The Official Rant Thread

[Saber Knight]

Not sure if this is exactly a rant, but whatever.

Oh gawd.....my math problems are just getting worse......

So, today (if we had had school) we were going to do a review on all of the stuff for this chapter, as a lot of it was confusing, and then we'd have a test on Tues. But, on Friday our teacher had told us that if Mon snowed out, then we'd just skip the review day and have the test Tues anyways. Well, Mon snowed out and we've got a jolly good test tomorrow.
I thought I was doing everything right. Everything the way she told us to. However, when I went to check my answers for homework (the back of the book has answers, and she asks us to self-check it, trusting us enough not to copy it down) a good half of the problems were wrong, and I have no idea why. And, now there's no way to check with her, as the test is tomorrow and she jogs on Tuesdays before school so I couldn't ask her then.
I am so dead.....I think this is the first time in this class that I've been literally on the edge of tears....all I can do is hope and pray for another snow day, because she said she wouldn't give us a test on the day we get back from vacation. More like the day after.
Geeze, this chapter looked like it was going to be soo easy compared to trig but then they HAVE to take everything and put it on that stupid coodinate grid. Find the area and perimeter of the shape with verticies (yadda yadda yadda....). And we're STILL using trig.
WHAT AM I DOING WRONG?! I DON'T KNOW! DARN YOU APOTHEMS, AND COODINATE GRID! I HAAAAAAAAATE YOU!

[Giga-Gar]

Saber, I feel your pain. I absolutly hate geometry. The subject, the teacher, the class, everything! I believe God exists because if he didn't, I would still be stuck in geometry. All the advice I can give you is to take another look at your geometry book, ask someone, anyone for help (even us), and pray.

[Saber Knight]

I. Want. To. Strangle. My. Assistant. Coah.

I HATE HER SOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!

Okay, some coaches are annoying, like, "SUICIDES GALORE!" or they don't let you play in the games.

My assistant coach REDEFINES obnoxious coaches.

I've already mentioned her before, I'm sure. Probably just look back in the rant thread. But she was EXCEPTIONALLY annoying today.

Okay, so me and Tango (she's good for her age, so she got to play up since we needed people) both play defence, but we're on different lines (read: we don't play at the same time). Tango was skating to get off the ice, but as usual the evil coah (as I shall henceforth refer to her) was not paying attention. So, I shout "D!! D!!", which is usually what we shout when we have to switch lines. She STILL ignores me, so Tango begins banging her stick on the ice as she skates over. FINALLY, when Tango's about ONE FOOT from the bench, she snaps out of her stupor, and opens the door. However, as I skate on the ice, she shouts angrily "STOP YELLING AT ME! Jeeze, you're gonna break my ears! Can you slam your stick ANY LOUDER?!"

WHAT. THE. CRAP.

IF YOU WERE PAYING ATTENTION AND LISTEN AFTER THE FIRST HUNDRED "D!!!!"'s AND SLAMS OF THE STICK, THEN WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO KEEP YELLING!!!!

Or, or you could ACTUALLY BE PAYING ATTENTION!!! I KNOW, A CRAZY CONCEPT!

And, she was yelling at us even more than our regular coah. Our main coach is usually like, "Jeeze, girls, SKATE!", and he pulls a few kids aside to talk to them a bit and give them some stern advice, but it's really not that bad. Evil coach is saying, "Geeze, you girls stink. SKATE HARDER. Why aren't you trying?" Then she comes over and gives me advice that COMPLETLY CONTRADICTS WHAT THE MAIN COACH SAYS!!!

To make things worse, after the game and the coah spoke to us, evil coach still stays in the locker room (sometimes she does so for long periods of time, which is OBNOXIOUS! The locker room is for the players, not the coaches!) and is all "Don't worry, I'm trying to get the coach to be more positive. I don't like all of this negativity."
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YOU'RE THE WORST ONE YOU DOLT!


I hate her so bad......it takes all of my self restraint not to start yelling at her on the bench.

I needed to vent so bad.....HATE HER!

[Saber Knight]

I....am so pissed....

So, in geometry today our teacher was handing back tests. She remarks that she was disappointed, and the best grade was a 60 out of 68, which is around a 88%. I got mine back....44.5 out of 68. That's a flipppin' D.

I swear, it felt like someone had just stabbed me with a dagger when I saw my grade. I felt my face pale several shades. I just stared at the test in an expression of total shock for quite some time, my fingers trembling.

I got the damn volume and surface area for a sphere switched. I swear, I studied them! Throughout lunch (geometry is right after lunch) I stared at them. 4/3pi r cubed is surface area. 4 pi r squared is volume. I thought I dug that into my brain. And I started doing well, until I came across one question on the stupid test. It was a probability question, but the answer I got made no sense. So, I thought that I must have had the volume and surface area for a sphere switched. Lo and behold, when I switched them, it made so much more sence! So, that threw me off for EVERYTHING! That one damn question! If it hadn't been there, I never would have doubted myself....

