Do you remember having tea on a Sunday evening and realising you hadn’t done your homework? That drop in your stomach when you'd curse yourself for not starting on Friday?
I can’t hear the theme tune to Glenroe without worrying there’s some French verbs I’ve forgotten to conjugate.
The last day of the assembly term last month felt like doing your homework on the school bus.
Six bills were passed and major policies announced in the same amount of time it took me to start watching Bridgerton, fall asleep, and wake up without ever actually having to sit through Bridgerton.
During a frantic day, legislation on free period products in schools, colleges and public buildings; free hospital car parking, and ‘safe leave’ to allow victims of domestic violence to seek support were among the bills passed.
Long-awaited legislation to preserve key documents relating to mother and baby homes came as a welcome reward for campaigners who have spent years raising concerns that important birth and adoption records were in danger of being lost forever.
But for all the good work that was done, showing the assembly can function like a normal administration if it really wants to, one announcement was truly baffling.
Environment minister Edwin Poots's decision to announce a badger cull as part of efforts to reduce the spread of bovine tuberculosis felt like a desperate attempt to win a few rural votes - even though he's now off to campaign around suburban South Belfast.
Mr Poots, a farmer himself, would have known that farmers' groups have backed a cull over long-held fears that badgers are driving the spread of bovine TB.
He would also have known that the assembly will have to pass legislation before any cull can go ahead - a bit like if I announced to my editor what stories I was planning to write before I disappeared on a fortnight's holiday.
Nevertheless, some wildlife groups have been so concerned by the plans that they have launched a legal action.
Groups including Wild Justice and the Northern Ireland Badger Group (NIBG), supported by the Born Free Foundation, have applied for a judicial review of the plans.
They believe that a cull could begin as early as July, following May's elections.
If the plans go ahead, thousands of healthy badgers will be shot at night with high-powered rifles.
The practice, which the British government’s own Independent Expert Panel found was ineffective and inhumane, will subject the animals to a cruel and drawn-out death.
What’s more bizarre is that killing the protected species will do nothing to reduce incidence of bovine TB.
All serious research has found culls to be futile.
A study published just days before Mr Poots’s announcement found there was no detectable link between the culling of badgers in England and any decline in the level of bovine TB.
A co-author of the study, Dr Mark Jones, of the Born Free Foundation, said the north will just be following England in introducing a useless policy.
"Instead of blindly following the ineffective and inhumane badger culling policy employed in England, the authorities in Northern Ireland should be following the progressive approach adopted in Wales which is succeeding in reducing the impacts of bovine TB without killing wildlife," he said.
Better testing, cattle movement controls and a vaccination scheme are strategies which really work.
So what’s the point of announcing a cull at all? Is it just pre-election optics to take the bad look off Mr Poots's disastrous tenure as environment minister?
Bovine TB has been around since the agricultural revolution but a link with badgers was only proposed in the early 1970s.
The disease costs taxpayers around £40m a year, around half of which is spent on compensating farmers for infected cattle which have to be slaughtered.
Farmers get 100 per cent of every slaughtered animal’s market value.
But it was initially proposed that this would drop to 75 per cent and the compensation per animal would be capped at £5,000.
Under Mr Poots's plans, compensation levels will be reviewed.
Farmers are understandably concerned that they stand to lose out financially at a time when many are already stretched by soaring energy costs.
There's no doubt that bovine TB is a devastating disease. But announcing a strategy which will do nothing to combat the problem seems like a particularly odd and cynical move ahead of the election.
Farmers are being sold a pup. It's them and blameless animals who will suffer.
