I've been Infected

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I have decided to introduce a new segment to my blog, to vary the otherwise composition/critique dominated nature of my posts.

Essentially, as close to weekly or less as possible, I will be posting a video of what I am very captivated by at the moment. It could be a song, a sketch or a video of something else. Today, the first option is indeed the correct one.

Media Feature #1 - Cinder and Smoke by Iron and Wine



This song is called Cinder and Smoke and is by Iron and Wine. It is my favourite song at the moment - well equal favourite with another Iron and Wine song but that's beside the point, and besides all people who know me well will know how erraticly my 'favourite song' label is attached. By the time you read this, it may have moved onto another song already, but again I digress. It's my favourite (equal) song at the moment, so let's just leave it at that.

I hope you listen to it although I know most of you probably won't. It's fantastic. Can't say any more than that really.

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Moving right along, yesterday was a pretty bad day I have to say.

*Pause for collective groan as you realise I've been infected for 'fail blogging syndrome' and have decided to blog about my life*

It started off with Orchestra and TOK, which were both excellent. The fact that both of these were good made me think that I'd have a good day, which made it so much worse when I didn't.

English - We got two insanely contrasting yet inappropriate essay questions to 'plan'. Like I ever plan essays in class. 50 minutes wasted.

Then House Captain Vote. Won't know how that goes for a while.

Free - Interesting conversation with two of my best HSC friends - Fun fun

Maths - Vectors. I hate vectors. There it's out.

Free - Started reading Juvenal's First Satire. Pure brillant satire. Why aren't we doing satire in Latin SL? I would've loved that.

History - Interesting documentary on the fall of the Romanov dynasty and some discussion followed. Fun fun.

Chess - Played a pretty aggressive game against a strong opponent. Won in 22 moves only to find out later that my team decided to lose 1.5-2.5 either due to apathy or time trouble or evenness or stupid risktaking or whatever. *shrugs* If no one else cares, guess I don't either.

Debating - Round 4. Like last year. We were undefeated. Like last year. It was up against one of the strongest (and also undefeated) teams. Like last year. I called the topic. Like last year. It was a topic that I strongly agreed with. Like last year. We were Negative. Like last year. We lost. Like last year. Great.

Fencing (today) - I'm captain of the 15Bs and with my two Year 9 teammates, we fenced SBHS Green and Sydney Grammar C. The scores were 7-2 and 6-3 in our favour, and I won all my bouts, four of them 5-0. Good, except for the fact I got slashed and have a bruise on my stomach. Oh well.

And that pretty much brings us to now.

*Here ends the influence of fail blogging syndrome*

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Another poll for me to determine levels of interest. Who stills actually cares about what happens in 'Origin', my short story? Should I continue writing or not? Please reply in comments section.

Till next time, may you agglomerate all your unpremeditated contemplations