Dear Blog,
This week has actually been quite good if I'm honest. The worst thing that happened was getting another Meningitis jab but even that was quite pleasant. That sounds weird, but the woman who gave it to me was really friendly and we had a great little chat about revision, A levels and my future in screenwriting (hopefully). She said she'll look out for my name and if she sees it thing "I gave him a jab once".
I've been quite productive this weekend as well. I finished off a complete series of eight scripts ready to go into production this summer for my YouTube account and worked out how many guest roles there will be available for everyone. Finishing a whole series' worth of scripts made me thing about how the whole story of the series came about and how I managed to string together a coherent lot of stories. It also made me wonder what other people do when they start prepping a series in comparison to what I do and what I know some of my friends do.
Today I went for a walk round a near by reservoir with my mum. We just sort of walked and talked as we walked round this massive body of water. God knows how long we were walking for but it didn't seem like a long time but you know, time flies when you're having fun. At least there's only four more school days before the Easter Holidays now.
Goodnight,
- Luke
Sunday 20 March 2016
Monday 14 March 2016
Dullness - 13/03/2016
Dear Blog,
I'm going to be honest... this week has been really dull. Nothing has happened. I've started my clay work in art, my Series 9 of Doctor Who DVD arrived and I went to pick up my two new pairs of glasses (one of which makes me feel dizzy - something's wrong there). I didn't really do much this weekend either although I did finish a script and edit three others which makes me feel like I've accomplished something this week.
Oh I got my Maths mock papers back. I got a B on the non-calculator one (59/100) and an A on the calculator one (69/100)! I've never got an A on a Maths paper before so I'm really pleased about that. I also did a Geography end of unit test/mock thing and got it back on Wednesday. Only a bloody A*! My teacher wrote on the front '23/25, A* - he's finally got it! Brilliant!'. I love my Geography teacher, he's great.
There's also been more things changed about the A Level courses for next year. At my school they aren't running the English Language course in September, which is something that I wanted to take. Instead they've replaced it with English Lang/Lit which is basically like what we do at GCSE. It doesn't really make much sense to be honest. They're running the Lang/Lit course and the normal Lit course. Why!? It makes no sense at all. I'll end up doing Lang/Lit and I'll have to read and I'll find it boring but oh well. It'll probably look good on a CV or something, who knows.
Goodnight,
- Luke
I'm going to be honest... this week has been really dull. Nothing has happened. I've started my clay work in art, my Series 9 of Doctor Who DVD arrived and I went to pick up my two new pairs of glasses (one of which makes me feel dizzy - something's wrong there). I didn't really do much this weekend either although I did finish a script and edit three others which makes me feel like I've accomplished something this week.
Oh I got my Maths mock papers back. I got a B on the non-calculator one (59/100) and an A on the calculator one (69/100)! I've never got an A on a Maths paper before so I'm really pleased about that. I also did a Geography end of unit test/mock thing and got it back on Wednesday. Only a bloody A*! My teacher wrote on the front '23/25, A* - he's finally got it! Brilliant!'. I love my Geography teacher, he's great.
There's also been more things changed about the A Level courses for next year. At my school they aren't running the English Language course in September, which is something that I wanted to take. Instead they've replaced it with English Lang/Lit which is basically like what we do at GCSE. It doesn't really make much sense to be honest. They're running the Lang/Lit course and the normal Lit course. Why!? It makes no sense at all. I'll end up doing Lang/Lit and I'll have to read and I'll find it boring but oh well. It'll probably look good on a CV or something, who knows.
Goodnight,
- Luke
Sunday 6 March 2016
Mocks, Vision and Mother's Day - 06/03/2016
Dear Blog,
I wear glasses for long distance (short sighted), I have done for about two years now and recently I've noticed my eyesight getting worse again. During my English mock on Thursday I was sat in F10 meaning I was right at the back of the room and when I looked up to see what the End Time was I noticed that I couldn't see it at all. Luckily I could just about make out what the Start Time was so I could work it out but it really made me notice how much worse my vision has got already. I'm over exaggerating of course because although I do wear glasses full time, I'm not that blind in comparison to some people.
I went to the Opticians on Friday and my eyesight has gone down three steps, I don't know what that means exactly, all I know is that I needed new glasses. That's how I spend Saturday - looking in about five or six different opticians/glasses shops until I went to Specsavers (no, I'm not kidding) and found the same pair that I already had. Specsavers have a deal so that you can buy one pair of glasses then either get another pair exactly the same for free, or a pair of prescription sunglasses for free, or a different frame entirely for free. I went for a different frame although it's quite similar. I imagine I'll quite like the reality of being able to choose which glasses I wear on a daily basis.