And that damn spherical geometry! SOOO FRIGGIN OBNOXIOUS! Why do I care about it!? WHY?! WHO USES SPHERICAL GEOMETRY?! I don't CARE that a great circle is a line in spherical geometry. I don't care that in spherical geometry the angles of a triangle add up to more than 180. I don't care that in spherical geometry there is no line parallel to any given line. NO ONE CARES! EVERYTHING IS EUCLIDIAN! Give me an example of SOME TIME when you'd ACTUALLY use spherical geometry!

She gave the test back to us at the end of class and she said we'd talk about it tomorrow. I pray that she makes it out of less points, as she usually does that if we all do bad.

Oh god....I can't believe this.....this is just awful....my entire January's been rather suckish so far....

If I get less than an A- (or even less than an A will be bad)....I am so friggin screwed.

[Giga-Gar]

Like I said saber, just pray to that God that must be up there. He exists. How else do you think I managed to pass geometry? And to answer your question about spherical geometry, I imagine that it's when you're dealing with planets. Buy you're right, unless you're going to be xenogeologest, you're not going to need spherical geometry. Heck, unless you're going do do anything that involes enginearing in general, you don't need geometry at all!

[NabMaster]

Only a small rant right now, I'm too tired to think on it too much. As I said in the avatar change thread, the .hack series is going to end in the next year or two with its final game, .hack//Link. I've been playing this game series almost since it came out. Since then, I've seen all three tv series and the movie, and bought every book that's come out in english for it. Heh, I even collected the card game for a while, but nobody would play since it's hardly mainstream. Hearing that this series is coming to a close, and that it's days are truly numbered now saddens me terribly. I just hope it goes out with a bang.

[auragongal]

ARGH!!!!!!!!!

Zoras is getting on my nerves!This morning he got all pissy just because I was reading webcomics, and that was after he blamed me for breaking the eggs!While I was taking out the trash he told me to stop reading webcomics and if I didn't I'd go to rehab! and when I got back he told me to get out of his way right when I was putting a new bag in and then he acted as if the lack of bag was my fault and I told him I was going to put one in when He told me to get out of his way! When I start Code Twilight he's going to get his ass sealed like a demon lord in the first strip!

[Astral Omega]

I need to get out.

I don’t know if I've ranted about this before, but it's and issue that just keeps coming up for me every time I get an attack of the sad.

The same. damn. problem.

I have big dreams, I have things I want to be doing with my life and a foolproof plan of how to get there.

The problem is my plan relies on one thing- the only thing it seems to be taking so long to get. Money. Our whole… damn it’s so hard not to swear because I really feel like swearing rather emphatically. ..Okay, so I’ll swear and edit it out before I post. Solved.

Our whole *edit* world revolves around money. You need money to do absolutely everything. “Get an education” they say. “Yes please” I say “oh, but to do that it’s going to cost you a *edit* arm and a leg… oh, and we may need your spleen too”

I mean I work and I work every *edit* night of my LIFE (Sundays off don’t count. It’s not like I can really use that time anyway, I mean it’s *edit* SUNDAY! EVERYTHING is closed!) and I get a little optimistic, thinking I might be actually getting somewhere… so I look at my bank balance and I’ve still got *edit* nothing.

It’s not because I spend it. I don’t. The only thing I really spend my money on is paying board. If I didn’t pay Mum and Dad rent we’d probably be living on the street.

The problem is what I get for my rent isn’t really that great. I mean I get some of the housework done for me (but when Mum and Dad are both working I have to do it for the hole family!) and food is bought for me and cooked (sometimes, other times people are too lazy to cook and we have to get dinner ourselves) and I have somewhere to stay. But I have to share a room with my 12 year old sister.

I came home tonight with a deep need to be alone for a while and just cry out this feeling. I’ll get over it, I know I will but right now my sadness is turning into rage because I have to e super quiet because my sister is in bed trying to sleep and I can’t let on that I’m feeling sad because she’ll ask what’s wrong and she’s supposed to be going to *edit* sleep and I’m supposed to BE *edit* ALONE!

I feel like I’m trapped here… I struggle and struggle to actually get somewhere but it’s like *edit* quicksand. No matter what I do I just get sucked in deeper and I’m DROWNING! I need to get out of here.

I’ve always wanted to travel, get away from everything and stuff but I can’t because that requires money. There are so many things I’ve always wanted to do but have never ever ever *edit* had the money. So I try to earn some myself AND IT JUST ISN’T WORKING!

There is no way out of this hole. Steep, slippery sides.

Realistically I guess I am making some headway... a VERY LITTLE amount, and I’ve changed my plan so that I won’t have to wait as long. A few more months and I can make a final decision as to what my next step will be. But I’m so sick of waiting. I’m ALWAYS waiting for everything. I just want to stop WAITING for things to happen and start DOING things. But there’s nothing I can do. I’m stuck. And I need to get out.

I feel like I’m already burnt out though. Working too much. Always had the same stresses of wanting to get out. I’m burnt out and I’m only 18. I need to get away and charge my batteries, replace the light bulb and start again. But right now I’m just going to have to stay and wait and… deal with it.

