Today is too freakin' long! (lame)

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Today’s not the best of days. It’s Monday, for one. I got an alleged schedule change, after three weeks of waiting, only on the ‘corrected final schedule’, the Exact. Same. Classes. were there.

We had to run the mile in PE. Not a big deal for me, aside from the fact that it was suprisingly brisk outside, and I was tired to begin with. My mile time sucked. I usually have about an 8-minute mile, today it was about 9:30.

Then we had a sub in Spanish. She’s old, going deaf, and speaks no Spanish. She didn’t believe us that our exam said we were allowed to use our books (an essay test on a book we read). Finally convinced her, though it took ten minutes.

My knees hurt. Bad. Tendonitis in each, and I’m not technically supposed to run without at least wrapping them. The cold makes it worse.

I had to stay after school for bio (because I bombed a lab report), and then go to newspaper. We’re past deadline and half the freshman haven’t handed in their articles, which makes it hard to do layout. Then I had to go straight to a friends house to work on a stupid English project on a stupid book The Scarlet Letter. My knees continued to hurt, and still do.

My meals today: a Slim-Fast shake for breakfast (drank in class), brown-bag lunch (eaten in class), soft pretzel and an apple for dinner, in a friends car, on the way to work on English. I know I choose to be in the program I’m in, and I could be taking an easy-ass senior year schedule, and chose not to. I know I shouldn’t complain. I know I can handle the work. But I was out of the house, working, for over twelve hours today, 6:45 am to 8:45 pm. I’m tired and still have about two hours, at least, of homework to do, not counting studying for a bio test Friday. My knees really, really hurt, and I’m going to need to do a double workout (2 hours instead of 1) tomorrow, since I didn’t train today. All I want to do is sleep. I think I’m getting a cold, because I’ve got a bitch of a headache, stuffy nose, and a scratchy throat. I can’t stay home sick, beacuse I can’t afford to miss a day of school. I got harrassed by relatives all weekend, because of the stupid Jewish holiday.

I want some sympathy, and no one’s giving it to me. :mad:

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(hugs all around) Take it one day at a time.

Surely there’ll be a time in the near future - maybe this weekend? - when you can just lie down and sleep for sixteen straight hours, unwinding and recovering from these past few horrible days.

Just look forward to that time. Take it easy then, and just do the best you can until then. We all have good days and bad days.

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If you’re getting a cold, and your knees hurt from running in PE, perhaps you should take a day or two off from training, or at least don’t worry about missing your training today? (judging from your screenname, I’m guessing some kind of Martial Arts?) Missing out on a workout sucks, but if you’re sick and in pain, you’re only going to make it worse.

Anyway, you have my sympathies. Things’ll get better eventually. And don’t worry about complaining, everyone needs to rant every once in a while.

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::runs nekkid thru thread::

That of any help? It’s not cold here…not inside, anyway.

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Update: today was a much better day. May be due to a caffiene buzz, but I’m feeling better, my knees are feeling better, and…yeah. Better day today.

There are still some scheduling follies going on, which aren’t even worth mention here they’re that freaking rediculous (here’s a clue: there are over 4000 high school students between the two schools in the district. They have one person, at the other high school, doing all of the scheduling changes.) bang head against wall now

But on the upside, I got to chase down 3 froshies today and harrass them into getting me their articles not by tomorrow, but by the end of the day (email 'em to me at home, Or Else.)

Plus, the one guy in my bio class who’d done really well on the aforementioned lab report did something really quite dumb involving his thumb and one of those plastic zip-ties today.

’Punha giggle 's Ok, you can stop being nekkid now. :smiley: