Lair of Flying Green Song Rabbits

So yesterday was a horrible horrible day for me. Today my net decided to be really really slow and miraculously decide not to load my notes/webct. Now I can't do any work so I decided to come here. Damn it is empty. I've been really busy lately so haven't had time to take photos/post anything.

Yesterday I had an exceptionally bad day. It went as follows cuz I need to vent.

In the morning I woke up to my sister telling me the whole family minus me was going to the maritime museum. So there I was alone at home. I realise there's a MASSIVE pile of clothes on the clothes stand and table and decide to do the laundry. End up leaving it to soak for too long and my light green shirt I might add stained my white singlet slightly. Grrr. Oh and then I got my period (just had to add that to make it worse) Grr.

I had driving lessons in the afternoon and for some reason my instructor was saying I was doing badly that day. Grrr. Infact so badly that he started saying do I need my glasses rechecked? Is it something to do with the date that I can't do well. Is there some Chinese superstition surrounding the date ( I took offense to this and found it racist for some reason =\) I don't know if he was having a bad day or joking or I was driving EXTREMELY poorly but I don't think he was being very nice about it.

At one point he made me get out of the car and drive and show me how it's done over and over again and every time he asked me: do you get it now? and I said "yes" he'll say "i don't think so cuz you'll probably make the same mistake again. I don't even think you're looking with your eyes while you're driving." I felt degraded again and again and I have this eye contact fear when people tell me off which never happens outside family so I felt really awkward. Anyway it was something about turning and following the curb except he'd never said this before. So when I got to the curb he didn't tell me how much to turn the wheel nothing so obviously I screwed up again. and when people keep telling me off I get really nervous so I made more and more random mistakes and he kept telling me off and I was really scared and frustrated because he kept assuming I knew things he'd never taught me. He told me to do a 3 point turn and never told me before how to do it T_T

I drove to the next customer's house and he wasn't there. The guy wasn't there... so my instructor let me drive back to my house. Halfway there the guy calls and goes he's come home and whether he will give a lesson so I had to turn back and let me drive me home. This meant I was home late by 1hr and still pretty shaken up about it. I hate being told of by strangers... I always felt terrified if a teacher ever told me off cuz it was so rare... Pizza Hut I was terrified of being told off by the manager...


Now usyd being a very, what it'll like to call "comprehensive" uni, has shoved us with a bunch of group work. Now I don't know if you guys remember doing those science reports back at high school but you can not possibly o something like that between 4-6 people!!! It's just a bad idea! Nevertheless I was in a group of 4. Now my group work saga did not just occur today but expanded through the week (PMS T_T) accumulating into mass agitation. It made less sense that we did the experiment in pairs but did the report in 4s and all of us from different pairs. I'm gonna name my group people A, B and C.

No one had replied within in the first few days of doing the experiment so I decided I needed to take some initiative and had everyone decide which part of the group work they wanted to do. Fob guy A decided to take intro and this girl B, took results while me and C were left with discussion which we shared the question numbers. I set a deadline of Friday night to finish the work and LATEST weekends but weekends were the time we were suppose to do the put together.

Friday came. No one sent in their part except me.

Saturday came one girl (B) sent in the results with an accompanying "oh btw I didn't have the results for part B of the experiment." I spent an hour typing up several tables of results.
WHY HADN'T SHE TOLD ME SOONER THAT SHE DIDN'T HAVE THE RESULTS??

She kept going on about how she got a new mac or something and didn't even have excel and did her stuff on some data pad so her graphs weren't even compatible with my excel...
WHY DID SHE PICK TO DO RESULTS IF SHE DIDN'T HAVE EXCEL??

Saturday night: fellow discussion girl C sends an email after I texted her for her part that she has a major essay due Monday and is doing that instead but she will probably email me her part later at night or Sunday.

Sunday: fob guy A sends his intro to me (he has a hanmail.net account wtf??). I notice he has not answered some of the questions that are to be answered and he made no references at all and send him an email. He does not reply... luckily I had their phone numbers so I msg him and he says he will fix it when he gets home which will be over 2hrs. He sends me an email at about 11:30pm with not many changes and 2 references used in 3 spots for a 1page intro. His two references were our lab manual (for the method) and our prescribed textbook. He had done no further research on any scientific journals at all.

WTF?? THE GOOD PEOPLE OF USYD HAVE BEEN DRILLING INTO OUR MINDS AGAIN AND AGAIN THAT WE NEED TO SEARCH UP JOURNAL ARTICLES THAT TEXTBOOK ALONE IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR REPORTS AND WHAT DOES HE DO???

I email him back kindly asking for maybe 1-2 more references in regards to one question "what prior work has been done in this area?"

Results girl B sends an email saying she's tried doing the graph for part B but she can't because she doesn't know how to do column graphs very well on excel... She has done legends for the graphs but I noted she used words such as "big" instead of "large/enormous" other more intelligent sounding words. She uses contractions and doesn't follow the legend guide set out in the notes. She tells me her results aren't really accurate cuz she had experimental error. I suggest we use the results I had obtained from the experiment (which I had given her a copy which she obviously didn't look at)

WHY OH WHY???

I spend 3hrs on Sunday and 1hr today doing her graphs and redoing her legend. I practically do 3/4+ of the results section....

I am quite angry at this rate so I storm out to vent on my mum and come across my sister who kept nagging me about where my newly bought laptop is (he's a beauty ;)). Me now understandably no? am at my wits end so I say very fast in a sarcastic tone "I hid it cuz mum said burglars peek at our house, they will see my laptop, they will break into our house, they will steal my laptop, I will be unhappy, I will be laptop less understand??" My dad, in the next room think that I was shouting at my sister so he gets all mad and crazy which ended in him storming out of the house.

Late at night C finally finishes her part of the discussion and I am amazed by her stuff as it is quite good after seeing the amount of bullshit so far. She apologises profusely and says she will do the rest of discussion that is about the results section when I send her the results. I offer to edit the final report and send it in on Wednesday.

I decide to upload my files into my new laptop so I can bring to uni and have something to do while I wait for kebu to finish and we can have lunch. I have lost my usb... After frantic searching and a not so helpful boyfriend telling me to "why don't you look on your desk?" (bloody first place I looked!! GRRR) I finally found it after about an hour of lunacy.

Only to find my files are incompatible with the weirdo non Microsoft Word program they have. GRRR. I had to download open office to make it all work.

Oh the fob guy in my group and I just had a "friendly" exchange of msgs as follows:
Me: did you find more sources for intro?
Him: ok... what do you mean? I've already sent u my intro last nite
Me: I sent you an email last night. could you please find 1-2 scientific journals. you didn't write about prior work in the subject.
him: Isn't the prior work means dat what we actually prepared for test??? Kinda method stuff??
Me: No it means what other experiments have been done about this subject in the past
Him: ok ill try it bt im doin other stuff i think dat i can send u by midnight.. sorry... :)

1hr 20min later.....

Him: i cnt find any prior article n even if i find one i dnt know what to write... also the one i sent u got preety much enough for intro i think...
Me: the point of research is to go beyond prescribed texts. I'll try to find something then and hopefully the references in discussion will even out lack in intro
him: i got no any offence to u sorry about my expression... as u know english is my 2nd language.... N itz really hard to do for me.... sorry

So thus this ends for now at least (C is saying she's having trouble finding stuff I do NOT want to help anyone anymore -.-)

In conclusion I hate group work.

There's my vent guys.. i feel I need to break it up with some happy picture...


Hmm Portuguese tarts from KFC..... not the ones in Australia >.>

Oh btw sorry guys for being all venty.. I pms shh.. I think I vent to EVERYONE about this already cuz I'm so pissed about it. My friend goes she's got it worse no one's replied about any section of their report and she doesn't have their numbers and they didn't reply to email. She literally has to stalk em down during our lecture tomorrow.