Saturday, October 24, 2009

What a week...

This week has been quite the interesting one!!! I worked monday night and I ended up being so tired Tuesday, despite sleeping more than my usual 3 hrs during the day, that I still couldn't think or speak coherently, therefore I missed my trig class. Bummer, because I really wanted to know what my exam score ended up being!
So I go to Trig class on thursday. I do have to back up a bit and mention how I thought I had done exceptionally on that test last week. However, the test was too long, and most of us ended up not being able to check our work due to lack of time. I show up to class on Tuesday to find out I had gotten a 72.5%. WHAT?!?! I almost threw my test back at my professor's face. I was in shock. A few minutes later, a colleague of mine turns to me and says, as I'm looking at my exam in disbelief, "The average was a 58%. The high was a 98%, but that was an outlier because the next high score was a 74%. Shouldn't he curve?" OH YES, HE SHOULD!!! If he curves that would bring my score up to a 85%, and I'd rather take a B than a C- any day!!! If I was a professor and my students were averaging a fail on my test, I'd be completely embarrassed...
Wednesday I got my score back from the anthropology exam we had taken last week... I got the usual 100%. That teacher is really hard to follow, but holy cow, are his tests easy or what!! I was very happy about that :)
Thursday night into friday morning my son didn't sleep well during the night. I believe this may be due to teething. Poor little guy.... constantly chewing on his fingers. After being up half the night I gave him Tylenol, but it only turned out to be a temporary relief for him. I didn't go to sleep until 5:30, and then got up at 8:30am to get ready to go to school. It was a rough day. I only got a one hour nap in (while he was napping) so I could come to work tonight... I'm struggling really bad. I'm chewing on ice chips to try to cool my body down enough that I won't fall asleep (if I get too warm and cozy that's when I'm gone). This sucks.
It's times like these that I wonder if I've gone completely off the edge. Who does this kind of thing... I mean, who does all this work only to impress themselves? I think that's what's happening at the moment. Something's gotta give here... oh, and I forgot to mention I just signed up for online volunteering as well. I either have to congratulate myself or give myself a big slap in the face. I can't decide...
BUT life moves on. I HAVE to take it one day at a time... even when my most dreaded day of the week comes around (fridays). On fridays I take it one hour at a time. That's just how it works for me. But it's doable. I much would rather keep busy than to be depressed and not doing anything but working like I was during the summer.
I always tell myself, "Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming..." - Finding Nemo

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