midterms, dreams and birthdays

[la_belle_laide]

Today was my first midterm channels and points. I was getting really irritated because the class starts at 8:30 and we didn't begin until ten. This teacher is always late (I will begin to keep that in mind and try to get that extra 20 minutes - half hour sleep, hopefully not getting caught in traffic,) but today I left specifically early because she told us to get there AT 8:30 and set up for our practical. Well as it happens, one of the teachers (and I think he was a department head, too, a Big Cheese,) just up and walked the hell out on Monday. Just, "I'm done with you lot, I quit, goodbye" kind of thing and the rest of the teachers are scrambling to cover him. Well our teacher had to go give a quiz to another class this morning, so our midterm had to wait. I ask you.

Anywhiz, I kinda rocked the practical exam, only getting one slightly off (you lose the entire point for being a millimeter off, though.) But it was just ONE point that I was off. The rest I got perfect.

The written was a whole different beast. There were 75 questions, and many of them I recognized as a language I'm coming to know. But there were at least ten of them where I had no earthly clue WTF she was talking about and I seriously did the, "Well I've already marked three D's in a row, it's time to mark a B or A" method. So I'm not too confident about the written part and it is making me squirm.

I continue to have really bizarre dreams. Two nights ago was kites and children (totally symbolic one of me trying to show Boychild how to fly a kite, but being terrified of how fast the kite was going and trying to duct tape the kite to the string, only to have the kite fly away as soon as he took it in his hands; I look up to see grown up Spencer standing by him,) and then one of zombies, and then a totally tripped out dream about a section of the sky moving (that's a fairly common dream for me, actually,) and then a slice of lemon eclipsing the moon. I remember I was looking at it through my childhood bedroom window and I went outside to take a picture of it. The lemon was all shiny and opaque and looked really pretty--and I knew it had to be huge--but I also was aware that it still wasn't right. Like a rational part of my brain was going, "Why is there a lemon slice in the sky?"

Kung Fu was pretty hard tonight in basics, I mean by "basics" standards. Gold Dragon had us doing Kung Fu with weights (stances and punches) and you know what I love? Outlasting boys half my age and outlasting young men in their physical prime (or nearing it.) I love it when those teenagers have to put the weights down, stop to catch their breath, take a break, go sit down for a while etc. and I'm just chilling there holding my stance and going, "Can we continue?" I don't mean I outlast everyone, and definitely not Gold Dragon or Empress, but most of the others, yeah. I don't get out of breath. My muscles get tired and achy and my knee starts to hurt sometimes, but as far as endurance goes--at least with this one sport--I'm not having any problems.

On the other hand, I probably could not run a quarter of a mile. It all depends on how you train. Though I was thinking about starting to run, honestly. I've always notoriously hated running and I know it's supposed to be bad for your knees and all (and mine are already bone on bone,) but I don't know. I was just thinking about it.

Oh, so another birthday cluster has passed. Boychild had his birthday right in between my Mom's and my Dad's. Boychild's birthday party was so much fun. He was thrilled with everything (he always is,) and he got a magnifying glass from my parents (because he's been obsessed with theirs,) and he kept going up to Grandma and she would say "BOOO" through the glass and Boychild would literally fall on the floor in laughter:

I should have pics up soon, but not tonight; I'm way too tired. Also, some more KF pics that I messed with in OpenCanvas. Some of them came out really awesome.

Maybe tomorrow I'll have some time to update.

Oh, and so I don't forget: A&P test saturday and fundamentals / OM midterm Saturday. Intro to herbs midterm Monday. A&P midterm the following Saturday and chemistry midterm the tuesday after that.

NNNGGGAHHHHH.

OH! And I got a ONE EFFING HUNDRED on my last chemistry test.

WTF, people? WTF.

Comments

[reanimated.livejournal.com]

his goofy little butt is so cute. XD and is that you cracking up in the video? YOU have a cute laugh yourself! ;-)

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

I know; he just slays me, and he's ALWAYS like that. :) I'm definitely one of the people cracking up for sure. ^_^

[spatterdash.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on that chemistry test! And, good luck on midterms.

Whenever i notice something truly strange like a wedge of lemon eclipsing the sun, i say to myself, "Johnny Depp should be along any time so we can bang," just in case it is one of those dreams where you can make stuff happen like that.

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

Thanks! i was surprised.

Dude if I could control my dreams like that, I would sleep a ridiculously larger amount of time than I do now. I would be like that episode of Buffy where she can't tell fantasy from reality and in the end, isn't the one you believe the most really reality? Except in mine, I wouldn't be a slayer saving the world, I would be a hot chick doing Joaquin Phoenix Jared Leto or someone. (Joaquin needs to get his life in order.)

[lehorin.livejournal.com]

Baby laughter should be bottled and sold, because it is just pure joy. You can't hear it and still be sad.

Congrats on your chemistry mark! The school office is being a retard as usual and hasn't got our essays out yet. Blargh.

[la-belle-laide.livejournal.com]

Too right!

And thank you. Oh man, you were so right about the school office. The one at my college is such a huge mess as well.