Halloween
Yeah halloween…. not really a big deal for me. Kids go round asking for sweets and money. How has it become that they trick is no longer used; instead it’s “treat, money or we egg your house”. Tch kids these days (hahahaha can’t believe I said that).
Well done to Rob, Ollie and Rosie who are mature enough to go egging. If there is any egg on my house Rosie and Rob are no longer coming to my 18th and you 3 can clean it up.
Think that is all I have to say on the subject of Halloween.
Rowing training
Not many people know this but us rowers actually have to work quite hard, even if we aren’t very good. Well I say that but apparently I never achieve my potential because I never win my psycological battle saying to myself that I can do it even though deep down I feel that I can’t. Well this is what Chris more or less said to me.
Anyway the point is this- at the start and end of every half term we have a 5000 metre test and frankly I’ve been under performing in them so far this term. So I have decided to make more of an effort with out of school training and go running every night. I now feel determined that I will beat my pb (personal best) on tuesday.
Oh and for those who think that us rowers don’t do a lot this is what our training schedule is this term:
Monday-Weights
- Bench: 35kg, 40 reps- 3 sets of these
- Seat row: 25kg, 25 reps- 3 sets
- Leg press: 80kg, 40 reps- 3 sets
- Lat pull: 30kg, 20 reps- 3 sets
- Situps: o/w, 30 reps- 3 sets
- Pushup: o/w, 20 reps- 3 sets
- Supermans: o/w, 20 reps- 3 sets
- Squat Jumps: o/w, 40 reps- 3 sets
Tuesday- Fitness
This changes from week to week but usually consists of a minimum of a 20 minute ergo starting off easy with something like 10 seconds above personal best (personal best for this is what you pulled on average for 500 metres when doing your 5000 metre ergo test) and then working your way down to 5 seconds below personal best and then like a 2 minute sprint. After this there is usually some core strength which will involve: push ups, sit ups, squat jumps and super mans. We also work on our basic technique in these sessions.
Wednesday- River Session
This where the crews get to go out together and practice rowing as a team. This is obvisouly assisted with the training as we train together so learn eachothers rowing style. For example Hayden likes to have quite a high rating (quite a high number of stroker per minute) whilst other crew members prefer to have a lower rating and rely more on powering through with the legs.
Thursday- Fitness
This is similar to what we do on tuesday.
Saturday- River Session
Usually have river sessions on a saturday which are more or less the same as the wednesday sessions. However these have not been happening recently because everyone has had other school (and University) commitments.
For the weight sessions on monday, that is my personal training guide. Me and Brown are also the only rowers who have actually turned up to this session even though he often forgets to bring his kit on a monday. Hayden (yes Hayden the captain of rowing- I am deputy) does a play rehearsal over his beloved rowing. Oh well, can’t win them all.
You get the idea that we work quite hard? Now remember that on Sundays we are supposed to go jogging (which I know I do). We are also supposed to do core strength at home in the evenings but everyone is usually too tired from the training during the day to be able to do this. If you think this is bad just remember that this is off-season training. Last summer we had to train a lot harder because there were races; coupled with the fact that everyone had exams.
Well I hope you enjoyed the little insight in the life of a rower.
Happy birthday to you
If you do not know who this is referring to then of course you should be shot (especially family members). It is of course my brothers 16th birthday- yes he is younger than me…
He also had Yorkshire rugby trials today and got stuck with some rubbish forwards who never gave him a clean ball but shit happens hopefully he still got in.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDD!!!
Clocks going back an hour
Daylight savings time again. The clocks go back an hour and we get an extra hours sleep unless you are working nights- gutted!!! Does anyone else think it is a bit a con? I mean the clocks go back an hour so employers can say you worked all night and not include the extra hour you had to do because the clocks changed.
If you think about it you are technically time travelling. You get to re-live an hour of your life again. What would you do differently because you are most definitely given the oppurtunity. Hmmm well I don’t know where to go from here really.
Think about it though…
Lucky biatch
Yes biatch, it’s gangstar rap don’t you know? Well it might not be but I felt like using it to show that I am down with kids on the street. You may be wondering who the lucky biatch is? Well I can tell you now that it is my cousin, Julia. Now Ollie it isn’t the one you lust over in quite a disturbing way.
