How To Time Travel

Lots of sci-fi films, books and TV shows seem to centre around the idea of time travel (see Doctor Who for example), and they either rely on science hearsay (such as wormholes) or make something obscure up to explain how it actually happens. However, what is repeatedly overlooked is the sort of time travel that we achieve at least once every year.

What I'm talking about is putting the clocks back an hour, like we did yesterday/today(?). Think about it; it reaches the midnight of October 30th and the time suddenly jumps back an hour, allowing all humans to relive the 11th hour (ok, 23rd hour) free of charge and black holes. Therefore, if you make any mistakes in that hour, you get the opportunity to go back and correct them, and if someone asks what you're doing, just say the hour you messed up in technically has been replaced. I love that idea of messing with time!

Other ways to time travel in the modern world are:

1. Fly to a country that has a different time zone to yours, so you can experience time travel from the comfort (or 'comfort' if it's EasyJet) of an aeroplane seat, and not even feel different when you cross over the various time boundaries.
2. Post a package/letter to Australia, but tell the Post Office staff to send it to the future.
3. Be present when the clocks are put forward in Spring. It always annoys me how an hour is stolen from my life then, but I'm usually asleep so don't even notice.
4. I suppose you could argue that every moment you are alive is a form of time travel since we are continually progressing forward in time, so just by reading this, you have gone all Dr Who minus the Tardis!

If you have any more time related ideas, share them in the comments section where you don't need a google/blogger account or to be signed in to anything. Time is such a wide and fascinating concept, that I'll never do it justice in one post!

New Site to Observe

Quick note: Posting has now started on my (joint) new site Life In the Sixth! The first post dishes out awards, good, bad and funny, for our sixth form induction day, so check it out at http://www.lifeinthesixth.blogspot.com/
Happy reading!

Special Exam Playlist

So most of us GCSE students only have one more week of exams left, and I thought, to keep up morale in the face of such adversities as tiredness, procrastination and boredom, that I would share with you some of my exam-days playlist that helps me get the adreniline flowing and is part of the reason I swagger into most exam halls regardless of whether I actually revised for that subject (the other reason I swagger is that I have potentially dangerous levels of over-confidence). Note: there is no order to the songs bellow as I generally shuffle my playlists, and the songs in this playlist do not reflect my general taste in music.

• 'Under Pressure' by Queen - I think the title says all, and it will help you get in the zone.
• 'Bad Reputation' by Joan Jett - gets you jazzed up and gives confidence even if failure is on the horizon.
• 'Fire' by Kasabian - fast forward to chorus which says 'I'm on fire'; should bode well for the exam.
• 'Imigrant Song' by Led Zeplin - you've probably heard this one, but walking in slo-mo to it and tossing whatever hair you have about in time to the 'ahahhhh's really gets the confidence flowing.
• 'Clubbed to Death' by Rob Dougan - you've probably heard this one before too, but it'll help get you in the zone.
• 'I Want it All' by Queen - just to remind youself that you damn well do want it all!
• 'I'll Be There For You' by The Rembrants (Friends theme song) - just to say, even if you muck up the exam, it's not the end of the world.

I think I've got most aspects of the exam covered here, so listen to these songs and you should be fine. If anyone's got a song I haven't included, please let me no and I'll edit it in. Good luck to everyone talking exams in the next few weeks!