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Yes, so it's a bit late!
Merry Christmas everybody, I hope you all had a good time. :)

I'm thoroughly pleased with my shiny new iPod nano blue - but I'd better buy a case or something before it wears out through overuse! As I write this I'm transcoding the Transformers DVD I was given so I can watch it on t'Pod; not sure if it'll be easy to watch in bed or whatever, but it's worth a go.

We've had both grandmas over for the last three days or so, and I think they've had a good time too.

I get another glorious day off school too!

My new 500GB SATA hard drive (a present from me to me; if I told my relatives that I wanted a SATA-II 500GB WD HD with 16MB cache they wouldn't have a clue what to buy) is also working wonderfully, despite some initial teething issues with Windows XP - I only had a servicepack1 install CD, so it only recognised 136GB or something.
I spent an hour or so making it look all nice and colour-themed, you can see it as soon as I've installed an FTP client!

Remember that post I made ages ago, about the single RAM module being delievered in a box that could hold a DVD boxset of LOST? Well, I didn't think I'd be able to top that for waste of space.

This must have been at least 40x30cms, and guess what was inside. Click on it for the answer.

I know. No, I'm not lying. That was the only thing in the box. (Other than a piece of paper)

It's 22:50 on Sunday, 16th December 2007, and I've just finished my Geography coursework!
56 pages of strange rantings about the part of Chesterfield where I'm sure nobody noticed any massive change; condensed into one mighty tome!

I now declare it to officially be the end of the year (actual year, not school year). I've done enough work! Please!

Note to any teachers reading this:
a) Don't make me do more coursework. :( Other than Maths, that's fun. After Christmas, it's straight back at the wheel!
b) Stop reading my blog, I might want to rant about how terrible awesome you are one day.

Well, I think I'm glad to get those out of the way. Then again, I did get to spend a lot of time on "Study leave".

Yes, that's right, lots of hours spent at home revising! ;)
(Everybody knows that most people spend about half the time doing nothing; I remember while I spent an afternoon looking at MyMaths.co.uk about 7 people IM'd me even though I appeared offline)

Fortunately I didn't come out of any of the exams thinking "oh no, I screwed that up!" I was worried that the French speaking test wouldn't go so well, but I'm told I got a B/A, which i'm perfectly happy with.
I was also a bit cheesed off at the statistics exam (yes, that's right, they decided to give us an extra GCSE to do) as they put it right at the end when everyone else had lessons (only the first 2 maths sets do this extra GCSE, everyone else gets it easy). This sounds OK - I mean, would you rather spend 2 hours doing work or 2 hours sitting in a room doing nothing in particular?
However, a) The exam was quite hard
and b) Everyone else had Science; where they randomly browsed the internet on laptops, and ICT, where nobody ever does anything anyway.

Oh well, it's only 6 months until the real exams, then I can have lots more "study leave"...

Click the image for a larger version, as usual.

Also, excuse the relatively poor scan - I've just fixed a 15-year-old scanner to work on XP!