Tuesday, January 10, 2006

   Eh heh, sorry...
Well, my first day of exams is over. A big, big thank-you to all of you who were praying for me.

Though the Civ. & Econ. exam was really, really tough, I still think I did very well on all 254 questions (yep, you read that number right, 254). In addition, the Sci. Vis. test was a breeze, just as expected (Sci. Vis. is what we call a "blow-off class").

However, that's definitely not to say the road there was smooth. -_-' I'm proud of how well I think I did, but I went through Hell & High Water last night.

First off, my partners didn't e-mail me with their end of the answers 'till 9:45 PM.
Even worse, my first partner (named Jenna) was supposed to do #1-20, but all she had sent was #1-10. Don't get me wrong, she had good answers, but ironically I had already done #1-10. And getting it at 9:45 the night before an exam didn't help. >_< (and believe it or not, this woman is a senior!)
Secondly, my other partner (named Kathryn) also waited 'till the last minute to do and send her answers, but guess which ones she did...
#41-60, the ones I was assigned by our group to do and had had ready since Friday night. Worse still, I read over her answers that she sent, and what questions she didn't skip she answered totally wrong!
Grrrrr, fat load of help my team was, neh?
So, I was up 'till about 10:30 or so (on a night before an exam) scrambling to answer as many as I could, since the study-guide's completion itself was worth a major grade. Naturally, I had to skip a lot of them (I had limited energy and needed to go to bed at some point), but I learned a lot of stuff because of it.
I'm really glad I tried my best on that thing, not only because it taught me what I needed for the Exam From Hell, but also because a bunch of the lazy kids in my class did nothing...and thus lowered their average from an 81% to a 64% for the semester (as announced by Mr. Dickerson to the whole class).
=) So I came out on top of that situation, didn't I?
I also came to Mr. Dickerson this morning and basically told him what I've typed above. He said he'll "probably cut me some slack on the assignment", if I heard him correctly. ^o^

However, I'm pretty surprised I could study last night, considering the other event that took place...
To make a long story short, my obnoxious little brother pulled another classic stunt to piss me off on exam night (keep in mind I was already dealing with the whole partner thing), I had a problem with it, and it escalated into a fight between me and my parents.
What did he do? When he was sent to get me for dinner, he started humping my door.
To answer your question, yes, he is a total faggot, and he does stuff like that on a regular basis.
Anyway, there was a bunch of shouting between me and my parents, mainly because they didn't care that he deliberately tries to generate stress in our household every day. They did what they did every day they came home from work this summer: "I wasn't there to see it, so I can't punish him", "leave me alone, I've had a stressful day", and all that crap.
I work my ass off trying to keep the stress down in my house, because my dad's on the verge of a heart-attack (he has high blood-pressure), and he said that he and my mom may be on the verge of a divorce.
But when the rubber meets the road and my parents can easily do something to reduce the stress that I have to deal with (i.e., punishing my brother for deliberately, not inadvertently, pissing me off for the sake of pissing me off), they take my hard work and shove it in my face.
Basically, they don't give a shit if I love them and want them to stay alive and together. For whatever reason, they don't care that I'm basically at the mercy of my own little brother. But whatever, if they want to let my brother manipulate them, then they can just have-at-it.

I was in a COMPLETE rage last night afterwards, but I somehow was able to concentrate enough to study.

I'll reward you guys for sitting through that whining session with a cute and funny comic by Youkai Yume.
2006 started just recently, and for those who don't know, it's the year of the dog. I'm a snake myself (my favorite animal!), but are any of you out there dogs?
Anywho, I'm sure all you Fruits Basket fans will love this:

Some weird-looking figures were used to show how the characters emoted themselves, but this still goes far, FAR beyond the average fan-art. Plus, it had blood! Yay blood!

I've already visited Vankalla, and I'll get to everybody else as soon as I finish studying (which shouldn't take too long, since it's Art and English tomorrow for exams. *Pfft!*)
I'll see you guys tomorrow! Please continue to pray for me!!!
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