I had to take Flexeril today. Neck/upper back spasm like I used to have. Felt it coming on yesterday. Ugh. So an entire day wasted. I feel like poo.
I have mondo grading tomorrow.
Now that it's nice enough to open the patio door, Mr. Butts next door's cigarette smoke is sifting into my living room. Seems I'm either freezing cold in here or I'm living in my neighbor's ashtray.
Nice.
Showing posts with label bitching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bitching. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Monday, July 02, 2007
Just like old times
Fucking Ohio University. Come back from the grave 2 years later to bite me in the ass. Those of you ardent readers who were with me back in the grad school days know the inordinate amount of ridiculousness I endured (and the corresponding amount of bitching and moaning I did).
Out-of-Town-University that has hired me for the fall couldn't get verification of my M.A. in Linguistics because O.U. doesn't participate in that online verification system (natch, that would be too 21st century for them). So it was up to me to order (and thus pay for) a transcript. So I did that online, paying $12.50 so it would get there this week, only to receive a notice that my account is suspended and I'd have to contact the bursar's office.
Are you fucking kidding me?
So I called the bursar's office and sure enough there's a parking ticket from JULY 2005, probably the week we left for NY. I had to pay those fuckers another $20 to take care of the parking ticket, but in the meantime I had to dig up my old Oak account (email) and password to do it via echeck, otherwise they charge a 2.9% fee for using a credit card. What the hell, people? Your university can't soak up that fee? Are you really that bad off?
Anyway, so I retrieved my Oak account info from the computer geek squad at O.U., cleared up my grievous debt with the bursar's office, and verified taht after 2:00 today my transcript will be sent.
Getting a transcript via paying a 2 year old parking ticket so I can get a part time job: $32.50.
Getting screwed by Ohio University over 2 years after graduation: priceless.
Out-of-Town-University that has hired me for the fall couldn't get verification of my M.A. in Linguistics because O.U. doesn't participate in that online verification system (natch, that would be too 21st century for them). So it was up to me to order (and thus pay for) a transcript. So I did that online, paying $12.50 so it would get there this week, only to receive a notice that my account is suspended and I'd have to contact the bursar's office.
Are you fucking kidding me?
So I called the bursar's office and sure enough there's a parking ticket from JULY 2005, probably the week we left for NY. I had to pay those fuckers another $20 to take care of the parking ticket, but in the meantime I had to dig up my old Oak account (email) and password to do it via echeck, otherwise they charge a 2.9% fee for using a credit card. What the hell, people? Your university can't soak up that fee? Are you really that bad off?
Anyway, so I retrieved my Oak account info from the computer geek squad at O.U., cleared up my grievous debt with the bursar's office, and verified taht after 2:00 today my transcript will be sent.
Getting a transcript via paying a 2 year old parking ticket so I can get a part time job: $32.50.
Getting screwed by Ohio University over 2 years after graduation: priceless.
Monday, March 05, 2007
Annoyed
Today has been a thoroughly annoying day. For one thing, it's frigidly cold and snowing again. I had to drop off the video equipment I used yesterday, which required me to drive up South Hill in the blinding snow. By the time I was done with that, the sun had come out for 5 minutes, so I thought I'd stop at Wegmans since I was in that part of town.
Wegmans, for those not in the know, is a very successful chain of grocery stores in New York State. I used to love Wegmans and pined for their stores when I lived in Mass. and Ohio. So now that I'm living here again, you'd think I'd be going there every day. In all honesty, I find it too big, too crowded and TOO FREAKING EXPENSIVE. Today I paid twice as much for salmon filets as I usually do at Tops. Never again.
I have to tutor at 4:00 and I have a crapload of grading to do by Wednesday. I've canceled my Korean lesson for tomorrow because I just can't hack it with the work I have to do this week. Because last weekend was my birthday, and I spent seven hours on a shoot yesterday, and because we're driving to Cleveland this weekend for 4 days, I need to get my shit down NOW.
Oh, and there's a delay finding out about the headcount for the Korea program - which is actually a good thing because they've extended the deadline for students to enroll. It just means I still don't have any idea what the frakk I'm doing this summer, yet.
But here is something that cheered me up: Owen Rocks Out to Incubus
Wegmans, for those not in the know, is a very successful chain of grocery stores in New York State. I used to love Wegmans and pined for their stores when I lived in Mass. and Ohio. So now that I'm living here again, you'd think I'd be going there every day. In all honesty, I find it too big, too crowded and TOO FREAKING EXPENSIVE. Today I paid twice as much for salmon filets as I usually do at Tops. Never again.
I have to tutor at 4:00 and I have a crapload of grading to do by Wednesday. I've canceled my Korean lesson for tomorrow because I just can't hack it with the work I have to do this week. Because last weekend was my birthday, and I spent seven hours on a shoot yesterday, and because we're driving to Cleveland this weekend for 4 days, I need to get my shit down NOW.
Oh, and there's a delay finding out about the headcount for the Korea program - which is actually a good thing because they've extended the deadline for students to enroll. It just means I still don't have any idea what the frakk I'm doing this summer, yet.
But here is something that cheered me up: Owen Rocks Out to Incubus
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