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I did Extension English 1 and 2, as well as Extension History. While starting school at 7:30am on four days out of five seemed nightmarish at first, I quickly got used to it. It's not that bad, really, your sleeping patterns change and it stops becoming a chore after a month or two.

UNSW UAI: 96.00 I was expecting 91 or 92, I'm thrilled.

My school has dropped fifty places since 2006 - I'm so proud.

Dear Board of Studies: what the hell? I spent so much time on the Americans in 'Nam and you don't even ask a question about it. For shame. Oh well, at least I'd studied Kampuchea, too, so I could write a response for that.

Big Country - The Crossing (1983).

"Frankie say..." The joke was going to come eventually.

We used "The End" by the Doors. I think the song's hauntingly downbeat quality worked quite well. Bittersweet, definitely.

The Cars - "Heartbeat City" (1984). Scored it for $5 at the local market today.

The Police - "Can't Stand Losing You". Between obsessively watching their performance of it on The Old Grey Whistle Test in 1978 and repeatedly listening to the album version, the song has lost something for me.

Japan - "Ghosts". Haunting stuff, but I've listened to it so often in these few weeks past that it's starting to lose its impact on me.

This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears (1984). Elizabeth Fraser's vocals on the cover of Tim Buckleys "Song to the Siren" are simply sublime. But then again, just about everything the woman touches is.

U2 - The Unforgettable Fire (1984). Worth it purely for the song "Bad".

If it's any consolation, his tutors won't exactly be able to lean over his shoulder and help him during the actual HSC exams.

I think good questions to ask yourself before you choose Modern History are "am I good at English?" and "can I write four essays in two hours?". If the answer to either is "no", you ought to perhaps reconsider.

I won't be attending university in New South Wales, so I'm not applying for anything through UAC. Instead, I'll be "returning" to the motherland, and hopefully attending Auckland, Otago (Dunedin), or Victoria (Wellington). As NZ has no UAC equivalent, you apply to each university individually...

XTC - Oranges & Lemons. Despite having being released in 1989, this album has a very '60s feeling about it, even down to the cover.

Jah Wobble - Inspiration of William Blake (1996). You wouldn't think that someone reading Blake's poetry over reggae/ethnic beats would work. But it does. And it's beautiful.

I found Modern History to be a very interesting course - the truth bettering even the greatest fiction and all that. However, I always felt like WWI was almost an overly simple "obstruction" to the more interesting parts of the course. Perhaps it's just the nature of that part of the syllabus...

English Advanced - 91% - 1st. English Extension 1 - 100% - 1st. French Continuers - 75% - 1st (out of only three people, mind you). History Extension - 96% - 1st. Modern History - 85% - 4th. Economics - 75% - probably about 5th. I probably could've done better in Economics, but I'm...

It probably makes me a philistine, but attempting to read Joyce nearly killed me.