Honey in my Gears

It didn't go as planned, but I did it.

As planned:
Go to Physics class Wednesday to see what my homework score was, thus determining if I would come in Friday for the test or drop the class.

Twist:
Was so stressed out about Physics (and Creative Writing*), that I made myself sick and didn't make it into school at all.

So, with much thought and surfing around Rate My Professor (which I should have looked through BEFORE signing up for classes), I decided to just go ahead and drop the class. So I went online to do just that, when I saw that the lecture and the lab are conjoined courses, so if I drop the lecture, I'd have to drop the lab, too.

Now, my lab prof is awesome. And my friend Alex had him for lecture last semester and loved him. But he's only teaching the *HONORS* non-major lecture this semester, so I needed special permission to get into his class (why I signed up for the other one). I thought of asking him about it, but then the hassle of going through the switch, along with getting all the right papers signed for everything... I am stressed enough right now.

So I decided:
Go to this week's lab. It's electrodes. It should at least be fun. And if all goes well, just do the work and switch lectures (it would have been more convenient, too, as I have SO MUCH going on MWF and almost nothing TR. His lecture would fit right after French, creating a nice balance between my days).

Well, electrodes wasn't fun at all. And it was so confusing. I think everyone in my group had maybe taken physics in high school (I was never able to do so, and wasn't even interested in science back then). And they're all in the Honors lecture. Clearly, they have some advantage, because they were rattling off explanations all over the place, and I was completely lost. This is pretty much how I felt for the previous set of labs.

Depressed about my bad Physics experience to begin with, today's lab almost made me want to run out of the room in tears. But I stuck it out til the end of the day and said my final farewell to Tristan (the only one in my group that I really got along with).

So I dropped both. I felt really frustrated about it all for a little while after Charles got me from school. He took me out to the Pita Pit for a delicious pita, and I still ranted about it all the way home. By the time we got home, I had exhausted myself into a 3 hour nap and woke up refreshed. I put on Emilie Autumn's Laced / Unlaced album (I'm listening to Laced- her classical music collection), and I feel so relaxed right now.


But seriously? I have been so stressed. People who see me every day know I have a mostly clear complexion (yet few people know how much I really cherish that). And all this week, I have gotten SO MANY PIMPLES :( It is a rare occurrence that I get stressed when I don't know what to do about a situation. They started clearing when decisions were made, though.

I guess if I want to study physics, I will just read on my own time. At least that way, I can choose what bits I want to learn. If I can pry that book pax_athena gave me away from Charles (he thanks you for that book so much), I will start with that :)




* because the teacher is a micro-managing bitch who teaches like you're in Kindergarten- plus I had misplaced the 4 plays I was to read and review, and didn't have them done.

Physics:
Charles and I had an argument yesterday about String Theory, but it was short-lived because neither of us know too much about it to begin with ;) All I know is that it is brilliant and crap all at the same time.

My Physics class is simple, yet boring. We have finished with Chapter 1 (about Galileo and the Earth/Sun center of the world debates) and now we are in Chapter 2, Particle Physics (atoms, colliders, and the sort). I am getting very sick of my prof not being able to answer any of my (and some other students') quesions.

Physics Lab is finally getting interesting, although, I will probably never quite grasp motion graphs (velocity and acceleration). I was almost about ready to give up on it and just take a different lab (human dissection) next semester (which I will probably do anyway). Our lab experiment for next week is called Electric Currents I. I am excited :)


Unrelated I:
I gave blood again today. I scored a gallon pin, since I've been donating twice a year since I was a junior in high school (with a couple break between then and now due to new tattoos), so I must have hit a gallon mark somewhere in my generosity. I also felt rather sick after. Probably too much juice (they had delicious Capri Sun fruit punch juice. Yum!) and fig cookies. Charles took me out to eat afterward (but he may have just done that because he felt bad for an argument we had the day before). And then we came home to nap. He slept for a half-hour, I slept for... 6 hours >_<


Unrelated II:
I started playing PMOG again, and have found lots of ups and downs. On the upside, there are a tonne of new perks- including (a 10% chance of) being able to dodge mines, set up watchdogs to protect from mines, and finding more ways to collect DP. The downside... People are able to get and lay hundreds of mines at a time by cheating somehow, and that's no fun. I've found my profile page to be completely covered in mines from a player called innerlight and it's pissing me off. He also riddled me with St. Nicks, which temporarily prevent me from laying mines on him or anyone else. Plus there's a limit on how many St. Nicks one can have attached to one's self, and most of the serial bombers already are maxed out (which I think is only like 5 or so). Gah. I hate every time I go to my profile, I get hit with a bomb. Also, every time I open a new tab and go back to my profile tab, I get the same thing. I am going through so much armor!