterwards) they're now making their training sessions compulsory for all young leaders. Either there aren't many young leaders - which I refuse to believe, as we have five or six just at my group - or it's going to be a very busy Friday evening! I don't mind going to the training, but having done the job for three years already I'd have thought it'd be more important to train the new recruits and all that. I hope it doesn't clash with the fortnightly youth club on Fridays - I'd hate to miss one of those, but the Scouts letter said that if I missed three without a good reason then my leader status would be 'reviewed'! D:

So there you go. I am quite busy. I'm now off to read a 5-page interview with some physicist to which I have to e-mail my thoughts and ideas back to my physics teacher, then answer lots of questions from a slightly out-of-date computing book to e-mail to my computing teacher.

Also, I really really need to get a WYSIWYG editor plugin for Drupal - at the moment I'm typing out all the image and hyperlink tags manually!