Okay, so my current status is: really, really frikkin' tired. I know, I don't usually talk like that, but I'm seriously almost to the point of needing an afternoon nap. Not that anybody really cares.

Now it's time for my bi-yearly rant. Hope you don't mind.

I had to move down to College Algebra 'cause Precalc was too difficult and I totally hated it. This isn't much better, but it is (for the moment, at least) stuff I understand. The teacher's better, too. But last Thursday, she assigned us three sections of our textbook to go over for homework. Now, this was before I realized (today) that she has specific problems marked out in our syllabus (because I was dumb enough not to read my syllabus. Lesson learned.), so I was totally freaking out. If you are very familiar with collegiate math texts, that means that there are somewhere between 100 and 150 questions per section. So I thought that I had somewhere in the range of about 300 problems of tedious, uninteresting, and varyingly-difficult math to torture me until I got it done.

I felt really, really stupid when somebody told me today that we don't have to do it all.

That was probably the biggest "d'oh!" moment I've ever had. Seriously, I'm beginning to wonder if I wasn't born blonde. O.o Nothing against blondes (my genius of a cousin is a blonde), but really... it was ridiculous.

On a lighter note, I recently got back from a sojourn in Massachusetts. It was very pleasant save for the mosquito problem. The most interesting part of the trip was when we went to historic Concord to hike the Minute-Man Trail. It was drizzling when we got out there, and we all thought we'd be safe with our rain jackets. It downpoured the second we got a hundred and fifty feet from the car.

It was actually really fun, once I got past the soggy underwear and the fact that the rainwater had seeped under the collar of my jacket and soaked my shirt, too. O.o It was really weird. The front of my jeans was soaked, but the backs of the thighs were stone-dry. And they had really weird toilets at the bathrooms, too. You pushed a button and all this foamy stuff slid down the bowl. It was a "green toilet", or something. It was so strange to me that I probably flushed it three times just for kicks.

...Am I the only one who thinks that I'm strange, now? O.o Maybe I left a bit of my sanity in the rain that day...

It's a very, very beautiful place, though. Swimming in the Atlantic Ocean was the part I liked the most, though I didn't like getting the water in my mouth so much. WAY too salty. ...It was an accident, I swear!

So, yeah, I'm kinda getting back into the swing of things. I'm taking College Algebra, Design 1 (for the credits, blegh!), Introduction to 3D Computer Modeling (We're using Autodesk Maya- it's really fun, so far, even though the extruding annoys the hell out of me), Japanese 2, and Deep Water Exercise. I'm really happy with that one. I get to swim every other day. Hee hee.

Well, I have to go work on my Japanese homework, now. I'll try to post again sometime soon! Until the next time, may God keep you all safe and happy.