that meant that the >2hour break after SL3 was pretty lively, as was the second break before PC.
PC, too, was different since there was no talk to attend or anything, so we were all in class, where we apparently cajoled our CT into joining the staff race at tomorrow's cross country.
english prior to PC was spent crafting and writing a Paper 2 essay, and i tried to be versatile with my choice of texts, and my fingers are now tightly crossed.
post-PC, daryl and i stayed in class to help mel to manually count each and every word in her EE at the request of her mentor, adding up to 3969.
we then met gerald in b3-02 where we discussed King Lear extract 1, and though we only did 1 passage instead of 2 like yesterday, we did decide that we'd be meeting tomorrow to go through more stuff, time and place subject to mel and my decision regarding our attendance at the cross country run.
and that leads me on to the final point of today's post - having to decide whether i should just skip it completely, since it is my last year in school and i made the dreadful decision of going last year and not running and just whiling my time away in the Emcee's tent half-commandeering the iPod which was playing the music for the event, and subsequently celebrating paul's birthday and going out with deon/sean to estivo for some gelato and a browse of the gossip rags.
come to think of it, i've actually attended all the cross country events during my years in AC, running with ron/mervyn in 2006, controlling the who-wins-who-loses list on the laptop at the officials' tent in 2004 (i had quite a good understanding with my PE teacher that year, it made for a relatively easy breeze through the entire year of PE), and actually running competitively for my house in 2003.
none of those possibilities appear to be on the agenda tomorrow, which means there is quite literally no reason for me to drag myself down to West Coast Part at an unearthly hour and trudge through 3.2km.
the one and only motivation that might get me to go is if i find enough ppl in class who will be going, and if we go and actually run and try to get accustomed to it for the purposes of the
Nike+10 Human Race.
PS. FOP begins tomorrow evening, and i'm more disinclined to attend this year mainly 'cos i'm not entirely familiar with either Reuben Morgan and the newly formed Parachute Band (i did review their earlier album for Amplified!'s last issue when they were still made up of the old line-up). gerald's going tomorrow after we meet for IOC, and i was reminded of the second night of last year's event when i went with sher/rachh/guonian, and i bumped into gerald in the queue and totally made the mistake of not asking if he was there with anyone and he wasn't and i didn't ask him if he wanted to join me/us, which i still feel marginally bad for a year later.
