My life has been a heck of a ride the last couple weeks, and this is my excuse for not updating in a very long time. First I will begin with my "hell" week, which was last week. It all began on Wednesday (actually Monday and Tuesday were great days) at my first class in history. Well, I heard John Edwards was going to have a rally on Friday during my history class so I asked my history teacher if it would be ok if I went to the rally and got notes for a friend in class. She did not answer with yes but rather looked at me with a blank stare that said "Abby, you better not do that or I will bite your head off... or at least drop your grade." So, I tell her that I will think about it and that I am not sure if I will go to the rally. Well, 50 min. later the class is about to end and she says she is going to hand back our first of three papers for the semester. It is important to know that basically we are only graded on these three papers. Well, I along with many of my classmates were shocked with a BIG OL' "D" or "F"... I felt pretty lucky with my "D". I am not kidding when I say the entire class got grades like this. I did know one person with a "C". So, I am all stressed out and I tell myself "You better drop this class". Sadly I only have 2 days (until Friday) to drop a class so I go and get the drop form and talk to my RA. She told me that she would drop the class if she were me. So my next hurdle is to get the drop form signed by my professor (Dr. Buffton). Her office hours are only M,W,F 1-2 and I have a speech class during all the times... so I didn't know how I was going to meet with her. Luckily that day I got out of speech early so I do get to see her. I run to her office and stand in a long line of other students, who are all getting their drop form signed. I get it signed but tell her that I don't want to drop the course and that I am not sure if I will hand in the form yet. Wednesday night I call my mom... Crying... And I tell her the whole ordeal. I express lots of anger because I have already done all the work for the class... Including writing my other paper that is due in a month. Well, my mom gives some wise advise and tells me to turn in the paper and have her look over it to see if she thinks if it has potential. So I jump through more hoops to get her to read my paper... And in the end she does... Tells me she was impressed I wrote it this early and that I have ample time to rewrite parts... so I stay in the class. My life was a living "h***" but I am still alive. Sadly, things are sad again with the election news and now I am going to go cry in a corner. Hope you all are doing better than me... though that isn't saying much. Hugs to all the sad Kerry supporters.
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I believe in you Abs! Even if the teacher is mean.
It is very sad the Bush won, but I console myself with the fact that the world is not ending. Maybe it's not getting better for four years, but we'll make it. That is something Malcolm said in Jurassic Park: humanity is thinking too highly of itself when we think we hold the world in our hands. I guess just hope that things will work out.
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