One More Time

At school with nothing to do for about 20 minutes. I don't know where people are, but I can't find any to chat with. It's noon-hour, so I know there aren't any music classes scheduled. Jeez, I've been around long enough that I know shit like that. I feel old. And lonesome. :-( I have an Ed Psych course on Adolescent Development next. It's my last Ed option. In my Choral Tech class this morning, however, Bob was talking about the Kodaly and Orf classes next term, and since I'll only have three courses at the most next term (if I get into 455), I'm considering registering, just in case I wind up kicking myself in a couple of years. My reason for not taking them isn't that I don't think I could use them, or that I don't think they're interesting, I just don't want to steer myself in the direction of EDEL. That way, if I can't do the job, I can register a protest to an assignment in all honesty, so that when the parents come growling, I can tell my admisitrator "I told you so." And that's if I even let myself take a job that involves Elementary Music, which I just don't want to. And, frankly, I'm not spending six years in University to take a job I don't want. Tell me I'm being unrealistic and that I should suck it up. I don't care. ^_^

I'm in the FAB conputer ab right now, and I am being reminded about why I hate these keyboards. If I had a nickle for every typo I've made because of how stil[l this thing is, I'd skip the working part entirely and just move to Fiji.

Lindsay Coulter just came in and we had a discussion about Curriculum Guides. Strangely, that made me happy. I think it was mostly the talking to someone part, because I also told her how horrible the Inclusinve Ed course is. She apparently has that next. I also told her to tell the Practicum Placement people that she doesn't have a car. ^_^ In return, I was informed that there isn't really a place where people congregate to have lunch anymore, despite the gathering of chairs in the area around the third floor elevator. Boo. :-( I therefore declare that I must arrange something social so as to not become an old cat lady by the time I'm 25. :-)

ETA: Ok, so my Ed Psych course ended early, as is common on the first day, and I find myself with an hour to kill and still no people. So I will regale you fine folk with the tales of my triumphs over beaurocracy lately. ^_^

Yesterday was the Music TBA meeting and locker assignments. I was at the front of the line for locker rentals when I was told that they were stopping for the meeting. I pleaded that I wasn't going to the meeting and that I already had a locker, and I just needed to pay for it. One guy said to just mark down which locker it was so that they wouldn't give it away, and I could pay for it later. I said fine and gave them my locker number. The girl with the list (who turned out of be the MSA president--a vocalist, I think in second year, whom I had never met) said that she had all ready given away my locker. I was confused, since I'd had that locker over the summer. The girl, whose name was Eve, told me that I hadn't paid for the summer rental. I told her I'd dealt with Caitlyn Smith, who answered the e-mail I sent to the MSA address last May. Eve had no record of this, and asked if she could give me a locker close by. I was disproportionately pissed off and said no. Eve seemed surprised and unsure what to do. I insisted that I had paid for the locker rental for the summer, and that I wanted to keep that locker. I was not happy that this little girl I'd never met was telling me that I couldn't have the locker I'd paid for to keep reserved, which I'd had for five years. I shouldn't have been that angry, but I was all ready unhappy about not knowing many of the people around, and I really didn't want to have to come back after the meeting, even though that's what we decided to do. I didn't go to the meeting (I stopped going after my second year), but instead went to Varsity in HUB and bought a new lock, which I then put on my locker so that only I could open it. I also put up a note saying that if somebody had been assigned that locker, that it was a mistake and they had to contact the MSA. I would keep that locker by force, if necessary! ^_^ I then went to Peter's house (much easier access to the University than my house) and watched some Heroes DVDs with him in order to kill time and calm down. A muchly excellent show. :-) I went back to Con Hall after the meeting and stood in line like a good girl. When I got to the front of the line, I was recognised and told that the first year who'd gotten my locker would have to be contacted to get another one. I said thank you, and I was sincere. I saying this in order to convince myself that I'm not a stodgy old grump quite yet. ^_^ I then went and partook of the free pizza and pop at the MSA party near Tory. :-)

Today, I managed an especially cunning victory. ^_^ The U-Pass finally got approved, and there are booths around campus where you can pick them up. All they are is a sticker they put on your ONECard. I went down to SUB to get mine. The girl at the booth told me she couldn't give me one because my card was expired. ONECards "expire" after you're *supposed* to have completed your degree. Mine still worked fine, though, and even though I told them that, they refused to even test it. They wanted me to go get a new card. It was free they said, because mine was expired, not lost or anything. I was not about to stand in line to get another freaking ONECard. Also, I didn't *want* another one. Like my locker, I'd had it for five years, and I was quite attatched to it. It actually has a good picture of me on it. ^_^ I agred with the people a bit, and finally left in frustration, saying that I'd scratch the expiration date off the back of my card before coming back. And I did. Well, technically, I used a white erasor, but when I went down to the booth in the Tory Atrium, I told them I was in fourth year, and about five people tried to see the "rubbed off" date (and ID number) on the card before giving up and scanning to see if it worked. It did, and I got my U-Pass sticker. :-D I really don't get why they'd force you to get a new ONECard if your old one still works. The U-Pass sticker has the year on it, so it's not like you can continue to use it next year. And since students don't have to pay to replace expired ONECards, the thousands of them that they'll be issuing for the U-Passes will cost the school a lot of money. Why would they want to do that? Unfortunately, the trick doesn't work with ONECards older than mine, since mine was a new design the year I got it. There's an even newer design now. But since this is my last year, I shall declare myself victorius and cease to care. ^_^