if you work it out, tell me what you find

[hathycol]

Wandering merrily down the corridor in a search for some breakfast (the canteen staff appear to have actually made toast today as opposed to waving a piece of bread hopefully near the grill for three seconds before slathering it in margerine) I was nabbed by Dave.

"Colleen!"

I panicked and assumed the lesson we didn't have had somehow been miraculously reinstated and internally waved goodbye to my near-perfect attendence for history. "Argh what?"

"I was just wondering if you handed any work in on Monday?"

I breathed. Then panicked again. "No. No, I didn't. I have an essay to hand in now though! Honestly!" I actually did an essay last night, too, and I wanted to spend my free period doing another one. No, I really honestly and truly did.

"Oh, okay then. You're not..." He made this weird gesture with his hands that I assumed meant panicking or stressed.

"Well, I have a lot on, but I'm not worried about it or anything." I paused. "Do I need to be?"

"No." He paused. "No, you should be okay."

I wanted to say I only need a D in the exam but instead I went "Oh. Okay. Well, I'll hand in the essays tomorrow."

I only record this conversation as I quite frankly don't see the point of doing the essay he gives us on a regular basis. You have to understand that I have four history sessions a week and we're given an essay to do for each and every single one. I have never, ever, given in a piece of history homework late, per se. It might be written the lesson before, but it's never late. Also, I need a D. I'm quite sure that I can probably get that without loads and loads of revision. I'm going to revise myt ass off for the exam, because I don't want to fuck it up - just in case. The essays I have given in so far have varied - one was brilliant, the other a resounding failure. So yes, I can see the point of doing the essays in general, but all five of them? I think NOT. I have done three and I need to do three as unfortunately I have to rewrite the bad one.

But still. Honestly.

I don't really think I got across my feelings there. Still, never mind.

(Oh, and in the free lesson? Didn't do the essay. Quelle surpise or however you spell it.)

~Hathy_Col~

Comments

[sevenhelz.livejournal.com]

erm, i haven't read your blog for a few days, but check out this article from 2002: http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/features/story/0,,808740,00.html

i didn't know he did hamlet...
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[sevenhelz.livejournal.com]

it's me again. how is it that someone like you, who has more to do, manages to actually do essays, and someone like me, with barely any lessons and thus all the free time in the world, manages only to mope?

grr at self. yey at you. you rawk.
xx