Incoherent Babble

Well, let’s see… I finally got in touch via email with the professor I’ve been trying to reach for a week this morning. At first, she didn’t want to let me back into her class and said she didn’t think I could catch up after missing the first 2 weeks. After a little begging, she went to the department head (who happens to be the guy I spoke with personally to get into a class without taking a prerequisite… we got along great, I’m not surprised he let me back in!). So now I’m back in the classes, and even after missing 2 weeks worth of crap, I only have 3 assignments to make up (and they’re the first ones of the course, easy as cake…).

Oh yeah, and it’s supposed to snow tonight and all tomorrow. The weather channel only says a 90% chance of precipitation, so I’m not sure how convinced I should really be… You’d think if it were really going to happen, they’d actually bump it up to 100% and get it over with. Or maybe that’d open them up for a lawsuit if someone called in sick to work and then nothing actually happened… Well, at least if it does (assuming we have power and internet), I’ll be able to catch up on all my school work. And if not… Well, I’ll just get 2 more weeks behind.

We went to lunch at Hooters yesterday. The waitress was an incredibly sucky waitress. It took 45 minutes for us to get our food, 15 of which was spent sitting there watching it sit up front because our waitress was off flirting with an Elijah Wood lookalike a few tables down. Is it just me, or do his eyes freak anyone else out? I swear, they’re like… so bright or something. I don’t know, anyway. After we finished, she made up her tip about 3x over. I didn’t finish all of my burger (so I have a stomach the size of a 2 year old… so what? Better than having the blatter of one like most women!), as usual, and she started in on me about when I was going to become a man and finish my plate.

Later she came over and tried to get us to get dessert. She started listing all the stuff they had, hoping we’d jump on one (although I think we only wanted to jump on HER! It’s Hooters, what do you expect?). One of the guys I work with has been on a diet and hadn’t had any beer in like 2 weeks, and he added on ‘Newcastle’ when she finished. She looked around the table, then at me, and said ‘You’re not old enough to drink.’ The other guy with us cut in ‘Yeah, tell that to the people at Stax’. The waitress didn’t get it, but the other guy and I just cracked up. (If you don’t get it either, then wait for my next post and I’ll explain that night…). So finally we quited down and she asked me how old I really was. I told her 19 and she didn’t believe me. I offered to show her my driver’s license and she finally gave in, saying I looked MUCH younger than that. I’m not really sure how to take that. Maybe when I’m 40 and only look like i’m 20 I’ll appreciate it when I can still get into movies by buying a kids ticket, but right now I just wish I looked a little older (like, say… 21?)…

Aside from that, the week was pretty dull. I talked to a client in New Jersey at work just before lunch today. He was amazed we’re supposed to get snow. Whenever he thinks of South Carolina, he thinks of golf and green fairways. He also said it was 6 degrees when he left his house for work that morning, which trumped the 18 degrees when I left for work (late, as usual).

On Slashdot today, there was an interesting article about a blog entry made by a new Google (former Microsoft) employee that criticized some of the aspects of his new employer. The entry was apparently snatched down as soon as people at Google realized it, and only put back up a week later when the author had time to revise it and go a little easier on the company. He says he wasn’t pressured and that Google was suprisingly cool about it all, but we all know how likely that is. I know my company wouldn’t particularly like me spreading rumors about things and bashing them, even though they’re nowhere near the public eye. Then again, I guess it’s true what they say, there’s no such thing as bad publicity. If no one knows about you in the first place, any publicity is good publicity. Well, if nothing else, this guy’s blog entry has convinced me to write one criticizing our marketing department, which you’ll probably see here soon (because I’ve sure got plenty to criticize them about).

BTW, now that I look, I can’t find this article on Slashdot anywhere (could it have been removed?). However, I was thoughtful enough to email myself a link to the Bloglines copy [bloglines.com], and the original (albeit ugly) version can be found here [blogspot.com].

Anyway, that was pretty much my day. Aside from a little nose picking, lots of coffee (and the cute coffee chick that always goes with it), and talking about poor parenting these days with the guys at work, that’s about it.