One word: Ugh.

I love spring. I love the stretch in the evening, the buds on the trees, na h-uan ag damhsa sna pairceanna (or something like that…) but these days I just can’t get no joy. In winter, when it was dark and rainy and even snowy, it was easy to gather my bag and baggage together and haul my carcass upstairs to do a bit of study. Well, it was easier.
Now I have the extra hours of daylight to contend with as well as the annoying sound of other people having fun, namely the children of the neighbourhood. They kick footballs and scream at each other, full of youthful exuberance. I mutter jealously under my breath about noise pollution and the youth of today. I would have gotten that English done too, if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids.

Seriously though, summer is creeping up on us faster than…um, something fast. I saw the ice cream man today. The ice cream man, for Chrissakes! Where is the time going?
I know where it’s going to – the new Lady Gaga video, painting my nails, procrastinating and eating chocolate in Lent (like a true rebel.)
Ah no. I do study, but recent mock results prove otherwise. I am disappoint.

Maths (Sweet Ordinary Level) – 58% C3
Not great by any means, but considering I didn’t answer 2 questions and only did what I could on the others, I’m pretty happy.

French – 82% B1
As we say in Ballina, chuffed city. I’d be very happy to get this in the real deal. It’s the only thing I’m proud of, mind you 🙁

Music – 58% C3
So disappointed. I did my melody in the wrong key which made me extremely sad…My listening was also atrocious, mostly cos Mozart came up as a main question and I totally wasn’t prepared for him. Sorry Wolfgang. Maybe next time.

Art – 66% C1
I’m ok with this actually. I did well in my life drawing, still life and Art History, but my craftwork brought me down. I chose clay modelling and towards the end I was getting so sickened with sculpting tiny elephant tusks that I just threw it on a wooden board and said “There. That’ll do”. Evidently it did not do.

History – 50% D1
Argh. I hated even having to type that, never mind having to tell people. I couldn’t answer the Irish question nor the Contextualisation on the Document Question. I’m mad about the Irish section though, I should have been able to answer more than one question out of the 4 but no, my teacher had not covered anything else but Cumann na Fucking Gael (sorry Mom.) My pink exam paper is destroyed with the fruits of my in-exam frustration (it says “I can’t do this” and “I’m going to fail” on every page.) I’d like to put in a word here about my history class. I have mentioned before that there are only two of us in it, and people always presume that it must be like a grind. Hmph. Not much of a grind when you have to get grinds for the grind.
(Say grind one more time. Grind. *stop quoting Mean Girls Valerie*)

So. Out of four subjects, I have 200 points. Mmm. I’m still waiting on English and Irish, but I’m not expecting anything wonderful there. I know the mocks don’t matter in the grand scheme of things and that this is the kick up the arse I needed, but I really thought I was pacing myself and being consistent with study. Back to the drawing board I guess! All smiles! We’ll be grand!

Guh.

Valerie