Oliver
Oliver

Now

What's going on in my life at the moment?

This is where I post about what I'm doing right now. I'm going to try and update this every month or so!
Take a look at nownownow.com for some more inspiration. Thanks to Derek Sivers for the idea!

School

Year 13 is now underway... Terrifying. I can't help but feel like the last 14 years of education have led up to... this? I'm almost finished on a good few of my A-Level courses, which is a little mind-blowing!

For my aforementioned A-Levels, I'm doing:

Looking forward to several things this year, including the whole school musical… Legally Blonde! I'm very excited about it, but am also absolutely terrified... Really very scared...

For AFA, we're starting work on our 'longer section' of writing. I'm loving being able to get my teeth into some more writing, and I'm particularly enjoying crafting some non-fiction pieces. Hopefully I'll be able to publish them on here one day!

Tech projects

I'm planning to de-Google (is that a verb?) a little. I'm hoping to buy a small server soon, which I'd love to run Nextcloud on - sayonara Drive & Photos! I've already switched to Firefox (yay, Firefox!) and DuckDuckGo (less yay... Google is just really good at search)
Long time readers of this page will have heard me complain about my Computer Science coursework, AKA StoryTracker, for the last... 12 months?! Well, as of yesterday, it is (drumroll please!) complete! All packaged up and ready to be sent in. I'm hugely relieved that it's done, as are the rest of my teachers who can now chase me for their coursework too!
Alongside all of this, I've been working on a 'name pronunciation recorder' behind the scenes! I'm quite proud of it, and it's already had a good few people using it, so fingers crossed it continues to work smoothly.

Plants

I'm continuing to try and keep all my plants alive. My Monstera Adansonii is going a bit crazy, and just seems to love the cold, wet weather we've had for the last month! At school, we've also got Steve: our peace lily. He's great, and everyone loves him in the corner of our study.
Feel free to contact me to chat plants!

Knitting

I'm currently knitting an emerald-green scarf, and I'm trying a new type of stitch - I can't for the life of me remember what it's called, but it's an interesting pattern.
I'm also hoping to start a Santa hat soon, I just need someone to help me get started!

Future

Beginning to look at university (agh, scary...).
I went to look at York, and really liked it. Of the hundreds I saw, it was by far my favourite! I'm heading up to Leeds this weekend, which should be interesting.
I'm on version six of my personal statement, and am slightly losing the will to live with it. I could write essays on how ridiculous it is, but that time would probably be better spent doing my UCAS form! The end is in sight though... Fingers crossed I get some offers back!


October 2024