The oul’ nerves finally decided to kick in – about an hour before the exam! At that stage, being nervous is useless; there is little point in starting to worry about an exam when you have no time left to do anything about it!

As it turns out, the exam didn’t go wonderfully well. I had prepared, and prepared, and prepared some more, so I was actually pretty well prepared. Based on the exams from the past few years, that is. Which, in fairness to me, and my classmates, were very similar every year.

Until this year, that is. For some unknown reason, the lecturers in question had decided, whether jointly or otherwise, that it was time to shake things up a bit.

And, so, of the seven of us in my class, there were not too many happy faces at the end of those two hours. Which is an awful shame, when you think of it. After three and a half years of hard (and I use that word with a grain of salt) work, it is disappointing when the first of your final exams doesn’t go well.

All in all, having gone into the exam thinking I would do pretty well, I am a bit disappointed. To be honest, though, I don’t think I did too badly. I will be happy with 70, 60, perhaps even as low as 50%. Anything lower would be devastating.

In any case, we didn’t have much time to sit around crying over spilt milk, as they say. The next exam is at 9:30 tomorrow morning, and there is plenty of preparation to do.

That is why I am sitting here, writing this. I’ve hit some kind of barrier. I’m back at the stage where I feel no motivation to work any more tonight. So, after posting this, I will make up my mind. Do another hour, and maybe get something done, or head to bed, and start again early in the morning? Decisions, decisions…

On a lighter note, I have been recently listening to a lot of Bach. Namely the Bach toccatas, as played by Angela Hewitt. Which are lovely. It would be great if I could get to that stage of proficiency in my playing. Although her playing is far, far beyond proficient.

So, that’s about all I have to say for the moment. Slán go fóill.