Domestic Geek

I haven't posted in a few days. I've been in a really bad mood and hating life in general. Even if I had wanted to post, my freeservers site has been messed up. I wish I had money. I'd get my own server and host my own web site.

I am getting way sick of my school. I finally had a teacher that was beginning to teach me and he's supposedly being let go. What kind of nonsense is that? Yeah, he's a little egotistical, pushy, demanding, etc, but he got results. I don't know what the reasoning is for not wanting to keep him. He's probably too expensive and he pushes a Microsoft curriculum. Whatever the reason, if he's not teaching my W2k Server class in a week, I'll be in the president's office. This is crap. Just when I was starting to be a little motivated to try and learn from that school. AAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!! Now I know why the completition rate of people from that school stinks.

---> BTW, I aced that midterm I was all bummed about in the last post. Yay for me.

I'm really starting to freak out now. Marcus put the old mobile home here on the market. The real estate lady said she's never had luck selling these things and it would probably be on the market awhile. People are coming out of the woodworks who want it, it seems. We have no place to move to!!! I'm panicing. Not good. Between this stress, the job sucking (sales are still way down, even with coupons going out), the whole school mess, I'm ready to crawl into a hole and hide.

I came across THIS SITE a few days ago. I'm hooked on the Collapse game.

We finally took our Win2K midterm today, at least part of it. We got to school and power was partially out in the building. After climbing 5 flights of stairs (Man, I'm way out of shape), the instructor informs us that we will be late in taking the test, if at all. He hadn't printed the test yet. He found a printer and printed out the test, only to find the copying machine had no toner and nobody had any. So, he had to print all of the pages on the printer--he was bringing us parts of the test a few pages at a time. So, we didn't get to the lab part. We get to do that tomorrow. Oh, boy. Fifty questions in all. I know I messed up a few. Here's the problem I'm having: I'm one of those learners that needs the hands-on experience. I can't get the concept just by reading. I need examples. Marcus, on the other hand, can read about things and totally get it.

All I know is, I can't wait for school to be over. I know I have a lot more to learn, I just don't want to do it there.

I bought myself a Wacom Graphire today. I've been wanting one forever, but $100 was a little more than I could justify. CompUsa has a $30 rebate until the end of the month. Resistance was futile.

Leo LaPorte from TechTv is on vacation. I miss him.

Check out this picture--

The place where my boyfriend, Marcus, works is having their annual "Christmas in July" sale, thus the inflatable snowman. We had some really bad storms last week and the poor snowman's head was ripped off. As you can tell, the repairman put the head back on wrong. LMAO I guess this picture circulated all over the company email. Anyway, the snowman was repaired correctly yesterday.

UPDATE: The higher ups there have no sense of humor. He's been told to get rid of all evidence of said snowman.

I found the coolest site today. I'm sure I'm not the first to ever go there, but I thought it was cool.

Man, I'm tired. I got up at midnight (to go to work), stayed up until 10 p.m. studying for a test that never happened, got up at 2 a.m. to go back to work. I'm so not coherent.

I got an interesting wake up call today. My Win2000 teacher gave us a pop quiz today and guess what? I know nothing. I knew my education was screwed up, I just didn't know how bad. It turns out that was what it was supposed to be, a wake up call. He didn't grade it, fortunately. I answered a whole 4 questions out of 15. He told us our study habits suck and he's right. Sad thing is, I had great study habits at the beginning. It just got pointless to study for tests that were multiple choice and straight out of from the back of the book. It was all I could do not to cry. I am in my fifth networking class and I don't know squat. I'm not going to be able to cram four months of stuff into 6 weeks. It ain't gonna happen. I don't know what I'm gong to do. I know I have got to make myself go talk to this new president. I've been screwed, not only financially, but emotionally as well. Maybe if I can get some sort of partial refund, I can teach myself or go to some other school.