A New Venture…

Sorry I’ve been away so long.

This is just a short note to refer you to my new blog, which will explain my absence.

The Speed Bump

Enjoy 🙂

Me + college = :(

Today has made me really rather angry. Apparently, I’m not ill enough to warrant taking a day off college, even when I’m stuck in bed with a splitting headache and feeling like my whole body is about to either explode or just die. It doesn’t matter that I’m up to date with homework and assignments and I’m not behind in my abilities, nor does it matter that I understand the work, apparently. No, apparently, it is SUCH a hardship for my teacher when I’m off college. It must cause him so much physical pain, so much emotional torment, when he walks into the classroom and sees my vacant seat as a dismal reminder of the fact that, gasp, shock and horror of all horrors, PEOPLE GET ILL.

Why do some teachers find this so hard to understand? PEOPLE GET ILL. And it isn’t just college that is the problem – they don’t realize, because they drive in, in their nice, warm, comfortable car where it’s not overcrowded or noisy, and if they feel ill, they can drive home. They forget that some of us have to get up at ridiculous o’clock, feeling like death warmed up, get on a cold, noisy bus that is full of not just fellow students, but also rowdy school students, elderly people who do nothing but complain about the rowdy school students, and the general public, who sit there looking quite uncomfortable at it all. That isn’t exactly the best thing to help a headache, is it? And neither is sitting through a ridiculously boring lecture, which lasts an hour and a half when I’m sure it could be condensed into an hour, because all we learn is the same thing, over and over again, the same way, until we all just want to forget about it and go home.

Maybe, if we all had easy lives at home and great health, we’d all be in 100% of the time. But people DON’T have easy lives at home, and they DON’T have great health. It’s not my fault that I’m ill, nor is it my fault that my doctor has seemingly no interest in helping me (or anyone else, for that matter, if what others say is true), and it’s not my fault that I don’t have a perfectly conventional family, and I think some teachers really need to get that into their heads before they start shooting their mouths of.

Jesus. And THEY’RE meant to be the intelligent ones?