a wonderful thing
I was freaking out (a lot, all day), because I have both a Science unit test - on Electricity - and a math unit test - on Optimization of rectangles, prisms, and cylinders - tomorrow, and I missed two days of school last week.
(I also have a performance in vocal class I'm supposed to do that is incredibly important, but I legitimately can't sing right now, thanks to my illness; so I assume I'm pardoned. Unless, of course, my teacher and classmates would like to sit through three-and-a-half minutes of me sounding like a mix between a final stage lung cancer patient who has smoked for sixty years and a dying cat. Which I certainly would not.)
So I spent a lot of the day doing Math; practicing what I already knew, and trying to teach myself the lessons I missed from the textbook. And it went as well as I expected it to, though not as well as I'm sure it would have had I been there to have it taught to me.
But I looked at the clock a short while ago, realized I need to sleep in less than two hours, and nearly had a heart attack because I hadn't looked at my science material at all yet.
(I will admit to getting lost in the wonderful world of glee fic again, haha; which naturally played a part in my science avoidance.)
So I opened it and started going through all of my notes ... and as I was doing so I realized ... hey, wait a minute - I actually know all of this stuff. And I know it pretty well, actually. I went over it and wrote some things out again just as a reminder, but do you know what this means?
Not only am I confident for tomorrow's test, but I don't have to spend my last waking moments of the weekend cramming.
And also? Actual time for both fic-reading and fic-writing that doesn't give me that awful empty feeling in my gut that reminds me that I know what I'm doing wrong and irresponsible.
How awesome is that?
(I also have a performance in vocal class I'm supposed to do that is incredibly important, but I legitimately can't sing right now, thanks to my illness; so I assume I'm pardoned. Unless, of course, my teacher and classmates would like to sit through three-and-a-half minutes of me sounding like a mix between a final stage lung cancer patient who has smoked for sixty years and a dying cat. Which I certainly would not.)
So I spent a lot of the day doing Math; practicing what I already knew, and trying to teach myself the lessons I missed from the textbook. And it went as well as I expected it to, though not as well as I'm sure it would have had I been there to have it taught to me.
But I looked at the clock a short while ago, realized I need to sleep in less than two hours, and nearly had a heart attack because I hadn't looked at my science material at all yet.
(I will admit to getting lost in the wonderful world of glee fic again, haha; which naturally played a part in my science avoidance.)
So I opened it and started going through all of my notes ... and as I was doing so I realized ... hey, wait a minute - I actually know all of this stuff. And I know it pretty well, actually. I went over it and wrote some things out again just as a reminder, but do you know what this means?
Not only am I confident for tomorrow's test, but I don't have to spend my last waking moments of the weekend cramming.
And also? Actual time for both fic-reading and fic-writing that doesn't give me that awful empty feeling in my gut that reminds me that I know what I'm doing wrong and irresponsible.
How awesome is that?