Review bitchiness

Lovely review for Marry A Choice (which finished posting 11.26.05):

"Hermione's middle name is JEAN NOT JANE"

I so want to respond, "O!M!!!G!!!!!! HOW DID I NOT KNOW THAT?!?!?!?! I MEAN, I ONLY WROTE THE STORY TWO YEARS BEFORE JK CHANGED HER MIND!!!eleventyone!!!" but I won't.

It's really, really tempting, though.



It's raining out. That's good and bad. Good because it means it's finally warming up, and I am ready for the snow to be gone and the ground thawed. I bought seeds the other day, and now I want to plant them, darn it. It's bad because we still have a couple feet of snow on the ground and rain melts snow faster than sunshine does, and, well, flooding sucks.

Also, it's gray and miserable looking and really hard to get motivated to do anything.

I think I will indulge in a cup of honeyed caffeine and then start my chore-filled day.

First task: study the graphing of functions. It's the question I got wrong on my test (and I knew it at the time). I'm sure there's a website out there that explains functions better than the instructor did.

*squints* Dur...

Went to the eyeballogist today, and the drops have just worn off enough to be able to read less than 24 type fonts. Though things are still pretty blurry.

He told me off, in the kindest of terms, for not having switched out my glasses for the last *mumble* years, so it's looking like I will be getting new glasses very soon. Geoff should, as well. (When it rains, it pours?)

But, this does explain why I've found reading books so tiring lately. It also might explain the current bout of conjunctivitis I've contracted got. Reading off-screen books used to do that to me quite a bit. And I'll rationalize the price of new glasses as cheaper than an ereader, and far more useful.


This morning was rather a disappointment as it turned out I needed all of Babe's school time (from when I got going, which, granted, was not that early) to do the next lesson of algebra. I'm finding this course frustrating because a) the tests cover material not covered in the lesson, b) the links given to explain the lessons are alternately too basic or too advanced for the topics covered, and c) I'm experiencing a resurgence of math-related anxiety.

Math was the only subject in school that would consistently tie my stomach into knots, and not just at test time. I'm very disappointed that it still does it, especially as I seem to have lost my instinctual grasp of it. Not understanding some of the basic concepts (right away) is... humiliating. This is pretty easy stuff, so I feel stupid when I don't get it.

To add injury to insult, I made some dumb mistakes in both the homework and the test today. I expect I passed both, but... bah.

Not that this course really matters. This course is only to get me reacquainted with the subject enough to not need to spend time and money on remedial math when I go back to school. Its worth is showing me where my weak areas are. Too bad it seems that they're all weak areas...

But not all is lost. I have three weeks to study hard and get a better grasp on this stuff. A good enough grasp to be able to take calculus and not drown. I think it's probably doable, especially with Geoff on hand every night to help. I just wish it weren't so difficult to restart the brain.

However, this does tell me that I am right in that I have become dumber over the last few years, and that I am making the right decision in going back to school now. I can still salvage a fair amount of gray matter if I get it going now before sclerosis sets in.

ETA: Heh. Got my scores back and while I did miss one on the test (on a question I really wasn't sure about), I got 100% on my assignment. Even though I did goof part of one answer. *shrugs*

It's still not coming easily, and my shitty memory is not helping.