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How dare you question the merits of the intellectually draining experience that is dancing?1!11!one.

My Modern History mark, 93% (first in the year), confused the hell out of me. Considering that the final essay (which was worth 25% of the mark) was a horrific abortion of a last-ten-minutes rush job, I don't know how on Earth I did so well. My French marks, on the other hand, were entirely...

Is Year 12 making me unattractive? No, it is allowing me time to cultivate my luscious, Mustainian locks, a sea of masculinity from which women, enchanted by the virility of it all, cannot escape. (In other words, eh, I look marginally better now that I have long hair. It frames my face in a...

I spent these holidays pretending to have done History and English Extension 2 work. We all know it amounted to but a few scribblings in journals.

I'm analysing the causes of the Civil War, with particular attention given to disproving the post-war Southern assertion that slavery wasn't the main cause.

I'll probably kill modern history, I tend to do very well in it. 96% on the preliminaries, for instance. My other subjects, though...well. Not quite 96%.

Either maths or French continuers, chiefly because I hate the former completely and am really frightened of speaking exams in the latter.

I think the average mark in exams for our class is actually a fail. Go team!

Choosing economics perhaps wasn't my finest decision. It's not that the subject is really hard as such, it's just that it's so dense. There's such a broad range of knowledge you need to acquire. As for the rest of my subjects, eh, they're not too bad.

Straight outta St Ives High.

Does having more than ten units have any bearing on your final UAI? Do they take the fact that you did more subjects than you absolutely had to into account? I'm doing thirteen at the moment, and I was wondering if dropping anything would make a difference in that regard.

We get jerseys and use of the common room, but that's really about it. They scrapped the Year 12 ski camp in '05 because it wasn't "educational" and got rid of our canteen line just at the end of last year. Wankers.

In our Extension 2 major works, are we permitted to include quotes from novels, films, songs and the like? I was considering opening each act/chapter/subdivision with a relevant/clever/insightful quote, but I'm not sure if that's allowed. I mean, if it's not okay then it isn't the end of the...

I don't really have a nickname to speak of, so I just figured I'd make a Pink Floyd reference. Thus, "Floydian". I was going to get "Blue Monday", but that wouldn't fit. We had a ten character limit.

Aphex Twin's "Windowlicker", courtesy of the sick, sick mind of Chris Cunningham. It's worth the price of admission purely for the two guys at the beginning.

A night time shot of the street my uncle lives on in Auckland, December 2006.

The totality of my journal thus far is some pencil scribblings about possible characters, a quote from William S. Burroughs about how he got into hard drugs, and a vague passage I wrote about someone hanging themselves. It's, err, bleak and brief.