I’m still alive!
Been a while since I’ve posted hasn’t it? In fact, I think that’s the longest period I’ve gone without blogging since creating this website. In fairness, I’ve had perfectly good reasons for my absence from the blogosphere.
Firstly, I graduated from school a week ago. A very odd affair it was, leaving the place I’ve gone to day after day for the past six years, saying our final goodbyes. It’s also one of the rare occasions you can buy a pint for someone who’s been giving you homework and detention for the past few years. I’ve very fond memories of ol’ Lucan Community College. The friends and teachers I’ve met during my time there have had a great impact on me as a person, and for that I’m grateful. There were some very nice goodbyes from our teachers, and a couple of them even mentioned my blog to me, so it’s nice to think some of them are actually reading this thing! (Yet have never left a comment!)
The graduation ceremony was a very nice one, and I was pleased to be nominated for Student of the Year, and then was a finalist for it - good to get a bit of recognition!
Now to the heavy stuff, and the main reason I haven’t been posting on here lately. A week on from my graduation, and there’s six days until my Leaving Cert begins. Six feckin’ days!
It’s very strange to think that the exams we’ve been dreading and preparing for for the past six years are now only six days away. Strangely, I’m not panicking, perhaps because I’ve grown so accustomed to the idea of these exams that I’m just looking forward to getting them over with. The thought of walking out of that last exam is possibly the most beautiful image I could fathom in this brilliant mind of mine.
I’m really looking forward to the summer, and finally being able to work on my websites again. All this time I’ve had ideas brewing at the back of my mind, and I’m hoping the work ethic I’m developing right now because of the exams will carry on over to the summer and my online work.
I’m going to try to post on here during the exams whenever possible. It’ll be good for a) Other students to see my opinion of the exams and b) For me to look back on after I’ve gotten the results.
I’ve gotta head back. An Triail, Eavan Boland, Complex Numbers, Volcanoes, L’Obésité, Stalin’s Show Trials and how A is proportional to F - all await my attention! Somebody alert the authorities - it’s gonna be a wild night.
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May 30th, 2008 at 1:38 am
Good to see your still knockin’ about the place… there’s nothing worse than a dead blog
5 days now! God i’d hate to be doing all that again… all the hype and pressure… i was listening to the radio there one day and they were on about good eating habits and sleeping patterns etc..
Talk about OTT… i doubt anyone gets 8 hours of sleep before exams.. you’d be lucky to get 4 or 5
May 30th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Best of luck with the exams Mark, will be in that position myself next year! Any advice I’ve heard was not to let them get to you, put your best into them and take them in your stride.
Aaron.