Holy craaaaap has this been a busy few days. To sum up the weekend, I did indeed get to go home! Friday night was getting to go out to eat and do some Kohl's and Target shopping, and Saturday was yet more Kohl's shopping with some Kmart and Walmart stuff thrown in. Then I suddenly learned that my parents broke down and bought a new desktop computer a couple weeks ago! Of course, they ended up waiting till I came home to set up the computer, which was fine with me. That meant not only did I pretty much do it all, but I got first dibs on turning on our new 6 GB RAM and 1 terabyte hard drive space computer with a 20" monitor...amg. I had a small nerdgasm playing with it all that night.
Of course, it's now relatively small compared to the some 6 terabytes and 4 GB of RAM all on a 42" screen that Hot Canadian Bacon used when he had his multimedia business....wtf. But hey, someone to talk awesome gadgets with.
Then Monday I had a relatively busy day. I had a dentist appointment at 11am, followed by lunch at the Olive Garden with my parents, my uncle and my aunt. It was quite enjoyable, even though I wasn't very talkative compared to other times. After lunch we then made an impromptu stop at the eye doctor's so that they could take a look at my frames. I know one frame is slightly thicker than the other, but I didn't remember it sticking out past the frame just a little bit...also, the cracks on the side weren't a good sign. I gave the guy my glasses and he said that they were just stress cracks, but that they'd like to see the lens replaced. All I can hope is that it's still under warranty, because then it'd be no problem.
Good news from Monday was that I got my costume in! So now that I have it, I can contemplate getting a petticoat skirt and a pair of shoes for it....but I'm not sure. I was also surprisingly productive since I didn't have class and a crapton of homework to do.
Then there was today. Had a quiz in my French class, which went pretty well considering I was prepared for it. Plus the crazy Moroccan professor (who officially has no problems with pointing out he's Arab and makes racist jokes) didn't critique me on my pronunciation today, even though he had me read out loud the most difficult of the new French words...at least in my opinion they were. And I'm one of the more experienced in the class. :P
Afterward I went to the Honors lounge to put up our Soda: 50 cents sign. No biggie. Then I chilled at the lounge with Jordan, basically taking advantage of my nothingness time. Went to my 11am class after that, but I feel like shit at the moment because I had borrowed Jordan's pair of earbuds for the class, and forgot it in the classroom. Fuck me..... :/
Then it was on to XDIS. Ohhh XDIS, how horribly we hate you....according to Jordan, they can't even find professors willing to teach the class, now. And for having an annotated bibliography and memo due on the same day, it's a pain in the ass. We also have to do consultation appointments with a "writing fellow" aka the freshmen English professor grading our individual assignments, and a research librarian. A librarian who no one can get ahold of, and when we try to come and see him when he's working, he's nowhere to be found. Ugh. The professors were smart at least and postponed it for next week Friday for them to be due, but my consultation with the English prof is tomorrow, and all I've gotten done is finding sources. Fuck me twice....
Psych of Sex was all right, though. It was a rather depressing topic, with a little bit of contraception followed by overpopulation. The cool part was that one of my residents sat in on my class. Aggie had to do it for her First Year Experience deal, where she had to sit in on a 300 or 400-level class, and what do you know, I have two....XDIS and Psych of Sex. Which one is the more appealing of the two? Oh yes....I just hope that the topic didn't deter her from considering the class later, because there are good days and there are bad days in the class...meh.
After that was Yote Floats at the MUC. Yussssss! Now the day was finally getting interesting. I got my float and hung out with Skye and Andrew, got to ask Kristi and Lindsay about online room change requests (ohhh we'll get to that later), and pretty much had an awesome time. Once I was done and contemplated going back to the dorms, here comes Hot Canadian Bacon walking by. So with my questions answered, I ran over and started walking with him wherever he was going. I had nothing to do for the next half hour anyway, might as well make it useful. So I walked across campus with him from the MUC to Slagle Hall to go search for the laminating center. Ahhh, so carefully hidden in the basement....how entertaining. I kept running into Jordan though, so while HCB went into the laminating center the two of us stood in the hallway and chatted it up.
