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this one’s for peacock, since his shit is so outdated.

musical instruments can now be found in ‘gear,’ located on the nav bar.

pay close attention to the wood duck and the cosmic hippo on top of the amp.
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why are the people at (d)umsl so stupid? for example:

if something happens and you don’t have your parking permit with you, you can go to the office and get a temporary sticker. why does the lady at the office ask you “is this for today?” they’re only good for the day of issue! i said “actually, i’ll need one on monday, too,” and she said “well, you can only get them for a day at a time. you’ll have to come back monday.”

what the hell is the point of asking me if it’s “for today”? do i really pay $20 a credit hour to park to pay this person’s salary?

the (d)umsl lunchroom used to take 4 forms of payment – cash, check, student charge (which would add the total to your tuition bill,) and credit card. every year i’ve been here they’ve dropped one of them so that now they’re down to just cash (which is INSANE – we’re COLLEGE KIDS. we don’t have any fucking money, we already gave it all to you!)

so why the hell, when you walk up with a tray of food, do they say, “will this be cash?” when cash is the ONLY thing they accept? “will this be cash?” “no, i was thinking i’d pay with juju coins today.”

speaking of the morons running umsl. the bookstore used to take student charge, with a limit of $500 at a time. so this year, the geniuses in charge decided to only use a $400 limit, and not accept it after the first week of school.

that’s CRAP. let’s do the math here. most students take 15 hours a semester – about 5 classes, assuming 3 hours per class. books for any given class will average around $100, tack on a little more for computer classes and sciences. 5 classes, $100 a pop… $500. and, oh yeah, $400 < $500.

so i'm taking 12 hours this semester (just like every semester.) my books came to $496. which is also more than $400. i walk up to the counter, i set down my massive pile of books, and i hand the cashier my student charge, not knowing the change in policy. she rings up my books, swipes my student card, and then tells me that my student charge has been declined because i am over my $400 limit. here's how THAT conversation went:

jenks: "so, how am i supposed to get the rest of my books?"
cashier: "don't you have any money?"
j: "no, no i don't. i just spent it all on a $240 parking permit."
c: "well, i'm sorry, but i can only put $400 on the card. you'll either have to put a book back, or find some other way to pay for it."
j: "fuck it, put it on my credit card."
c: "are you sure that's what you want to do?"
j: "what am i supposed to do, really not buy a required book for a class?"
c: "i don't know, i just wouldn't want to put it on a credit card if i were you."
j: "oh, it's okay, i'll get the money back at the end of the semester when i sell these $100 books back for seven dollars a piece."

more to come. i'm being kicked out of the classroom by the MIS nazi again.
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so i’ve been trying to open the site with as many different browsers as possible. long story short, if you use netscape, you’re fucked. i really hate to alienate any viewers or browsers by default, but there’s a whopping 2.4% of you on netscape. i hear that mozilla doesn’t render css right either, but i dont know for sure.

if you ARE running netscape, my advice is to dump that shit and get internet explorer. netscape sucks. in case you couldn’t notice, i’m pro-IE all the way. anyway. on to real content.

quotables
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i found a good one for the quotes section today:

“sometimes when i reflect back on all the beer i drink i feel ashamed. then i look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. if i didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. then i say to myself, it is better that i drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.”

being sick
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i’m sick and fucking tired of being sick. i don’t know what i have, but i’ve been funked up for a good week now, and i’d really like to be able to breathe through my nose again. i’m running out of patience and the tylenol cold and flu is really not working very well anymore. plus i have a big ass sore on the inside of my mouth and it hurts like hell.

senior year, take one
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so i started my first (of two) senior years this semester. i’m taking basic marketing, intro to operations management, business writing, and user-end business application programming. programming uses visual basic – it’s a breeze. i’m not worried about it at all.

marketing? the teacher definitely kicked me out. why? beats me. he claims poor attendance, but i only missed one class (and he knew about that in advance.) the letter came friday saying that he dropped me, so i called him at home. he told me that he kicked me out because i missed six out of eight classes. well, that’s bullshit, so i called him on it. he looked it up in his gradebook and told me that i had missed the second day of class. i told him there was no way, because i know (d)umsl’s policy about missing the first week of class. he said, “well, i’m sorry, but my records show that you were not in class these days.” so i politely told him that his records are wrong. he let me back in when he could hear me getting pissed over the phone.

ops management (take two)? i did not think it was physically possible, but this class both sucks and blows at the same time. my notes so far consist of a sheet of notebook paper that says “who gives a shit?” in gigantic bubble letters.

my english class will be interesting. the only thing i dont like about it is that i have to participate in an email listserv about the class for 20% of my semester grade. the teacher is one of those guys who gets sidetracked easily, going off on tangents and such. he’s a cool guy and a good teacher, though, which is pretty rare for (d)umsl.

alright, i’m getting kicked out of this classroom by captain asshole the anti-social MIS guy. later y’all.

it’s finally ready, i suppose. i’m still tweaking a few cosmetic things, but overall, it’s set to go.

this will be the last major rehaul of the site, as 3.0 can do pretty much everything i wanted 2.0 to be able to do.

if you find something that i missed, or something that i fucked up, let me know so i can fix it.

i’ve got a ton of shit to talk about, and i’ll be posting it all up a day at a time until i’m done ranting.

for now, it’s 1:15, i have to do laundry, and i have to be at work at 9.

oh, and if i forgot your website on my links section on the right, let me know and i’ll get it up asap.

later y’all.
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