It’s just algebra. Stuff you cover in high school. And yet — it is the bane of my existence this semester. Ax^2 +bx+c. It can all fuck right off.
I got a 39 on my first test, and I have another on Monday. I have reached out to a tutor but we have not been able to arrange a time to meet yet. I dutifully go to class and take pages of notes from the board, equation after equation I have no idea how to solve even with the answer in front of me.
I also have to pass this class to graduate, so I fail it — I get to do it all over again. So this semester I will aim for the Dean’s List — and be damn happy with a D in math.
I have a roomie prospect lined up, he’s coming over to see the place Sunday afternoon, so that means I have lots of cleaning to do after Shabbat. It’s not messy, but everything needs a wipe down and the floors need to be mopped. I think I’m going to put on a movie I’ve seen 100 times or some music and go to town on it Saturday night. Hopefully he will move in this month or next month and I will have a little breathing room and Mum will be happy that the utilities are being covered. I met him at school, but he’s graduating this winter and wanted cheap and quiet — which I can provide.
My other classes are mostly going ok, and I’m adapting to half on campus half off life. I am definitely getting more exercise, and the PT seems to be helping a bit with my knees, but the stairs still hurt.
I also started allergy shots this week — I had a battery of tests done and I’ve actually outgrown a lot of my allergies from childhood — all that is left is horses and one type of dust. I was really shocked, because I was allergic to damn near everything as a kid. Naturally there are horses behind my house, so that doesn’t help, but I’m hoping the shots will work. So every Friday for the next year I get a shot in the arm and maybe my body will stop thinking everything is trying to kill me.
On the hearing front, nothing is happening for the moment, though I will be having surgery at the end of the year again. The new ENT is going to put new tubes in my ears, and anchor the right one with cartilage from the tragus so it won’t fall out again. He’s also going to peel back my eardrums and suck all the crap out of them again and hopefully they will start working right again and the dizziness will go away. I’m also considering hearing aids because of the hearing loss from all of this, just depends on what my insurance will cover.
That’s the news that’s fit to print in my world — how are things with you?
