A pirate post from Brins


Okay, I've got two visitors. At least. That's a good sign, considering I had none. Nevertheless, the reason I called you all here today is to inform you of a day I've been bracing since approximatey (spelling mistake intentional) February, and that is none other than

INTERNATIONAL TALK LIKE A PIRATE DAY!!!

Brace yerselves, ye landlubbers, for the first official year-that-I-was-aware-of-the-day Talk Like A Pirate Day celebrations. My friend and I are going to use Captain Dargh - a recent addition to the cast of our comedy game series, Blerns & Sob - to make a special episode to mark the occasion. Want a copy? Sorry, I don't know who you are. I'm probably the only person in the whole of Scotland that appreciates this testimony to all those great pirates who massacred millions on the Spanish Main. Blackbeard, Pugwash, Stevenson... too bad they're all dead. But that's probably just as well, since we can all travel with comfort on our inter-continental cruises.

Alas, it seems teachers aren't too bothered about this somewhat sanctimonious occasion: they seem to have brushed aside any idea of swabbing the deck or walking the plank in favour of preparing us for our UCAS applications. Pirates never had UCAS applications...

But nevertheless, another scare in life I can prepare you for. Someday early S6, an assembly will be called, at which the teachers will most liably bombard you with information with nothing in the way of appreciation for the sheer confusion the audience is enduring. You'll probably leave feeling scared, unsure, and with a whole load of questions as to your future. Sorry about this, but here's MY assembly:

1. Decide what University courses you want to do. It is recommended by me (and the teachers) that if you are serious about doing only one field (such as law or computing), make all 6 courses you choose based on it. If you'd be just as happy doing one thing as another, put courses for both down, but otherwise, it's better not to take chances. Ask yourself: would you settle for doing one course if the others failed?
2. Talk to a teacher. Organise an appointment with your guidance teacher or whatever it is - an official one - and fire away. Hold back no questions, make sure you don't leave that room with a single thread of tentativity in your mind, because that's what they're there for. I did it, and they were all answered.
3. If you've done that, you should have no big problems left. Anything else you think of, you can go back to the teacher with.

So there you go. Off to Edinburgh? Abertay? OXFORD?!! Have your application in as early as possible (best October 29th) and 'and over all yer gold!!!

-Brins
  ¶ 9:09 pm