- Yeah, I'm still alive -

Wow, a whole week without a post. I've been getting through the last half of this quarter "a day at a time" as they say in AA, and I didn't realize I hadn't posted in so long. This quarter, well actually just chemistry class, has really been wearing on my self-esteem, which I don't like. I've always been "the smart kid", but I think I may have met my match with Chem. Of course if I put a little more effort into it I probably wouldn't have any problems, but I've never had to put much effort into my studies and I'm not used to it. I don't want to have to read and study when I get home from school, the reason I go to school is for them to teach me stuff. When I get home I want to relax and watch the telly and play with my snakes. But it looks like my selfish laziness is going to bite me in the ass.... I just hope I don't have to retake the class, because that would really piss me off.

On a lighter note, the Latin midterm today went well I think (I hope), so I feel pretty good about that. We've gotten to the point where the sentences don't translate as literally anymore, which makes it a little tougher, but it gives you more freedom to make it sound good in English, which is fun. You just have to be able to recognize the Latin constructions and remember ways of rephrasing them in English. The next two quarters are mostly all reading Latin and translating passages. I love translating stuff, it's like a puzzle you have to figure out, like those cryptoquip things I always used to do in the paper, but more fun. Can I do that for a living? Just solve puzzles and brain-teasers? I think I could handle that.

Well that's all I have time for today. I'll try not to go another week before posting again. Have fun everyone.......  i posted this at 9:43 AM ---