Archive for January 2002

fucked… AGAIN!

i just got royally fucked, once again. im so angry i could burn this fucking college to the ground.

anyway, something to know beforehand. umsl works like this: you sign up for a class, classes start. once classes start, teachers are supposed to take attendance the ENTIRE FIRST WEEK of class, and submit the attendance rosters. everyone who didnt make it to any class meetings for a class get dropped. so, if suzy signs up for a tuesday-thursday class, and goes tuesday, thursday, or tuesday AND thursday, she’s good to go. if she doesnt make it to EITHER ONE, she’s dropped from the class to make room for waitlisted people, assuming there are any. this is supposed to happen the FIRST week of class, not the second, and absolutely not on the third week.

so im taking a class with a teacher who i’m not going to name (gotta cover that big ass o’ mine). i go the first week. i go the second week. third week? i miss tuesday and make it to thursday. i know in advance that i cant make it to tuesday’s class, so i emal the teacher, let him know whats up.

what do i find out ON ACCIDENT today? that the teacher FAILED to do his attendence check on the first week, FAILED to do it the second week, and so took his attendence roll the THIRD week. what happened? i wasnt there. even though i SENT him an email, he fucking DROPPED ME!

so, i call him after class and say “hey, how come i was dropped from this class?”

“i dont know. i just fill out form. no can help you. bye.”

and hung up on me.

HELL. NO.

so, i just got off the phone with the deans office. its really not that big of a deal, except for the fact that im getting fucked because of some cant-speak-english-in-an-english-speaking-country motherfucker who didn’t do his job the way he was supposed to. so now im down to 9 credit hours, im not a full time student, i lose my loan, i lose my insurance coverage, et cetera. FUCKED.

so, i got on the phone with the dean, STAT. i was pissed as hell, and he knew it. normally, you dont swear on the phone with the dean of your university, but i did anyway. he’s taking care of the matter from here, and im supposed to call him later on today.

unacceptable. i will NOT be FUCKED by some teachers complete inability to folow instructions and do his job like he’s supposed to. it’s NOT my fault he’s incompetent, i will NOT be penalized for his unorganization!

more later, im sure. id better go to this next class before i get dropped from that one too.

fuckers.

on a humerous note, i was in the bathroom at school today, and above the toilet paper, someone wrote with a marker “UMSL Diplomas — Please Take One!”

digression.

so ive been rapidly digressing into my childhood.

that is, being a total geek. video games till all hours of the night. chrono cross, ready to rumble boxing II, and gauntlet legends.

now i just need a playstation II so that i can get final fantasy X and grand theft auto 2… but is it really worth $400 ($300 playstation and 2 $50 games) just for 2 games?

we shall see.

dmb tour dates came up today… looks like i’ll be in IL for a weekend in april. my boss might hate me, but i need my fix, especially since they skipped us last year. it looks like this right now, though:

2 shows in IL
2 shows in STL
1 show in Kansas City
1 show in Tenessee

plus anything else i decide i want to go to… should be set for a while.

so, im going to go home tonight and beat chrono cross. after thats done im going to start reprogramming the website. the problem is? ive got “designer’s block.” shoot me some ideas, what colors would be good, what you’d like to see. what i should get rid of. ive got some good ideas for some shit, but i just cant seem to get any good ideas for the overall layout.

on a completely unrelated tangent, started school today. some really thrillin stuff. not really. but it’s school. ive been late for every class so far — im thinking of making it some kind of tradition… dont go to class till after it starts. id like to be able to be late for every class all semester.

ive got two classes that just have two tests as the entire grade, and another one with two tests and a project. havent had the other class yet. looks like another no homework semester for me. wahoo!
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