As usual

I wouldn’t usually rant about this stuff here. Lately I’ve just been talking it out with my boyfriend and he always helps me out. He helps me get perspective on things and sort out where my head’s at. Unfortunately he’d be asleep right now because of the different time zones… if there’s one thing in the whole world I need right now it’s a hug. I need him to hug me and say everything’s alright because then it would be… but there’s kind of an ocean in the way.

Gah my life is sucking right at this very second. Thankyou for listening to my rant. But feel free to tl;dr…

[NabMaster]

*Hugs* I'm sorry to hear that Astral...I know exactly what you mean. I'm getting dangerously close to being in the same boat, my mom had to cash out my RESP because her line of credit was maxed out and this stupid economy thing has decimated the savings I had in there, bringing it down to just about 10K or one year's worth. Looks like it's all student loans from here

[Josiah]

Nothing wrong with student loans. Sure it's better to go without them if you can, but lots of people get through school with the help of student loans and do just fine.

Astral, sorry you feel that way. I could give a general "feel good" speech but you've probably heard lots of those I need to go run errands soon anway. What I will say is that, unfortunately, life usually doesn't go along perfectly with whatever big plans we have. Six years or so back I really thought I've have a publisher for my books by now. I certainly tried, but I just didn't get lucky so here I am studying game design (though I'd probably be studying game design even if I had gotten a publisher). I will get a publisher, somday, but for now I've got other things I can do while I work on that. All you can really do is realize that things probably won't go as quickly as you'd like. It also helps to have a couple of alternate plans incase your first plan just doesn't go the way you hoped.

On a more practical level, you could try looking for a higher paying job or working full time to earn more money. You could also give some consideration to getting your own apartment if you don't want to live with your family. Just don't get too down, keep working at it, and things will eventually improve, even though they still might not end up the way you planned.

[Saber Knight]

Aw, I'm so sorry Astral! *hugs*

I'm only fourteen, so I don't have to deal with monetary issues for myself yet really. My family is also quite well off, or at least I've been led to believe. My dad often talks about the economy, and how we should be careful with our money, but I know he's just teaching me to be careful with my money. He's been talking about that for a loong time now, anyways. I always feel bad when other people talk 'bout money issues, 'cos I really don't have those.

Just keep your chin up, Astral. You'll make it through.

[Astral Omega]

Well I'm over it now I guess. The attack of the sad I mean; the problems are still there.

And thanks for the kind words. There are some things I should add though.

Nab: 10k.. does this mean $10,000 IN A YEAR!?!?!? Man I wish I could have that much. I would already be GONE if one year yielded over $10,000

Josiah: Although getting a higher paying job or a full-time job sounds logical; it's not as easy as it sounds. I have been TRYING to get a decent job for god knows how long now. There are just none around here. Maybe if I wanted to work the rest of my life in an alumina refinery or some kind of trade like that- If that was the case I would already be doing the job I want to do.

The jobs that pay any decent money around here are all in that kind of industry and I really don't want to do that for the rest of my life.

Getting my own apartment would be very stupid also. That will just take me about 100 steps BACKWARD. The rent is INSANE for any places like that. I'm getting it really cheap here. "Really cheap" however is still too much. I have an approximate goal of how much I want to save up. I worked it out last night and what I'm paying in rent a year is well over 1/4 of my goal. I can't imagine how much I'd be paying if I got my own place.

I do have alternate planes though. I have several pathways to choose from to get approximately where I want to go. All these plans, unfortunately, require having funds to actually get them moving.

I MAY have the opportunity to get a second job, which may help IF MY BOSS WILL HURRY UP AND GET ANOTHER *edit* WAITRESS SO THAT I DON'T HAVE TO WORK *edit* (word means a small amount) HOURS EVERY *edit* NIGHT.

Okay, sorry about that. That wasn't sad that was just anger and frustration. I'm just so sick of waiting on other people. People are just so *edit* unreliable.

Saber: Thanks for the hugs^^ I hope you keep going with that well-offness… don’t ever get in a situation where you don’t have enough money to do the things you want to do. Get a job when you can... Start earning your own money and don’t just rely on your parents.

Okay, so although I’m not upset like I was last night that still turned into another rant… sorry ‘bout that haha.

[Josiah]

Yes moving out would mean more rent...but you could potentially move to a different town or city where you could get a higher paying job. Certainly not something to rush into though.

[Astral Omega]

I WILL be moving to a different city- maybe even a different country depending on how events in May pan out. It's jsut that I have to wait.

To move, you need the money in the first place. At least now I'm over my attack of the sad. Properly this time, no more rant jsut now^^

Thanks for trying to help and all. It's just that no matter what advice anyone gives, I've probably already thought about it. I've been thinking for quite a while of ways to gtfo of my current situation. It's just that nothing seems to work for the reasons outlined in my previous 2 rants haha.

I really just needed to vent.

[Kaida]

*Hugs Astral*.

I have something that might help Astral. You remember that job i talked to you about in the mountains at the sunshine coast, with my possible-future-employer. Well I'm meeting with him next Sunday to catch up on things and try to sort out whats happening. If you still want to work there I can talk to him about it and sort something out. Well try to sort something out.