Start of term checklist.

• First day of school, done, finished and over with? Check.
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• Shitty feeling for tomorrow? Check.
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• Pessimism slowly but surely creeping back in? Check.
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• Losing an entire afternoon getting tangled up in wrapping paper, sticky tape and schoolbooks? Double check.
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• Having the distinct feeling you haven't slept enough? Triple check.
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• Little brother being a whiny little ass? Check. (Remind me to let him write here, his whining would be even worse than mine, granting him the prime editor spot. Once he'll speak English, that is.)
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• Half of all taken good resolutions down the drain already? Check.
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• Getting shouted at by mother for deplorable state of your desk? Check.
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• Having kept a compulsion from the time when you wore glasses, constantly pushing an imaginary pair up you nose? Check. 
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• Having to deal with a mouse who has taken domicile in your bedroom? Check. (The little fucker doesn't even like cheese. I put some on the trap and the vermin preferred to shoot out from under the wardrobe to eat an old roasted peanut. Ánd dodged the sandal I threw at it.)

Oh, how I love the start of term...  (imagine a voice dripping with sarcasm)