K who else has midterms coming up soon? Anybody- anybody? Yeah this thread is just to bitch and moan…About exams, any other tests, life in general.
This whole week has sucked. Definitely the worst of this year so far (school year AND 2001) I’ve had tests, part of my history midterm coming up tomorrow…the exams in less than two weeks. PMS today. And now i’m restless and bored and POed and depressed.
Not quite a rant, more like a general venting session. Tell me I’m not alone!!! :o
You’re not alone, Zoggie. No midterms here, but I had PMS last week, and the MS that followed is being particularly harsh. On top of that, there’s the stress that goes along with raising a husband and two toddlers, plus having a full-time job outside the home. Yargh. :eek:
Worked 5 of the last 6 weeks on 2nd shift, the other on 3rd shift.
Still got another 3 weeks of 2nd shift.
Had to get up in the middle of my “night” to come in for a stooopid mandatory meeting at 8:30 in the morning.
A process that I’ve only run once before wasn’t properly documented and I had to do the whole stooopid thing again (2 hour process!) and it still didn’t come out quite right–but at least I won’t be blamed for it.
Eh, ‘nuff bitchin’ from me. Things could be a hell of a lot worse.
I just found out that my friend met this one guy I used to like but don’t anymore because he tends to be an asshole. It made me really angry for some reason, and partly probably because he hurt me and I don’t want her to be hurt/annoyed by him. Plus it also means I may run into him. If I do, I can always tease him about things or if he annoys me I can smack him without feeling guilty. Oh, this should be fun. I just hope that we don’t get kicked out of working the damned renaissance festival this year. That would suck!
Zoggie, I feel for you. I’m even with ya on the PMS
I’m well past exams, but I have several new things that I’m in charge of that will be happening at work in the next two months and a conference to help plan for an organization that I am a part of. We are also in the process of buying our first house. The credit reports arrived today – “Please explain why you made this late credit card payment at some unknown point in the last 10 years.”
Persephone, if I had kids to raise right now, they’d be in big trouble. As it is, the cats have to figure out how to clean their own litter box.
Major PMS last week
Major MS this week
Mr. L being a jerk
Got yelled at for the USPS losing a car payment
Got yelled at for forgeting to mail credit card payment
Got yelled at for crunching my ice too loudly
Got yelled at because it cost too much for all of us to eat out
Got yelled at cuz my puppy chewed up a wire to one of the Mr.'s toys
Can’t read the SD boards without him interupting every 5 seconds (“look at this, look at this, look at this”)
Bounced a check (and he’s NOT going to find out about that one!)
Had to listen to him ramble for 1 whole hour while waiting for the kids to get thru at tutoring (usually this is my quiet time. I even nodded off twice, he didn’t notice)
Had to drive to downtown Atlanta to file suit against a deadbeat client(not necessarily a bad thing, but when you are a domestic goddess, you just don’t wanna do things like that.
Keep forgetting to take my Zoloft, so major mood swings ensue
Found out yesterday that my daughter’s best friend’s brother was murdered
Bummer of a week, but, like TroubleAgain said,
it could be worse.
PMS and MS hit me all at once today. Cramps at work mean I have to choke down poor quality generic pills that hurt my throat every three hours to fight the pain. And the lower back pain! Oh, it hurts so bad!
I re-merchandized the entire clock section of my new department only to have my boss say he didn’t really like it.
I went shopping to ease the pain of my PMS: the shoes I loved (gray reptile print slingbacks) weren’t stocked in my size. The pants I loved - they were out of my size. I couldn’t even get a new lipstick in the color I loved because the dumb lady at the Chanel counter couldn’t find the box it came in!
There is something else bothering me to such an extreme that I get antsy just thinking about it; my hands get clammy and my stomach knots up and I don’t know what to do about it and I wish I could tell you all and beg for advice but I can’t. I can’t! I won’t!
That’s it for now. I have tomorrow off and I am determined to make it a wonderful day. I’m getting my oil chnaged, going for a looong hike, and buying some new books. Hopefully it will be better than today.
I have a huge government test tomorrow, and a midterm for the same class next week. True, I am the top student in the class, but I still remember that F I got on a government test the first six weeks…
I was also supposed to write two papers, due tomorrow. Well, I didn’t. And there’s also that Psychology homework I forgot about doing…
Mania doesn’t help. The second I got home, instead of touching my homework I listened to music and danced around the room. Then I looked at every yearbook since Kindergarten, looking for certain people and comparing pictures. Then I made a friggin inventory of my books!!! Then I called Ray and read to him from a dictionary!
WHY, WELFY, WHY???!!!
Then I had to watch ER with my mother, and by this time I was exhausted. This entire week I’ve been plagued with manic episodes and it’s finally catching up to me. I fight to stay awake now.
Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.
(I know, these are very minor problems…yes, it could be much, much worse)
• I have to change careers in my mid-40s, as I have aged myself out of the magazine business (all the little 20-somethings are being hired and promoted over me).
