Mine is a very random (and ranty) life
Jan. 31st, 2012 11:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
emerald_skiesSo, internets, one of my biggest pet peeves is when someone requires me to do something regardless of what special circumstances I might have to deal with (i.e. how my university seems to assume ALL students who go there live in the area and not, say, 250 miles away like I do, and then schedule accordingly). Recently, one of my classes touched that particular nerve.
Dear Program Design & Administration professor,
So you want me to go to a group exercise class of my choice, take a grand tour of the facility (including interviewing a staff member), and to then write an evaluation of it...for a mandatory assignment. Great! Except for the part where I have to contend with my job, my internship, the ongoing extracurricular PT I'm running for some friends, and my extreme lack of funds (most gyms in my experience aren't really cool with you dropping in for one class without joining or anything). Not to mention the horrible, excruciating pain in my knees I deal with almost all the time (which tends to be exacerbated by most forms of exercise). What? No exceptions, you say?
...fine. I'll just pull an extra couple of hours in the day out of my ass. Who needs rent/gas/grocery money anyway, right?
Thanks a bunch (not),
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P.S. - For someone who basically teaches about the fitness facility version of Dilbert cartoons, you have an awfully high opinion of the importance of this class. Just sayin'.
Aaand another rant
Recently I discovered that parking on campus for free at my uni becomes physically impossible after 10:00 a.m. Why, you ask? Because there are somewhere between 28,000 and 30,000 students, and not nearly enough parking to accommodate 28,000-30,000 cars. Even if you throw in all the people who live on campus, which shaves about 2,000 people off that number.
The larger, driving force behind this problem is the fact that it's AMAZINGLY difficult to get shit done in Texas without a car (I experienced this firsthand until enough cash was finally scrimped and saved to buy a car for myself). Everyone needs one, and worse, everyone WANTS one, which creates a conundrum: parking.
But that's all I'm going to gripe considering this parking disaster just ended in me parking in a paid garage. It'd sure be nice if public transportation didn't fucking suck here though -_-
Yeah yeah, whine whine whine, my life is so hard, etc., I just had to get that off my chest.
On a much less whinge-tastic (and much more random note), I was told today that it's possible for a person to be allergic to caffeine. Seriously. As someone who basically can't function without enough caffeine in her system to start a Starbucks franchise, my reaction was (understandably) something like this:
Sheesh, I think I just figured out what my own personal tenth circle of hell would look like *shudder*
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"Don't find a fault, find a remedy..." -- Henry Ford
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Cheers.
P.S. - I just remembered I still need to beta fics for two people....*sobs quietly against computer screen*
Dear Program Design & Administration professor,
So you want me to go to a group exercise class of my choice, take a grand tour of the facility (including interviewing a staff member), and to then write an evaluation of it...for a mandatory assignment. Great! Except for the part where I have to contend with my job, my internship, the ongoing extracurricular PT I'm running for some friends, and my extreme lack of funds (most gyms in my experience aren't really cool with you dropping in for one class without joining or anything). Not to mention the horrible, excruciating pain in my knees I deal with almost all the time (which tends to be exacerbated by most forms of exercise). What? No exceptions, you say?
...fine. I'll just pull an extra couple of hours in the day out of my ass. Who needs rent/gas/grocery money anyway, right?
Thanks a bunch (not),
emerald_skiesP.S. - For someone who basically teaches about the fitness facility version of Dilbert cartoons, you have an awfully high opinion of the importance of this class. Just sayin'.
Aaand another rant
Recently I discovered that parking on campus for free at my uni becomes physically impossible after 10:00 a.m. Why, you ask? Because there are somewhere between 28,000 and 30,000 students, and not nearly enough parking to accommodate 28,000-30,000 cars. Even if you throw in all the people who live on campus, which shaves about 2,000 people off that number.
The larger, driving force behind this problem is the fact that it's AMAZINGLY difficult to get shit done in Texas without a car (I experienced this firsthand until enough cash was finally scrimped and saved to buy a car for myself). Everyone needs one, and worse, everyone WANTS one, which creates a conundrum: parking.
But that's all I'm going to gripe considering this parking disaster just ended in me parking in a paid garage. It'd sure be nice if public transportation didn't fucking suck here though -_-
Yeah yeah, whine whine whine, my life is so hard, etc., I just had to get that off my chest.
On a much less whinge-tastic (and much more random note), I was told today that it's possible for a person to be allergic to caffeine. Seriously. As someone who basically can't function without enough caffeine in her system to start a Starbucks franchise, my reaction was (understandably) something like this:
Sheesh, I think I just figured out what my own personal tenth circle of hell would look like *shudder*
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"Don't find a fault, find a remedy..." -- Henry Ford
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Cheers.
P.S. - I just remembered I still need to beta fics for two people....*sobs quietly against computer screen*
