memory = fucked

Ran some intensive memory tests Patrick recommended, and the general conclusion is that something is f-ed up, probably my memory, motherboard, or maybe my CPU. And that's why I've been burning so many damn coasters. So yeah, knowing how bad my memory problems are, getting some new memory is moving up in financial priority from "some day, because it'd be nice if my computer didn't run like molasses" to "okay, let's start looking at memory now, because DVD coasters are expensive". I might just get some really nice memory so if it turns out the problem was somewhere else along the chain and I'll have to move up the "get a new computer" priority, buying the memory won't have gone to complete waste. I really don't like the idea of buying a new computer, though... Partially for financial reasons, I'd prefer to just replace each part of the broom over a period of time than just buy a new broom. Brooms are expensive, and I'm crap at saving money.
My bio lab manual hates me. Why are the two trees I chose better than the other ones I suggested in problem 4? I don't know! I'm not even saying they are better. I frankly like them all for now, and it'd be A LOT of work to do enough analyzing to get more data on the likelihood of the trees, and frankly I overthink everything so it'll be even harder for me than for others in the class, I imagine. I looked at the BIOL 1009 lab manual when I was in Coffman the other day. So much less bullshit, and so much more actual biology. *misses pre-IB bio a bit* Seriously, I hate this damn environmental core requirement.

How do I shot Thai? (Sorry, I've been hanging around Vinny too much.)

You would not believe how much I wish I spoke Thai right now.
I just finished correcting the arithmetic problems one woman from the beginner ESL class at MLC did, and I've never seen so many problems so close, yet so far. Like, she quite consistently would be missing a 0 in her long division problem answers. What's harder, she apparently does all the work on another paper and copies the answers onto this one, so I can't tell where she's going wrong. And when, last Monday, I asked her to do one problem in front of me (I had started correcting the problems during my observation that night), I couldn't explain to her that it would help if she would carry the numbers on paper instead of in her head. I'm not actually sure if that was because she wasn't really listening to what I was saying, or she wasn't understanding my English, but I feel like it was the former, since she wasn't looking at me while I was speaking or even stopping writing.
Anyways, I know I'm and ESL teacher, not a math teacher, but I'm going to search the internets for some explanations in Thai (or some explanations that aren't language-dependent), and also post in linguaphiles and/or some Thai comms if I can find them, and see if they can translate things like "it would help me if you showed your work" or things like that for me to write on the papers I give back to her. (There's Thai writing on the back of some fraction work - which she has no clue about - she was doing, so I'm figuring she's literate in Thai. Either that or someone else had the same idea as me.) Honestly, for some other reasons as well, I sort of wonder if she has some sort of learning disability, but I definitely won't jump to any conclusions.
So frustrating.

[EDIT: I was talking to a friend who was having some difficulties, and so between this and that... This song has been looping for about 2.5 hours now. O.o But now I'm going to bed.]