August 27th, 2009
The Storm Before The Calm
Jesus.
Shit is crazy.
Work is nuts.
School is nuts.
Cakes are nuts.
Kids are nuts.
And I have a bad cold this week.
If I make it through this week without maiming someone, it will be by the grace of God-the-Mystical-Sky-Fairy.
This is what it looks like when you cut off a chicken’s head, and its body keeps running around the barnyard. I’m beyond overwhelmed. Besides all the stuff I HAVE to do, I really WANT to finish the ICAN of DuPage startup materials so I can get that out of the gate before our September 14th meeting.
And then there’s this blog. Oh poor blog, you have been neglected so. No, of course I don’t have to write, but if I don’t write for a few days, it nags at me – like the feeling of having to go pee, but being too busy to do it. If you go too long, you’ll end up with a bladder infection. In my case, it’s a “too-many-words-in-my-head” infection, and the catharsis of this blog is often my only relief.
So, like I said, I started school again last week, and these are certainly the two hardest class I’ve had so far. One is a political philosophy course with a 101 year old teacher whose rules are the bible and who, I can tell already, will be very hard pressed to give anyone in the class anything higher than a C because that’s how hardcore, old-school philosophy professors operate.
This oughtta be fun.
The second class is an ECON 201 course (Microeconomics) and (let me put this in big, bold letters so you understand I’m very serious) – I SUCK AT MATH.
I know the math teachers of the world are gasping in horror now, but those are the facts. I’ve gotten through my whole life without ever learning how to multiply a fraction, or plot a grid. But now, if I want to pass this class, I’m going to have to learn how to do both of those things, and a lot more, in the next 7 short weeks. I had to buy graph paper for the first time in my life last week. I found it in the “back to school” section, next to the crayons and glue sticks. Is this what my life has come to? Shouldn’t I be buying these things for my own children? Aren’t I beyond this?
Apparently not.
If I don’t get a break soon, I might lose it. I really might. I wrote many, many expletives in an email yesterday to my fucking boss, and only had the good sense to delete them about 3 milliseconds before I hit the Send button. The Husband took me out to eat last night to calm my nerves, and before we left I overheard him begging the 3 yr old to please be on his best behavior because mommy is not feeling well and she might get all screamy if certain people couldn't act right in the restaurant. Sad.
But tonight I won’t get home from work/class until 11:30 pm, at which time I have to decorate 4 dozen cupcakes in the theme of “Ralph’s World” for an order due tomorrow morning.
And then there's more class. And more cakes due. And these kids won't give me a break.
Have I mentioned that I haven’t slept in a couple of years?
September 15th. Please, please September 15th, come as fast as you can.
***now where did I stash that few-year old bottle of Zoloft?***
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You can do it! I always seem to do my best work when I’m running like that headless chicken. Something about thriving in stressful situations. I’m told it’s genetic. Hang in there!
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Wow. What the heck does a Ralph’s World theme look like?
I’m with Meredith – you can do it. You have light at the end of the tunnel after all. Wish I could suggest a math tutor – it was a huge help to me with finite math in my sophmore year – but I expect you don’t have time! There might be some good online resources you could look to…
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Supermum indeed. I have a degree in maths – email me with your problems.
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Hi CaveMom, your comment worked – I just set my site to moderate comments cuz I was getting some Cuckoos hanging around here.
I’ll keep you updated on my math-hopelessness.
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Hang in there. Try taking some vitamins to keep your immune system from getting worse.
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New reader just wanting to say the Econ class will not be as hard as you think. I loved econ–I took extra classes– and I sucked at math. I got As in econ. It’s more theory than math.
However, I did have a professor willing to look over the fact that my graphs were backwards. Correct, but backwards. As in needed to be held up to a mirror in order to be read correctly. And I still got an A.
You will be fine.
M
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