I've been sooooo busy.

OK, I lie.

Exams, School and Work
Fortunately, the exams are out of the way. I think I did fine in them all, or, rather, there weren't any where I walked out thinking "OH SNAP". Last time I blogged I'd done about ¼ of the exams, and looking back I think they were the hardest ones. Having Statistics stuck out right at the end was annoying, but it wasn't as hard as I had feared. I'm sure they deliberately make the practice tests harder to scare you into revising more:- which is certainly a good thing!

It's definitely nice to be able to sit here and not have to get up at 7am to be dressed up in uniform and out the house by 8am, only to return at 4pm and do the whole cycle over again. I can generally find things to do, and I've got a nice batch of work to do at home on PetPortrayal.com - there's not much there now, but when I fix the remote desktop link to the Small Business server at work I can fix it up nicely.

Docteur Qui?
So it's the series finale of Doctor Who next Saturday, and I'm not sure if I can wait all week for it. I was distraught when I couldn't watch The Stolen Earth as it was broadcast (see below), but watching it from the DVR at 11pm actually added a bit of an edge to it. It was nice to see all the shows crossing over, and while you know none of them are actually going to die (Well, Sarah Jane can't die because she has a son and that would be sad!, and lots of people already died from Torchwood) it's still fun watching how they manage to get out of their seemingly doomed situations. Mum put forward the interesting proposition that Rose was actually evil, and just pretending to be on the Doctor's side. I don't know whether this is believable, but it would certainly be an interesting twist.

I watched all the Sarah-Jane Adventures during last week, which probably implies I was quite bored. In fact, it did help on Saturday as I expect most people who hadn't seen it wouldn't have a clue who Luke was, and he certainly has a rather different past to most kids.

Iceland
There's only four weeks left until I'm off to the land of Sigur Rós! On Saturday night I dressed up in my finest garments and waited on two sittings at the Barn Bistro - the fancy name for a garage at my Scout Leader's farm that he converted into a mini restaurant. It was quite fun managing all the food and clearing up and so on, but it affirmed that I don't want to be a waiter in the future.
It's all going towards raising money for the trip, which now includes lots of exciting additions. We're going to the Icelandic Jamboree in Akureyri for a week, and then going on our own to Reykjavik and the surrounding area for a few days afterwards. It's certainly going to be a once-in-a-lifetime trip.

The slightly scary part is that we only have a 20kg weight allowance on the IcelandAir flight there and back. That includes all the tents, cooking stuff, etc! And bearing in mind we'll probably pick up loads of souvenirs while we're there we'll have to make sure we don't overload the baggage. While I'm there I'll have to take a picture of myself spending some ISK - Icelandic Krona, not Interstellar Kredits as you EVE-Online players are used to. Maybe I can get a free lifetime subscription if I visit the CCP offices! I doubt they have many visitors.

So yes, it's going to be quite busy for a while. If there's any more rubbish I remember I'll have to post more.