Today was..definitely different
Not in a bad way, or a good way...just off. I got up really early after getting to bed late last night, so I could meet up with friends for the day. We went down to 79 to take care of school crap, which forced me to split from the group to get registered. It was...a nightmare.
Quick review...my school's administration sucks balls (like a 2 cent whore). I should have been signed up a week ago, but I had to schedule an appointment to call my adviser (just to call), then she called me back 2 days later to tell me that I owed money from summer semester...which seems to come back and continually bite me in the ass. I went in on Saturday, was forced to deal with my dad earlier than expected, and had to go in today.
Now, I waited in line (but lo and behold, my friend Jasmine was there, so we chatted and talked about the party this Friday to give Su Ling a send off)...it took about 45 minutes or more to get through that line. When I got help, my dad's cards didn't go through, so I was essentially without tuition and today was the cutoff day. I paid the registration fee anyways (in hopes that nothing bad will/would happen), then got my classes.
We walked down to the Ferry building and saw Paige (she gave me a free orange juice and a hug), then we went to Buca de Bepo. Now for those who don't know...it's a family style Italian restaurant where you buy a lot of food on giant plates and then share it all (and the bill). We also had the most bizarre waiter ever!
His name was Chad. That's right...Chad (I've got the receipt to prove it). He started by putting plates on the table and saying, "Here's your goddamn dinner plates!" (wow, right?...it gets better). I had a moment...some people might know it, it's the, "this situation is rather serious, but for some reason I can't help but laugh" kind of thing. Then, Chad cracked the biggest smile, looked at all the confused faces (save mine, cause I was also smiling), and said, "I'm just fooling with ya!". The entire serving process was like this, with Chad throwing out random hilarious comments on top of our already weird and awkwardly funny talks. It was awesome. Then, we got the bill:
TOTAL CHK ======= 103.86 (a normal Buca price for 5 people)
PROMO ========= -64.97
SUBTOTAL ======== 38.89
TAX ============ 3.30
TOTAL DUE ======== 42.19 (take a double take there)
That's right! Chad took off the entire meal! (save dessert) He gave us about a 60% discount because it took so long for the food to be served (not that we cared). So what did we do for Chad? We gave him 20% tip...of the original total. That's right all you tip lovers! Plus, after I added more tip on my card, so too did the other card payers.
Lastly, we hit the theaters for Superbad. My only comments on the movie are, "Evan and Seth should circle jerk, and Mclovin is hilariously awesome with the cops". Some of the quotes that I enjoyed:
"Why Mclovin!? Why are you running away from me?!"
"You just cock-blocked Mclovin! We're supposed to cock-guide him!"
"OH SHIT, IT'S THE COPS!" (said by...the cops)
The movie was rather hard to get through...just from shear embarrassment for the characters. And now I'm here. A good day...a bad day (since my dad let me know that my tuition is not fixed yet about 10 minutes ago)...an odd day. But I did have a philosophical thought on throwing coins into a well or fountain and making a wish, but I'll write it down and save it for another time (I wrote too much).
Quick review...my school's administration sucks balls (like a 2 cent whore). I should have been signed up a week ago, but I had to schedule an appointment to call my adviser (just to call), then she called me back 2 days later to tell me that I owed money from summer semester...which seems to come back and continually bite me in the ass. I went in on Saturday, was forced to deal with my dad earlier than expected, and had to go in today.
Now, I waited in line (but lo and behold, my friend Jasmine was there, so we chatted and talked about the party this Friday to give Su Ling a send off)...it took about 45 minutes or more to get through that line. When I got help, my dad's cards didn't go through, so I was essentially without tuition and today was the cutoff day. I paid the registration fee anyways (in hopes that nothing bad will/would happen), then got my classes.
We walked down to the Ferry building and saw Paige (she gave me a free orange juice and a hug), then we went to Buca de Bepo. Now for those who don't know...it's a family style Italian restaurant where you buy a lot of food on giant plates and then share it all (and the bill). We also had the most bizarre waiter ever!
His name was Chad. That's right...Chad (I've got the receipt to prove it). He started by putting plates on the table and saying, "Here's your goddamn dinner plates!" (wow, right?...it gets better). I had a moment...some people might know it, it's the, "this situation is rather serious, but for some reason I can't help but laugh" kind of thing. Then, Chad cracked the biggest smile, looked at all the confused faces (save mine, cause I was also smiling), and said, "I'm just fooling with ya!". The entire serving process was like this, with Chad throwing out random hilarious comments on top of our already weird and awkwardly funny talks. It was awesome. Then, we got the bill:
TOTAL CHK ======= 103.86 (a normal Buca price for 5 people)
PROMO ========= -64.97
SUBTOTAL ======== 38.89
TAX ============ 3.30
TOTAL DUE ======== 42.19 (take a double take there)
That's right! Chad took off the entire meal! (save dessert) He gave us about a 60% discount because it took so long for the food to be served (not that we cared). So what did we do for Chad? We gave him 20% tip...of the original total. That's right all you tip lovers! Plus, after I added more tip on my card, so too did the other card payers.
Lastly, we hit the theaters for Superbad. My only comments on the movie are, "Evan and Seth should circle jerk, and Mclovin is hilariously awesome with the cops". Some of the quotes that I enjoyed:
"Why Mclovin!? Why are you running away from me?!"
"You just cock-blocked Mclovin! We're supposed to cock-guide him!"
"OH SHIT, IT'S THE COPS!" (said by...the cops)
The movie was rather hard to get through...just from shear embarrassment for the characters. And now I'm here. A good day...a bad day (since my dad let me know that my tuition is not fixed yet about 10 minutes ago)...an odd day. But I did have a philosophical thought on throwing coins into a well or fountain and making a wish, but I'll write it down and save it for another time (I wrote too much).