Books, bodyguards.
I'm really confused by the behavior of people who don't have immediate satisfaction in any situation. So this student comes into the bookstore today. Apparently he was so appalled that we didn't have any copies of the book he needed on the shelf (by the middle of the first week of class by the way), that instead of asking one of us employees who are there to assist him for help, he goes straight to his dean and whines about it. The dean then calls up our manager. Our boss calmly tells them that the student could have easily asked if there were any books left, or placed a special order through us to get himself one. He doesn't know what exact enrollment is going to be like what with kids dropping classes and picking others up and registering late. Also a lot of people buy online, so instead of wasting money we listen to what students need if they simply ask. Bossman was pretty livid but he has handled it well. I have no idea who the student was, but everyone was pretty annoyed by it the rest of the day. We work our asses off and the bookstore is there for the convenience for the students. Pttth.
ANYway, yeah last night I hung out with a high-school aquatiance of JPad's. My roommate is from San Antonio and this guy is friends with her big sister. He and Jared went to high-school together and after Jared started Gilmore Girls he was in a River-Walk parade in SA. N is in the Army right now, but he used to work for a bodyguard service. Jared didn't really care but he was required to have an escort to the parade and asked N to do it. Anyway, he was cool and it was fun. N just got back from Iraq and was roadtripping around to see people. We played the famous-person's-name-on-the-card game (as seen in Inglourious Basterds). He didn't have much to say about the Jared thing, Roommate just bugged him into telling me. I like the figuring out how many degrees of separation I have with cool people. For instance, Opera's boyfriend when to my school and Oprah knows everybody, so there you go.