Wireless!

Since my last update, several things have happened.

1) I've set up a wireless network, with currently all three computers (one laptop, one two-year-old and one seven-year-old desktop), all on my lonesome, in about two hours.

2) I've enrolled at sixth form.


There's not a lot more to say about 1), other than the fact my internet was cut off for about six hours, and I had to learn to survive being trapped in the house without it. And we had a mystery caller in Currys when we were buying wireless adapters for the desktops, and we still don't know who it is. If you managed to say "Hello Elizabeth" before being cut off, let me know who you are :P


However, there is more to say about 2). I'd thought enrolment would be just a five minute interview, but oh, how wrong I was. I walked to college, with no idea where I was supposed to be. I was in Main Block, and after waiting about ten minutes while the woman was on the phone, I got a piece of paper with where I was supposed to be going on it. So I walked over to Ranson (or whatever the one next to Whitehouse is called), and found the room for tutor F. There were four people at a desk, and one was free. So she asked what tutor I was in, and it turned out she could only do E. Five or so minutes later, she asked someone, and it turned out she *could* sort me out after all. I got my ID card, and a purple form requiring seven staff signatures with a load of things on it with arrows next to them. I had my exam results written on *yet another* purple form, which I then had to take to a woman on a computer to have it typed into the system. This got done after another five-minute wait. I then got sent outside, to wait for my interview. However, the man interviewing me was doing three people's jobs, so I had what felt like a 20 minute wait before he was free to interview me. I discovered I could take six subjects if I wanted, but it would mean almost no free lessons, a huge amount of work, and I might not get to do all my choices for enrichment. So I settled with Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Maths and Music AS levels, plus General Studies and Key Skills (which I didn't get a choice about), and went to one of the other men in the room to have the course codes written on my purple form, and then to a computer-woman to have that typed in too. I then was nearly done, and had to pick two days for Induction, which I did. An hour after I arrived, I was all enrolled and ready to go home. :)