I can agree with you there, especially if what you're reading is like 200-300 year old stuff or so. :(
Really, my only free time just happens to be Student Government, and even then there's a project that we have that's due Friday, but we're just planning our homecoming and stuff so it isn't that much of a big deal. Other than that, it's a pretty chill class and I wouldn't mind doing most of my homework there as well as Health class because sometimes we do literally nothing there.
Thank goodness AP Government is like, only a semester of torture, then I can move on to Honors Economics after that. Same teacher, I believe it's still classified as AP Government, but more or less focusing on the economics part of it. I hope I'll do well on the AP Exam, I know it's gonna be really hard. xD
I wish you good luck with yours too. Chemistry is something not to take for granted, especially AP. xD