HCB was finally done with some ten minutes to spare before my 4pm meeting, so he ended up walking back to the MUC with me. That was when we had our multimedia conversation. It's always entertaining in some way or another when talking with him, though.....he also has no problems sharing his weight. Such as the fact that his gluten intake was wayyy too high this past week, which throws the whole weight thing out of whack.... Yet he's so very self-conscious of his image that it's almost ridiculous. What is this I don't even..... D:
But anyways. Went to my 4pm meeting with Jeff and some fellow CAs for our selection and recruitment stuff, conveniently and adorably called CARS. We got about 5 or 10 minutes of work done in what was a 40 minute meeting, which was quite hilarious. The majority of that time was spent talking about Gatorade athletes and pancakes. LOTS of pancakes.
After that was some sporadic work done, dinner with Kacee and Rachel and friend, and a little bit of hanging at the front desk. Next was Glee, then a little bit more productive work time aka putting up posters, then it was back to the front desk to bother meh co-CA about programming stuff. I made sure to thank him for helping out with it all because I hate it with a passion...he doesn't like it too much either, but I made sure to thank him extra. :P
I would've totally made it back up there earlier if it hadn't been for constant distractions. Then at about 11 my resident Rachel came down asking for some assistance....aka backup. Her and her roommate haven't been getting along for the past few weeks, and Rachel's put in a room change request, but she did it the online way...meaning not only does Kristi NOT have it so she could get it done ASAP, but no one has approved online requests up until about a week ago. They're just now starting on that shit. And what happens? Twice in a week I've had Rachel coming to me because she's scared of what her roommate might do. And yes, Anna is a very angry one....sometimes I wonder if she's capable of throwing things, but I wouldn't put it past her. So finally I had to listen to both sides individually tonight, along with a good chunk of time putting them in the same room and have them talk it out between each other. Hey, don't shoot the mediator.
Basically, best choice I had was to email Lindsay and ask what I could do and/or if they could expedite this like NOW. Problem was, I'd no idea if it'd even be worth the time. Then was HCB gonna be any help? Of course not. For one thing, Rachel was standing right next to him at the entrance to Beede because she was going to spend the night with a couple friends--I refused to be the bitchy one to say "Hey, could I ask about a room change request Lindsay's got, can I get her to do it like now?" when Rachel's right there. However, the "Hey, I need to talk to you in your office right now" didn't work either, which pissed me off a little more than it should've. Thank gawd I had his cell number so I could text it, but I was getting seriously frustrated...
I took my anger out by listening to Cee Lo Green, though. Of course, HCB absolutely loves 'Fuck You', and I'm using the song against him to release some stress....how ironic.
Then to top it off, I have to call the attorney general tomorrow after French class. Now, my phone's gotten strange phonecalls as it is for a guy Jon Schlagel (which is eerily pronounced like Slagle). I just ignore any of the numbers I don't recognize and/or don't have the South Dakota area code, but these were coming pretty regularly. Googled the numbers, and it turned out that five of them were known numbers of a fraudulent debt collection company. What was on the news just Sunday night when I was home and actually there to watch the news? A story on fraud debt collectors using scare tactics. They also conveniently provided a phone number and link on contacting the attorney general so that we could make them stop calling. Even though the link wasn't much help because I couldn't quite pin what my problem was on the site, I'm just going to call tomorrow and see what they could do to help. I also have three other numbers who never left voicemails and are possible spam calls, so we'll see if they can take care of that too.
I wonder if I should even bother trying to dash out an annotated bibliography for tomorrow's little XDIS chat....nahhh.
I'm also hoping that there's soccer tomorrow. I could use the wind-down time. :P
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