I mentioned mocks earlier, I had three this week. 1 English and 2 Maths. The first Maths one (non-calculator) went okay I guess. It wasn't great really. English went fine, the extracts we were given were quite good which made the writing easier but then the second Maths (calculator) went really well. There were only a few questions that I couldn't answer and I felt fairly confident about the rest, so that left me in quite a happy mood.
And then we get to Mother's day. It started out great but I had loads of work to do so wasn't spending time with the woman of the hour, turns out neither was the rest of my family so mum got really angry and just went out into town on her own all of a sudden in a huff. She came back about forty minutes later and barely spoke to us all evening... great. I can't imagine things will have changed by the morning either.
Wish me luck, goodnight,
- Luke
I wear glasses for long distance (short sighted), I have done for about two years now and recently I've noticed my eyesight getting worse again. During my English mock on Thursday I was sat in F10 meaning I was right at the back of the room and when I looked up to see what the End Time was I noticed that I couldn't see it at all. Luckily I could just about make out what the Start Time was so I could work it out but it really made me notice how much worse my vision has got already. I'm over exaggerating of course because although I do wear glasses full time, I'm not that blind in comparison to some people.
I went to the Opticians on Friday and my eyesight has gone down three steps, I don't know what that means exactly, all I know is that I needed new glasses. That's how I spend Saturday - looking in about five or six different opticians/glasses shops until I went to Specsavers (no, I'm not kidding) and found the same pair that I already had. Specsavers have a deal so that you can buy one pair of glasses then either get another pair exactly the same for free, or a pair of prescription sunglasses for free, or a different frame entirely for free. I went for a different frame although it's quite similar. I imagine I'll quite like the reality of being able to choose which glasses I wear on a daily basis.
I mentioned mocks earlier, I had three this week. 1 English and 2 Maths. The first Maths one (non-calculator) went okay I guess. It wasn't great really. English went fine, the extracts we were given were quite good which made the writing easier but then the second Maths (calculator) went really well. There were only a few questions that I couldn't answer and I felt fairly confident about the rest, so that left me in quite a happy mood.
And then we get to Mother's day. It started out great but I had loads of work to do so wasn't spending time with the woman of the hour, turns out neither was the rest of my family so mum got really angry and just went out into town on her own all of a sudden in a huff. She came back about forty minutes later and barely spoke to us all evening... great. I can't imagine things will have changed by the morning either.
Wish me luck, goodnight,
- Luke
Sunday 28 February 2016
Stressed - 28/02/2016
Dear Blog,
Normally I'd say out of all my friends I'm the one who stays calm moments before entering the exam hall and although I'm not walking through those scary doors at the present moment, I find myself (probably) more stressed than I have ever been before.
I've still got 65 days till my first exam (yes I am counting) yet I find myself at this uncomfortable level of stress. Why? Because I've got 10+ things to think about this week and next and last week was probably the worst post half-term week I've ever had the misfortune of experiencing. Almost every day there was something bad happening. For example, the government have now changed the A Level system so that I can only take 3 AS levels instead of 4 which has given me the hard decision of 'which one do I drop?' as I have already picked my 4 and applied to my Sixth Form. I was going to have to make this decision anyway at the end of Year 12 but then I would have had conclusive evidence as to why I should drop a certain subject but since I haven't experienced what my A Level courses are going to be like I have no sound reason to drop any subject more than another. (Although I'm probably going to drop History and considering that I have three hours of History tomorrow (yes THREE) so I imagine my opinions on the subject are going to be pretty negative)
In other news, my form tutor has been off for 5 whole weeks meaning that I don't have anyone who knows me well enough apart from friends and family to advise me on the above decision. Not to mention I think I have mocks next week and I think I've got jabs this half term too but I don't know because I can't ask her because she's been off FOR FIVE BLOODY WEEKS!
As you can see, stress levels are a little on the high side at the moment.
However, there has been a few good things this week. One is that I finally finished a script I was working on for my friend so I've sent that off and all things are good, he likes it and is looking forward to making it if not a bit worried about how he's going to accomplish some of the things in it - I like to give directors a challenge, what can I say? I also discovered that one of my favourite YouTubers is doing her monthly scrapbook this year again which brings me immense joy every month. I didn't think she was doing it again this year but I suddenly found out when watching her friend's January vlog and seeing her vlogging in her own January video ('twas like vlog-ception).
