Is anyone else tired?
This week was quite an interesting one. Twas my first full week of school, with about 35 more to come… from just this year.
Tuesday, in English, we had tests over our summer reading (which I got about half done). Still got about an 80% on those, so I was ecstatic. Or maybe they were just simple. Whatever.
Physics on Wednesdays and Fridays is just tiring, because it’s 90 minutes of sitting in a classroom, not taking down notes about things I’ve learned four years ago, and watching it be reexplained forty or fifty times because each individual student has a specific way of having no clue what they’re doing. I wish I could sleep, I wish I could use my laptop… I wish I could ignore the world around me there. Something needs to give me the strength to sleep through not only the unwillingness to learn of the students, but the unwillingness of the teachers to teach us well. If I knew nothing about Physics, I wouldn’t get it either.
Speaking of science four years ago, the science teacher I had then is an assistant principal at my school now. Not sure how that happened, especially since I didn’t think she was even in the district for the last three years. Can’t remember.
Today, my colleague in debate and I taught the novices, because our coach apparently wanted to see our perspective on debate before he taught the next class, so he knew he was teaching us right. Uh?
And, we watched a movie in APAH today over a Native American tribe, and I found it somewhat boring since I was half asleep. Of course, it was interesting, just… not.
Oh well. An interesting week, nonetheless.
Props to the Fedora Infrastructure team for rebuilding a multitude of servers in about a week and catching an intruder before anything bad happened. We couldn’t have this great distro without you guys.
This weekend, I plan to work on the websites I need to get finished/fixed and work on fixing random wiki pages. Or perhaps I might work on adding some more random functions to my Pascal’s triangle generator in the ianweller-misc repository. Or, perhaps, I want to catch up on sleep. Maybe I’ll do all three. Or, I can quite possibly do none of these things. Instant gratification is what I absurdly rely on, and it’ll push me through this weekend and many more weeks to come.
I’m tired too. I just worked my first full 40 week at a new temp job at an insurance company. It’s been hot this week, (over 100 degrees). My wife and I both had car trouble, (she had a bad intake manifold gasket and I had a leaky fuel line). Unlike you, I’m going to be 53 in September. Your comments reminded me of when I first started college, (at seventeen).
Two pieces of advice:
School is lame, but keep your eye on the prize, (a degree), and don’t quit, no matter what happens.
Get some really good, hard exercise. It’ll help you sleep.
Now a question: I want to use a Live CD to surf the web and do troubleshooting. I need a safe and secure browser with all the plug-ins, (Flash, Java, .PDF Reader), and CODECS installed. A good sniffer and a partitioning tool would be helpful too. Know where I can find one?
They call (what I presume is AP American History) APAH at your school? Ours calls it APUSH (AP US History) - and they DO push.
@Alex: Yeah, it’s weird. I learned that while posting this when I made a disambiguation page for APAH on Wikipedia between AP US History and AP Art History. Hehe.