Wow, today really sucked.

That doesn't happen often on a weekday... but yeah.  Today really, really sucked.  Basically everything that could have (realistically) gone wrong did, not counting the middle part of the day (lunch + Spanish class) which actually wasn't that bad.

First, I find out that I have a paper due pretty soon (by the end of next week?) and on top of that, it's a freakin' requirement to make a first draft and bring the thing in to the writing center before you turn in the final version.  I really hate it when things I have little or no use for are made mandatory by classes; Spanish tutoring being part of your grade isn't too bad since you only need to be there for 10 minutes a week and it's a good time to do homework, but being forced to not only write multiple versions of my paper but take one in to the writing center... that's just stupid.

And then, of course, there's another paper due in the same class sometime later, and I still need to do the second half of the exam (the online part, which will probably involve having to memorize the first few lines of the Iliad and Odyssey... and I can't memorize stuff.  Turns out it wasn't that bad--no memorizing lines involved at all.  Whew...)

And then, it started raining randomly right after Spanish, just in time to prevent me from taking my huge drawing board and paper over to my drawing teacher to try and figure out how this weird rectangle thing we're supposed to be doing is supposed to work.

And then there was the Doctor Who Club meeting.  Hey, that should turn my day around, right? Nope! Well, it kind of did, just in the opposite direction from what I was hoping for.  I got there early (which means sitting around with nothing to do and no idea where to sit since hardly anyone's there and I don't want to just plop down in some random place.)  Everyone else, minus a few, got there 6 or 7 minutes late, which made getting there early even worse.  And then when the stuff actually starts... it's some quiz thing full of random little "only people who memorize every random little thing will get half of this stuff" questions.  And we're forced to work in groups.  Yeah, that was a bad idea.  The whole thing wasn't a great idea, but... yeah.  Someone randomly gave me candy for some reason, but--going along perfectly with my luck today--it just happened to be mint/chocolate candy... in other words, inedible.  Which I didn't find out until after the meeting was over, so I couldn't even give it back since she'd already left.  And of course, I had to leave early since the travel-study meeting for the Nauvoo trip was at 5:30.

Unfortunately, I didn't leave early enough, and ended up getting to that meeting late.  Just my luck that nobody else was late, so I was walking into a full-ish classroom with hardly anywhere to sit and stuff already started.  I hate showing up late to stuff, so of course, this was a really bad thing.  And then I found out that the food on the trip, contrary to what we were previously told, is going to be exactly the kind of crap that I was worried it would be.  No eating at restaurants after all, apparently.  Yeah.  Not really what I need to hear right after finding out that they plan on somehow cramming five people (me and four total stranger guys) into a building with only three beds.  On top of the problems the trip already has (needing to wake up in time to leave by 5:00 am, and a very long trip possibly going through lots of West Virginia mountain vomit-roads in the earlier parts.)  I'm now no longer sure I even want to go on the trip at all... but I don't want to drop out of it if the school won't refund me the money, I'm not going to pay $400 for absolutely nothing.  And even if they do give me the $400 back, what the hell am I going to do during spring break if I won't be on the trip?? Half the school is going to be gone and there won't be classes or anything else to do at all... I'm not sure what I'm going to do there.  It really depends on whether they'll give me my money back or not.

And by the time I get out of there... hardly anyone is left in the dining hall, including pretty much nobody that I would feel comfortable talking to when I'm in such a crappy mood.  And guess what, there's no food left either! (Which means I missed both pizza and pasta. And those cheese-filled breadsticks.)  Went to Jonzzey's, but that's also abandoned (I'm guessing everyone's going to the play or something...), so I just get a giant pretzel and a drink and then leave.

I guess it's possible that today will stop sucking at some point, but going by how it's been so far (and the fact that it's a Friday night, which is not generally a good time to get in a crappy mood due to a severe lack of anything going on that could possibly un-crappify things due to everyone being off doing other stuff or just locked up in their rooms doing homework), that doesn't seem very likely.