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I'm the wife of a biology grad student working on figuring out where the heck I'm going in life, somewhere between falling on my ass and a "tada" moment right now...

Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Day 1 drama, and it's not even over yet

So today starts my first day of classes for year 5. If I had a freaking nickel for every time I heard "What the hell are you still doing here?" today I'd be able to drop out and retire. The great part about it is that nobody starts with a "Hi! Great to see you," it's always the first statement first. Gee, makes me feel special (and by special, I mean the helmet kind). In the 5 hours I've been awake, I managed to piss off two professors over a class conflict, drop and re-sign up for one class due to politics, and screw up my first and only duty as an officer of the Health Science Club. I'd say I'm off to a good start. So I'm sitting in classes today after promising the club I'd be done with them by 12:45 and then deliver our HSC sign and candy to the sign-up table out on the library lawn today, and I notice the fact that it's 12:15 and our class is just starting. It's an hour class mind you. This is why I now loathe block scheduling. After tapping my toe from 12:45 to 1:15 and watching the clock every turn of a minute, I basically sprinted as best as I could with a backpack full of notebooks, swapped out for the stuff sitting in my dorm room, and awkwardly speed-walked back to the library lawn only to find one of the officers looking at me like an idiot. I gave her one of those "damn block scheduling" giggles to try and make light of the situation, but the damage was already done. OH SHIT! I just realized I left the rest of the candy at the table with the receipt from it that I was supposed to turn into the professor! Wow, I'm really on fire today. Hopefully my getaway to the twin cities this afternoon will reset my mind out of dipshit mode...

3 Comments:

Blogger SouthernCanadian said...

That question falls into the category of "well meant but really annoying questions that we unfortunately must answer nicely instead of how we really want to." It's no one's business, really, but unfortunately they're phrasing their greeting that way.

It sucks, but you've kept your sense of humor admirably - I am still laughing over, "Gee, makes me feel special (and by special, I mean the helmet kind)." A lot of very intelligent and motivated people have opted to utilize extra time, and it has nothing to do with anything other than you choosing to do some follow up coursework.

8/31/2005 05:18:00 PM  
Blogger kitty Cat said...

Yeah I'm not sweating it. I've got the Barenaked Ladies song "Enjoy the humor of the situation" stuck in my head and I just had to laugh by the time we got back from the cities at 1:30 this morning, realizing I had to get up for 8am micro today. Oh well, back to bed for me :)

9/01/2005 09:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

one of my favorite questions was always "hows the quitting smoking going" the answer is always "fine until you mentioned smoking, and now I want a damn cigarette"

9/01/2005 10:51:00 AM  

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