Now Julia has a dad (my uncle) who has contacts and I can only imagine that this oppurtunity has will be happening because of him. My uncle Paul is a comedy writer for the BBC you see and my cousin, well she is going to meet Bob Dylan. Now this is either happening because my uncle has the contacts or because of Traffic, the music artist promoters.
I am bowing down to you Julia and you are a lucky biatch for being given the oppurtunity to meet a true legend that is Bob Dylan. Anyway enjoy the experience and feel free to rub it in at every oppurtunity.
The joys of holidays
I have been sat here and wondering about who’s idea it was to have school holidays? I mean the concept is great: you get a week or more off school to relax and recover from all your hardwork you’ve done at school (especially in sixth form). A great theory in my opinion.
Now you see this is where the flaw in this amazing idea. Schools now seem to think it is neccessary to set a stupidly high amount of work for students to do within these holidays. I for one have to do the design section for my ICT A2 coursework which is something I really did not want to be doing during my week of getting some sleep!!!!
The best part is that no one in the class is completely sure if they are doing this coursework right so when we go back to school we will probably all have to redo it anyway because it is wrong. Now that IS just a waste of time. They could of just let us relax and recover so we could go back to school refreshed and ready to work but oh no they had to give us shit loads of work to do.
This isn’t just ICT of course, or even just my school. It happens everywhere. Shouldn’t we be out enjoying ourselves seeing that as soon as we finish education we have 50 years of working in jobs where we retire at 65 before dying without having time to enjoy all our freetime.
The system is wrong. I blaim THE MAN!!!
Why? and the Doctor Joke
Why?
Found this on The Tommies MySpace and thought I would use the wonders of Flock (check out this new web browser) to post an entry on this. Some of it made me laugh anyway…
1.) Why do we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries are flat?
2.) Why do banks charge a fee on “insufficient funds” when they know there is not enough?
3.) Why does someone believe you when you say there are four billion stars, but check when you say the paint is wet?
4.) Why doesn’t glue stick to the bottle?
5.) Why do they use sterilised needles for death by lethal injection?
6.) Why doesn’t Tarzan have a beard?
7.) Why does Superman stop bullets with his chest, but ducks when things are thrown at him?
8.) Why do Kamikaze pilots wear helmets?
9.) Whose idea was it to put an “S” in the word “lisp”?
10.) What is the speed of darkness?
11.) Are there specially reserved parking spaces for “normal” people at The Special Olympics?
12.) If you send someone ‘Styrofoam’, how do you pack it?
13.) If the temperature is zero outside today and it’s going to be twice as cold tomorrow, how cold will it be?
14.) If people evolved from apes, why are there still apes?
15.) If it’s true that we are here to help others, what are the others doing here?
16.) Do married people live longer than single ones or does it only seem longer?
17.) If someone with a split personality threatens to commit suicide, is it a hostage situation?
18.) Can you cry under water?
19.) What level of importance must a person have , before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?
20.) If money doesn’t grow on trees then why do banks have branches?
21.) Why does a round pizza come in a square box?
22.) How is it that we put man on the moon before we figured out it would be a good idea to put wheels on bigger suitcases ?
23.) Why is it that people say they “slept like a baby” when babies wake up every two hours?
24.) If a deaf person has to go to court, is it still called a hearing?
25.) Why do people pay to go up tall buildings and then put money in binoculars to look at things on the ground?
The Doctor Joke
Heard it on QI, thought I would repeat it.
A bunch of first-year medical students were receiving their first anatomy class with a real dead human body.
They all gathered around the surgery table with the body covered with a white sheet.
The professor started the class by telling them, “It is absolutely necessary to have two important qualities as a Doctor of Medicine: the first is that you’re not disgusted by anything involving the human body.”
For an example, the professor pulled back the sheet, rolled the body over and stuck his finger in the butt of the corpse, withdrew it, and stuck it in his mouth.
“Go ahead and do the same thing”, he told his students.
The students freaked out, hesitated for several minutes, but eventually took turns sticking a finger in the butt of the dead body and sucking on it.
When everyone finished, the professor looked at them and told them, “The second most important quality is observation. I stuck in my middle finger and sucked on my index finger.
