Woes.

I'm just going to make a quick rant about the new semester.

1. First of all, I have weight training at 7:30 am (which isn't the bad part), but I have math right after. How exactly do I go about the school year without smelling not-so-good in a math class due to the lack of time to clean up after working out? Hmm. I'm still trying to figure this one out.
   
   
2. As I sat in Organic Chemistry and listened to the introduction to the class, which was pretty exciting (for real), the kid next to me asked me what time my Chem Lab was. I pulled out the schedule I had hand-written on a piece of notebook paper that stops at Thursday because I ran out of room and I couldn't spot a chemistry lab. I shrugged it off, thinking that maybe it was on Friday and I didn't remember. When I got back to my apartment, I checked my schedule and lo and behold, no chem lab. NO CHEM LAB? Wait, what? Crap. I tried desperately to try and add a chem lab, and I saw three times open. I looked through my schedule and saw that only one chem lab would work. As I added the class, it bit me in the face by saying, "Oh well gee, we were never actually open. Looks like you're going on a really long waiting list. Good luck!" You might be thinking to yourself, "Hey, I wouldn't complain about not having an Organic Chemistry Lab. I mean O Chem is one of the hardest classes out there (right above Calc II), and the labs are equally treacherous. Stop your whining."
   But listen here: I have to have the lab credit in order to continue on in my major. So if I don't get the lab credit this semester, then I'll have to get it next semester, which puts me behind a semester and... it will just screw up the whole deal.
   
   
3. (Back on the math issue) The second I walked into my Calc III class my mood was immediately shot down into the depths of a long-drop toilet. As I listened to my professor mumble about valid excuses for missing a test (which includes athletic competitions but not having a baby), I tried in my mind to make math seem fun. As the professor started writing the lecture on the board in terrible, tiny handwriting and mumbling inaudibly, I realized my dislike for math. Let me rephrase: I realized that my intense hatred for math that had arisen last semester had not dissipated but in fact grew exponentially. I HATE IT. I HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE, HATE going through the math process. The material itself isn't exactly terrible, but the learning, the homework, the tests, the quizzes, the math tutoring center and everything else is just unpleasant. I don't care if I have to go through that with other classes, but with math it's just... terrible.
   
   
4. Fourthly (is that a word?), for my physics class I am required to have an access code to access the course online. Because the codes can't be reused, I searched online for a new book under the impression and hopes that it contained an access code. I bought one for cheaper than my bookstore offered it, hoping that I could save $40. I opened my book today and discovered that there was, in fact, no access code. Blagh. So I have a few options:
   
   
   • Go to the bookstore and just buy the code
     No longer an option :(
   • Return my book and buy a used one and then buy and access code at the bookstore/online
   • Buy the access code online
   • Return my book and just buy the book/access code package from the bookstore
     
     I must think quickly!
   
   
5. Fifthly, I am glad to be back at school. Believe it or not, but I am. Even if it did pour down rain every time I was walking to class. But I love being back in college, and even if I don't know how to cook, I wouldn't go back home at the moment.

Love,

Sarah.

an unhealthy amount of cat quotes

"No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens." -Abraham Lincoln

"Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep." - John Dobbin

"Everything I know I learned from my cat: When you're hungry, eat. When you're tired, nap in a sunbeam. When you go to the vet's, pee on your owner." - Gary Smith

"The sun rose slowly, like a fiery furball coughed up uneasily onto a sky-blue carpet by a giant unseen cat." - Michael McGarel

"You can visualize a hundred cats. Beyond that, you can't. Two hundred, five hundred, it all looks the same." - Jack Wright

"After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference."-Charlotte Gray

"Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well." - Missy Dizick

"One is never sure, watching two cats washing each other, whether it's affection, the taste or a trial run for the jugular."- Helen Thomson

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." -Albert Schweitzer

"There is, incidently, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person." - Dan Greenberg

"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose." -Garrison Keillor

"A meow massages the heart." - Stuart McMillan

"Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this by all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish". - James Gorman

"If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr." - Martin Buxbaum

"As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat." - Ellen Perry Berkeley

"Two things are aesthetically perfect in the world - the clock and the cat." - Emile Auguste Chartier

"Even the stupidest cat seems to know more than any dog." - Eleanor Clark

"If animals could speak the dog would be a a blundering outspoken fellow, but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much." - Mark Twain

"In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat." - Warren Eckstein

"Most beds sleep up to six cats. Ten cats without the owner." - Stephen Baker

"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through." - Jules Verne

"Who can believe that there is no soul behind those luminous eyes!" -Theophile Gautier

"Even overweight, cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses." - John Weitz

"Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow." - Jeff Valdez

"People who hate cats will come back as mice in their next life." -Faith Resnick

"There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats." -Unknown

"The problem with cats is that they get the same exact look whether they see a moth or an axe murderer." - Paula Poundstone

"If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside him." -Drew Barrymore

"The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal...its also the reason they hate birds." - KC Buffington

"If God created man in his own image, you've got to wonder; in whose image did he create the nobler cat?" - Unknown

"To err is human, to purr is feline." -Robert Byrne

"If cats could talk, they wouldn't." -Nan Porter

"A cat can purr its way out of anything." -Donna McCrohan

"The little furry buggers are just deep, deep wells you throw all your emotions into. - Bruce Schimmel

"A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution."- Hazel Nicholson

"To some blind souls all cats are much alike. To a cat lover every cat from the beginning of time has been utterly and amazingly unique."- Jenny de Vries

"People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote."- Charlotte Gray

"I purr, therefore I am." - Anonymous

"People that don't like cats haven't met the right one yet." - Deborah A. Edwards, D.V.M.

"Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs." - Desmond Morris

"Some people own cats and go on to lead normal lives." - Unknown

"My little grandson is a darling, but he can never take the place of my cats." -Anonymous Grandmother

"Cats Are Not impure; they keep watch about us." - The Prophet Mohammed

Just notice how many of the people are famous or artists...