I hate to sound so Chandleresque but could it BE any colder? My friends and I have taken to wearing layers upon layers of clothes under our school uniforms (including double layers of socks under tights) and still spend the day with shoulders hunched, clutching our jackets. It was minus five degrees at one point, which makes it minus seven or eight in my school. It just makes the return to school all the more welcoming.
Enough about the weather, I got my Christmas exam results back this week and managed to secure the points I’ll need in June. Here’s to hoping it’ll be that ‘easy’ then. Even though we’re closer to the exams, I feel better about the whole Leaving Cert now that the end is in site – it’s like there’s a purpose to all of the proposed study now as opposed to endless, fruitless revision. I’m writing this on one of my all too regular study breaks, which become more and more frequent as the evening bears on. What is it about Sundays that just seems to lack structure? I swear they’re hours longer than any other day of the week…designed to encourage both procrastination and laziness.
One thing that makes studying a little less solitary is music. I’ve taken to listening to either The Shins, Modest Mouse, Bright Eyes or The Postal Service while revising, they just seem to work for me. Of course I occasionally have to throw down my pen and just listen to the music, or reluctantly turn it off in order to concentrate on some arcane element of a subject but all in all Conor Oberst and Issac Brock are conducive to prolonged periods of work.
Study break over – I shall now return to homeostasis or how to talk about obesity in French or whichever happy task awaits me.
A bientot, Grace
I’ve never heard of any of those bands/artists. :/
But God, Sundays do drag on. Luckily I only need 370 points, which I can pretty much do in my sleep.
Good for you! What is it you’d like to do? You should listen to this track, it’s The Shins, New Slang. Nice and mellow.
Ah, brilliant! I was listening to Bright Eyes in study earlier, WE ARE NOWHERE AND IT’S NOW!
I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning is such an amazing album! Great study music 🙂
Bah… YouTube’s blocked on this computer. I’ll check it later.
Going for Anthropology in Maynooth. It’s social anthropology rather than biological, though…
Social anthropology…that’s really cool! I don’t know all that much about it, but is it a little like sociology?
That song’s actually pretty good! 😛
Yeah, they go well together. Pretty similar. What are you going for?
Did you doubt myself and The Shins?! They’re really amazing…every single album. Start with Oh, Inverted World.
I’m going for Journalism and New Media in UL, and in the course you can choose 2 subjects from about 7…one of which is sociology. I think i’ma do that.