Susan Hated Literature

Gott in Himmel, will you look at that. After 4 in the afternoon and I’m only getting online now. Bloody internet connection was down all day. Still I did manage to spend my time in a productive manner and read quite a bit of my book.

Today is the second day of the Leaving^[1] and I have only one thing to say you all you students out there taking exams, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah, nyah.

Sorry, couldn’t resist. Actually what I really wanted to say is this, wear sunscreen! And don’t get freaked out. You can always repeat. Or just find something else to do.

Still, how sickening must it be for all you students having to study while the Irish summer beams down. By the time the Leaving is over we’ll be back in the rain.

The essay options for Higher Level English were as follows^[2]

1. “Let’s stop all this pretense! Let’s tell each other the unvarnished truth for a change!”
   Write a personal essay in response to the above statement.
2. “Maintaining this sprinter’s pace at marathon length was painful…”
   Write an article for a magazine for young adult readers in which you give them advice about how o cope with the pressures of modern living.
3. “It was mad … ridiculous”
   Write a short story suggested by the above title.
4. “Someday I hope to come up with a get-rich idea…”
   Write a magazine article (serious or light-hearted) in which you outline a get rich idea of your own.
5. “What seems to be the problem …?”
   Write the speech you would deliver to a group of world leaders in which you persuade them to deal with one or more of the world’s problems.
6. “Imagine it’s St. Valentine’s Day”
   Write an article for a popular magazine on the importance of romance in our lives.

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A week and a half to christmas, and work is pretty much over. Oh I still have to be here for another week, but there isn’t really all that much to be done. I’m thinking of really making work for myself and deshelving all the books so I can clean and sort the shelves. See, the shelves are very deep, deeper than the books and so there is quite a bit of dust hiding behind the books. And because exams have just finished I have no doubt that there are books scattered all over the shop.

But at the same time, it seems an awful lot of work?

Maybe I’ll just sort the journals instead? Or waste hours on the internet. Yeah, that last ones sounds good.

Was talking to de faadder^[1] yesterday and it turns out the probably will not be coming up for a days’ shopping as de mudder^[2] was already up for a day and traveled by train. This is terrible news! Now I’ll have to haul the presents from the apt to the luas, from the luas up the stairs and onto train. And, if we get stuck with the “fancy-arsed new trains” then it is going to be hassle trying to find somewhere I can dump aforementioned pressies.

sigh

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Finished exams, no more moaninf about having to study. Or about my inability to study for more than five minutes at a time. This moaning will be replaced by moaning about the fact that will be unemployed and job seeking.
But still, its all good. All the time

Current track: No Matter How Hard I Try by Sinead O’Connor

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