Tense in Current Events

I spent the whole day complaining about how hard my physics class is. I was telling them the funny story of how I bombed the practice questions. I felt confident enough to at least try and do them on my own. At the beginning of class, he handed us a test review so that we could practice for our upcoming test. We started the class going over that on our own and he made himself available for anyone who wanted help. I was almost done with mine and I could hear him talking to other students about some of the questions.

Yes, you want to square root that. I heard him say about one of the questions. I did not square root anything in any of my questions. Use the Pythagorean therum. I heard him say about another one of the questions. I’m thinking about how much I didn’t use that in any of my questions. You have to calculate the degree, remember using trigonometry? I wanted to laugh at loud at this point. He handed out the answer key and I got everything wrong. Then we took a vote on if we wanted the test to be on Monday or Wednesday and he was surprised, almost let down, that we chose Wednesday.

I approached him after class and showed him my work and asked him to see if he can figure out where I am going wrong. He only went over the first question and pointed something out that was obvious that I was missing. The formulas have three variables which I need to use to calculate the missing one. Then he briefly explained how I need to be intuitive and discover what is implied in the question without being said. Then he explained that I needed practice and had a Google it kind of attitude. Great! Thanks! I will use Khan Academy. At least I have material to work with this time and I got a strong sense of what his test questions will be like. They’re not that intimidating. The last set of practice questions that he gave us he got from some website and had typos and wrong answers. Those questions were abysmal.

Then we started our new unit. We just finished Kinematics (motion) and now we are doing dynamics (force). I don’t have the brain energy to study and review kinematics this evening so I will just binge the new unit on dynamics. Guaranteed Khan Academy will have better explanations than my teacher.

I spent the day tired and depressed. You never would have guessed, I was my chipper old self. I had a lot of fun at work. I enjoyed this week and I think it is because Linda wasn’t there. My boss’s boss is coming in two weeks and I am hoping that I am working on that day because I want to talk to him. I also made an observation about our performance in the store to my boss. I was curious about whether it was affecting their metrics. She explained to me that it was and that she was going to bring it up on Monday. Mike, her boss, is coming in a couple of weeks and will talk about it as well. In our service list, we have two categories. We either fully service the shelves or we just stock the shelves. Everybody is fully servicing them no matter what the expectation is. We track our times and this affects the algorithm. It makes it appear that we need more time to stock a shelf than it actually takes. This change in standard happened shortly after I was hired so I am not attached to old ways of doing things. Literally, I am the only person doing it right even though it bothers some people on my team.

Also, I clean the staff room once a week. I started being very thorough. I do it because I am the only person who will do it without complaining. It’s not a big deal to me. However, I am having a low-key war with somebody in the store. I optimized the counter space by putting the nasty toaster oven and hotdog toaster in the cupboard. It can be taken out if somebody needs it which nobody does. There are, of course, people who have been there for 90 years and cannot stomach the slightest change to their environment so they keep taking it out. I just put it back in knowing that it is causing a lifer a great grievance. It’s funny. I’ll also push everything left on the counter to one random side and if it isn’t claimed at the end of the week I toss them. Drinks canisters, containers, I don’t care. I also do that to all open drinks to one side of the fridge and at the end of the week, if it is still there, I toss them. Some people are trying to use the staff fridge to store all their condiments and I keep throwing those out too mercilessly. It’s not a dorm room they can keep their condiments in their bag.

My trigger, for feeling down today, was my hair. While I was trying to make it look presentable I could tell that it was thinning from the top. I could have worse problems. This is not an extraordinary thing to happen for someone in my age group. I could see a specialist. Those are for-profit corporations and their job is to make as much money from me as possible and I just don’t trust them to set me up to win. It would be in their best interest to set me up to be a returning customer.

I’m saving my money up to see a naturopath anyway. I do have benefits from work that would cover it. I just want to make sure that I see a good one. There is plenty that I want to get from it but my main incentive is that I want to do a parasite cleanse. I want guidance on it so that I know I am doing it right. These things are not a sprint, they are a marathon. Speaking of cleaning out the body, everybody around me is sick again. Like, c’mon man.

I also learned where my roommate’s money has been going. There have been multiple times when she said that she had no money which makes no sense to me. She makes more than I do, she has no car, no dependents, no student loans, etc. She has been helping her parents out with their bills. When she explained some of that to me, it still made no sense. They own their condo and their car. Their kids are moved out. I dunno man. Of course, anyone could say that about me. I feel for her, I do. She wants to get herself a car and I want that for her too.

Anyway, I still feel bummed out. Seasonal depression doesn’t help. Whatever. On with my evening then.