Bartender's Log, Bardate 10.12.05:
Oh. My. Gosh.
Today has been one amazing spiral down into insanity. I started at "Holy crap!" and I'm ending at "Holy homing red-and-green polka-dotted SHIT!"
Which...for those of you who know me...is a pretty bad day.
Start: I wake up at 7:19 because there's too much light in my room...dread fills me as I glance at the clock...the alarm on my cell phone didn't ring, and I am already a half hour behind for getting ready for and TO class. I have to shower, get dressed, etc, and J is also late (later than I am, actually...her bus LEFT at 6, her first class starts in 5 mins).
So, muttering "crap, crap, HOLY crap" to myself as a mantra, I rush through getting ready, grab my bag and run out the door...only to see the bus drive past my stop 2 blocks away. I wait 10 mins at the stop that is right next to my house, praying that the bus will come...give up, call mom, get her to rush out to get me (it is now 8:10, and I have to be in class at 8:30), and start walking toward the house...as I hit the walk for my house (a half block from the stop I was at) the bus I was waiting for, which would get me to school in under 20 mins, drives by. Its next arrival time? in half an hour.
Did I mention that my second test in Anatomy is in 15 mins, and he won't allow us to take the test if we're more than 10 minutes late?
So I wait ten minutes for mom. She calls me "I'm stuck on the highway in traffic."
Crap. Holy flying purple crap. So I drag J out the door and we run for the 16's bus stop, which is 8 blocks down. And I mean RUN. With my 60lb backpack on, mind you. We arrive at the corner of colfax just in time to see the 16 (another every-30-min bus this time of day) drive by.
Crap.
Mom pulls up about 5 mins later...it takes us almost 15 to get to school through traffic. And I am now 35 mins late. I RUN into class, and almost collide with the professor, who is leaving for a restroom break. I wait (not so) patiently for him to get back, and then beg (and I do mean BEG!) for him to let me take the test. I pulled every ounce of female charm and desperation I have ever had in me, and I swear I was on the verge of tears. Have I mentioned that a straight 0 on any one test would result in a failing grade in that class? Yeah.
It probably helps that I look like his youngest daughter...'cause he told me to find a seat in the back and he brought me a test. I had 35 mins to answer 72 questions. Aiyeeee.
I made it. With 2 minutes to spare. All things considered, I think I did OK.
Midterm in communications came next. 3 1-page-minimum-each essay questions. Ow. My hand still hurts. I think I did well, though.
Lunch time. rautenkranzmt picked me up during lunch so we could go get his tire replaced. It was majorly punctured...and he's been running lots of errands for me, so I owed him. Unfortunately, Walmart decided to take an unreasonable amount of time to take care of his tire...We had two hours when we left, and I had to be in class in 10 minutes when we made it out of there. I bought a real alarm clock, though.
To top that off? We ran out of gas on the bridge of colfax. I was about to get out and push, when he managed to restart it, and we coasted into the school turnabout on fumes. I was 10 minutes late for the test...5 mins to answer 25 questions. All t/f, though! And easy, too. Thank God for small miracles.
Microecon, miraculously enough, was a nap and a 35-question multiple choice homework assignment.
But I got another assignment (due today! but she will let me do it Monday) and a midterm in photography that I didn't know about because I was out in the snow carting boxes.
And now I have lab in a little less than an hour. And I /really/ want to skip it. But she might dock me some major points if I do. The test isn't for two weeks, though...
Technically, the school allows two unexcused absences. They can't dock points before that. ^_^ Hmm. I think I will take my second one today. 'cause dangit, today has been hell, and fermaldehyde could only make it worse...
Did I mention that I have a sore throat and what feels like an ear infection? I was really miserable yesterday. Not /out/ sick, but very icky. Remind me not to walk 6 blocks in sleet in bare feet and a t-shirt anymore.
But, I start at the new store tomorrow.
And I'm almost completely moved into the new house I'm renting with mkewing, seahmas, and MK's husband, Drew.
Yay.