Annoyed, Jonesing
Dear E-Diary,
My professor in a fast track class I’m doing is so annoying! He gave us a shit ton of warnings about how much work was in this class (one such statement was that every single day in the class was going to be a week’s worth of the average class’ curriculum) but then posted three assignments for week one. He created three schedules, two of them duplicates and easily accessible with the other being in OneDrive hidden behind five (FIVE) folders and subfolders…The hidden one was the accurate one.
None of the schedules peer beyond the first week of class which is annoying but mostly just a pet peeve. Whatever. I do the three assignments in one day, knocking out what I can only assume is three weeks of a normal class, and then sitting on my thumb. In my head, I thought that was the first day’s work because of how much he hyped it up but then he sends me an email praising me for working ahead and being studious. Thanks! I kicked back, checked the schedules, got confused, read his guide on how to check the real schedules, paced while I wondered why he didn’t delete the other two, checked it and boom! Realized there was an exam this week! I did every assignment but the exam?
I go back through everything he posted but can’t find shit, oh, maybe this schedule is messed up as well?
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Days pass, there’s four days until the exam is due and I can’t find it anywhere. Finally convinced that it’s me fucking up I email the professor and beg for information.
“Oh, I haven’t posted it yet.”
Oh, okay, so that isn’t the real due date.
He posts it the next day and literally states that we need to work fast because it’s due in three days! What!? He says in the email that we should be comfortable with this strict deadline because it’s a fast track course. You should be comfortable with no job!
Why did you arbitrarily withhold this solely to create a sense of pressure? It makes no sense? “It’s a fasttrack course so I had to!” Shut the fuck up! It’s the week 1 work, the week 1 work that you had posted at the beginning of week 1. You could’ve just posted it then! Like, what if one of the adults in your class is an adult who has to do adult things? An alien concept, yes, but a very real one. Whatever, I do it. Fifty questions, sixty minutes. I’m not super smart and I’m bad at this class’s topic so this might be tough but a minute per question plus some breathing room oughta be enough. Though I do find it weird to have a fifty question exam covering three assignments.
I do it, the content varies wildly in difficulty, I find myself struggling on one question for a few minutes before doing multiple in one. There is one issue plaguing every question though- the fucking grammar! Now, I’ve written all of this into you so you know my grammar and writing isn’t the best but trust me when I assure you that some of these questions were actually difficult to comprehend and took multiple re-reads.
A lack of spacing between words, random additional letters, honest to god typos, mispressed letters and much much more. I genuinely think that every question had at least one error but some of them had so many all grouped together that I struggled to read them.
I know this sounds fake but I swear to god it’s not.
His emails had some stiffness to them but never any genuine errors like this. My favorite personal conclusion is that he waited until the last second to write these fifty questions. I also like to think that this is why he held off from posting it. Like, he waited until four days until the deadline to even write this and it was solely spurred by me pressuring him on it.
I was pleased with my grade though :)
Onto the other topic. I am quitting soda! I am! I swear to god! It’s so lovely though, it may not technically apply but I’d consider soda to be my favorite food.
I’ve cut my soda intake a great deal already but dear god I’m jonesing in a way I didn’t know was possible over soda. The headaches are lessening but had gotten pretty bad at one point. You know those two people in your life? The one who social smokes and finds it cringey whenever someone makes a big deal about the effects of smoking and that other person who smokes multiple packs a day and makes a big deal about the effects of smoking?
Soda drinking (really caffeine) is much less addictive and harmful than smoking or, like, just about any other addiction. But I’m comparatively the one who smokes packs a day. I drink some, eight, nine sodas a day.
Rough, right?
Everyone else on Earth is the comparative social smoker. So these noggin thumping headaches and unending exhaustion are between me, myself and I. I’m not gonna say “I’m having soda withdrawals” with a straight face to another human being who deals with real problems like taxes or car payments. I’m doing good though! I’ve been drinking some eight, nine waters a day. This is probably making a world of a difference to my internal softmeats. Like, I went from having one of the least healthy water intakes of anyone I know to the most healthy water intakes. Though the ideal being drinking a shit ton of water has been debunked, you should just drink however much your body wants.
BTW Caffeine headaches are believed to be caused by your blood vessels suddenly expanding and the added blood flow causing pressure! Kinda gross but also sort of cute, right? That’s how I feel about a lot of the internal bits and bobs of the body but I tend to think of blood vessels as unequivocally gross but, I don’t know, there’s a certain je ne sais quoi about that explanation that’s kinda cute.