A Curious Girl: I got an E in GCSE chemistry coursework...

It would be a pleasant change just to tell you what's been happening in my life...

I have chemistry coursework. Yesterday I thought I'd totally mucked it up, and it's in on Monday. I bit my lip, said a prayer, and went to see Mr. JE to show him my results.

Phew.

I'm feeling quite cheerful about it now - he told me I could do it through next week. Which means that I'm not going to spend all weekend working on it, unlike with biology.

I'm not too scared now. After all, I know the theory, I'm just not a great practical person.

The Christian Union - mainly the sixth formers, having said that, mainly Lucy, James, Chris and me, and probably just Lucy and James doing the actual thing, are doing an assembly on Monday morning, Years 7-9. We actually have very little prepared, except for deciding that we're going to give them prayer cover when they talk (we're going to meet up on Sunday). Please pray for us! I'm actually, bizarrely, looking forward to it, because I know that God's planned this and he's going to give us some awesome stuff to say. Although we've been having some interesting discussion about that. I told Chris that faith is spelt are-eye-ess-kay, and she reminded me that it's not spelt ess-tea-you-pee-eye-dee - good point! :-)

Yawn.

I actually can't be bothered to write any more.

I'm so very lazy. But it's my diary, so hah.

Maybe I'll go write my new novel instead...

Actually I don't think I did get an E in the end. I got to do another experiment which pulled me up to another grade. I got an A overall.

Oh! I had my first General Studies lesson today! Medical ethics or something.

Someone was saying that medicine is interfering with evolution, as people with weak genes die young otherwise. So let's just kill them shall we? Grr. This guy in my class said he reckoned it was a good idea, thin the population out a bit. But that's silly, in this day and age health does not equal success. (Never did anyway, in my philosophy) Intelligent people aren't necessarily healthy ones - there's no drug for intelligence. Happy people aren't necessarily healthy ones. People who would have died young because of something or other are out making a difference to the world. Success isn't about evolution. It's the intelligent people who are making the drugs and therapies... and who knows, what if Alexander Fleming, or Watson, Crick and Franklin, or Marie Curie, or anyone like that had died young as a result of some medically preventable disease... It's our intelligence that makes us 'successful' as a species.

This is a bit depressing, though. God has made me successful as a person... there's more to life than intelligence. Jeez, I'm arguing myself into a circle. But my point is, believing in the principle of the 'selfish gene' means that life is about surviving over others. Jesus taught us that life is about doing good, following God, and giving all you can. I prefer The Selfless Soul.

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