Blood Pressure Day
2005-05-10 @ 10:00 p.m.

Finished the Hardy essay, but now I'm wondering if Mr Purvis will mark it, because it was apparently due by Friday. (We blame Yi-Xun for not telling us!) Anyway, so some of us slipped our essays into his pigeonhole yesterday afternoon, as he wasn't in school by then. Our only defences are our names and his general disposition toward us, which is rather presumptuous, but we were kind of desperate by then. Since he didn't say anything about it in class today, we're assuming he's got them and he's not (too) mad at us. Now to finish the Frost and 'S' Paper essays. Am sorely tempted to write a Cunningham/Govinden essay for 'S' Paper, but I seriously doubt We Are The New Romantics has sufficient literary merit. I don't want to do the poetry question, because so many people are doing it already! So I'll just take my chances with A Home At The End Of The World and an as-yet unidentified book. I have until Thursday to decide which two books I'm using for this essay. For now, I await Friday with trepidation.

Went over my valedictory speech with Mlle Au yesterday, and she was really helpful. The speech is a lot easier to read now, even if some of the fancy French words and phrases have disappeared. Never has the gap between the spoken and the written been more apparent to me. I'm going to type out the rewritten speech, and then if I don't feel like doing anything more, I'll just pick my songs for worship and go to bed. All this once I'm done with letting Zhong Xing pick my brains about Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?. (I refuse to refer to it any other way as a point of principle.) I really must start on the Frost essay, but I'm never in the mood for doing any work after watching CSI on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Today's episode was especially riveting. Had some weird guy who wanted to saw his leg off because it oppressed him. The crosses that some people bear in life are confoundedly baffling...

Have come to the conclusion that males inevitably regress in the society of other males. It's only a matter of whether they regress to a pleasant state or otherwise. Reached this conclusion after PE, during which I spent about half an hour jumping around like a little kid with Ben, Ka Tsai and Ming Yong. Not to say that it wasn't fun though! My legs are going to ache like hell tomorrow, but what the heck, it was good while it lasted. I think I'll pay a visit to Man Studio during lunchtime, maybe grab a new shirt. Will give Samuel & Kevin a miss for now, because I actually want to save some money this month! Unbelievable, isn't it? A parting shot, born out of annoyance at Mr Kwok's tutorial. "History is impassioned debate masquerading as intellectual discussion." Chun Long finds it eminently quotable, but even I think it's pejorative. As always though, there is a grain of truth in it.

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