heartbeats...

download 'heartbeats' by jose gonzalez. I love that song. Yes, that's an order, hah

argh! 3 frickin tests on Friday. hehehe...at least i can use Thursday as a study session. Ah, i love athletics carnivals. I love the hole they make in my week.

new goals
- stop saying 'like'
- stop saying 'oh my god'
- try to incorporate at least one four letter word when i'm talking per day

Wow, my eyes feel like they're slowly sinking back into their sockets. Pretty soon my cheekbones will obscure my binocular vision.

i'm doing a biology project on adaptations at the moment. On sharks. The great white to be precise. They're really highly evolved creatures. They roll their eyes back when they're lunging at prey to protect their sensitive organs. They have an electrosensory system, which opens to pores in their skin, which means they can detect tiny electric pulses in the water (muslce contractions, natural electricity given off by nerves etc). scary. you can't hide.

We're learning about Germany's hyperinflation during 1923. It's phenomenal. A loaf of bread went from .63 marks to over 2 thousand billion in just four years. A wheelbarrow full of money couldn't pay for a bus pass. By november, employers were paying their workers twice a day, because the value of money was plummetting so fast. Banks gave up counting money, and instead just weighed the bundles. A lot of people resorted to bartering. haha, banks also charged something like 36% interest PER DAY on loans. Unreal, eh? poor people...it wasn't a bad time for everyone though. Industrialists and business men were able to clear up any debts with ease. Those who could sell to overseas markets, or were invested in foreign goods made vast profits. It was only the poor ol' pensioners and the middle and working class who were really hit by the inflation, cause they had been relying on their savings. :(

oh :( i hope kristine's alrigt. :(

An grotesquely formed and hideously ugly english essay is beckoning a crooked finger- i must memorise it by tomorrow. Come on kate. Two weeks. Less than two. We can do this.

QUOTE OF THE DAY:

The Roots of Violence:
Wealth without work,
Pleasure without conscience,
Knowledge without character,
Commerce without morality,
Science without humanity,
Worship without sacrifice,
Politics without principles.
--Ghandi