The Whining and Bitching Thread

My school has a thing called an "alternative exam". Each teacher is required to give at least one for the year. They all are doing them now, in the second trimester, so essentially, I have 4 alternative exams due within a one week frame. Very bad planning. A few are due a little later, namely the band one, which is the Spring concert, not until Spring, or course. An alternative exam is a big project. They assign them around month before the due date, so there is a lot of shit intertwined and interwoven. Right now, I have to have two done by tomorrow...

What exactly goes into taking one of these exams?
 
That's nuts. I feel better now that I have never complained about paying $127 every two years in Maryland. I hope your roads are better than Baltimore's!

I think roads suck just about everywhere, which is a source of major irritation to me. People wanna be all "muh roads" about government, and then don't seem to notice/care that the roads are shitty.
 
In one of the rare instances that I drink soda, I just have to go an accidentally buy a diet soda from the machine. Absolutely disgusting. I could never get past the taste.

I should have stuck with coffee.
 
Why does time get faster and faster as it progresses? I feel like weekends are one day, and I go to sleep, and wake up feeling as if I had blacked out for seconds, and I generally hate everything when I wake up, especially on school days.
 
Yep, the older you get the more work and stress there is and the more time you have to spend recharging, basically wasted time.
 
I did something really, really, really fucking stupid last night. I found a small bottle in the medicine cabinet marked "Toothache Medication". I looked at the label, and it had a pretty urgent looking warning saying "DO NOT SWALLOW", and "If swallowed, contact your local poison control center". I read the ingredients- it was 85% eugenol and 15% sesame oil. I looked up eugenol, and I read on multiple sources that it is psychoactive. I decided to try it. I had one drop, but it was time for dinner. Later, around 2 am, I had a fairly good amount of it. It was pungent, and burned my mouth to the point of being numb. I got a few mild effects from it, and got tired and went to sleep. Now, I am extremely worried. It is hepatoxic (poisonous to the liver), and I am constantly checking my eyes for jaundice. I do some really stupid stuff.
 
@Iron Wizard reminds me of the kids I teach. Only thing he's blonde, but they do equally silly stuff. One smoked "weed" (in quotes because it was a mix of other crazy stuff) and now has constant freakouts in class and sees stuff. Just don't do stuff like that. It has really bad effects especially if you're younger. Come here and vent about life sucking, don't drink a bottle of poison.
 
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Cool.. care to describe it? Existential crises are fascinating to me.

I mean this btw, if I went for a grad degree in psychology, i'd want to study existential crises. Or philosophy for that matter. I've had at least 3 major ones, and a lot can be learned at these turning points. It's like everything on the table can be reconsidered. I think it's a vital part of the human psyche for adaptation and progress. As long as one tries to look at the crisis objectively and doesn't become too depressed or something. What was/is yours like, Neph?
 
Yeah IW, be careful. I understand the urge to experiment but don't be the first to ever try something, that's a huge risk. My advice is fully research any new chemical if you think it might go into your body. Especially read the list of possible side effects before making any decisions.. decide if you really want any of that to happen to you. Remember weed or alcohol are well tested and much safer in small doses.

I was reading an old interview with Dio the other day, he said he never did any drugs. Because drugs cloud and slow the mind. So that says something. You can be incredibly creative without trying any of that.
 
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^Pretty interested in that too. Kinda why I like reading this site because I do think a lot of the members here are relatable in that way (realizations about life, etc).
 
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