complaining again

This week has been crappy. I'm not sure what makes it feel so crappy. It hasn't really been any different than most other weeks. Maybe it's just PMS. I do have a lot on my mind though and I feel overwhelmed. I'm finding it hard to concentrate on my classes. I'm getting the work done, but I feel like I'm not retaining any of the information. Which sucks, because I have a quiz today in Bio and another tomorrow in math. This math class is frustrating the hell out of me. Most of the problems I know how to do algebraically, but they want us to be able to solve some of them using a graphing calculator. I have never used one of those before and I'm having a difficult time learning how to use it. There are so many steps! It's ridiculous to do 40 steps on the calculator to do a problem that I could solve in 10 on paper. I've been cheating on my homework. I've been solving the problems on paper and then trying to make the calculator stuff match up with my answer. That's fine for homework, but I can't do that on the quiz! The teacher said we'll have to demonstrate that we can use the calculator by doing a problem on it during the quiz and having him check off that we did it correctly. I think I'm screwed as far as that one goes. And the worst part is that I know it's only going to get harder as the term goes on. At this point, I'm just praying I can get a B, so I can go on to the next math class in the fall. I only have 1 more to go after this one and I just want to be done with math. It's not just math class either. I am overwhelmed by how much information and work I have to put into my Bio class and Anthropology too. The Anthro class doesn't have a lot of homework, but there's tons of reading and note taking. The Bio class...yikes is all I can say. It's really split into 2 classes; Bio Lecture and Bio Lab. Lab hasn't been too bad so far, but there is a lot of work involved. We have to do homework on the labs before and after. We have a quiz every lab period (once a week) on the previous lab. And then there is the actual lab work. The only good thing about the lab work is that we work in groups of 4, so if I don't understand something I can get another person's take on it. Remembering all that stuff for a quiz isn't easy though. For Lecture, there is way too much information to remember. We have done 3 chapters in a week and a half. All of that info is on the quiz today. I seriously hope it will be mostly multiple choice and true/false. I don't know if I can BS a short answer for this stuff. My Psych class is the same as always. Lots of reading. Lots of homework. The teacher is scatterbrained. She was supposed to post a video for us to watch on our class website on Monday after class. She didn't or I couldn't find it.

There's a bunch of other stuff on my mind too. I'm applying for a scholarship for next term. I needed 2 letters of recommendation for it. One I'm getting a friend to write. I know that she will send it to me on time and it will be great. The second one I asked my psych teacher to write. She said she would, but I know how flaky she is with things like that. She said she would give it to me before she leaves for whatever thing she's doing next week that has her cancelling class. Well I'm pretty sure she leaves this weekend and I still haven't heard anything from her about the letter. I'm not sure if I should ask her or not. I don't want her to think I'm just being annoying about it, because I want her to write good things!

I'm also still freaking out about moving. We still haven't found a place. My gf works later in the day today, so she's going to call a couple of places this morning. I hope we can find out something good. I want to get out of here as soon as we can. Since we know when CJ is leaving, that gives us a concrete deadline and I don't want to leave anything to the last minute. I figure the sooner we move, the better. It is the Army dictating CJ's move after all. They sometimes move deadlines up without warning. I don't want to be stuck with no place to go.

Ugh. I feel like I need a vacation from my life right now.