Ides of March

I realized this morning, after posting the picture of Destin, that of my 7 posts this month, 5 of them had been pictures and all of the pictures had been of horses. The quality of my blog has been going steadily downhill. Sorry, readers.

I was right, though. This week, and last week, have been a lot better and my attitude towards school has improved. I'm happier. Life is good right now. I have a ridiculous amount of work to do so it is probably a good thing that Patrick is living back home in Richmond, where Lauren can ride him - she is better with young horses than I am, anyway, and it keeps me more focused than I would be if he was here. Plus, I got to have a really awesome ride on Sly for my lesson today and that was fun. It was nice to ride a horse that jumps and has a good right turn. Lauren rode Patrick today and let me know he was quiet and a good boy - that is excellent news! It was the first time she had gotten on him and I am really glad she enjoyed riding him because she is going to be his main rider for the next 6 weeks.

Otherwise things are going alright. I did absolutely horribly on my last Latin quiz - like, I legit almost failed. This isn't one of my, "think I failed but got an A" things, I actually got a 60% on the quiz, which is the lowest possible passing grade. Yikes. But I didn't really study that much and so I am not surprised. And I'm not really that disappointed with it, to be honest - I mean, yeah, I am not having a great semester as far as my grades go but just getting through it in one piece has become my main priority. I think that's okay.

My sanity and happiness really need to start coming first - that's the real thing I've figured out this semester. And not always, I'm not saying I shirk off all responsibility, but some things just aren't as important.