Well, I knew it was bound to happen sooner or later. I'm amazed that it
lasted as long as it did. But alas, now I am officially blocked from
Gather. *sniffles* So I have no LJ, no Gather, no fun. Bummer.

I'm so tired... And annoyed. I have not heard a peep from the doctor
about the X-rays. I shall call him later this morning and see what he
has to say for himself. It would be nice if he'd call and let me know
what's going on. If I have to go in for blood tests, I'd like to be
able to do that as soon as possible and get it out of the way.

Last night's class wasn't awful. Wasn't great, but wasn't awful. He
kept us for the full 2 hours and 40 minutes too. Arghhhhhhhhh! That's
the worst part of it. Oh wait, maybe the worst part is the dumb
students who don't quite "get" it and yet constantly argue with the
professor. I guess they think that he doesn't know anything about
philosophy even though he's been teaching it for years! I can't stand
it when stupid people argue something that they know nothing about! I
wanted to get up and slap a few of the girls in the head. The professor
explained it so clearly and yet they stubbornly held on to their
previous beliefs even when faced with example after example. Duh!

I can already tell that it's going to be a bad day today. First I
discover no more Gather. Now, people are screaming at each other here
and making up new rules just to be difficult. Sheesh.

I had a voicemail this morning too and when I went to listen to it, it
was a gal saying that she was looking for someone else and she wished me
a good day. Why do people bother leaving a message if they know it is
the wrong number? Idiot. It's one thing if I answered the call and she
said "sorry, wrong number" but why leave a voicemail saying it? I don't
get people. Everyone is annoying me lately. I have no patience for
stupidity on a regular day, lately my lack of patience has increased
tenfold. Then again, people lately have been acting more and more like
idiots and so I can see why I'm losing every last bit of patience.

Well, guess I won't be playing online today. How sad. :-(

Some people obviously didn't get the memo announcing the end of "Annoy
Vikki Day" because they're carrying it over to this morning! Sheesh.
The gas station attendant (or petroleum transfer engineer if you prefer)
was obnoxious this morning. I was so tempted to go to the next station,
but that one was more expensive. I liked getting gas for $1.95. That
was a good thing, but maybe not worth it since the past few times I've
gone there, they've been so slow and rude.

If there's anything I hate more than coworkers chatting so loudly like
they did yesterday, it's coworkers whispering so as to not be overheard.
It makes me immediately suspect that they are up to no good.

I wanted to bring my Field Bio books and notebook in today to study for
Saturday's exam, but I grabbed the wrong two books and have no clue
where the notebook is. Grr. Guess today I'll focus on reading for
pleasure, or I could start on my observation paper for my Comm class.
Nahhh.

I got the notice last night from WPU that registration for Spring
semester starts in November. Plus they announced that they're going to
have a Winter Session with only on-line courses. I am hoping like heck
that they'll offer my needed Philosophy course on-line! If so, then
I'll be able to get that one out of the way and only worry about two
classes in the spring. Unfortunately, the info on the class schedules
and availabilities is not up yet. Grrr. Why send notice and not have
anything ready? I wish I could just get registered already and be done
with it. I hate jumping through the hoops and having to schedule an
appointment with my advisor... Blah blah blah.

Oh, I forgot to mention this last night. Sami is back in the hospital.
I guess she tried to attack Jeff and knocked him over, which did no good
to his messed up back. So Jeff called the cops on her and filed a
report. (He could do that, but the cops couldn't take Sami to the
hospital unless Jen asked them to because Jeff is only her step-father.)
I guess there was a huge deal and finally the end result was that she
was admitted. I guess Sami had been threatening to run away and then
said she was going to go to school and tell her teachers that her
parents abused her and on and on. Hopefully the doctors can help do
something to get her a little more manageable. I wouldn't want to live
in that house, that's for sure. I feel so bad for Jeff. He still has
not been paid so much as a penny from the car accident. I can't
understand it because both drivers had the same insurance and it should
NOT take this long to at least pay for the damages to the car. Plus
Jeff cannot work at all now, and possibly never again. He's in so much
pain and has had shots in his spine and physical therapy. It's not
cheap. Jen's not working either so it's a big mess. I thought Ron and
I had financial issues but I imagine that Jeff & Jen's are even worse.
They have two kids and a ton of animals to care for. But they do have
one thing in their favor.... No mortgage. They're living in Jen's mom's
house and that's been paid off for years.

Ron talked to the gal at the recruiting agency and she promised to have
an interview or two set up for him by today. She said she'd call him
this morning to let him know when, etc. We'll see. Ron pretty much
told her that if she didn't have something scheduled soon, he was going
to go elsewhere. I think it may finally light the fire under that
chicky. Hope so anyway.

