I had to rewrite this because I suddenly realised I had used the word 'various' a whole heap of times, and I hate that! A friend of mine sent me a message earlier telling me to watch 'Meet The Robinsons', saying I would find it funny as it is practically a story about me. It's an animation, about a thirteen year old boy, who travels to the future. He is a genius, and an orphan. None of these things apply to me. He spends a lot of time sitting on the roof, which is possibly equivalent to me spending a lot of my childhood sitting on high up things, and my teenage years up hills. He invents strange looking contraptions, which was a large part of my childhood, but his do things like transforming memories into pictures, whereas mine were converting anything with a spring in it into a rocket. My pens never lasted long, and eventually I was forced to use a fountain pen which was no fun at all. All it did was write. I made origami bombs with paper and various thefts from my mother's drinks cabinet. And I made most of my furniture out of bits of recycled rubbish. I collected circuit boards. I had to be taught that when I was given a gift of a tape player, or similar item, that it was unacceptable to take it apart straight away, to get the circuit board for my collection. Despite the fact that it would have made me happy, and gifts usually came about on days that I thought I could choose to do as I pleased, such as birthdays. When I was about ten my mother got a boyfriend who was an engineer, and he started giving me circuit boards from random things that had gone wrong, and from his old computers. I had a little soldering kit and I would make things like door alarms, and anything else that I felt protected me from intruders to my bedroom. I set traps all over the house, and I would know how many times people had come in and out of each room, with my little electronic counters. Over a certain number and I would have to conclude that there had been a visitor while I was at school, and I would have to check all my bedroom traps for signs of intrusion. I grew out of it by the time I was about thirteen, when I switched to hiding things under floorboards and in other secret places so that I could be a little less possessive over my space. But, this kid is fixing time travel machines. It's not the same thing at all. It's very flattering that the comparison was drawn, but so far it is far removed from reality. Unless something changes in the next half hour. I'm a bit bored of it now though. But I do want to see it through to the end, not that I know why. Talking of films, Rise of the Planet of the Apes was very good. I hadn't seen the film it was a prequel to, so I had no idea what I was getting into. For the first hour or so I didn't enjoy it all, just watching cruelty and sadness. I kept feeling like I might cry, or I might walk out. Later on I realised it was sort of necessary to give a good reason as to why the apes started to take over. I know that a chimp is a non-human ape, but I found it very frustrating that throughout the entire film, all the ape characters were referred to as chimps. Planet of the chimps, or call them apes. But that's just me. Silly things irritate me. In fact I met a friend a few days ago and she was telling me that she was going on a wildlife cruise. I couldn't let it go. I told her it was a sealife cruise. Eventually she conceded that she could see my point, but that it was advertised as a wildlife cruise. No doubt she'll go on an African sealife safari for her holidays next year. She doesn't mind me having little rants about these things, incidentally. Anyway, back to the film. It's not like I should be studying or anything...
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