The Day I Got My Finger Stuck Up My Nose

When I got my finger stuck up my nose
I went to a doctor, who said,
"Nothing like this has happened before,
We will have to chop off your head."

"It's only my finger stuck up my nose,
It's only my finger!" I said.
"I see what it is," the doctor replied,
"But we'll still have to chop off your head."

He went to the cabinet and took out an axe.
I watched with considerable dread.
"But it's only my finger stuck up my nose.
It's only a finger!" I said.

"Perhaps we can yank it out with a hook
Tied to some surgical thread.
Maybe we can try that," he replied
"Rather than chop off your head."

"I'm never going to pick it again.
I've now learned my lesson," I said.
"I won't stick my finger up my nose -
I'll stick it in my ear instead."

- Brian Patten

nearly speechless

i have nothing to say. it's just under a month to CTs. promos. whatever.

school is awfully tiring. i have a vague feeling that it doesn't have to be this way but i don't know how to change it. well.

where would i be without the music i enjoy? without lambert's the rio grande? without haydn? without candide?

where would i be without the great books? vanity fair? point counter point? HHGG? a clockwork orange?

i can't imagine life without music and literature. pizza without tomatoes? computers without graphics cards? no way.

especially this kind of life.

sept hols

it's the sept hols. again. (stating the obvious)

the september hols are the oddest. for a start, a one-week token holiday is not healthy. it breaks your focus on work. that's bad cos the EOYs are coming.

sept hols are also an excuse for all teachers to give odd assignments. they aren't so bad this year, but we have two phys assignmentS - an article review and a magnetic-propulsion ship project thingy. oww. and a chem reflection ws on "any activity you took part in during the hols."

the oddest thing about these sept hols is that these are almost the last hols in RI. that's an odd feeling. in sec 1 you wish you were in sec 4 and could bully the juniors. and suddenly you're in sec 4 with all its responsibilities and you're using the i'm-doing-this-for-your-own-good excuse on them. in other words you become a total fossil - and you really believe in it. of course many of us don't think that way. good for them; they don't have to deal with the pain of leaving.

good that it's finally 4+ months to end of sec 4 and start of JC life (with all its joys ;P) and really saddening that it's the last term at RI. well well well.