Bad Times

Had a low-key Halloween (despite what certain Facebook statuses may have said). Ended up staying up far too late playing video games with Richard. All in all a success.

It shouldn't surprise that I haven't posted in a while, blah blah blah should post more often.

I haven't been feeling up to posting lately because I've got nothing really good to post. I'm worried I'm going to fail Chem, Calc and Japanese, and this really bothers me. Chem is hard, but I think I've got a handle on things now, they're regular and I'm understanding the content. That said, I did absolutely terribly on the last exam, and I can only hope my grades are good enough to make up for it (though my grades aren't the streams of A's I'd like them to be). Japanese is my own fault. The homework is like 80% of the grade, and it's super easy, but it's also regular and frequent, and that's not something I can deal with apparently. Japanese is my current battle.

What's REALLY scaring me (aside from everything) is calc. Calc is hard. This is not something I'm used to. I'm not bad at math, during tests, I used to be able to reliably derive whatever I didn't know or remember from what I did, but that's stopped working. Now, the math is nothing BUT little tricks and rules you have to remember in order to deal with the various types of things they can throw at you. It's not all connected, it's drawing from a million and one different places and I can't see where everything's coming from immediately. I've done very poorly on the last two tests. Worse, I actually studied for the last test and I still got thrown! I'm worried.

Aside from that things seem to be going well, especially since Terry randomly cleaned and rearranged the living room. I say "cleaned," but I should really say "reclaimed." Charlie has a tendency of treating that room like it's his room, and leaving his stuff everywhere. Terry and I have decided that whenever Charlie leaves his stuff lying around, we're going to put it in the closet, where Charlie has free reign, as Terry and I keep our coats and shoes in our rooms. I'm really happy with how the room looks now. Aside from being really truly CLEAN (and not just Charlie's idea of "livable"), it's been rearranged so that there is MUCH more space. The corner where the TV lives has been compacted, and although the users are much closer to it, the TV is rather small, so it still works fine. The computer in the corner has been given the large (and especially comfortable) chair, so that not only makes using it that much nicer, but also puts the chair someplace out of the way, and the bean bag chair has been stuck some place out of the way (because bean bag chairs are the least comfortable and most annoying piece of furniture possible). What this all adds up to is a full half of the room has been devoted to the table, which not only gives lots of room to maneuver around it (where before there was scant), it also makes having people over (which we do very frequently) MUCH more comfortable.

In the strain of further good news, Clinton and I have set up a regular meal schedule. Really I should say I joined his meal schedule, because he'd been making regular... "meals," only I didn't know because he didn't tell me. So far, I've gone one week, and this one I missed both days...

I'll take comfort in the knowledge that life is a continual battle, and that while some fronts may be pushed back, others will have caved in. I just need to take care of these issues before it's too late (I just hope it isn't already).