A proper update

[delga]

So, I've been spamming my lj for quite some time now. I guess Monday's RL post killed things somewhat. And then there were icons, fic and poetry. Have spent the day sorting out lj codes for tigertrapped's new community. It was interesting seeing how the damn thing works but seriously, guys? HTML is a bitch. I have nothing more to say on the subject (other than now that it's done, I'm fairly proud of my first-time efforts).

Uh, the fannish. Well...more icons to come. crouchingmajor returned my tape today so I can watch this week's Alias and the rest of CI. Believe it or not, Mr K returned all 6 of my tapes earlier in the week too. Tomorrow some of us are going to see Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy - the nerd in me is squeeing with delight. I can't wait :)

Have now read to the end of Prisoner of Azkaban but I can't be bothered with the next one. Y'all are going to have to wait until July before I pick that one up. However, I'm very pleased that Sirius and Remus have finally turned up. That makes me feel better.

School is slowly dwindling away. It feels bizarre to think that in three more weeks, my school career will be over. I'm jumping between extremes - some days I really want to be gone and other days I don't ever want to leave. I can't getmy head around the fact that we're leaving school. It's been my entire life for the past 14 years - secondary for the last seven. The people there have shaped me, have filled my memories. They've been with me nealry everyday. It's going to be so surreal.

I don't suppose it helps that I've got to the part in shoebox_project when they leave the sixth year, does it? That's just adding to my sense of... I don't know. Is it disappointment? Whatever. It's weird.

What's not weird and decidedly not cool is that my exams are in June which may sound like ages to you but really is not. As ever, am jumping from panic to apathy and back again, like a rabid yo-yo. Good news: not going to work tomorrow - woo!

OK, am off to finish icons now (see that - talking about exams and then skip revision for icons). Oh, and Labour won the elections. I don't really know what my response should be. I didn't want the Tories to win. I don't know if the Lib Dems would have been any good... School politics are pissing me off somewhat. You know, students in teh sixth form are supposed to be equal. I understand that the new head has his own way of doing things and I understand that he wants to get the lunch system moving more quickly. I also understand that will result in the loss of queue-jumping privileges for sixth form. Fine. It's an advancement. (there is the quiblle that we've already lost study privileges but I understand why that's happened and I'm not so greatly fussed abou that either). My real annoyance with the system is the division of the sixth form.

We've always had prefects and senior prefects. Senior prefects have even had privileges. Dammit - I was both a prefect and a senior prefect. But the prefects never really had any influence over the sixth form itself. Rather, they were a minority add-on to the lower staff. So we ran errands or were, you know, prefects &c. The new headmaster has introduced a head boy/head girl system where 4 students report directly to him. There are better ways of communicating with the sixth form body. One way would be to communicate with us instead of talking at us. Secondly, with this whole lunch queue system - only prefects/senior prefects are allowed to push into the queue? No fucking way, sir. First off, that cuts out all of the upper sixth (because new senior prefects took over in January and prefects are only in lower sixth) and whether or not I use the caffeteria does not matter. Secondly, what the hell? You're rewarding people for what exactly? Collecting cards, watching queues? Bull shit. Prefects don't do anything to earn privileges; what they do, they do as a duty to the school. And what the hell are you doing ruining the balance of the sixth form like that? The sixth form is supposed to be a coherent body of students and now you're elevating the status of a select few? What the hell are you doing exacerbating the social stereotypes? What the fuck are you doing destroying that karma? And it IS fucking karma - this makes me so mad. Students are supposed to be equal. The new system creates a hierarchy in the sixth form. It is plain wrong. /rant

And on that note, I'm off. *waves*