WillTheAnderson_94

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    Well HELLO there. I've had a good weekend, so I have. So good that I didn't think to booth until now, in fact!

    Y'see, on Saturday, @Helennn1993 came round to my dad's! After picking her up from the station 'round 11, we went home, played with the keyboard's built-in-vocoder-thing as well as some much-anticipated Skyrim on my dad's Awesome computer. Then light salad-y lunch, and then to Painshill Park, a beautiful landscaped garden (when I say garden, I mean a couple of hundred acres, of course :P), which, what with it being sunny and all, was simply lahvely. Shame it's not free, but it WAS very nice.

    Took some aweosme photos, NONE OF WHICH YOU GET TO SEE unless I decide to upload them to wherever one uploads photos these days.

    Chinese for supper (y) then MOAR SKYRIM because me an' Helly are cool like that.

    On Sunday, rose fairly late and went into LONDON to meet @alexdenning and @Brezita and have super-awesome-(and-also-hot)-funtiems in the Royal Parks. I took some more artsy photos (some of which you can see here) and a generally nice time was had by all, even if I did begin to die of heatstroke by the time we made it to a Starbucks on Edgeware Road (having gone through Green and Hyde Parks). I'm such a cold-loving wuss :P

    Today I've done NOTHING and a feel terrible about it.

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    4 days 10 hours ago

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    DAILYBRAPE!

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    6 days 10 hours ago

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    Um. I had something interesting to say about yesterday...but I can't remember what it was. It probably wasn't all that interesting, then; I certainly didn't do much but stay at home and revise (in the garden, of course, because it's still SO SUNNY) yesterday...though I went for a walk at one point!

    Today passed in a similar manner, though the monotony was broken by an history revision session at school (which I only remembered half an hour previous to it and had to therefore rush somewhat) - though this did mean walking there in a SUIT in this weather >_> - and an invitation from a friend, also bored with revision, to go and get a frappuccino, which thanks to some kind of Happy Hour was HALF PRICE! #winning

    And then SCYO and then now!

    Still, tomorrow, HELEN IS COMING TO SEE ME YAYAYAYAY so hopefully life will be more exciting ^__^

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    1 week 10 hours ago

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    Two things:

    1. IT IS SUNNY WOOO YEAH except I realised that I don't like hot weather. Well shit.

    2. I HAD AN AUDITION FOR THE PHILHARMONIA CHORUS TODAY AND GOT IN WOO :'D

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    1 week 2 days ago

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    Ohello. How are we all today?

    Personally, I'm feelin' pretty fine, cause I've had a pretty okay few days ^__^

    On Saturday, for example, had a nice ol' day at college (I'm not sure what's with all the not-ending-words; I might cut that out) even if we had a full-strings sectional during Symphony Orchestra and we in the Violas didn't really do ourselves proud attempting to play the horribly difficult fugue section of the 2nd movement of Rachmaninov 2... Also performed in a composers' concert, doing a (new, duh) string quartet - which was well recieved :D - and this meant I got to see an amusing piece my friend had written for wind quintet called Happy Families, wherein each instrument played a different family member. This meant that the clarinet had to squeak loudly and storm offstage at one point as the teenage daughter, and the french horn had to make an odd purring noise as the cat, etc. It was actually quite inspired n_n

    On Sunday I arose early having been troubled by an odd dream in which Sunday passed like a normal day only for me to get to around half-past seven in the evening and realise that I'd completely forgotten to do what I had been meaning to do that day. This was attend the Harlow Viola Festival in order to play Bizet's L'Arlésienne suite in an ensemble with six other violists (including my viola teacher). The actual concert was quite good. Sadly Harlow did not, in the hour-and-a-half or so I had in between the rehearsal and this concert, prove itself to be the most spiritually enlightening of towns. The St John's Arts and Recreational Centre not immediately apparently near anything of note, I asked Google Places to take my mum and me to a coffee shop. It told us there was a Costa just under a mile away, so off we went. It took us to the middle of an industrial estate. No Costa. There was a Tesco with a cafe, though!

