Arrgarrargarrargarrarga bleh bleh bleh. <-- New hit single in Qwerty, I hear. But also how my last few days have been going. This morning I got a visit from my Aunt Flo, so I guess it's not surprising. Ugh. In some ways it's nice to have an excuse to blame the ehness on, but some small peevish part of me wants to shout, "No! I'm in a bad mood because things suck, not because it's that time of the month!" Sigh.

To be fair, not everything sucks, but my math homework does. It takes forever, because I'm trying to get it done ASAP so it's not hanging over my head. Unfortunately, it's been a while since I've done math, so it takes me a while to remember things like the distance formula exist. Or the quadratic formula. It took six tries on one problem before I realized I was getting it wrong because I was squaring improperly. Good job, Zaz.

Also, my TA for math sucks. I feel bad for feeling that way, because he's one of those nervous teachers that want to please you badly, but for whatever reason, can't. He's a tall, rail-thin Chinese man who wears glasses and has that perpetual apprehensive hunch that nervous teachers often get. He has a thick accent, which by itself doesn't mean anything---for example, my Linguistics TA has a thick accent and is incredibly intelligent, passionate about her subject, and (most importantly) eloquent. Coupled with hesitance and a tendency to stop for too-long periods of time to check if we're following him, it's not so great. Basically we went over one part of a semi-complex problem in 40 minutes. I had about three others I had questions on, which it would have been nice to go over. Oh well. Hopefully as the quarter goes on he'll get more confident, because I'm sure he knows his subject well, and he seems very nice, albeit shy. I'm rooting for him to get better! (But I'm too cynical to think he actually will. Sigh.)

I just noticed my Finnish textbook has seagulls on it . . . what? Are seagulls like . . . the national bird of Finland, or that just random? Okay, I just checked wikipedia, and no, Finland and seagulls are not their national bird. There IS, however, a Finnish band called "Damn Seagulls".

Oh, Finland. Your vowels vex me, but you're stealing my heart.