Anthony: Obligatory Holliday Blues

As the holliday comes to an end, it is usual that one should feel some small measure of dread. After all, the days of sunning, eating and breaking things whenever you want are almost over, and you have a job/school to go back to and slave away at for another 8-10 weeks.

My sense of dread is not so much dread as weary acceptance that bad shit is going to happen. After all, I am attending a school populated by retards and questionably-talented teachers, and a school which cannot update its webstite to inform students when they are supposed to return (it sounds simple, but for unobsetvant and forgetfull people like me, that sort of thing is needed, and they are supposed to cater to the lowest common denominator).

I can forsee nothing but boring for the next few weeks. We'll have the "Welcome Back" teachers, which spend a week or two being REALLY boring and condescending. We'll have the "Snap to Action" teachers that launch into a tirade about how beign back from the hollidays is no excuse to be at any less than 110% efficency.

Of course, you have the inevitable shuffling of classes that are based of irrelevant marks we recieved last year in irrelevant subjects. I will inevitably end up in a class with at least three retards for my main subjects. My electives, maths class and any other classes that are sorted individually will also be complete dives. All the good teachers will be teaching the classes of my friends, thus creating a source of endless envy for the rest of the year.

Also, its SC year. We, Year 10, will complete our second stage of schooling and obtain certificates that show we are capable of basic learning. Note that these now mean nothing for an extra year, as we are unable to actually LEAVE school untill 17, in year 11. They upped the leaveing age (as far as I understand) and are talking about making the HSC compulsory as well, making the SC irrelevant and marinating us students in a cesspool of angry, stupid would-be dropouts.

We turn 16 this year. This means, of course, the worst. The inflated egos, the bad driving, the boasting about said driving, the inevitable sexual exploits (real or imagined) from the douchebag group, and the bragging about said exploits. The stress from people who don't realise that the SC counts for nothing if we stay in school will envelop the entire grade in a fog of hyperventilation and freak-outs.

Really, it seems like this year is going to be a complete flop. But in reality, it'll probably just drag past like any other year, as the individual days speed past like F1 cars on the ceiling(New Scientist reference FTW) and the year drags past like a cripple hamster on a wheel.

As for the real world, the debunking of Global Warming, an increase in political correctness and more government paranoia ahead.

Wow, I'm a real fortune teller now.
Quick, someone pay me large ammounts of money!

Quote of the day:
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Friedrich von Schiller (1759 - 1805)