Nymh's Hate Blog

I hate a lot of things right now.

Like not having a job.

And the Atlantic ocean. The motherfucking Atlantic ocean.

Fuck you.

My biology teacher this semester is the worst excuse for a teacher I have ever had. And I've been in school for a long, long time.

My courses are online. I have no lectures, no classroom, no interaction with anyone unless I email them. The teacher is responsible for providing help when we need it, grading our quizzes and tests, and reading our essays. That's basically it.

The majority of my classmates are failing because this teacher does not respond to anything. It's like we don't even have a teacher. She doesn't answer any questions, she doesn't help us at all. She doesn't return any emails, she doesn't initiate any conversations, nothing.

I have had a lot of stuff going on this semester, and honestly I took this class (along with chemistry and calculus 2) for the excess aid and because I thought it would be fun. Biology has never been a favorite subject of mine, but I love science and I thought it would be neat to scratch the surface of biology a bit (especially since Joe is a biologist). But no. This class has sucked. I stopped doing work about five weeks ago, and my teacher hasn't sent me the first email asking what's going on. I wonder if she has even noticed. I bet she has, she just doesn't fucking care.

I hate this class. I hate that teacher. I gave her the worst marks possible on the exit survey they make us fill out for each of our classes, and wrote about why I gave her those marks. I plan to find out who I need to talk to about this teacher and let them know what's going on. I hope she gets fired. She definitely does not need to be teaching.

The last time I counted, I have moved 25 times in my life. This week will make my 26th. I'm 27 years old. The longest I have ever stayed in one house was five years. Of course, this means that there are a few years of my life that I have moved more than once.

 

I hate moving. I'm pretty good at it, though. Doing it so often has kind of made the process mechanical for me. I don't wrap up every plate and glass, I just arrange them all so that they won't fall. It's funny when other people help me pack. They're always so careful with things. There's no need to spend an hour packing up a box of breakables if you can just be careful when you carry it and save yourself the time. The stuff is only going to break if you drop the box anyway. Just don't drop it.

 

One of these days, I would like to settle down in a place that I'm not going to leave for a long time. After Joe gets here next summer and gets a position somewhere, I will be moving again. That one will be much less stressful, though, and I am already looking forward to it. Most of my stuff will still be packed from this move. I usually only unpack about 40% of my stuff when I move, hopeful that I won't move again soon but expecting that I will. Because I'll be moving in with my parents this time, I won't have to unpack much at all. Clothes, toiletries, books and electronics.

 

When people ask me why I've moved so much I tell them that my parents were in the Air Force, and they nod knowingly. They were, but we were stationed on a base and didn't move off of it until they retired. It's just easier to explain things that way. Everyone assumes that Air Force personnel get moved around a lot. Compared to me, they don't. At least not in my experience.

I have been wanting one of these newfangled blog things for a while now, and I've come up with some stupid ideas for what I could write about over the past few weeks. Tonight I saw someone use "etc." on the forum and it just ran right through me, and then it hit me. I should set up a blog about shit that pisses me off.

So.

I came here, fully intending to write about how much I hate it when people say "etc.", (before you go digging through my posts to see if I have ever used it, I have (oh look how quaint I've assumed anyone actually cares enough to think to do that)) but then while setting up this blog I saw this:

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Oh my god. BAaaaarhghhhh

The corners of my mouth hurt like I have pressed them really hard against something and they got bruised. I wonder what that's all about.

So anyway, about et cetera. I feel like the use of this abbreviated expression is lazy. I am differentiating this laziness from, say, the use of contractions and the like because in one instance you are just cutting a list short and putting in a few letters to finish off your train of thought, and in the other you are expressing the same thing and even the same words that you would be otherwise, you're just expressing it more like the way that you would out loud.

I especially hate it when people use it when it isn't even necessary. For example:

Person 1: Hey, do you like meat?
Person 2: Yeah, I do. I love steaks, etc.

That wasn't even a list. That was just one thing. Why would you say "etc." after one thing? Of course I have never heard this particular dialogue spoken aloud, but shit like that happens all the time and it isn't cool.

But how can I use "etc." properly and not sound like a twat?

Well, for starters, care a little more about how you sound. If you like sounding like a twat or you simply don't give a shit, then don't worry about it (also, why have you read this far if that's the case?). Secondly, use it sparingly. Third, only use it when it actually applies. Could you picture yourself saying, "and so on" in its place? If you try, and it sounds stupid, then don't use "etc." No need to put "and so on" in there either. Just end the sentence. Full stop. Bam. Done. And finally, consider other ways to finish out your lists. Like, for example, finishing out your lists.