This has been a day of major annoyances. First off it was the people at work being loud. Then this afternoon Rick royally pissed me off. I'm not going to go into details because I'll just get irritated again. Suffice it to say, he's a Gemini. I'm a Gemini. With two Geminis butting heads, it's never a pretty picture. 'Nuff said.

Then I posted another LJ entry at work via email that obviously hasn't come through yet. Here it is:

Oh man. Another dull day. Sheesh.

I'm annoyed with myself... Well, not with myself exactly but rather with my faulty memory. Haha. Last night I made sure to plug my cell phone in to charge it up. I always make sure my phone is fully charged when I have a night class at WPU because you never know what might happen that would require a way to call for help. It's better safe than sorry, right? Well, yeah. So now my phone is fully charged, but guess what? It's sitting at home on the charger. Lovely. I completely forgot to grab it this morning. The full charge does me no good since it's at home. Grr.

I've been reading a little bit more of Living Dead in Dallas today and I've been playing on Gather... But nothing is keeping my attention. I feel like taking a nap. Someone needs to amuse me, because I'm having no luck of it on my own.

Oh, and it's pretty much a given that Dilcia got the job upstairs, although it has not been officially announced. She was over here at my cubicle talking to me earlier and made a comment about "When I get up there, I'm going to..." She used when not if. So she spilled the beans. Although I think most of us already knew. OOOH! Guess what? When she goes that will officially make me the youngest in our department. How cool!

Rick's not too happy with this place lately. I feel bad for the poor guy. He's interviewed and applied for many positions, but because he doesn't kiss butt and have someone go to bat for him, he keeps losing out. Same with a few others around here. I guess it's probably the same no matter what company you go to. People that deserve a chance end up getting stepped over by those that just happen to know how to pucker up.

The mailroom didn't bring us our mail today, and they didn't pick up our outgoing mail either. Guess that really shows how this department rates in the scheme of things, eh?

* Thought for the day: Honesty is the best policy, but Insanity is a better defense. *


Ok, so that was the one that never made it through. That wasn't the last of my annoyances either. After work I needed to kill a little time before class and I wanted to get something to drink to bring with me to class. I thought about hitting Starbucks but I really didn't have enough money for that, so I went to Five Below. (In case you don't know what that is, it's like a dollar store, but a step above. Everything in that store is $5 or less). I figured that I'd walk around and see all the cool stuff and then pick up a drink. It would be a good way to kill time. So I did just that to kill some time. Finally I picked up an Arizona Red Apple Iced Tea (VERY GOOD btw). As I was waiting in line to pay, I saw that they had Nancy Drew books for $2! For that price I thought that I'd pick one up. I thought it would be fun to revert to childhood for a bit. However, as the guy rang it up, it came up as $3. I asked politely if the book was two or three dollars and the kid replied that it was three bucks and that they'd just marked them all. So I pointed out that the tag said TWO, not THREE. He looked at all the books and they were all marked that way. He said that it was incorrectly marked and asked if I still wanted it. I said no. It's not the one dollar difference that made a big deal to me, it's the fact that it was marked as one price and that should have been the price given. Since he wasn't going to budge on the price, I didn't want it that bad. I would have fought harder but I didn't want to deal with it.

I get to school and had to drive around ages for a parking spot. (Yep, more annoyance!)

Class itself was boring, but the professor annoyed me. She STILL had not graded the papers. She said she's gotten through about half of them and should have them back next week. Um, yeah. That's what she said last week.

I do have to admit that I annoyed myself tonight too. Well something I did two weeks ago annoyed me. The professor gave back our quizzes and I was shocked at my grade and then realized what I did. The quiz had 7 or 8 questions listed with the instructions to complete FOUR of them. Dummy me only did three. I think I know what happened. I had three done on the front and had continued the third one, which happened to be #4, on the back. So I probably looked and counted the three on the front and then counted the last portion of the third question as a forth. Or maybe I just misread the question at the top. Or perhaps I was too tired. Anyway, no matter what the excuse, I messed up and I'm annoyed with myself. At least I have 40 extra credit points sitting around to make up for the 25 that I lost due to my momentary stupidity.

On the way home tonight I was feeling paranoid because I didn't have my cell phone with me. Suddenly every noise my car made or every bump I went over, I was feeling as if the car was going to die and then I'd be stuck in a dark, wooded area with no way to call for help. Fortunately I made it home and guess what? I saw the bear. At the corner of our street as I was starting to turn, the bear walked casually right across the road in front of me. He was heading in the direction of my house! I passed him and hurried home. As soon as I stopped the car, I JUMPED out and RAN into the house as fast as I could. I didn't want to meet the bear if he did in fact wander this way.