These past few days (weeks?) I've had trouble falling asleep. I don't get there til 4, 5am, if at all. I don't think I'm missing sleep, I think I just screwed myself on weekends by staying out/up late and sleeping til 3pm.....so I'm working on that. Trying to get up earlier than I want to and tire myself out during the day. I got in the extra gym time, and all my homework is done, and I'm on top of both jobs, but I still have excess energy and this feeling of anxiety.
Current preoccupation:
In my tax class, part of our grade comes from our posts on tax issues in the presidential election (I know, exciting, right?) and the damn boards are SO FRUSTRATING. 90% of my classmates can't write coherently in English, and one who can comes off as a pretentious know-it-all and posts compulsively almost every day (sometimes several times a day). Recently I put up a fairly opinionated post as a reply to someone else's incoherent babblings on an article they'd read - yeah I know, I just said I hate that, but damn I'd been on my best behavior and something had to break. So I posted what I thought, supported it as best I could without doing very extensive research (this is only like 5% of the grade), and was satisfied with it. Of course I got the long-ass reply, which included a copy-paste of an article Mr. Pretentious thought supported his point. I couldn't help bu notice he didn't really have a point, and just seemed to want to 1) inform us all, yet again, that he reads the New York Times religiously, going so far as to clip articles pertaining to class (and he offered to show them to me! awwwww!!) and 2) that he thought my opinions sucked.
So maybe I sound hypocritical here, but I really don't care. I know I'm not, and that this kid needs to be brought down a couple pegs. This time I'm standing my ground, he can post all the NY Times references he wants, I'll continue to form my own opinions, and THEN find resources to back them up. Not the other way around. But damn, how does he have this much time to devote to a stupid WebCT bulletin board?
I've spent the last couple hours doing accounting homework and researching for my next post. Gotta say I've kept myself pretty damn busy today between classes, the gym, lots of random CA stuff, UCTV, homework, and now this WebCT nonsense. Not oversleeping would've been nice, but I do what I can with what I have.
Arg, why the sense of frustration and anxiety? Cutting down on caffeine.
Current preoccupation:
In my tax class, part of our grade comes from our posts on tax issues in the presidential election (I know, exciting, right?) and the damn boards are SO FRUSTRATING. 90% of my classmates can't write coherently in English, and one who can comes off as a pretentious know-it-all and posts compulsively almost every day (sometimes several times a day). Recently I put up a fairly opinionated post as a reply to someone else's incoherent babblings on an article they'd read - yeah I know, I just said I hate that, but damn I'd been on my best behavior and something had to break. So I posted what I thought, supported it as best I could without doing very extensive research (this is only like 5% of the grade), and was satisfied with it. Of course I got the long-ass reply, which included a copy-paste of an article Mr. Pretentious thought supported his point. I couldn't help bu notice he didn't really have a point, and just seemed to want to 1) inform us all, yet again, that he reads the New York Times religiously, going so far as to clip articles pertaining to class (and he offered to show them to me! awwwww!!) and 2) that he thought my opinions sucked.
So maybe I sound hypocritical here, but I really don't care. I know I'm not, and that this kid needs to be brought down a couple pegs. This time I'm standing my ground, he can post all the NY Times references he wants, I'll continue to form my own opinions, and THEN find resources to back them up. Not the other way around. But damn, how does he have this much time to devote to a stupid WebCT bulletin board?
I've spent the last couple hours doing accounting homework and researching for my next post. Gotta say I've kept myself pretty damn busy today between classes, the gym, lots of random CA stuff, UCTV, homework, and now this WebCT nonsense. Not oversleeping would've been nice, but I do what I can with what I have.
Arg, why the sense of frustration and anxiety? Cutting down on caffeine.
posted by Laura at 1:57:00 AM
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