Weird Ticks

It's that time of year when everyone is settling down and hitting the books since the NCEA exams are only a terrifying 31 days away (by the way NZQA is it really necessary for you to have a countdown on your homepage? We get that they're close we don't need to know how close). That means it's also the time for establishing study habits and timetables and all of those blissful things to do with study.

There's habits and then there's habits (slight vocal inflection). These habits I'm talking about are the one's which are every so slightly entreating onto OCD territory. These habits are established when people stick to those freaky, freaky things called study timetables. You see when you make a study timetable you're freaking out quite a bit thinking to yourself 'oh flip I have so much to do in so little time'. What does that mean? It means you hyperbolise (it's a word because my new English teacher used it) your requirements and this is expressed via your timetable. People say things like I just have to structure and bonding every third day and then short text every fourth day. It's a little bit OCD. Lives become almost too structured. I mean last year someone even had a timetable with structured bathroom breaks. It's sickening. So sickening that teachers should stop nagging students to stick to study timetables since if we stuck to them then next year the teachers will end with a group of OCD year 13's. Imagine that a head girl with OCD so after she does a speech she has to stamp her foot 10 times...

It may be slightly flawed logic but the basics are there. Therefore I don't have a study timetable however I do have to do 500 skips (with a skipping rope) every day 'or else my family will die'. Friends quote anyone?