I love watching those videos every month. They restore my faith in humanity and remind me that life isn't all exams and coursework and revision and although some moments are still difficult, the rest will all be fun, something that I will need reminding of after tomorrow (History, Computer Science, Maths, History, History).
Goodnight,
- Luke
Normally I'd say out of all my friends I'm the one who stays calm moments before entering the exam hall and although I'm not walking through those scary doors at the present moment, I find myself (probably) more stressed than I have ever been before.
I've still got 65 days till my first exam (yes I am counting) yet I find myself at this uncomfortable level of stress. Why? Because I've got 10+ things to think about this week and next and last week was probably the worst post half-term week I've ever had the misfortune of experiencing. Almost every day there was something bad happening. For example, the government have now changed the A Level system so that I can only take 3 AS levels instead of 4 which has given me the hard decision of 'which one do I drop?' as I have already picked my 4 and applied to my Sixth Form. I was going to have to make this decision anyway at the end of Year 12 but then I would have had conclusive evidence as to why I should drop a certain subject but since I haven't experienced what my A Level courses are going to be like I have no sound reason to drop any subject more than another. (Although I'm probably going to drop History and considering that I have three hours of History tomorrow (yes THREE) so I imagine my opinions on the subject are going to be pretty negative)
In other news, my form tutor has been off for 5 whole weeks meaning that I don't have anyone who knows me well enough apart from friends and family to advise me on the above decision. Not to mention I think I have mocks next week and I think I've got jabs this half term too but I don't know because I can't ask her because she's been off FOR FIVE BLOODY WEEKS!
As you can see, stress levels are a little on the high side at the moment.
However, there has been a few good things this week. One is that I finally finished a script I was working on for my friend so I've sent that off and all things are good, he likes it and is looking forward to making it if not a bit worried about how he's going to accomplish some of the things in it - I like to give directors a challenge, what can I say? I also discovered that one of my favourite YouTubers is doing her monthly scrapbook this year again which brings me immense joy every month. I didn't think she was doing it again this year but I suddenly found out when watching her friend's January vlog and seeing her vlogging in her own January video ('twas like vlog-ception).
I love watching those videos every month. They restore my faith in humanity and remind me that life isn't all exams and coursework and revision and although some moments are still difficult, the rest will all be fun, something that I will need reminding of after tomorrow (History, Computer Science, Maths, History, History).
Goodnight,
- Luke
Sunday 21 February 2016
The All Important First Post - 21/02/2016
Dear Blog,
This is my first post (obviously) so I guess I ought to introduce myself. -Well first things first, Luke isn't my real name, I just like it, and any other names mentioned on this blog will have been changed for privacy reasons. Anyway, I'm sixteen, British and aspiring to be a screenwriter and director.
I'm not overly sure what I'm going to be posting on this blog, if I'm completely honest, but I'm going to try and post every week. Posts could be about anything from what happened over the course of the week or what I got up to at school to what I'm writing at the moment.
As someone who has a very small geeky YouTube account, I know this well, I'm not expecting anyone to read this blog or take much notice of it at all really, I just want to write it to get some thoughts and feelings out of my system in the build up to my GCSE exams in May and June. (I also don't expect it to make an awful lot of sense sometimes).
Well anyway, it's late and I have school tomorrow (Chemistry, Film, Geography, Chemistry, Maths - oh joy!) so I need to get some sleep ready for a 6:30am start.
Goodnight,
- Luke
This is my first post (obviously) so I guess I ought to introduce myself. -Well first things first, Luke isn't my real name, I just like it, and any other names mentioned on this blog will have been changed for privacy reasons. Anyway, I'm sixteen, British and aspiring to be a screenwriter and director.
I'm not overly sure what I'm going to be posting on this blog, if I'm completely honest, but I'm going to try and post every week. Posts could be about anything from what happened over the course of the week or what I got up to at school to what I'm writing at the moment.
As someone who has a very small geeky YouTube account, I know this well, I'm not expecting anyone to read this blog or take much notice of it at all really, I just want to write it to get some thoughts and feelings out of my system in the build up to my GCSE exams in May and June. (I also don't expect it to make an awful lot of sense sometimes).
Well anyway, it's late and I have school tomorrow (Chemistry, Film, Geography, Chemistry, Maths - oh joy!) so I need to get some sleep ready for a 6:30am start.
Goodnight,
- Luke
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