Priorities

It appears to be that time of year where I need to get my priorities straight. I've just gotten my laptop back and I've been sitting in the same spot for pretty much the entire weekend except for food and to walk Oscar, which is not good, I know. I need to decided where my priorities lie because right now they are definitely not with school. Currently it seems as if they lie with the thing sitting on my lap, and that isn't Oscar either.

Do you ever just feel like the internet and the telly are the best things in the world, but also the worst? Because right now, I do. I spend my weekdays in school from 9 till 4 and everyday I come home telling myself that I'm going to do my homework straight away, or that I'm going to play with Oscar but how many times does that actually happen? Very few. Instead I'm on my tab straight away to check if the internet modem is turned on and if it is (which is the case most days) then I can guarantee you it's not homework I'll be doing or Oscar I'll be walking. It's tv shows that I'll be watching online. Namely Doctor Who, Sherlock or Supernatural. But it's not like I haven't seen them before. I can quote at least one line (and sometimes entire scenes in sync with the actors) in every episode of  Doctor Who, and I have seen a certain scene (I wont say in case of spoilers) in 'His Last Vow' of  Sherlock 6 times now. Its an obsession and it's not right.

I haven't played with Oscar, with a toy in the garden for, I'd say about 3 weeks. It's disgraceful, I know. And I can't even remember the last time I sat down with my clicker and treats in hand to actually train him something new, no matter how useless or bizarre. I don't walk him during the week because "I don't have the time", when in fact I could easilly make time to do it after school. I can't even tell you that I walk him on Friday, Saturday and Sunday when I do have the time because on more than one occasion now he has gone without a walk on any one of those days. I'm quite simply, lazy and becoming totally uninterested in Oscar. I never thought I'd ever say the latter part of that sentence and I shouldn't really have any reason to either, but I do. As a result Oscar's behaviour and training is going down the drain. Just 2 days ago he ignored all recall signals and ran away from me, out of the field and down to the road. He is less responsive to any commands on walks, even the casual ones that tell him to walk a little closer to me or to come this way not that way.
At home he is putting paws up on counters a lot more and not settling down at night. The clicker means very little to him and his recall has quite simply gone to shit.

School is very much in the same boat as Oscar as well. You'd think that I'd be trying a little more this year, given that it's 5 months until my leaving cert, the exam which will ultimately decide what I do with the rest of my life. You'd think I'd be doing some study and trying at school but I'm not. I've never really tried that hard to begin with and I've always been fine but now it's different. Now I really am not trying, and not caring and as a result school work is suffering, and suffering terribly.

So there's the question, where do my priorities really lie? It's time to cop on and make some changes I think, and soon.