Ping.

So, what's been happening in my life? How's stuff going? Well:

A-Levels are going nicely: first set of results in a week and I hope hope hope that I've got the A grades that I worked for. It's what I'm predicted and I what I can achieve so I hope I've done it. I'm really enjoying my subjects at the moment, especially Maths and Chemistry. Chemistry because, well, while in many ways it all seems like poetic nonsense it's actually quite fun and logical, and as such it's engaging. Physics I've also been enjoying, but we've been doing waves which isn't that fun a topic really, although it's an essential one. Maths... that's really good. Loving C3 and M2, C2 is okay but Ms Hemingway manages to make it a little tedious. Still, I'm enoying it all-round. As well, I've been reading up and away on what's to come in Maths and I must say it's very exciting. I love studying the subject.

In terms of universities I'm just begining to consider this. I'm fairly sure I want to go and do Maths but exactly where and what kind of course (single, dual honors) I want to go for I am still undecided on. Still, a while yet to think about it.

I think the most exciting thing that's happened has been the play that we recently finished and performed with Fruit Bowl. Fruit Bowl as a group has been really great, helping to normalize and make me comfortable with my sexuality, which I really now regard as so. The play has been fascinating for this: the development, the mish-mash of different ideas and experience to create coherent characters with narratives we care about... and also, an exploration of what it actually means to be a young LGBTQ person in today's society. Cool stuff! In many ways it's hard to actually get across to straight people how fundamentally odd it feels sometimes. We live in a heteronormative society; adverts, movies, cards, newspapers, cartoons, almost every form of media assumes that romance occurs between a man and a woman. Of course "gay media" exists, but the point is that wider society, unless you tell them otherwise, thinks of you as straight by default. This should not, I think, be an assumption you should make.

All this thinking about LGBTQ teens brought me to thinking about Silverdale. Now, as I think is common in many schools, the LGBTQ population is invisible; they surely exist, I cannot be the only gay person in the school- but I am certainly unaware of any. Now, it may be because I don't talk to people in other that I don't hear about this there, and I don't talk to enough people to know teh Y12 social groups well. Nevertheless, I think it's a shame that it's not something widely discussed, because, (and this is important), if someone who is uncertain or questioning their sexuality sees regularly those of differing sexualities integrating well and openly, it wil be easier for them to come to terms with their own. This is why I make a point of telling people about mine when they ask: because it's always better to be open, not just for yourself but for others.

So yeah. Other things that have happened recently: beginning planning for my 17th birthdya party, will, God-willing, be a LAN party with TGW + n3hima present. Fun!