I ACTUALLY REALLY HAVE TO GO TO BED

Because my mother is going to be up to run in about half an hour, and because I got maybe five hours of sleep last night, and because I'm going to have to be up earlyish (compared to a reasonable amount of sleep and/or my school sleeping habits), and because whatever I'm tired.

But I just wanted to say that I am having a much easier time adjusting to being at home than I thought I would have.

That is probably because all I've done is watch 2/3rds of a season of "Psych" and 5/6ths of a season of "Bones." I've knit most of a sock, though. That's something. And I've gotten my tension back to its pre-finals state. My knitting tension, I mean. I have physical evidence of my finals stress in that the mitten I knit at school is almost half an inch smaller around than the mitten I knit at home over Thanksgiving.

That's probably the same reason my dad got one sock, knit at school, that fit his foot and one sock, knit at home (watching "House," over the summer), that was at least an inch bigger (in all dimensions).

So, since I'm now knitting a second sock, I figured I should probably carefully de-stress before knitting a whole sock that wouldn't fit on my foot. I had to pay a lot of attention to how tightly I was knitting at first, but it's become a lot more natural.

I still need a damn backrub, though. But that's mostly my posture.

My grades are all in. I'm fairly pleased. Programming in particular--I wasn't lying on Facebook, I seriously thought that B was an impossibility. I guess I hadn't calculated for my "class participation" component? But a good, solid B... That I can get behind. Even if I can't program to save my life.

B- in Calculus is good enough,

And just so Scooter knows, today's Groupon could be $9 for a half dozen cupcakes from Lola Cookies and Treats, in Leesburg. (Or, $17 for a whole dozen. The half dozen's usually $18; the whole dozen's usually $35.) You buy the Groupon, save it for a while, print the coupon, take it to the place, redeem it. Everything's paid online unless you go over the value of the coupon, in which case you pay in person. Quite convenient, really.

Anyway. More like 20 minutes now. Bed for me. Night-night.

I RECEIVED AN A IN A CLASS. FOR ONCE.

I do not have the finest of GPAs. It's not terrible, as in it's not "academic probation," and it's improving, but it's not the finest of GPAs. Its plumage is far from resplendent. But, again, it is improving. I got an A. I like As. Too bad I only get As in classes that are stupid and easy. Oh well. Hopefully next semester my classes will be such that I can get As (or B+s or something) without wanting to kill myself. I'm not sure, though. Having that many math classes (i.e. three, two of which are supposed to be fairly difficult and one of which is supposed to include a lot of work despite being fairly easy) might b terribly terribly stressful and upsetting. But hopefully not! I should be able to get a pretty easy A in Intro to Education, and ballet couldn't possibly be too bad, right? I could finally have a GOOD semester. Maybe.

I hate people who refuse to accept that if you don't know what you're doing then you don't deserve credit for it.

I'm so happy. I'm so happy. In all likelihood, I will not fail this class. I will not fail. I would like to get a 60% on the final. Then I could have a 60% in the class. In this class, a 50% is a failing grade. I love this man. This man is my favorite man. Is 60% possible? I do not know if 60% is possible. I do not know 60% of the material. Regardless, I'm so happy. I say this with a straight face, but it is true. I am so happy. Now I can truly say that I have loved this man like Mary loved Joseph: a little bit at first, not at all as trouble arrives, and then nigh-infinitely once it became apparent that he will not have me stoned to death for being what amounts to an adulteress. Adultery is a metaphor for not understanding electricity, by the way. In case that wasn't clear. And being stoned to death is a metaphor for taking this class. Because the class is so painful. In case that wasn't clear.

I'm so happy.

ETA: Giving birth to Jesus is a metaphor for taking this final. Just for the record. IN A STABLE. IN THE COLD. WITH LOTS OF PAIN.

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BIG SAUSAGE PIZZA

From George (a tit).

PRETEND THIS IS A BLOG POST, OKAY?

Last night, I successfully completed the work that I intended to complete. If I had started earlier, it would have been a lot less painful, and then today would be much less painful. Too bad I'm an idiot.

If only I had seen fit to actually write in my lab notebook throughout the semester, then I might not have been up until 5:30 last night copying everything I put into Excel into a stupid composition book. I still don't understand the point of them, since we turn in lab reports anyway and he wants all our lab report data to be fancy (definitely typed) Excel sheets and it's a waste of time and paper to make us get a special notebook just to write down things we're going to have to enter into Excel anyway. Anyway, if I were only a decent person when it comes to following directions, everything would be nicer. Too bad I'm an idiot.

Right now, Calculus is the only class I don't hate, which is a nice change from this time last semester, when, honestly, Calculus was probably the only class I did hate, except I guess Astronomy. Seriously, last semester's finals time was bad or whatever in terms of staying up late (Hi, Western Civs!), but it wasn't just constant torture like right now. I'm hoping that in the spring, my classes won't be too awful, but I think I would have to change them in order for that to be the case. I should probably be switching Linear Algebra to next fall and going with another real class instead, because three math classes sounds a TINY bit hellish, but at the same time, what would I take instead. If you guessed "NOTHING," you're on the right track.

Right, so, yeah. Last night wasn't so bad, but I also shouldn't say that until I've gotten through my Physics lab final, which is in an hour and a half.

But at least I got a ridiculous hat out of last night? So that's good.

Tonight is more homework times, this time MasteringPhysics online stuff, but I think I need to watch a couple MIT lectures on it before I'll be able to do it--or maybe the book will be actually helpful? Hard to say. Anyway, after MasteringPhysics, it's time to start my Python project that's due Saturday [again, too bad I'm an idiot], and I'll be working on that until I turn it in. After midnight Saturday night, I have a couple hours of pleasantness (I'll probably watch Star Wars?) and then bed, and then constant lecture-watching as a method of Physics studying, followed by a couple lectures on Calculus. MAYBE I can have a day off on Sunday, but I'll have to think carefully, because I really don't want to be as clueless on the Physics final as I was on my last test (53, after curve, woo). 

Notes for one sec, relevant to Kristina and FRLN class

If you had separate attachments that you sent in for the scholarly review thing, I downloaded that, so I have it, but I returned all your scholarly review to you; try to answer the questions that I gave last time.

What I said was, you don't need to rewrite your scholarly review, just add on. Pay attention to those questions; they're in the announcements and the course content.

Resubmit when you're ready.

Some people, who did great, I've given their grades, grades are in the gradebook. Otherwise, add to it, you can get a few more points, if you don't have time, don't worry about it. Grades out of 50.

Everything is due by the day of the final, so 12/14. The more that's in earlier, the better for me and for you, but whatever.

Anyway, so, yeah, life sucks from now until I go home, and then for about two weeks after that. Woo, finals.

FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCKING FUCKERS FUCK

Today, I was going to email my professor and tell him my group had disappeared. Instead, I opened up my email to find one FROM my group.

This is good:
IFF (shitty group) >> (no group)

(>> means "much greater than")

This is bad:
IF (shitty group) = (way behind)(irresponsible)(a bunch of dicks)

Everything in my life, stop fucking me over RIGHT NOW, please, I would really appreciate it.