hsc: the results: part 1+ a nibble of Twilight the movie

wow oh wow. This morning I awoke to the sound of my phone buzzing. Groggily I reached over, discovering a txt from Key inquiring 'How'd you go?'. That's right. Today is that day when we get to see the entire past year's work summed up into a couple of marks and bands. Some will laugh, some will cry, some will be indifferent...I actually had not given any thought to getting my results-the whole schoolies and now work and Christmas thing having numbed my mind into a comfortable safe zone protected from the past. But today I was both nervous and excited. It was a bit like waking up on Christmas as a child-that kind of curious excitement-but it also had that edge, the nervous edge that something important pinges upon the quality of those presents, that within those wrapped gifts, a power existed. A power that could bring me elation or devastation.

ok, ok, I know. enough with the metaphor. To say the least I was shaking as I typed my pin into hscresults.com over an hour after they were available (for an early riser I rose late), and....when the page loaded my mouth dropped. Dropped in amazement for I could not believe my eyes. I don't know how I pulled it off but...somehow I managed to get all band 6s. Don't ask me how, I don't know. To me it does not make sense, at least for 2 of my subjects. But my jaw is still hanging open. I actually was preparing myself for disappointment. My little brothers were the first to know, and it was so funny watching their half awake facial expressions of part comprehension/amazement as for the first time I vocalised my results. DC is the next to know if she checks her email. And I would reply to the texts from my friends but right now I'm trying to live off $1.29 of phone credit until my next pay(which is after Christmas), so I guess it's up to the landline.

Saw Twilight yesterday with Tea, Indigo, Key, Bea, Sea and respective mothers/sisters. I walked into the theatre prepared to watch the movie and to judge it without comparison to the book. I just wanted to sit down and watch a good movie. I was entertained, but not in the way I think was intended. I found the movie hilarious. Maybe I'm not used to the serious romantic teen genre, but all those dramatic closeups, the well timed guitar score reminiscent of the 80's, the dodgy special effects and Edward Cullen as a social misfit left me in fits of laughter. The bits I did not laugh at I cringed at, and the parts I neither laughed nor cringed, I was bored. ok, now that I've just pulled down the best loved movie by teen girls of the year 2008, I will admit that it did have some good parts. I absolutely loved Jasper, Eric, Billy and Charlie-I think they were the best characters. James, Laurent and Victoria were pretty good too. On a more serious critical level, truth is, it was a poorly produced movie. It really needed the 'coolness' of x-men. I mean you leave x-men with an encompassing feeling of awe and desire to be a mutant. The Cullens just did not have that supernatural quality. I certaintly did not leave Twilight wanting to be a vampire or even Bella. It also needed the sweeping/skillful cinematography and score of LOTR, Harry Potter, Narnia, so at least if the plot was flawed we could've basked in the total awesomeness of the camera work and powerful music. But hey, I'll stop being so harsh, it wasn't such a bad movie, just not one I could take seriously. It probabley needs a second watching now that I know what to expect. But now I am definitely up for High School Musical 3!