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The Scurrying Ants
Who run across my poor brain
Halt all...
DECISION!
Hi everyone, how's it going? No classes on the wednesday, sitting at home listening to the rain smoking way too many fags. I have to make a decision... Last summer I sat my A Levels. Didn't do brilliantly (except in French, but it could be said that doesn't count..) enough to get into the course I wanted, Drama Studies in Trinity, here in Dublin. So I've started to repeat. Last night, in the last post, it turned out that I can still go to college, UCD, the biggest U in ireland will take me, so they say, into their General Arts thing, where conceivably I'll do English Lit, PoliSci and Econ. So here's the big question. Do I, (a) repeat my exams in June with the chance of doing something I really like(Drama) and/or go to a really good school (One of my great uncles is a fellow at Oxford and he said if I got my grades up to Three As at A-Level I'd have a place in there, not to hard, I'd need to bump my English and History scores by about 25percent each...) or (b) Do I go to University now, join DramSoc (drama society) there, get my little BA and take over a political party for entertainnement purposes? GAH! I probably won't take over a political party but then again, Ireland is small enough that so long as I stay away from the North issues, I could still do it. But I digress. UCD called 20 minutes ago, if I want to register, I need to do so before Friday... TIC fucking TOC! I had a lesson with my history Tutor yesterday, he thinks I should repeat and try for Oxford. He's a racist elitist bastard who considers UCD to be far to petty for him or for any of his (three) students. I might however have a point. Don't you hate it when highly objectionable people make logical points? Throws your whole values system out the window. The articulate bastard is my foe. I envy you guys in the states, most 'bad guys' are arch-christian conservatives, easy to dismiss as fools.. I don't know what I want to do. I've gone through three boxes of smokes since I got that letter from UCD yesterday, I slept two hours and ate every single piece of chocolate in the house, WHAT TO DO? gah.
Okay, I've had a gin and tonic, I'm not feeling any calmer but I find that I can rant better. Good. I love my lack of tolerance. I've been asked to help design an information campaign about being gay in Ireland. I selected myself for the 'mischief not-associated with any group currently receiving state funding' part. Maybe I should plan some of those, I've a few stencil and street-tivism ideas, people wearing brown paper masks blocking off shopping streets and the such, maybe I should do some work, that ought to change my ideas... appears not, the idea of organising fake lynchings (one I had before) in UCD just popped into my head. UCD seems to be on my mind, a decision must be made.
I really ought to list my pros and cons.
Pros of repeating:
I possibly go to a good school
I possibly study in a very good drama program
I increase my A Level results in case I have a change of mind and want to start over with something else.
Cons of repeating:
I'm not in college
I have to live with my mother
I don't move on into stage well I don't know the number, the next stage
I am in a school with less than 30 students, BORING!
My history tutor is a racist/elitist.. read above for more.
My english tutor (also my headmaster) thinks he's funny. save me.
Part of my english course involves As You Like It, the worst Shakespeare play in the world
Another part of that course is Dryden, English poet laureate in the middles ages. emphasis on the DRY of DRYden
okay, got a bit carried away with the rant. We all know what happened last time I ranted about teachers and school on LJ.. Maybe I ought to stop, have a cigarette, and think about this whole thing some more.
back soon.
Advice would be fun, although I'll be honest, I probably won't listen and I'll make up my mind by myself in the end but maybe someone will bring up something I haven't thought off.
Cheerio
Who run across my poor brain
Halt all...
DECISION!
Hi everyone, how's it going? No classes on the wednesday, sitting at home listening to the rain smoking way too many fags. I have to make a decision... Last summer I sat my A Levels. Didn't do brilliantly (except in French, but it could be said that doesn't count..) enough to get into the course I wanted, Drama Studies in Trinity, here in Dublin. So I've started to repeat. Last night, in the last post, it turned out that I can still go to college, UCD, the biggest U in ireland will take me, so they say, into their General Arts thing, where conceivably I'll do English Lit, PoliSci and Econ. So here's the big question. Do I, (a) repeat my exams in June with the chance of doing something I really like(Drama) and/or go to a really good school (One of my great uncles is a fellow at Oxford and he said if I got my grades up to Three As at A-Level I'd have a place in there, not to hard, I'd need to bump my English and History scores by about 25percent each...) or (b) Do I go to University now, join DramSoc (drama society) there, get my little BA and take over a political party for entertainnement purposes? GAH! I probably won't take over a political party but then again, Ireland is small enough that so long as I stay away from the North issues, I could still do it. But I digress. UCD called 20 minutes ago, if I want to register, I need to do so before Friday... TIC fucking TOC! I had a lesson with my history Tutor yesterday, he thinks I should repeat and try for Oxford. He's a racist elitist bastard who considers UCD to be far to petty for him or for any of his (three) students. I might however have a point. Don't you hate it when highly objectionable people make logical points? Throws your whole values system out the window. The articulate bastard is my foe. I envy you guys in the states, most 'bad guys' are arch-christian conservatives, easy to dismiss as fools.. I don't know what I want to do. I've gone through three boxes of smokes since I got that letter from UCD yesterday, I slept two hours and ate every single piece of chocolate in the house, WHAT TO DO? gah.
Okay, I've had a gin and tonic, I'm not feeling any calmer but I find that I can rant better. Good. I love my lack of tolerance. I've been asked to help design an information campaign about being gay in Ireland. I selected myself for the 'mischief not-associated with any group currently receiving state funding' part. Maybe I should plan some of those, I've a few stencil and street-tivism ideas, people wearing brown paper masks blocking off shopping streets and the such, maybe I should do some work, that ought to change my ideas... appears not, the idea of organising fake lynchings (one I had before) in UCD just popped into my head. UCD seems to be on my mind, a decision must be made.
I really ought to list my pros and cons.
Pros of repeating:
I possibly go to a good school
I possibly study in a very good drama program
I increase my A Level results in case I have a change of mind and want to start over with something else.
Cons of repeating:
I'm not in college
I have to live with my mother
I don't move on into stage well I don't know the number, the next stage
I am in a school with less than 30 students, BORING!
My history tutor is a racist/elitist.. read above for more.
My english tutor (also my headmaster) thinks he's funny. save me.
Part of my english course involves As You Like It, the worst Shakespeare play in the world
Another part of that course is Dryden, English poet laureate in the middles ages. emphasis on the DRY of DRYden
okay, got a bit carried away with the rant. We all know what happened last time I ranted about teachers and school on LJ.. Maybe I ought to stop, have a cigarette, and think about this whole thing some more.
back soon.
Advice would be fun, although I'll be honest, I probably won't listen and I'll make up my mind by myself in the end but maybe someone will bring up something I haven't thought off.
Cheerio