Yeah, it’s one of those days, I’m afraid. I’ve been at college, then playing some 360 with friends, so unfortunately I didn’t have the time to put into something substantial. Not that it really matters – Doctor Who series finale tomorrow, and that’ll be substantial. Of course, I’m then left with the problem of what to do on Saturdays now that Doctor Who has finished. Never mind.

1) Steam have started doing their summer deals. In certain ways, this is really good news, because it means cheap games. In other ways, I can see my money being drained away very, very fast.
2) I’m going to CERN in December! My maths teacher (who’s also a physics teacher) has arranged a trip, so I and several friends will be going to the place for particle physics research. I’m most worried about the flight – I’ve never been on the plane before, so I’m a little nervous.
3) This McSweeney’s monologue from the perspective of Comic Sans is very, very funny (if a little rude).

That’s all for tonight, I’m afraid. Tomorrow will be amazing. See you then!

So, my AS levels are now over, and A2s are looming on the horizon, but my most pressing issue at the moment is university open days. Despite my final exam being only last week, the universities somehow expect us to have found the time to book open day, taking time out of our learning to go and tramp around some nice buildings. Thankfully, most have some in September as well.

One of my problems is that I haven’t really got much of an idea about which university I want to go to. They all have pretty much the same stuff in their prospectuses – attractive people lounging in well-appointed rooms or in the sun-dappled shade of a mighty oak, or what have you, and lots of words about how great it is. ‘Really active student union’ and ‘refurbished buildings’ and ‘world-class research’ and the like. Thankfully, I want to do a physics degree, and there aren’t that many universities which offer it, and fewer that I want to go to. I had a list of 18, which I’ve managed to get down to 15 as of this evening. How I’m going to get further is anyone’s guess. Suppose I’ll go to some open days and see which ones I like. The course is obviously important as well, so I suppose I’ll be looking at the course content in a bit more detail.

In order that I might end with some brevity, here’s a man being funny about dinosaurs.

Over and out.

I downloaded iOS4 this morning. Unfortunately, I only have a puny 2G iPod Touch, so I can’t take advantage of the most exciting new feature, multi-tasking. I can’t even change the home screen background (for some reason). However, I’ve still managed to folder all my icons so they’re all neatly packed away on one screen. I’ve still got the nice reflective dock at the bottom. And I’ve still got iBooks. I wasn’t aware you had to download iBooks yourself, I assumed it was one of those things (like the voice recorder) which turned up in an update and couldn’t be deleted (what’s going on there? I’ve never had any call to use the Stocks app, but I’m still forced to have it on my device). I wasn’t really looking forward to it for books – I’ve got Stanza for that – but more for the PDF support. Yes, a rather circuitous way to get it, but still, it’s worth it in my opinion. I rather like iOS4, and everything seems to run a little faster.

In other news, A2 has begun afresh, but it’s ok, and while I…
…sorry. I fell asleep while writing that sentence. Guess I’d better head off and grease the wheels of learning with the grease of understanding. Or sleep. Goodnight!

OK, from now on, I write my posts earlier, not immediately before I fall asleep. Maybe that way I might write something worth a damn, rather than the torrent of short, scrappy apologies like this one. It’s pretty much an admission of defeat, and I need to stop it. I’ve got some things I want to write about, but I’m a bit tired to do them justice, so for now, goodnight. For goodness’ sake.