    Today was mostly spent revising but also having a cheeky picnic by the river for a while to celebrate @Brezita 's birthday! People came and went, much food was nommed and it was most convivial. @Helennn1993 came back to my house for some supper afterwards as well, which was lahvely :3

    Tomorrow: MORE REVISION. And so it goes.

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    1 week 4 days ago

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    WellHello!

    The reason I've not bothered boothing for a couple of days is because there's been very little to relate, anecdotally.

    I'm struggling to think of anything to say about Wednesday even now n__n

    Same goes for Thursday, really. My friend and I decided to have a go at one of those be-your-own-adventure (or whatever they're called) novels in the library during our double Free for the sake of not doing anything else. Got kicked out by the librarian :P SUCH REBELS, WE ARE. Double music was spent analyzing chords and identifying pieces of music. Beginning to have slightly more confidence in not horribly failing the exam! :D

    Today was my last ever (official) day of school. In some ways it certainly didn't seem like it, because there's still over a month until my exams are out of the way...but on the other hand, it very much did, because, as part of "muck-up day" a few people scaled the Old Building in the middle of the night and put flags (a pirate one, a picture of our Head in the style of the famous Che Guevara one, a Union Jack and a banner saying "LEAVERS 2012" - dunno where they got that) all over it. I'm not sure how the school will get them down; probably have to hire a crane :P Was also taken out for coffee by teachers in both double English and double History, which was lovely and convivial etc, as was the staff-pupil lunch thing :D

    Oh, and I may have...erm...helped the school get rid of a few photocopies of music that they (I'm sure) don't need into this folder. Heh.

    My throat hurts v__v

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    May 18th, 2012

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    Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday

    Did many many listening tests in Double Music. Did badly in a couple, well in others. Looks like the exam may well come down to luck :-/

    In English one of our teachers decided that she'd actually taught us all we could be taught about two weeks ago, and consequently she wouldn't bother teaching us any more. Fair enough, really. In our other English lesson our other teacher had a rather different view which resulted in the starting of another A3 diagram and consequently MOAR BUBBLE WRITING! :D An excuse not to show my face!

    Etc etc. Had a very interesting lecture during general studies (for once) about the history of popular music, from a guy who used to be in The Springfields and was a fairly successful producer in the 70s and 80s. He brought a geetar. Songs were sung. 'twas all good.

    In Guildford Youth Council a nice man came and told us all about this new website for the youth of Surrey that would, apparently, be local and non-local, and centrally-generated and also not centrally-generated, and would and wouldn't link into facebook and would track all your browsing habits. Oh, and their marketing strategy was to not tell anyone and "let it go viral" by getting schools to ban it. Needless to say, we grilled him a LOT. I was rather proud of how much we did so, actually. I think he left feeling a bit silly :P

    Anyways. Stuff!

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    May 15th, 2012

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    Hello.

    Little to report today:
    - Got my first A+ of the year in History, woooo! Just in time :P
    - Convinced my music teacher we'd baked him an apple pie to share in Triple Music, when we had, in fact, just bought it from Sainz...
    - Sent off the Leavers' Yearbook thing for Stevie that should have been done months ago
    - Had to spend my last ever drama lesson dissembling an enormous Venus Flytrap and putting it in a skip; Audrey was so beautiful ;_;

    So yeah. Not a lot.

    Instead, have some poetry that I didn't write:

    On Monday, when the sun is hot
    I wonder to myself a lot:
    "Now is it true, or is it not,
    "That is which and which is what?"

    On Tuesday, when it hails and snows,
    The feeling on me grows and grows
    That hardly anybody knows
    If those are these or these are those.

    On Wednesday, when the sky is blue,
    And I have nothing else to do,
    I sometimes wonder if it's true
    That who is what and what is who.

    On Thursday, when it starts to freeze
    And hoar-frost twinkles on the trees,
    How very readily one sees
    That these are whose - but whose are these!

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    May 14th, 2012

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    Oh Will, wai you so busy? Too busy to booth for the past NINE DAYS?

    Well yes, actually. I shall briefly (not actually briefly, but more briefly than if you'd actually BEEN there) summarise why...

