I'm gonna live, til I die. Gonna laugh, 'stead of cry...

[fightingthecage]

RARR!

V. productive day so far. Actually got out of bed to go to an appointment at the college today, even though I'd sort of written off the idea to go back and redo my A'Levels, due to the cost they'd told me and time and transport etc.

Turns out that its a lot cheaper than I was told - instead of £150 per A'Level, it's £150 for all of them, plus exam costs. So that's OK then, I can do that. And I can shuffle work I think, so I don't lose too many hours and...yeah. It was excellent, the woman was really helpful. I want to do 3 A'Level on a Fasttrack, which means doing them all in one year, instead of over two - she was a bit sceptical of me doing all three that way, as it's a lot of hours but I'm not worried about that. Don't have to decide until induction anyway and thats a month off. So hurrah! I've been accepted anyway. I may have to do only 2 A'Levels and one AS (half an A'Level) but I can live with that.

The subjects I'm going to do are English Lit. (though it has some Language in it), History and Philosopy. And she told me the texts for English but I can only remember two - something of Coleridges and Hamlet.

Guess which is practically the only Shakespeare play I haven't either read or seen performed or acted in? Yep. That one. *headdesk* I know so little about Hamlet, its ridiculous. I guess I'd better read it before the course starts. I was so hoping it's be either Macbeth of Henry V, because I know them backwards. Or Midsummers Night Dream. Romeo and Juliet. Hell, even A Winter's Tale or King Lear or Cymbeline, I know all of those. Damnit.

Ah well. I've avoided it this long, I suppose its about time I got clumped with it.

Anyways, in addition to that, I went to PC World about my computer. Basically, they reckon I've got a virus in the thing, althoughI didn't tell them about the pitiful lack of memory space on my hard drive. Doesn't matter - I'm going to take it in this afternoon and they're going to wipe the hard drive for me. This is fine. I'm only pissed that I'm going to have to re-download all my bloody CD's onto itunes, but whatever.

Incidentally, can someone explain to me how wireless works? I know you have to have a router and you can use a computer anywhere within a certain distance of that. But does the router plug into the phone socket or something? And do you pay a monthly fee to a provider, like you do with regular broadband? I've been looking at laptops and of course I'd like wireless, but really have no understanding of it whatsoever.

So. My day so far. Now I just haveto lug my computer tower to the other side of town on the bus. Ah well. Will be SO WORTH IT to get it back. :D!

And then read Hamlet. *pulls face*

Comments

[piobaireachd.livejournal.com]

Wireless;

If you have DSL(Runs over phonelines) as your form of broadband, in most cases you will continue to use your Broadband modem, connected to the phoneline as it is now. A wireless router will then connect to your modem.

Basically the modem converts/translates the signal sent from your ISP(internet service provider) into something the computer can read. There are modems that work as routers as well, but unless you buy one from your ISP, most likely you're going to have two boxes (Modem which connects to phone jack, router which connects to modem. So you'll still need your network cable to connect the router to the modem.

but then the router broadcasts a signal that your wireless card will pick up from anywhere within a certain radius, depending on the strentch of the signal.

As far as I know, you shouldn't have to pay the ISP any more than you already do to have wireless. It's just the onetime router/network card cost.

If that's unclear, or you need more info, let me know.

[piobaireachd.livejournal.com]

Also? I fucking LOVE Hamlet. More than is healthy.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

That makes perfect sense, thanks! Man, that's been bugging me for about a year, so thanks for clearing it up.

*fears the Hamlet omg*

[knights-say-nih.livejournal.com]

Even though you don't know Hamlet, you're still SO LUCKY.

It's his best. Really, truly, his best. My love for that play is undying.

And once you do Hamlet, you get to see Rosencrantz and Guilenstern are dead, which is just irony and theatre and sex rolled into a ball and jammed onstage with lightening paced dialogue thrown in.

[piobaireachd.livejournal.com]

Oh gods R+G are Dead is so much love. Even the movie. *Snuggles it*

[knights-say-nih.livejournal.com]

And this is the best thing ever.

Especially the middle one.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

Everybody seems to love it! This bodes well, obviously. I have, like, two movies versions of it - Branagh and...Olivier, I think, though I might be thinking of Henry V - and have never watched either. I suck.

But so many people dig it, it must be good. And if its better than the others, it's bound to be amazing because I love those!

[withherhands]

Eeeeee, that's great! And dude, Hamlet is awesome. I mean it's got murder and betrayal and people going crazy and some comedy and (depending on the interpretation) sex! What's not to love? :)

Check out the Kenneth Branagh version for pretty much the entire play on film and some great performances, and you have to see the movie "In the Bleak Midwinter" (I'm pretty sure that's the British title--here it'sn known as "A Midwinter's Tale"). It's also by Branagh, about a bunch of misfit actors putting on Hamlet in a small town at Christmas. It's hilarious.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

*makes note of '..Bleak Midwinter' - sounds awesome, thanks!

And dude, it totally sounds like my type of play. How cool! I've heard about his love of procrastination but I'm quite looking forward to checking it out, even though I fear it muchly.

[wanttobeatree.livejournal.com]

Oh, Philosophy is such fun! :D I only did it at AS (although if I've done well at it and really badly at another subject I may take it up at A level instead), but it filled my brain with glee and now I can rattle on about Plato and Kantian ethics and sound amazingly intellectual!

/valuable contribution.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

'tis valuable! I'm so going to bug you if I get stuck. *snerk*

And that's totally the only reason I want to study it - to fake intellectualism.

No, I'm not kidding.




(Or am I? :p)

[wanttobeatree.livejournal.com]

It’s all about the intellectual vocab. Never mind Science or Maths, declare something like ‘I’d be more in favour of Aristotle’s Virtue Theory were it not for the fatal flaws of the Golden Mean’ and everyone goes ‘… whut’.


I threw all my notes away (though I kinda wish I hadn’t), so my mad fauxintellectual skillz are not as they once were :(

*pokes around* I have some of my good essays still- one that got me 18/24 and the other that got me 20/24! :O Also my Plato text… which I never actually read all the way through.