• My body has apparently passed its sell-by date and is rapidly falling apart.
• Worrying about and taking care of my elderly Mom, who lives alone.
• The house where I live is changing hands—what this means for us tenants is atill unknown.
• Other stuff which—not being THAT open—I simply will not share online.
Heroin. Yeah, that seems like a good idea. Think I’ll try some o’ that heroin stuff.
Well, Welfy, there’s Pre-Menstrual Syndrom (bloating,mood swings etc), then after that you get Menstrual Syndrom (the mess, the cramps). Hope that’s not TMI.
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[li]New kitten in the house destroying the window blinds and keeping everyone up at night. I’m trying to be patient since she is just a kitten.[/li][li]Lease is up in a little less than two months and I can’t decide if we should move or not and put my daughter in a new school even though she has been going to the same school since pre-k. I’m stressing big time over this one.[/li][li]Payday isn’t until next Friday and I’m broke.[/li][li]My car is falling apart and I’m still paying for it with no hope of buying a newer car in the near future.[/li][li]I worry about my mom constantly.[/li][li]One of the men I work with is getting on my nerves with his little snide comments about my time that I work. I want to tell him to go F&% himself so bad but I won’t. I have to be nice and it just kills me.[/li][/ul]
Now that I have reminded myself of all this I’m more stressed out!
We have major money problems right now. Getting dunned by collection agencies, etc. Our tenants are having trouble, too, so we can’t count on income from our rental houses. My husband and I did not buy anything for each other this Christmas. Things will get better in the spring, when I can sell jewelry again, but at the moment, things really suck.
I took my Free Response part of the midterm (2 essays, each 30 mins long) in History. I did a lot of review for it so I HOPE i did well…its just that you can’t write that much in thirty mins. I mean you can write more than you’d think, but nowhere near as long as you’d write for a “real” essay. Now i’m gonna be paranoid this whole weekend…
Plus I’m on the MS too, cramps not too bad (i have them but i’m not keeling over in pain…yet), but emotionally i feel really out of wack…more so than normal. Ah well…C’est la vie…
– The new semester’s just started: I’ve got twenty-two students whose names I still don’t know staring at me and expecting to be Educated (without, of course, putting forth much effort or thought of their own).
– Also have three graduate classes of my own to cope with, each of which involves dropping at least $50 on textbooks. One textbook certainly will not be delivered until several days after I need it.
– Oh, we finally got our first pay raise in five years. It’s a third of what we asked for. The Ruling Powers say this is because of the “recession.” Yeah, right. I might believe it if we got regular pay raises when the economy is booming, but obviously that isn’t the case.
– Roommate is testing the treacherous waters of the academic job market, and needs consoling.
– And I find I’ve left a great chunk of my heart in Manchester International Airport, and I don’t know when (if) I’ll be able to return for it.
Sigh. Could be worse, I suppose, but it could be a hell of a lot better…
A boy I was really interested in at work is dating someone and generally ignores me after someone tells him of my interest in him.
A good guy friend of mine that I’m interested in likes me, but he’s on the rebound and I’m scared that it won’t work out. I’m also VERY nervous because he’s more popular than me and that intimidates me.
My BEST FRIEND in the whole wide world ever and I are not speaking. He and I have been fighting more and more lately over dumb stuff and he told me we’re not as close anymore because I’m too negative about myself and it makes him mad.(I can’t help it! I suffer from depression! )
School’s back in full swing and I’ve already been assigned a 10-page term paper on a book that was probably about my 5th choice off of the list (that’s really bad considering there were 106 topics and only 20 in my class…I was one of the last to get to pick ) Plus, I have AP history work I’m already behind on.
Home problems with my mother and sister as always…
** My damned dissertation. ARGH!
** We cannot stay well in this family. One or more of us has been sick, in some form or other, since Thanksgiving.
** My husband still doesn’t have a steady job. Consulting pays well and its keeping him busy for the moment, but who knows how long that will last? And it doesn’t pay benefits. My health care benefits are great for all of us, but I wish TWO of us were putting away $$ for retirement. Overall fretting over money is making us feel like we can’t take vacations or buy anything else big-ticekt that we need.
** We are understaffed and overworked in my office, and it’s been this way for over a year. I dropped to a 70% appt. to deal with my dissertation better, but a significant portion of my work cannot be handed off or slowed down. I’ve had some pretty tough weeks–but with 30% less pay.
** My regular babysitter is getting married in 5 weeks, and her mind is (understandably) on that. She’s not available to give my husband and I a break. I’ve put in three calls to other prospective babysitters and none of them has called back.
** Not only do I have to pay tuition this term, I am also doing a huge data collection. By the time I pay to print and mail my survey, I’ll be several thousand $$ in the hole. Then there’s the $3K + for candidacy tuition. No idea where that will come from in our family budget.
** Missed paying bills earlier this month, so racked up some stupid late charges.
I’ll shut up now. There’s more, but you get the idea.
And now i’m restless and bored and POed and depressed.