Catch up.

Today I had my interview to confirm my lesson choices for sixth form. Long story short, I'm in.

Seeing as this is some kind of life story thing, I'll tell you my results:

Maths: A
Science: A
English: C
English Literature: C
IT: C
Food Technology: C
Performing Arts: C(x2)
Religious Education: E

Also, I'll inform you of my musical tastes lately, the week before last my top songs were:

4. Murderland - I created a monster
3. Escape the Fate - Friends and Alibis
2.Chiodos - Is it progression if a cannibal uses a fork?
1. Chiodos - Lexington

And last week my top song was most definately Pessimist by Tat.

In the poker game you missed I came last (karolina took my out) but I later took over from James (he had to leave) to play for "the lads". I got my revenge on Karolina and just about got it even before the game was postponed until a few days later...The lads won (:

Crazy golf with friends standings:

1st: Emma - 67 strokes
2nd Me - 70 strokes
3rd Karolina - 73 strokes
4th Eleanor - can't remember
5th James - can't remember

Top golf and crazy golf with family:

top golf position: 3rd (out of 5)
Crazy golf position: 2nd - 63 points

And finally, on results day my glorious friends and I went bowling, here are the results:

Game 1:
1st: Eleanor (barriers)
2nd: Emma (barriers)
3rd: Karolina (barriers)
4th: James (no barriers)
5th: Me (no barriers)
6th: Tom (no barriers)

Game 2 (No barriers):
1st: James
2nd: Tom
3rd: Me
4th: Karolina
5th: Emma
6th: Eleanor

and we played a mini pool tourney:

Semi Finals:

Tom Black

Vs

James Ellwood

Winner:
Tom Black

Adam Batchelor
Vs
Emma Peters

Winner: Adam Batchelor

Final:

Tom Black
Vs
Adam Batchelor

Winner: Adam Batchelor ^.^

Now, do we feel up to date?

The Lad's Day

Basically, bowling had been planned for about a week, but all the girls dropped out. I was quite excited really, I don't think we'd ever had a day with just the guys...

So, James and I walked from Abbots to hollywood bowl (about 40 mins) and met Ewan, we knew Tom was on his way and so decided a game of air hockey would pass the time, my phone rang about halfway through, Tom arrived, and I lost to James. Annoyingly, we had to book when we got there, for an hour later on, so we all chipped in for pool and racing (and an abysmal attempt on a dance machine, we blame the converses). I lost every game of pool and owned the racing (obviously).

When it was finally time to bowl, I had pretty much set myself up for two straight losses. We set up with no barriers (because we're guys and wanted the competition value) and began. I started off with a 9, which is normally my average, not bad, but no strikes or spares =/. On my second bowl, I hit a strike, we were all shocked. In the end the last frame looked like this: I had 80 points, Tom had 78, Ewan had something much lower and James was about to bowl with 78 points, 2 points needed to win. Amazingly, he got a gutter ball twice! I was ecstatic. However, I was slightly disappointed that it came so close even though I had scored two strikes (everyone else only had spares), shows how low I was scoring otherwise.

The second game approached, Ewan got four gutter balls on the trot, I scored two more strikes, James and Tom got spares, and I finished in first with 86 points. A record by my standards, the only person ever to get two wins in a row before has been Tom. A good day :p

We used up our remaining cash between us on the big air hockey table, an air hockey tournament and a doubles game of pool. The air hockey tournament was pretty intense. Tom finished up with Ewan while James and myself were still on 1-1 (possibly the longest rally of the day) but James eventually shone through and beat me 7-4. The final: James vs Tom. it was looking good, James was 6-3 up on match point when he spilled his slush puppy all over the table, adding a whole new dimension to the game, I couldn't help noticing that James was now getting wet whenever Tom sent one up the middle :) James pulled through though and finished up.

Our doubles game was quite good too, 'twas James and me vs Tom and Ewan. Ewan and James kicked off, Tom made first pot, leaving me aiming at spots. I took the longest shot possible and pulled it off, before taking another one. A very impressive start, Tom and Ewan began to look a little nervous. Unfortunately, it didn't last. I missed the black on in the closing stages of the game and Tom took the game.

We'll most likely be making regular trips for the pool in future, when we're back for the sixth form and all getting ourselves a little extra money. I look forward to it.

Karolina's Birthday Blog!

Yes, it was indeed Karolina's birthday today, and as she's in Poland, I'm gonna announce it right here, happy birthday Karolina!

On the subject of amazing friends, I saw my second person this holiday (the first being Eleanor) yesterday, Emma. We decided to go bowling and then walk back to mine. For the record, I lost (twice) but then we played pool and I won, just to show that I can win at some games :p On the way back we knocked for David and we all went back to mine to watch Severance (a british horror comedy). Then after David left, I cleaned my desk and went through my CD collection. Fun fun fun.

After all that I went with Emma to wait for a bus because we gave up on looking for a timetable and just decided to wait it out (I figured it wouldn't be long on a Friday evening) and just sat and chatted for about 10 mins. I needed it really, to keep my mind off of other things, because my mind was beginning to obsess. So thank you Emma :)

In other news, things are going amazingly well in my life (surprisingly), I feel great! I feel better about myself, my trust with relationship related things have been restored and I genuinely feel that things are good :) I'm going to Eleanor's tomorrow to get a rabbit! (a rabbit!!!) I can't wait.

And now for the weather. In the Watford area there will be heights of 23 degrees celsius and lows of 15 degrees, with the chance of showers some time in the afternoon. This is Adam Batchelor signing off, thank you.