Sometimes I Am Grumpy

So there are times when I get a little grumpy.  More than just a little grumpy.  I do my best to not sweat the small stuff but I am not always successful.  I had a math test today. I studied long and hard for that test.  I thought I had the material pretty well down and I think for the most part I did okay.  There were some mistakes I made on a couple of the problems that just get under my skin.  A simple step missed in the beginning of one problem cost me the correct answer.  That I find frustrating.  I don't know if it is an overall rule in math to simplify and then compute.  I guess I should find out and then look to simplify first.  That kind of negligence on my part stirs grumpy emotions in the depths of my soul.  There were a couple of dumb mistakes and then there was the problem I got wrong that caused me much anguish of spirit.  There was a problem on the test from a section of the chapter that we did not do. I am having a hard time with that.  If you test me on the material we are assigned to do in the class, the material I am studying and working hard to understand and I get the answer wrong, I can live with that.  When the question is one that we have not studied or learned or even been exposed to in our coursework I don't think it is very ethical to put it on the test.  That is my opinion on the matter. I went ahead and asked the professor why that question would be on the test when the material was not covered.  I don't yet have an answer.  It does make me grateful that the Lord does not work in such ways.  He judges us based on our own understanding not according to the understanding of another.  That is a wonderful thing and just thinking about it makes me want to be less grumpy.