frustratedThe stupid thing is that I'd have no problem getting an all-day curbside spot if it weren't for the stupid Halifax Urban Greenway and the associated construction. What was parking for a lot of people is now Coneworld. Just like everything else in this stupid place.
So I paid the ticket on my phone, and that reminded me that I have no way to pay the phone bill I received yesterday, nor the credit card bill I will accrue from the parking ticket. I paid for my last 1/4 "fill-up" with change I had stashed in my glove compartment. It's winter tire season, but I can't afford them. But if I get into an accident because I don't have winter tires, I can't afford the consequences! I won't be able to afford my insurance bill when that comes around next year, either.
It's looking like I may have to take a year off - I will be lucky if I can even do these two semesters together! I mean, I have money for second semester tuition, but that's it. I suppose I could rob Peter (Saint Mary's) to pay Paul (everybody else), as SMU does charge late payment fees, but last I checked they weren't usurious.
Of course I applied for a SMU bursary and also an industry scholarship from my father's job. I'm also going to apply for another award targeted at "mature learners." The award is laughably small, but it would look good on a résumé.
Just... I dunno, some days it just seems like things are unnecessarily difficult.
Epilouge: I get to my math recitation and first thing I know is that we're doing a quiz that includes factoring by completing the square. It wasn't on the assignment, so I thought I was prepared for the class - but it was in Tuesday's class, which I missed because...
Well, that's another frustration. You see, to have a shower in the morning, I have to be up at 6. Mom has to get ready for work, and Paul sometimes stays in the bathroom between home care shifts. (They justly take priority, but it doesn't leave me with much to work with.) So my alarm goes off at 6, but because I was up so late preparing for my chem lab and astro lab (which ended up being canceled, and the e-mail went to my bulk folder, so I ended up staying unnecessarily late that day, but I did get some work done), I end up just shutting off the alarm, deciding I'd take a quick wink and wake up at 8 and just wash my hair in the basement set tub like I've been doing most days (I was starting to smell, but I was really tired). But I closed my eyes and next thing I knew it was 10am. I'd miss physics, and I felt that math was going so slow, what would be the point of going? This was the same damn class that spent 30 minutes on y=2x!! So I had a real, honest-to-God shower, and then I went to my chem lab. And now tonight they spring this pile of crap on me. If it was SO important to learn completing the square, why the heck wasn't it on the homework like all of the other weekly quiz topics so far?
I am honestly at my wit's end. This is zarking retarded. I don't know what the hell I'm going to do next semester when I'll have one more course, be obliged to be here for 8:30 three days a week, and have to contend with snow and ice and slush every day. Gah!