First I wanted to wake up earlier than I have been. I'm trying to instill a better schedule. So of course that didn't happen but I started to wake up around 10am and around when I was starting to wake up my doorbell rang. First off I didn't even realize I had a doorbell. So I thought as I was slowly getting out of bed it's got to be my landlady, who else would be at my door right? So I look through the peep hole and it was blurry because I had literally just woken up and was really still half asleep and it looked like my landlady a short blond french lady. So I open the door and standing there was NOT my landlady it was an older gaunt looking Chinese man. So naturally I'm freaked out and he starts talking to me in what I think was French but I couldn't understand exactly what he was saying. So I think he's asking me for hot water but soon realize he's not. Then he says "English?" and I say "yes" and then he proceeds in broken English which I barely understand. He's trying to explain something to me but then he starts leaning in towards the door line, the line which you do not cross which immediately freaked me out even more so I started waving my hands in a shooing motion for him to get back. At this point I'm super freaked out and he starts leaning back in so I close the door and as I close the door I hear the word "bread". I didn't slam the door but I did close the door basically in his face. I went and sat down and thought what the fuck just happened?? So then not 2 seconds later I hear him in the hall go to my other neighbor's door and the chick's boyfriend answers the door. I think he gave him some food but I'm not sure. So I start getting ready for school and now I'm feeling guilty because this guy is basically begging for food, he looks like he hasn't eaten in forever and I just closed the door on him. As I was getting ready to leave I looked around my place to see if I even had anything to give him. I really don't have any food except for a few random things in the fridge and I had half a box of this stuff that's similar to Melba Toast. I decided that I would give him what I had left of the Melba toast so as I'm leaving I knocked on his door and I stood as far away as I could with my arm reached out and gave him the food. He started to thank me but I basically took off and didn't let him finish. So the whole day now I have the image of my neighbor the gaunt Chinese man in my head!
Then I get to school and meet Susan and I tell her what happened and I decided that I need a Starbucks (which is right by school) so we go there on the way to class. As we're walking from Starbucks to class I stepped on a cable that was on the sidewalk and almost fell. Luckily I didn't fall but I almost fell which shook me up even more. Then I sit through 3 hours of class. Then I have a meeting with my Global Internet professor to talk about my term paper. We had to meet with him to discuss our topics. I started discussing my topic and I could tell he didn't like it, or at least didn't think it was a good enough topic to write my paper on, great. Luckily I had a back up topic which he liked much better.
The other part of the day that pissed me off has to do with just how unorganized my school/department is. When we first arrived they assigned us advisers but now they've reassigned advisers so I went online to the site where it's supposed to tell me who my advisor is and it says it doesn't recognize my student ID (mind you i'm logged in to the site WITH my student ID!) Ok fine, so then I see the chair of the department in the hall so I go ask him and he schedules an appointment with me for March 12th (today is February 17th) um thanks. It's because the next two weeks are Spring Break so we're all off but the word around is that we have to register for Summer classes DURING Spring Break...um excuse me? And now my advisor won't meet with me until AFTER? WTF? The whole class schedule, the advising system just everything is ass backwards here. I feel like the whole department is so unorganized and they don't know what the fuck's going on. Hello! We're the Communications Department, maybe try communicating with each other eh???
So now Jenn and I leave the Grad Lounge and head to Kamini's place for dinner and on the metro a homeless guy gets on the train and starts begging people for money. At this point I'm so frazzled from the day I feel like I'm going to have a nervous breakdown and I just want this homeless man to go away. He's not holding on to anything in the train so he keeps flopping around and his bag is hitting me and I just want to shove him away, but I don't. I just have an internal break down!
I'm home now and yes, I have readings to do for class tomorrow but I just can't do it. I'm sorry but I just can't so i'm going to watch the latest episode of Friday Night Lights and then go to sleep. I'm so over this day!
Please let tomorrow be better.
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I wish I was there and could give you a Fresca with Malibu and a big hug.
Tomorrow will be better, I promise!
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