Refraction

Look, it’s an in-your-face pun! XD

Today just seemed like an endless string of failures.

So I walk out the door this morning and the bus is 15 minutes late. Oh, and it’s raining.

I mean, I start with Bio… which only reminded me of the midterm, which I don’t feel I did particularly well on. Besides, I’d completely forgotten everything I ever learned about glycolysis and sat there in the class, yawning my face off. That was bad. Oh, did I mention it was raining and that there are HUGE puddles around the Ag Sci building? No?

Okay, off to Chem, which was pretty bleh, but in any case, I remembered that I probably only marginally passed the last pre-reading quiz.

In Physics, the review session never quite materialized, and our prof just gave up and said, “Enjoy your Thanksgiving.” Thank you, I think I will. Or I’ll try, since I have a midterm next Wednesday….

Math. AHHHHHH MATH. 😡 Of course, I had my midterm today. My ultra-horrible midterm. Five questions doesn’t sound that hard, right…? In theory, no. In practice? YES. I barely had enough time to finish; mostly this was due to some stupidity on my part (unable to get over a mental block of not differentiating anything with two variables), but…. ARRRRGHHHHHHHHHH. It was very, very frustrating.

And then I finished off with English, and I am now absolutely convinced that I failed the quiz. Absolutely convinced. :depressed:

After school, I headed downtown to try and find Utada’s album. I went through three stores. Finally, I discovered that what is probably the largest CD store in the city was sold out. “Oh, everyone’s asking about Utada!” I can’t believe this. The album came out on Tuesday and it’s already sold out? Granted, they only had 90 copies, but…. still…. she can’t be that popular here, can she? “I had never heard of her before and then on Tuesday I rang up eight of them in a row.” Arrrgh. Obviously I hadn’t counted on what I assume is the relatively high concentration of Japanese people downtown. The good news is, he said I should check back Tuesday, as that’s when their next shipment comes in; the bad news is, I have my Physics midterm on Wednesday. Maybe I’ll go next Thursday.

Then, when I tried to take public transit home… I walked down to the station and I saw a huge line of people at the escalator. I assumed this meant the escalator was broken and people were just walking down really slowly. I hate broken escalators, so I headed back outside to catch a bus. My bus never came. It’s supposed to be on “frequent service”–that is, every ten minutes or less. In fact, at that time of day, it should have been coming every five minutes or so. I waited twenty minutes, and saw several buses that should have been less frequent than mine drive by. Once, I thought I saw my bus, but when it reached the stop the sign had changed. That was weird. I decided instead to head back down to the station and head down that escalator. It turned out that the escalator was working just fine; the reason no one was on it was because there was a bomb threat at some station down the line. I suppose this had the effect of screwing up my bus’ route. I walked a couple of blocks to another stop where I could take one of three buses. ARGGGGGHHHHHHHH.

:devil: