So after that horrendous day this week... friends encouraged me by telling me that it could only get better, and other comforting platitudes like that.
BUT THEY WERE WRONG!!!!
Actually it got much much worse. I'm sure it would bore you to hear all the gritty details, but it is really ironic how wrong everything went all week. I fear I have permanently lost my sense of humor and I am desperately trying to recover it.
Just to tell you some of the highlights.....
1. I took pop bottles in to be recycled (about 900 of them) and managed to pour a whole bottle of rotten grape juice down my pant leg and into my shoe.
2. My passport that I'd sent away for 3 months ago returned (minus the $75 fee) because I'd failed to fill out the form correctly.
3. Migraine headaches 2 days in a row
4. Very horrible nightmares two days in a row, involving lots of blood, sex and gore. (You see why I don't watch tv. Real life is bad enough)
5. During calculus class my prof decided to give us a pop quiz instead of marking our assignments, and chose the integral of dx/3-5sinx. If you don't know what that means, don't worry, I don't either, which is why I got zero on the quiz.
6. I got a paper cut on my finger. Hey, this may not seem like a big deal, but after a long day full of heartache, it is pretty much the straw that broke the camel's back!
7. My research paper on cadavers is making me feel depressed every time I work on it.
Well, just the highlights, as I said. I went walking with Miriam and she tried to help me see the bright side of things. For example, at least I made lots of money on the pop bottles even though I covered myself in juice. I had to get more passport photos anyway, so this is an opportunity to get lots of them. My pants were too long and were dragging in the mud, but Mim pointed out that at least we had a washing machine to put them in.
That night my friend John-Daniel called and told me not to worry, it was okay to lament. After all, there is a whole book in the Bible called Lamentations. So I apologize to my readers, today it is Unhappy Heather's Hullaballoo and you will have to put up with my lamenting for a bit longer.
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Saturday, January 27, 2007
Lamentations
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2 comments:
So I was a little optimism in my assessment of your predicament. That means you are in that favourite location of Dads everywhere... Character Building... I know it sucks (I live there) but you'll look back one day and be thankful. (At least that is what they tell you - thank you Calvin and Hobbes)
That is a nasty calc problem...
you have to substitute t = tan(x/2),
thus sin x = 2t/1+t^2 and dx = 2/(1+t^2)dt
and solve int(1/t dt) = log(t)
you have to factor the 3t^2-10t+3
and use partial fractions to get
1/4 int (1/(t-3)-1/(3t-1))
integration reveals 1/4 log(t-3)-1/4 log (3t-1)
substituting t = tan(x/2) gives you
1/4 log (3cos(x/2)-sin(x/2))-1/4 log (cos(x/2)-3sin(x/2))
I knew my calc textbooks would come in handy one day...
it could be worse. you could be mopping up overflowing toilets at surplus sams. raunch!!
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