Until next year . . .

Worser & Worsest

This has got to be the worst week ever. Just received my gas bill & it's a whoppin' $144!!! The reason this is so outrageous is that I barely turned on my heat last month - nada. But, these idiots estimated my bill based on last year's use. Technically, I could go to my meter, read it, then call them up with an actual reading. However, a little run outside my house yesterday did not reveal where the darn meter was. It is FRIGID outside so I'll attempt another detective run in a few days but if I don't find the meter, I'll have to pay this autrocious figure. Pisses me off.

Then we receive an email from one of my professors saying that a paper that was due on Friday, is now due on Friday in his office before 4pm! I was planning to submit it to him on Fri at 11:59pm via email but now we have this change of plan. Those 8 hours make a huge difference. I'm just now getting done with paper #1 & so I don't think I'll be able to research & write paper #2 between now & Fri at 4pm. Even I have my limits.

What I wouldn't give for today to be Saturday!

Update: Despite my hysterics, everything turned out okay. Bill got paid & paper got done before the deadline.

Update 2: I just got my gas bill for January & I received a credit of $25! Yay!!!

Secured Transactions

This freaking exam lived up to each & every expectation & then some. So here's how the exam was broken down:

3 hrs & all essays:
Que 1: 55 points (90 minutes)
Que 2: 15 points (30 minutes)
Que 3: 15 points (30 minutes)
Que 4: 15 points (30 minutes)

For the most part, I always start with the shorter questions & then tackle the long ones last. The long essay questions are usually very convoluted & I always end up taking too much time on them. So today was no different. Started with the shorter essays. I thought they were semi-decent because I had a clue as to what was going on in all of them. However, I misread one question and ended up having to redo it which took about an extra 20 minutes. That meant I had about 70 minutes to tackle que 1. No biggie . . . that was until I read the essay. I read it & freaked out!!! I mean literally. Couldn't make head or tail of what was going on at all!!! It was divided into sub-parts, 1(a), (b), (c), & (d). Fact pattern for (a) was about 2 pages long. Fact pattern for (b) was about a paragraph long - it built up from (a)'s facts but you were only to consider (b)'s facts, & the same happened for (c) and (d). Now I had about 30 minutes left to answer these four subparts & nothing was clicking as to how to answer them. The moral of this story: hoping, wishing, & praying I don't fail!

Just in case you are wondering why I didn't drop this class: We have one week after classes start to drop a class. After that, you cannot withdraw unless you want an "F." So in the first week, there is no way to figure out how hard a class is going to be since it's only introductory material. They butter you up & then lay it on you. To top it all off, I have two papers to write before Fri before I'm done for the semester. Don't you just envy my life right now?!

On a lighter note, my judicial externship ended last week. On the last day, I turned in my final draft for the Judge to review, edit, & enter the judgment. So yesterday in the mail, I received my edited draft with this message from the Judge, "This was really, really, excellent!" It was a 21 page draft opinion & she had made only minimal edits to it before it was filed with the court. I was totally stoked. All that research & wading through mountains of evidence was no fun at all but it paid off. Too bad this class is graded pass/fail.

Secured Transactions is hands down the hardest class I've ever had the misery of taking! The exam is on Monday & I'm desperately trying to make sense of it all with no luck. Misery. Pure unadulterated misery. I'm staring dead ahead at an "F" if my notes don't start making sense in the next few hours.

On to my next sob story. My car is acting up again. At idle, it'll warm up like normal. But as soon as I start driving, the temperature gauge drops down to "C" & remains that way until I idle the car again. So I stopped by the mechanic yesterday & told him the problem. He seemed to know what the problem was I told me to return today. Then guess what, the darn car will not repeat the problem again. The heat is working like a charm & doesn't drop when I start driving. WTF?

The aww moment of the year!!!