screwed over...again
I haven't written in a while, but somehow tonight I feel like writing. Probably because I'm a little unhappy. It's a zero-sum game somehow. One thing in my life becomes better and another becomes worse. I think on the whole my life is a lot better right now than it was even a year ago, but that thought doesn't comfort me on nights like tonight where I haven't eaten enough so I just feel so unmotivated to do anything worthwhile and I can't figure out how to finish my homework properly.
Last night was so nice. But last night I wasn't doing homework, either. Jeff and I went to see Hidalgo and do a little grocery shopping, and then we came back and hung out at my place for a while. It was relaxing and peaceful. ^^ I got trained to not be quite so ticklish for a little while.
But tonight we got into a big discussion of the kanji quizzes in Japanese and how they seem to encourage writing lame sentences rather than good ones that illustrate the meaning of the words. I wish we didn't have to write sentences at all, since I get most of my points off for grammatical errors when I'm trying to write decent (meaning having more than like three words) sentences. That's part of the problem, in Japanese, an awful lot of two or three word sentences are valid sentences, but they don't mean much, except maybe in context. No context on a quiz though, so there they're just silly.
So anyway, I hate being screwed over for trying to do the right thing. I hate even more being screwed over for getting the right answer the wrong way. Second math test. A little better than the first, but on one problem where I got the right answer (there wasn't even a missing negative factor or anything), I got a quarter of the points off for assuming a symmetry that apparently I shouldn't have. But it came out right! -.-
I think I'm gonna leave this entry public. I haven't written a public entry for a while. I don't really care that much since I don't really think much of anyone reads this besides people I've friended, and anyone else who might probably doesn't actually know me anyway. (Any lurkers are welcome to leave a message...I don't think I'm terribly interesting anyway unless you know who or what I'm talking about. Or if you know Japanese.)
Last night was so nice. But last night I wasn't doing homework, either. Jeff and I went to see Hidalgo and do a little grocery shopping, and then we came back and hung out at my place for a while. It was relaxing and peaceful. ^^ I got trained to not be quite so ticklish for a little while.
But tonight we got into a big discussion of the kanji quizzes in Japanese and how they seem to encourage writing lame sentences rather than good ones that illustrate the meaning of the words. I wish we didn't have to write sentences at all, since I get most of my points off for grammatical errors when I'm trying to write decent (meaning having more than like three words) sentences. That's part of the problem, in Japanese, an awful lot of two or three word sentences are valid sentences, but they don't mean much, except maybe in context. No context on a quiz though, so there they're just silly.
So anyway, I hate being screwed over for trying to do the right thing. I hate even more being screwed over for getting the right answer the wrong way. Second math test. A little better than the first, but on one problem where I got the right answer (there wasn't even a missing negative factor or anything), I got a quarter of the points off for assuming a symmetry that apparently I shouldn't have. But it came out right! -.-
I think I'm gonna leave this entry public. I haven't written a public entry for a while. I don't really care that much since I don't really think much of anyone reads this besides people I've friended, and anyone else who might probably doesn't actually know me anyway. (Any lurkers are welcome to leave a message...I don't think I'm terribly interesting anyway unless you know who or what I'm talking about. Or if you know Japanese.)