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Scrap Book

I keep a scrap book. Well, more of a scrap envelope really. Basically, a place to keep stuff that has no other home, but might be interesting to keep and look back on in years to come. I was looking for something earlier that I though might have made its way into my scrapbook, and came across a few gems from the past, such as my school report from July 1989 with such wonderful reviews as:
German: "Uninspiring"
Geography: "This is the lowest mark ever obtained by an RGS boy [...] for at least 30 years"
History: "Christopher has been very lazy"
Chemistry: "He often lives in a world of his own"
IT: "Many pieces of work were promised but nothing ever appeared so in the computing part of the exam he received no marks whatsoever"
Art: "Christopher's work is dreadful and his approach to it is infantile"

Bah! What do they know! If the shit they had been trying to teach me hadn't been so god damned boring and irelevant to me, maybe I'd have put some effort into it. Who gives a shit about Ethlered the Unready? Not me! And if I did, I just get a book out from the library or look him up in wikipedia or something.

Another interesting thing I found was a note book which I think must have been from about 2001, where I'd gotten my friends to fill a page with a list of words, just whatever came to their heads at the time. It is a very interesting look at the kinds of things going on in my friends' heads at the time. In fact to be honest, most of it is rather too revealing for me to share here, but compare and contrast some edited highlights from Phil and Jane...

Jane:
derive
pyschogeography
situationism
crisps
gin
drift
neo-plastisism
neo-draconsim
cosmopolitan
urban
sausages

Phil:
breasts
tits
melons
boulders
baps
bazongas
handful
mammaries
ship
battle
guns

Last but not least, Tim Howson's incomprehensible list, which I've photocopied because I found it impossible to transcribe:

Wednesday, August 23, 2006 10:40 PM