Now learn to pay attention”
New Music
Heh didn’t think I would be writing about this today as I did not think that it would happen today. Anyway went to the opticians today (my eye sight hasn’t change in 3 years- unlike my dad who’s eye sight hasn’t changed in 20 years!!!) and this optician is like a really old friend of my dads. Were talking about music as this optician use to be in a band and then he mentioned that his son’s are in a band called “The Tommies” (some American band have taken the name “Tommys” and there is like legal stuff going on now). Anyway they have a record contract and have like an album out though you can only get it from their site at the moment (the tommies).
People listen to them!!! They are quite retro and the vocals remind me quite a bit of the Kinks. Can listen to 2 of their songs on their myspace- tommies myspace.
Just thought I would mention them. They are to play in Leeds next year (well that is what they tell me) so everyone is to go see them and I will make sure you will 
Also Jools Holland tonight (tonight being friday), 11:35pm BBC2. There are some shit hot artists playing tonight including Mylo, Arctic Monkeys and Joseph Arthur. Be sure to check it out; especially Joseph Arthur as he is an awesome musician and does not get the credit he deserves.
University of Nottingham
Got a letter from the University of Nottingham today informing me that they have accepeted me for single honours computer science course there. I however do not know if this is a conditional or unconditional offer even though it will most probably be a conditional one. I will apparently be receiving a letter shortling giving me details of my entrance requirements (if of course I have any).
In the mean time I am still waiting to hear from the other 5 universities I applied to and if I got into them. I swear if I don’t get into Leeds Met I will just laugh as it is like my back up Uni in case I do rubbish in my exams.
Peace out
Ordinary Boys- what can I say
What a gig what a gig, I don’t know where to start. Well I’ve had a spair ticket for it for ages and I sold it to Hammy in the end a tenner but oh well it was cash for alcohol on the night. Just after selling the ticket Brown turned up and we went to do some extreme ironing in the rain before the gig. Went to burley park and green holme mills. We climbed up the old burnt out factory to do some extreme ironing at which point Brown proceeded to drop the ironing board and smash it (Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo). I will have to fix it tomorrow.
On the train into Leeds we bumped into Emma- well I say bumped she actually came looking for us and blew off her mates. Rosie is “ill” (hahahaha watever- more like didn’t want to go and ballsed out). Anyway said goodbye to her and met up with Pedder. We then proceeded to the Leeds Met Student Union. Us “over 18’s” got special bands so we could buy drinks whilst Hammy didn’t (hahahahahahaha). They were selling the “Ordinary Boys Cocktail” (otherwise known as the “Kaiser Cocktail”) at £1 a go so we decided to get a load of them but first needed some pints. Some bar staff were selling these shots of this random drink in a test tube so we bought some of them and downed them. Brown says “I feel fine” then proceeds to projectile vomit into his pint glass with surprisingly good accuracy. Drank for a few hours then went to see Ordinary Boys.
Now the Ordinary Boys, they were fucking awesome. Me and Pedder worked our way to the front with Brown joining us after sometime. I stayed there for the whole gig and absolutely loved it. They got the crowd going and even did a Ramones cover!!!! When we were all shouting “YORKSHIRE” the lead singer got confused and thought we were shouting “YOUR SHIT”. Which he didn’t seem to like to much. Anyway gig was awesome, got my dodgy knock off t-shirt got drunk.
Found a random “Cleaning in Progress” sign on the way back to the train station but then also bumped into Jill, Jess and Jo. That was quite funny- Jill seemed to think it was hilarious that I was drunk (which I wasn’t- merely high on adrenaline). Forgot to mention that Brown and Pedder bought risslas from a tramp (yes an actual tramp) for 50p- these are the lengths drug addicts go to to get their daily fix even though it was for a spliff.
At the train station some hobo style cleaner confiscated my sign saying that it was theres and that I shouldn’t remove them. Told him it was from outside Subway but he didn’t believe me- oh well shit happens. Brown also discovered that both his lenses from his glasses had popped out and so proceeded to wear the frames of his glasses and pretended to him.
Classic line of the night was from the train driver who said down the speaker system “We will be calling at Guisely, Menston, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Ben Rhydding and this service terminates at Ilkley. For all you people who bought a ticket thankyou and for those who didn’t- this trip is for free”.
Fucking awesome night.