    (Last) Saturday: Started having a good ol' look at the two folksongs arranged by a couple of my friends in Chamber Choir at College (well, actually the same folksong arranged differently), which was cool; was interesting to see the different takes they each had on them. Also had a different quartet coach, who had a different take on how we should play our Mendelssohn. SO MUCH CHANGE. After college met up with @Helennn1993 (:3) @Brezita (^___^) and @alexdenning (:D) and had SuperAwesomeLondonFuntiems including lying around in a park next to the Houses of Parliament, promenading on the South Bank, going to the Gourmet Pizza Co. on said Bank (very nice indeed), walking further down, going to the pub outside the Tate Modern, therein having coffee, walking a bit on the Millenium Bridge, going back to the National Theatre for drinks and a chat with my mum and the friend she'd just been to see a play with...it was a good evening.

    Not as good as the next evening, though. Sadly to get to Sunday evening I had to survive Sunday morning, which involved helping with a Surrey-Arts-funded event at GLive that had something to do with their Wider Opportunities teaching and admirable things like that. I'm not sure, really. All I know is that in the concert that culminated a morning's worth of rehearsals, 150 beginner violins, cellos and clarinets played various hits like, "We Will Rock You" and I almost died laughing. It's lovely that they're giving kids these opportunities, though :3

    But yeah, Sunday evening. This was the agreed date and time for the event that my friend had helpfully named, "Bacon Chez Moi". It was a kind of normal party with my friends: lots of sitting on each other and chatting (and playing LittleBigPlanet on a PROJECTOR), but with so much added bacon. My friend and I made a bacon weave a la Epic Meal time, followed shortly by desert (there was other food as well :P) of Strawberries, Cream and...Candied Bacon. Possibly the best thing ever to enter my mouth...and also the worst, at the same time. Funny how life's like that. Staying over meant that there was plenty of time for watching episodes of Adventure Time and Goldmember, too, so 'twas LOTSOFUN.

    Spent most of Monday recuperating from the previous night: got up at around 9 (we were all still at the friend's, remember) and had epic breakfast that included croissants and maple syrup but also...yes, you guessed it, more bacon. Then there was a watching of Jeremy Kyle for amusement before we all realised that we really should go home and revise etc. So we did. OH ALSO I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT MY TWO GAY FRIENDS GOT TOGETHER THAT EVENING AND I SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID SO LOUDLY BUT IT'S SO CUTE AND AHHHHHH.

    Anyway. On Tuesday little of note happened except a talk during General Studies from Simon Davies (I believe that was his name), a "Privacy Advocate", who basically told us that Google and Facebook and the police are screwing us over and that privacy and IP hiding are a good thing. So that was fun. No chorale v__v

    On Wednesday (oh wow, this really isn't brief...) I ORGANSIED MY FOLDERS HELL YEAH. Also played in a quartet recital at Bluthner's in London, which was lahvely. ^___^

    Thursday? I have no idea. Nor Friday. Slightly worrying, really :P

    Yesterday was a friend's 18th, at which there was a barbecue, a CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN OMIGOD and also pear cider and Diplomacy. 't'was a good evening.

    Today I've done sweet FA. Wrote an English Essay. Watched the final of the BBC Young Musician (the cellist from College whom we played the Walton with two weeks ago won :'D) and, uh, this.

    OK I'LL STOP NOW SORRY.

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    May 13th, 2012

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    My face has done that thing whereby it looks really weird.

    Ohwell.

    Today wasn't especially interesting. Did a diagram of the relationships between the characters in Othello in English and ended up drawing the boat you see before you for no good reason.

    TIMED ESSAY IN HISTORY WOO I LOVE TIMED ESSAYS. Our teacher told us yesterday that the other set had done it, but we shouldn't ask them for the plan he'd given them because that'd rather spoil it for us. Of course, one of our number did so, prepared it, and so, having got wind of this, our teacher wrote a completely obscure and unrelated question on the board before he came in. The look of shock on his face was priceless.

    Probably funnier if you were there, though :P

    Had a go on the school's electric violin loopstation get-up at lunchtime. SO MUCH EAR-SPLITTINGLY-AWFUL FUN.

    And yeah, that's about it. SCYOscyoscyo etc.

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    May 4th, 2012

Will (a.k.a. "Will") is a 18 year old male from United Kingdom.

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