Finding A Way

I’m finishing up classes this week for the end of term. Just getting ready for exams and the like. I do 5 English modules and three social science modules. My education is as equally varied as it is pointless. I have one class where you have to critically assess theorists and their influence on English in the last hundred years. After that assignment everyone was given two other assignments to correct and review, this is called a PEER REVIEW.

 Generally I’m pretty sound and give positive feedback like, “the author used good reference from the text and showed a good knowledge of the subject matter”, you know bullshit like that. I got mine back today that had been corrected by some douchebag. It’s all anonymous so I don’t know which cretin corrected it. The first line of the review read “has this person even read the text?”, they went on to destroy my piece. I was fucking bulling and I turned over the page and there was this little note from the lecturer saying, ‘don’t mind that criticism the student didn’t have a clue what they were talking about’.  Fucking justice, I got an A and the chap was being a dick. The exact same thing happened to my mate Jack.

My diagnosis of this is that people are fucking mental when given any type of power in a class situation.  Douchebags are the worst when they are given any power. France is fucked. Sarkozy is silly.

I have four exams and a bunch of assignments but it’s nearly that time of year again so I’m like a pig in shite.

I’ve spent the last week daydreaming and listening to mid nineties bands like Texas is the Reason, Seam and the real Saves the Day. Gav gave me the Tigers Jaw full length because he’s the best friend a boy could have. This time next week I’ll be in Wales, HUFUCKINGRAH!!!

I don’t like coffee that much but Derry makes a mean cup. Feel that.

I got up today at 6.30 for a stocktake in work. It is 2.18 am now and I’m still up. The white of my screen is turning to pink as I type but today was a good day.

I finished work at 11 and met Iano to head out to Casa Del Lugosi to track drums for the Find A Way EP. I’m really happy with the sound we’ve gotten so far and Dave  and Sean worked their respective bollocks’ off.  I then went into town with Iano around half six for First Death practice, I don’t know how people commute on the daily from Tallaght on that Red Line, I’d end up throwing myself in front of it. It’s the windiest slowest piece of shit in the world.

Practice was good and we’re getting back into the groove I think. I then had Dead Wrong practice and it was Nellys first buzz and we had the buzz. Things are going great. Lots of people are putting me in good humour these days. The only downer of the day was the scoundrel me and Iano got in the fucking Spar deli on Jervis. Fucking messer.

The days are cold but life is warm at the moment.

Come and chat to me at this on Friday.

A week is a long time I think. I mean they go by fast but alot of different shit can happen. I mean this time last week I hadn’t eaten Chinese food or dressed up as Duff Man, seen Old Boy, heard the Swellers acoustic dedications and Nelly hadn’t come home. I think if people concentrated on the logistics of life too much tehy’d end up mental. That’s why whenever I concentrate too much on whats going on I get pissed off. Day to day is the best medicine.

People have been talking to me alot about the nappy years recently. I never thought that when you get old there’s a good chance you end up the fuck in a nappy. This scares me more than cancer or alsheimer’s or anything like that. Imagine being in your 70’s and having to wear a nappy, that seriously scares the shit out of me. I’m going to dedicate my life to coming up with a way for everyone to avoid the nappy years. I havn’t thought of the ins and outs of this yet but I’ll find some way of negotiating the situation.

The world is smiling at the moment. I wonder for how long? I hope it keeps going but poor old Barack has inherited two wars and an economic depression, I reckon he’s fucked. Only time will tell.

Until then beware of scary dudes dressed as wolverine Berzerkering passers by….