But At the Time it Seemed so Bad

This has been Prelim fortnight.

Tooli is sitting 5 Highers: English, Maths, Biology, Chemistry, and Physics. The only one of these I got was my Higher English. I complained about my Math's Teacher's inattendance at school, and was told I was to be sympathetic to her illness, I refused, and withdrew from the syllabus.

Don't get me wrong, I got other ones, and I went to University, and then did a Post Graduate. But my knowledge is business, administration, arthimetic, with a dod of Economics thrown in. Tooli shows me her work and I look baffled.

Today was Human Biology. She said there was a question which she did not know the answer to, it was something about the Hormone which is released from the Pituary gland. I said "oh, I know that one". And I thought for a moment, and Tooli watched, waiting to see if I could bring it forth from the back of my mind, but I knew as my mind flipped through my knowledge base, it wasn't going to appear.

I even Googled it, and started reading but I got about 5 sentences in, and the words started to blur in front of my face.

Tomorrow is Chemistry. That, is ever further from my remit. While Boy was studying chemistry, we had a shower curtain which was the Periodic Elements (is that the right name?). I used to stand in the shower in the morning and examine it in detail, trying to make some sense of it. Trying to fathom what in heaven's name it meant. I couldn't even see a relationship, or pattern between the different squares. It was about 2 months before I realised they were grouped in different colours.

I have no idea what makes me turn off Science subjects. I just cannot grasp them at all. The few things I do know - Tooli has taught me. I was very proud of myself one day, I was at work and asked one of the engineers what I was playing with (I'm prone to picking stuff up that I don't know what it is), and he said it was a "transistor". I remember Tooli mentioning this word just a couple of nights before, and so I took the transistor home with me to show her.

One of Boy's friends was there too when I remembered it, and began the search in my bag for it. He is studying Electrical Engineering, and I knew he should know what it was. But he didn't. He had never seen one quite as small as the one I had.

Anyway, they were all impressed I had found one. Even more impressed with it's itsy size and the fact that I managed to find it in my bag again. But I'm still none the wiser as to what it is.