stupidity post...

i figure it's been a while since i wrote about my kids... nothing really good to report. my sophmores did fairly well on the latest biology test, at least compared to the other biology teacher's sections, so that made me feel good. but it didn't make up for my horrendously stupid juniors in my anatomy class.
so from last semester, i learned to lower my expectations dramatically. i knew most of them couldn't figure out the volume of a sphere. or the circumference of a circle. or what unit to use. or even what units are (things we've been teaching them since 9th grade). of course, i do have the lower track (nicer way of saying dumb and lazy) kids cuz all the upper track kids go to chemistry. but still, i figured they could find the radius of a balloon if i gave them an equation and some cloth measuring tape. oh my...
i then proceeded to not only write the equation, but the actual mathematical steps on the board. oh my.....and they STILL couldn't do it. then i had to teach them about volumes of a sphere....

...whew..just finished a chat with sunao, one of the math teachers...it's so sad. we just exchanged some horror stories about how dumb our kids are....sigh....
kinda said. my battle to combat ignorance is endless

why I'M stupid and PGE is fucking retarded

of course, there's the added problem that i'm just as stupid myself sometimes. so i have a bad habit of always waiting till the last minute to pay my bills. why do i wait every two months to pay my bills? i dunno. maybe i'm convincing myself that i can save money by not using so many stamps.
why not pay online you say? yeahyeah, i'm retarded ok? and lazy. so anyways, i was gonna pay my last pg&e bill, but i had no friggin stamps. i had the envelope on my desk and waiting to get mailed too. i was gonna do it all monday, but when i got home, i saw a notice on my door. FUCK! they cut everything. my first thought is DAMNIT, first i got no damn cell phone cuz i broke my charger, and no landline cuz i didn't want to pay for one. now i can't even go online to contact people cuz i got no electricity. and then what's worse, my FOOD! all my food would spoil, and i'm broke enough already, i can't go out and eat all the time...sheeit...
so when i went to the postoffice to send off my other bills, i used a pay phone to call pg&e. they said they'd send somebody over the next day. and off i went to play vball, and when i came home the next night, i found another notice on my door that said i needed to be home cuz they couldn't reach a breaker. SHIT. i also remember them saying that this was a possibility, cuz they asked me if i would like to schedule an appointment just in case. only catch, they schedule TWELVE HOUR windows. WTF!?!?!?!??! don't people have to work? okok, i know I'M fucking ghetto cuz i didn't pay my bills, but how fucking ghetto do they gotta think i am to think that i have so little to do that i can spare 12 hours out of an entire day to wait at a house with NO electricity and gas? is oakland that much in a shithole? sigh....
so i call again today, and they're like, ok, we can schedule an appointment for wednesday from 8am to 8pm. The next available evening appointment from 5-9pm is monday. 6 days from now!?!? i am NOT using my damned kitchen timer to wake up in the mornings for 6 more days (ok, yes, i admit, that's pretty ghetto too, but remember, my phone has no charger, and i no longer have an alarm clock with power). so i ended up having to schedule a thursday afternoon 1-5 appointment and i'll have to take time off of work. man...if this doesn't teach me a lesson, i dunno what will.

so in short: my kids are dumb. i'm stupid. and pg&e is full of fucking morons. we deserve each other.