Just finished watching Derry Girls, and all I can say is JFC, please give Sister Michael her own show, and I will watch that shit 24/7 every day until the day I die.
Though my heart is breaking
I'd give the world for that moment with you
When we thought we knew
That our love would last
But the moment passed
With no warning, far too fast
currentlycryingaboutlancelot // Chess - West End (Tommy Körberg, Siobhán McCarthy // Richard Siken, War of the Foxes // Chess - Broadway (David Carroll, Judy Kuhn) // Nikki Giovanni, Mirrors // Chess - Long Beach Civic Light Opera (Robert Yacko, Jodi Benson) // lostcap // Chess - Stockholm (Tommy Körberg, Helen Sjöholm) // starpeace
when i want to simplify something to get the point across to as many people as possible i think "would siobhán understand this?"
who's siobhán? well. in school i took economics for 2 years (the equivalent of freshman/sophomore i think but it doesn't really matter). it was the first time my school had offered that class for a GCSE exam. it was also, largely thanks to siobhán, to be the last
see me and a boy called michael were the only people there on purpose. i picked it because it seemed better than the other available options at the time and i was good enough at maths (better than michael, much to his annoyance) . michael was actively interested in economics and those two statements tell you everything you need to know about michael.
the other 4 - because it was only a class of six - were there because everything else was full and they were forced to take it because they had to take something.
this included siobhán.
siobhán, bless her, was not a maths person. siobhán did not understand how to convert fractions into percentages (1/2 = 50%)
every week. for two years, we collectively attempted to explain how to convert between fractions and percentages because you do that quite a bit in economics. it was unfortunately necessary
siobhán never did grasp it
because we spent every week dedicating at least half of the class time to trying to teach siobhán that 1/2 = 50% in a way that would stick, we did not do a whole lot of economics.
which meant that the 4 of them failed. myself and michael ended up with Cs. the lowest grade in any subject for both of us and a blot on our academic record. could have gotten higher if we'd taught ourselves but frankly i didn't give a shit and never studied outside of a class in my life, and michael was too busy obsessively writing and re-writing his maths coursework to get a higher mark than me (he didn't, by the way)
because only 6 people took the class (a fact that already put it on thin ice) and 4 people failed after 'economics' turned into 'remedial maths for siobhán' (a failure rate of 4/6 - that's 67%, siobhán) the whole thing was labelled a catastrophic faiure and they never ran it again.
so we were the first, and also last, class to study economics in my school.
would siobhán understand what you're trying to say
There are VR recreations of Erin's bedroom and Sr. Michael's office in the Derry Girls Experience exhibit, and they added Siobhan McSweeny's BAFTA to Sr. Michael's!