So the name Owen is "Welsh, with vague Celtic origins?" Impressive.
Everyone's talking about starting their mugging programmes. It makes me feel quite ill, and the Common Tests have just ended - and we have to start again? Now? I don't know what I was thinking of when I was happily re-decorating my wall with screenshots and being chuffed (brave) for a new term.
Why does everyone have to have birthdays in July? I reinstate, here and now, that I passionately hate shopping. Hate hate hate. Strong word used accurately.
Guess I should stop laughing/sniggering/snorting at SAT papers, if one ever did. Even Zihao gets 2/3 right on the Lit paper. "How was the maths?" I asked unthinkingly. "Oh," he stalled, "10% got 800 (the full score)." "Were you one of them?" I say. "Yes," sheepishly. I forgot who I was speaking to.

Final rhetorical question count: 5