Stress

I've never seen myself as a stress-filled person. However, over the past few weeks that's begun to change. I have preps flying all over the place, GCSE exams looming, endless cricket endeavours to go to, and, to be quite frank, I'm fed up.
Let's start with the exams. To be honest, I honestly don't think I'm going to get a D. I don't even think I'm going to get a B. Not being arrogant, but I just don't think I will. At school we have been doing some revision and past papers, and I've turned out pretty well on those, getting A*'s across the board. But that's not the point. It's the pressure that we've been put under by the teachers (and, to a certain extent, parents), and all this is just starting to make me think; "Do I have to work as hard as you're saying to even get close to an A*?" Don't think for one minute that I think I can just cruise an A*, because I know I can't, but right at the moment I'm comfortable that I know what I need to know and that I can do well in my exams. Try telling that to my teachers or parents however, and you get a face full of: "You're just being lazy," or: "You're just being arrogant." Can't you trust me people?
Now on to the preps. After that previous rant I have hardly any energy to go on about this subject! But I do think that it is quite inconsiderate of teachers of subjects other than Science to be giving us preps due for the next day when they know damn well we are already revising our socks off - or not as the case may be :).
Cricket. Not as big an issue, because I love it. I really adore playing it, but at the moment the amount of practices is starting to get a little bit excessive. But, as I said, it's not too big a problem.
I apologise to the 2 people who probably read this blog that I haven't been posting again, but, due to the content and the tone of the post, you can probably tell why.