Extremely Unfortunate Events

So I work my butt off studying for an accounting test that was due a few minutes ago. I finish all my studying and I take the test, I’m about to submit it (this is all through the internet) when suddenly my retarded dial up Internet hangs up and I’m disconnected. I have exactly 7 minutes to dial up again and turn in the quiz before it’s 12:00 am the next day and too late, and knowing the bps of my connection I’ll probably not make it! Miraculously however, I get connected and I still have 7 minutes to submit the test. First though I have to save all my answers before I can finish it or the program won’t recognize any of my answers. So I press the button “save all” and all of a sudden a message box pops up informing me that due to the previous loss of my internet connection my account has been signed out of and I no longer have access to the test. I have 5 minutes left, I deftly sign in again, and begin to pray oh so earnestly that some how my answers were saved despite the fact that I never pressed “save all.” I log on my school account and low and behold the test status informs me that I’m still “in process” of taking it. I click on the “resume test” button and my test appears on the screen again. I glance up at the clock and gasp as I realize I have exactly 29 seconds to turn it in before it’s not accepted. I press the “finish” button and a message pops up that I quickly press “ok” to. I manage to peel my eyes off of the quickly turning seconds of the clock, and notice that the message that I just clicked ok to was asking me if I wanted to finish the test even though I hadn’t answered questions 1-20 (there are only 20 questions in the whole test). I suddenly realize that although it said that my test was still in progress, it had not in fact saved any of my answers. End result, I get a 0 % on my test. It’s extremely depressing and I feel like beating some one up… trouble is I don’t know who…or simply crying. But, as I’ve said before, there's no use crying over something that tears can never change.


[Listening to: The Ludlows*, by James Horner]


*super good instrumental music, very soothing!

New and Improved

Have you ever given yourself too much time to study for a test? Heh, generally I think people who study two whole days before a test are retarded. I typically find myself studying up to the very last second possible before I take the darn thing. Heh, short-term memory is the best, except on exams. But I always found myself in a paradox of emotion between hating and enormously admiring those who were totally calm and collected before a test due to the fact that they started studying for it three weeks before! So now that I’m in college and a mature and responsible adult I decided that I needed to take more charge and become like those weird people who study for tests over a period of time, rather than at the lunch break the day of the test, or in the class period prior to the test. So I devised a plan, I had two big tests, one in art and one in anthropology, which were both due on the 12th (Saturday) by midnight. I decided that I would get all my other assignments for the week completed by Wednesday, and then have Thursday and Friday to study for the tests. Between Thursday morning and Saturday afternoon I don’t know what happen…. But somehow, I never studied. I had nothing else to do, but somehow I couldn’t sit down and study, cuz the whole time in the back of my mind I kept telling myself that I had lots and lots of time to study. I even tried to reason out that if I studied on Thursday for a test that I took on Saturday that I would just forget all the stuff anyway and then do worse on the test than if I had studied right before hand. Which, even now strangely makes sense to me! So yeah, even though I allotted the time well in advance, (well in advance for me anyway), I still ended up not studying until I absolutely had to, ending up with a B in Art and a C in anthropology… argh, so much for my mature outlook on college life, everything will always be last minute with me!

Christmas

Ah, I can’t wait for Christmas break! I have so many things “planned” already; actually just what books I’m going to read! Haha, wow, I sound like the biggest nerd, but I love reading. And then I’m going to just relax and tan all day, heh, tanning is soooo relaxing, and yet so bad for you, wow, that’s pretty much like anything in life. Anyway, I know it’s dangerous to start thinking about breaks before they’re actually here, but heh, I’m thinking that’s half the allurement of breaks in the first place. The desire to be doing anything other than what you’re doing at the present, namely working your butt off with meaningless assignments that have seemingly no purpose. But “it’s all good,” as my brothers from the hood would say. haha, yeah, I think I’m half black like mr Lanting, haha good times… although come to think of it, I never actually had him as a teacher…funny how that works.

Family Outing

A few days ago I went out with my family to go see a movie. We drove all the way down to I believe Eastwood, and got lost in the mall looking for the theater (my family doesn’t get out much, and I don’t care too much for malls anyway, so needless to say none of us really knew where the theater was). Finally we found the theater and discovered that the movie had come and gone. Argh, we drove all the way down there for nothing! But my dad being the man that he is would not give up. So he went down and began looking for a newspaper to see if the movie was playing in any other malls. Sadly the movie had totally disappeared from the face of the earth! Subsequently we contented ourselves with buying five or six DVD’s to watch at home, one being Edward Scissor hands, heh, Johnny Depp is so cute in that movie with his little stark white face and innocent little eyes and clumsy scissors for hands! Haha that movie is so random, I mean why would that scientist guy give Edward scissors for hands anyway!