I shouldn't have gotten out of bed this morning.
I honestly don't remember the last time I've felt this frustrated. This annoyed. Hell, even this angry.
So, I'm taking this class. Programming Langauges. I think I've already written about the whole group-dynamic thing, which, honestly, is working out in my favor at the moment, since I've undoubtedly been the weak link in the group.
Well, by the time I got home and ready to listen to my lecture last night, it was 10. Since the second lecture (the first one that was the proper schedule) was about 3 hours long, and I didn't want to stay up until 1, I decided to put it off, and watch it at work today.
I load it up today, while I'm working on stuff, figuring I can listen to it while I work, since it takes 5 minutes to compile, and about two minutes to test, I spend more time compiling than working. I load it up, and discover the lecture is 4 hours and 53 minutes long. FIVE FUCKING HOURS? Are you kidding me? I get maybe 2-3 hours a night that I can work on this shit. That means the lecture *alone* would take up two full nights. Not to mention the homework that I've not even started week 2's for, let alone week 3. (Though, week 3 appears not to have been posted yet).
Fine. Whatever. I'll manage, but I can't watch 5 hours worth at work. I shut it down.
I leave at lunch, to go drop off my passport application. Get to the courthouse over in Mt. Laurel. Discover they don't take it there, but they direct me to the court in Mt. Holly or a satellite location in the Moorestown Mall. Hey, bonus. I'm going to the mall for lunch anyway, so I'll head there.
I walk in, and see a big sign. "No Cash, Credit, or Debit." Fuck. So, I ask a woman there if they take credit at the one in Mt. Holly, trying to figure out if I'm going to have to drive over to Philly. Her answer "You can get a money order at CVS. Do you know how much it is?" I nod, since the application has the amount on it. I walk over to CVS, and realize...you can't get a money order without cash. Why would you send me to get a money order when I can't pay by credit. I say fuck it, and go to meet Suz for lunch.
She asks about personal checks. Yeah, they take 'em. So she gives me one, and I write it out for the $97 I need. Go back over to the mall (my lunch at this point has *already* taken 90 minutes, an hour more than I usually take). Walk in, put everything in front of another woman. She says "Oh, you need two seperate checks, one for $60 and one for $37. Oh, and it takes 10-12 weeks at the moment to process, so you won't get it before your trip in June, but you can speed it up for another $60." I just look at her. "Two seperate checks," I ask?
Then, the woman I talked to earlier speaks up. "I did ask if you knew how much you had to pay." Yeah, bitch, I know. And I did know. I answered your question. Now, if you had asked "Do you know that you need to separate the amounts that you need to pay so each fee is paid separately," I would have said "No, I didn't know that. Thanks for telling me." But no, you asked if I knew how much to pay.
So, I leave. My lunch has now been about two hours long. I'm heading to 295, and the entry lane is about 20 feet long. I look, see nobody, and start to merge when I catch out of the corner of my eye a car in the lane I need to move into--honking. Instead of moving to the fucking middle lane that's completely fucking empty. I swerve back into the entry lane, and pull in behind him.
I see a cop pulling someone over on the other side. That may be the best thing that's happened all day, because it kept me from a ticket. About half a mile further down the road, I'm going about 80 in a 65, when I catch the tail end of another cruiser hiding underneath an overpass. I slow down to 65 just as I pass him...if I hadn't seen the other guy getting pulled over, I probably wouldn't have been alert for cops, and I surely would have gotten a speeding ticket.
And if the best thing that's happened to me today is that I was alerted to the possiblity of getting a ticket...
Well, I just want to crawl back under the covers until today is over.
So, I'm taking this class. Programming Langauges. I think I've already written about the whole group-dynamic thing, which, honestly, is working out in my favor at the moment, since I've undoubtedly been the weak link in the group.
Well, by the time I got home and ready to listen to my lecture last night, it was 10. Since the second lecture (the first one that was the proper schedule) was about 3 hours long, and I didn't want to stay up until 1, I decided to put it off, and watch it at work today.
I load it up today, while I'm working on stuff, figuring I can listen to it while I work, since it takes 5 minutes to compile, and about two minutes to test, I spend more time compiling than working. I load it up, and discover the lecture is 4 hours and 53 minutes long. FIVE FUCKING HOURS? Are you kidding me? I get maybe 2-3 hours a night that I can work on this shit. That means the lecture *alone* would take up two full nights. Not to mention the homework that I've not even started week 2's for, let alone week 3. (Though, week 3 appears not to have been posted yet).
Fine. Whatever. I'll manage, but I can't watch 5 hours worth at work. I shut it down.
I leave at lunch, to go drop off my passport application. Get to the courthouse over in Mt. Laurel. Discover they don't take it there, but they direct me to the court in Mt. Holly or a satellite location in the Moorestown Mall. Hey, bonus. I'm going to the mall for lunch anyway, so I'll head there.
I walk in, and see a big sign. "No Cash, Credit, or Debit." Fuck. So, I ask a woman there if they take credit at the one in Mt. Holly, trying to figure out if I'm going to have to drive over to Philly. Her answer "You can get a money order at CVS. Do you know how much it is?" I nod, since the application has the amount on it. I walk over to CVS, and realize...you can't get a money order without cash. Why would you send me to get a money order when I can't pay by credit. I say fuck it, and go to meet Suz for lunch.
She asks about personal checks. Yeah, they take 'em. So she gives me one, and I write it out for the $97 I need. Go back over to the mall (my lunch at this point has *already* taken 90 minutes, an hour more than I usually take). Walk in, put everything in front of another woman. She says "Oh, you need two seperate checks, one for $60 and one for $37. Oh, and it takes 10-12 weeks at the moment to process, so you won't get it before your trip in June, but you can speed it up for another $60." I just look at her. "Two seperate checks," I ask?
Then, the woman I talked to earlier speaks up. "I did ask if you knew how much you had to pay." Yeah, bitch, I know. And I did know. I answered your question. Now, if you had asked "Do you know that you need to separate the amounts that you need to pay so each fee is paid separately," I would have said "No, I didn't know that. Thanks for telling me." But no, you asked if I knew how much to pay.
So, I leave. My lunch has now been about two hours long. I'm heading to 295, and the entry lane is about 20 feet long. I look, see nobody, and start to merge when I catch out of the corner of my eye a car in the lane I need to move into--honking. Instead of moving to the fucking middle lane that's completely fucking empty. I swerve back into the entry lane, and pull in behind him.
I see a cop pulling someone over on the other side. That may be the best thing that's happened all day, because it kept me from a ticket. About half a mile further down the road, I'm going about 80 in a 65, when I catch the tail end of another cruiser hiding underneath an overpass. I slow down to 65 just as I pass him...if I hadn't seen the other guy getting pulled over, I probably wouldn't have been alert for cops, and I surely would have gotten a speeding ticket.
And if the best thing that's happened to me today is that I was alerted to the possiblity of getting a ticket...
Well, I just want to crawl back under the covers until today is over.