Beans on toast

[raven]

[Three down, twelve to go]

So, I went to school and took two General Studies papers. I took my calculator on the off-chance that one of them was the maths paper, and one of them actually was, which made it a good idea in hindsight. One may have acquired the impression that I'm not taking General exams seriously; well, obviously I don't because they are teh crap, and also I can't be bothered - I made my contribution when I got out of bed and turned up for the exam, you can't expect more.

So, yes... the first paper was Culture and Arts again, with a question on something I can't quite remember (possibly... oh god, I really can't remember) and then the science paper which required me to pick an ethene molecule out of a line-up. I mock you, General Studies! With my monkey pants!

Yes. So that was why I got out of bed today. I went to see Mrs Custard afterwards, as she's complaining that I asked her to send a letter to my prospective university without telling her the address to send it to. Amusingly enough, the address is "Balliol College, Oxford", so I wrote this down and disappeared as unostentatiously as I had arrived, or at least I would have done had I not suddenly noticed eternalwings in the back row whispering kill me now in my general direction. Sorry I couldn't oblige.

So, I was going to make an Interesting And Intelligent Post about Fried Green Tomatoes and the total lack of bisexual characters on television, but I had a fight with my parents and feel suddenly fractious and emo and not in the mood to admit my mental age is higher than, say, eleven. Hence the icon, natch, which makes up in amusing me what it lacks in maturity. Also hence a half-hour of wibbling at hathy_col, who is internetless, still, and eating beans on toast at me to cheer me up. We were going to have our geek day tomorrow, and watch Doctor Who and eat more beans on toast (someone on new_who actually posted to ask what beans on toast is, something I found honestly baffling) but my fight with my parents has put paid to that.

And to add a certain element of the ridiculous to my life, I appear to have gone out on May 23rd, 2005, the first day of the year so far when I purposely didn't take my big stupid duffle coat, and caught a cold. That's all I need, that is. Ficathon entry hates me as well.

[Ammonia can be reacted with a haloalkane when dissolved in ethanol and placed in a sealed flask. The mechanism for the reacion is nucleophilic substitution, but because the primary amine formed is still a nucleophile, further substitution can occur. Excess ammonia will encourage predominantly primary substitution; excess haloalkane will promote the production of the quaternary ammonium salt.]

Comments

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

someone on new_who actually posted to ask what beans on toast is, something I found honestly baffling

...er. Something tells me that warmed bread products and legumes are involved? Just a guess. ;)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*g* Toast! With Heinz Baked Beans In Tomato Sauce!

...you have had it, right?

[casirafics.livejournal.com]

Actually, I haven't. 'tis not much of a thing over on this side of the pond, Heinz products notwithstanding. *grin*

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

...Yeah, I had no idea what it was, either. But I didn't want to admit it. :)

[that_mireille]

We don't eat it, and yet I figured it out (long ago): it's... baked beans. On toast. *g*

[amchau.livejournal.com]

Bah to fights with parents, espeically the kind which prevent there being Doctor Who. That's miserable. And I hope your cold doesn't turn into the nasty kind I've had. *hugs*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*sighs* Too late! I'm a haven of viruses and I have no voice. I would hug you back, but you'll be duly infected and I couldn't have that on my conscience.

[amchau.livejournal.com]

*astral plane non-germ-transferring hugs* Rest if you can and get better.

[eternalwings.livejournal.com]

well I was being forced to do my coursework
Oh Miranda will be in thursday, did you not say you had an exam then????
*looks confused* maybe I imagined it...

[quackaquacka.livejournal.com]

Nah, I was wrong. I checked...I'm in next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. And then from Monday onwards.

Fun, fun.