I know I'm around three weeks early with this, but I've decided to outline my resolutions for the New Year.
1. Manage my money better. I received the grant from the Government for the first year of my college career, three payments of 2,000 euros, and somehow I've spend 1,700 of the first payment already. I really have no idea how, but I'm definitely watching what I spend from now on.
2. Keep on top of college work. It's a bit late for this semester (we finish on Friday), but next semester I'm definitely keeping up with the workload. Right now I've got a 2,000 word essay to do as well as four exams to study for, one of those exams I have no notes or materials to study so it's time to call in some favours!
3. Visit Europe. Anywhere in Europe, I just wanna get off this island in the summertime! I had plans to spend four months travelling across Europe, but a combination of financial constraints, a lack of enthusiasm among friends and time constraints, I'm reducing it to one month. It'll probably be a weekend in Prague by the time summer comes around!
4. Try and spend more time with family. Especially the older ones. They're not gonna be around forever.
5. Keep in touch with everyone. It's the worst feeling in the world to meet up with someone you haven't spoken to in months only to realise that you've become strangers.
Well, that's my five resolutions for 2008, I have no doubt that I will not stick to any of them and I will probably add to them by the time 2008 actually comes along. But it's nice to have goals, if only to fail in achieving them. What's your aims for '08? Lemme know!
Tuesday 11 December 2007
Sunday 9 December 2007
Been a while...
A long, long while! 6 months since my last post, give or take a few days... Blogging isn't really something that stuck with me, I was hoping to make it a ritual and it never really worked, because summer (and the lack of an internet connection) crept up verrry quickly!
Well, I'll give you a little update. Six months ago I was in Dublin, sitting the Leaving Certificate for the second year in a row because I had messed up first time and failed to get the course I wanted. Well, same happened again, and I had to take my second choice which was here, in Galway City on the west coast of Ireland. I'm doing an Arts course, which has a lot of subjects to choose from, and I'm doing History, English, Classical Civilisations and Celtic Civilisation. The first two are pretty good, but Classics and Celtic Civ have disappointed me because we're not doing as much history as I thought we would be doing!
So yea, I came to Galway for university, whereas my friends (who I mentioned in my last post way back when, mean a lot to me), ended up in Dublin. Irony eh? I'm still missing them hugely, but the fun of living on my own, the excitement of college life has eased the pain somewhat. I still do miss them most of the time, but sometimes, when you're out for a few drinks and end up spending the night in some random house with people you met an hour before, you forget just what it was you were bummed out about. But then you've got moments like now, at ten past 6 in the morning, when you can't sleep because you're sleeping pattern has become messed up, that you miss the way things used to be.
The responsibility that college brings is a bit of a bummer as well. Having to pay rent, electricity, food... having to get yourself up in the morning (which is the one I find particularly irksome), as well as having to motivate yourself to do the work. Those last two are particularly hard for me, because I'm an easy, laidback, happy-go-lucky kinda guy, and despite having a 2000 word essay due for Tuesday I'm lying here thinking about next week when all my exams are done and I get home for Christmas. I'm not thinking about starting the essay, or thinking about the structure at least, I'm thinking, yes, a cup of tea in front of the fire with the Christmas tree in the corner, watching some Christmas films - like Monsters Inc. or LotR or Star Wars. I realise these aren't exactly classic Christmas films, but they are for me because I've received them as presents at one stage and of course, watched them instantly and incessantly!
So yea, that's the way it is for me now. In the past two years I've moved from my home in Donegal to Dublin, where I thought I'd spend the rest of my educational life, but ended up here, in Galway, which is barely a city in my eyes as I've been to London and after London, Dublin is barely a city. Things never really turn out like you plan to, and I guess that's what's fascinating about life. You never really know what's around the corner, eh?
Well, I'll give you a little update. Six months ago I was in Dublin, sitting the Leaving Certificate for the second year in a row because I had messed up first time and failed to get the course I wanted. Well, same happened again, and I had to take my second choice which was here, in Galway City on the west coast of Ireland. I'm doing an Arts course, which has a lot of subjects to choose from, and I'm doing History, English, Classical Civilisations and Celtic Civilisation. The first two are pretty good, but Classics and Celtic Civ have disappointed me because we're not doing as much history as I thought we would be doing!
So yea, I came to Galway for university, whereas my friends (who I mentioned in my last post way back when, mean a lot to me), ended up in Dublin. Irony eh? I'm still missing them hugely, but the fun of living on my own, the excitement of college life has eased the pain somewhat. I still do miss them most of the time, but sometimes, when you're out for a few drinks and end up spending the night in some random house with people you met an hour before, you forget just what it was you were bummed out about. But then you've got moments like now, at ten past 6 in the morning, when you can't sleep because you're sleeping pattern has become messed up, that you miss the way things used to be.
The responsibility that college brings is a bit of a bummer as well. Having to pay rent, electricity, food... having to get yourself up in the morning (which is the one I find particularly irksome), as well as having to motivate yourself to do the work. Those last two are particularly hard for me, because I'm an easy, laidback, happy-go-lucky kinda guy, and despite having a 2000 word essay due for Tuesday I'm lying here thinking about next week when all my exams are done and I get home for Christmas. I'm not thinking about starting the essay, or thinking about the structure at least, I'm thinking, yes, a cup of tea in front of the fire with the Christmas tree in the corner, watching some Christmas films - like Monsters Inc. or LotR or Star Wars. I realise these aren't exactly classic Christmas films, but they are for me because I've received them as presents at one stage and of course, watched them instantly and incessantly!
So yea, that's the way it is for me now. In the past two years I've moved from my home in Donegal to Dublin, where I thought I'd spend the rest of my educational life, but ended up here, in Galway, which is barely a city in my eyes as I've been to London and after London, Dublin is barely a city. Things never really turn out like you plan to, and I guess that's what's fascinating about life. You never really know what's around the corner, eh?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
