Photos from Day 5: Both taken in the wairarapa. I like the variety of layers in the first pic and the vivid green in the second. Tell me what you think.
I was given a piece of news yesterday which was a little bit disconcerting. Apparently NCEA results are released in seven days, one week, 7 365ths of a year. I do the same thing each year. I freak out. I'll probably do the same this year even though I've adapted a new life motto 'Don't Freak out' but that's a little bit plagiarised so I'm not sure if I can use it without being sued... Everyone knows that I have freak out tendencies which is undoubtedly why Michaela cursed the bearer of bad news as soon as she told me. You see NZQA tries to let us have a worry free summer holiday. They try to do this by never actually setting the date for when NCEA results are released. There's always just an annoyingly vague statement which says 'results will be released sometime in mid january'. I guess it means that all of the intensely high maintenance students won't put the day on their calendar along with a worried emoticon which looks a little bit like this : /. Wait a second even if high maintenance students don't know exactly when results are released they'll still include that emoticon. They'll just choose a date sometime in mid January eg 15th and put it on their calendar. I really wish I hadn't corrupted my Winnie the Pooh TM calendar with such terrible things as NCEA but I just find it rather thrilling to write things on my calendar. It's probably mainly because the last calendar that I bought/was given to me was when I was about 6 and to be honest 6 year olds really don't have that such to write on a calendar except for Easter and Christmas. But unfortunately Hallmark already thought of those dates and included them... so the calendar remains blank.
Now I know the actual date the count down begins. 7 days and counting. I won't do that annoying thing where people figure out the exact time down to the last second because that's just infuriating. Although I will probably continue to countdown the days until the dreaded D Day. If you want to laugh at my freak out last year on that wretched day then quite simply read this post http://random-daily-discoveries.blogspot.com/2010/01/d-day.html. To be honest it seems utterly insane to freak out about results (or at least that's what the very small rational part of my brain is telling me) because there's no way that I can change them unless... I learn how to hack the NZQA server and change my results not that I've been googling how to hack a government database or anything...
I have to admit that in many ways I see that ominous envelope from NZQA is a bit like a mosquito bite (smooth transition?) in that I was just having a wonderful carefree summer until suddenly this mosquito came out of nowhere and bit me. Now I have to deal with that infuriating bite. I find that mosquito bites are particularly mischievous at first glance I look at my arm to see that there's only one perfectly circular bite next to my Bermuda triangle formation of freckles. A few moments pass. I look down again and they've popped up everywhere. My arm is looking like one of those maps of the pacific with the 3D islands. In fact my intense bout of bites has taught me something which I didn't know before about (dare I use some Aussie lingo) mozzie bites. See there is always a silver lining in everything. Not all mosquito bites are circular. In fact they come in a variety of shapes. There's one that looks a bit like a pomegranate if you squint a little bit on my left elbow. It's rather exciting I shall be sad to see it go although I won't miss the annoying itchiness. I hypothesise that it happened because there was an attack on that small patch of skin from a gang of mosquitoes. Okay I was trying to be positive about my mozzie bites but now a little bit more time has passed. They always get far worse before the bites get better. It's a nasty surprise. I just discovered that my bites aren't restricted to my left arm. They're on my legs, neck and arms plural. I have a nasty suspicion that people are going to start to think that I have a terrible skin condition. Thanks mozzies. Cherise is at Harry Potter land in Florida meanwhile a population of Mosquitoes have decided that I'm Mosquito Maccas. Cool.
Finally the beautiful dream. It was lovely. Phoebe was intensely jealous. It was a simple dream but it was just so fluid. You know how with so many dreams you wake up from them and immediately think 'my goodness my subconscious is utterly screwed up'. In this dream I didn't. I won't be specific because that may force you to make judgements about me although if your mind works anything like mine then that probably means that you're thinking that my dream was quite possibly the worst thing that you can imagine and I don't know how dark your mind is so I'll just tell you. Well firstly I saw Hamish and Andy! Then I went up to them and I was like 'Oh my Goodness you're Hamish and Andy you're awesome...' I then went on to mention Andy's family antique snake (not what you think! Youtube it... It's a wooden toy snake). After that I danced with Andy. It was really nice and relaxing. It probably made me fall asleep in my dream (like Inception) so I woke up. Confusing no? I think my dreams are improving. Especially since I used to have dreams about the number '3'... weird... I mean that one could be nominated for a dream Oscar or something. It was very entertaining.
After Dinner Mint: Perhaps your New Years Resolution should be to actually read this blog word for word instead of skim reading. Of course if that doesn't apply to you then you're such an amazing person then there is nothing you need to change and therefore you don't need new years resolutions!
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