First: This really pisses me off. Pharmacy techs who will not, I repeat will NOT, get their lazy ten-dollar an hour backsides out from behind the counter and help a new father locate the vitamin-D supplement recommended for his daughter by the pediatrician. The conversation runs something like this:
"Excuse me, I'm having trouble locating--"
"What do you need?"
"Well, a liquid vitamin supplement for my twelve-day-old daughter--"
"Aisle seventeen."
"I'm sorry, but--"
"Aisle seventeen."
(I'm steaming now!) "Well, I was just on aisle seventeen and didn't find--"
"With" (Freakin' cutting me off again!!) "the children's vitamins."
(Mentally reciting the luo verb chart) "But I didn't see anything--"
"Then" (Again with the interruptions!) "we don't have it."
"Could you just come and help me locate where you're talking--"
"It's not in, try other pharmacy."
Bet on it!
Second: Undergraduate students who noisily began putting away their notes and books with five minutes remaining in class. "Oh. I'm far from finished, ladies and gentlemen." F's all the friggin' way around! (At least we graduates are more circumspect--and quiet--about it.)
Third: Anglo-American/analytic philosophy. Puh-leeeze! Could one take a more interesting topic (free will, agency and the self) and make it anymore boring? Hard determinism blah blah blah Newtonian physics blah blah blah Kant blah blah blah noumenal self phenomenal actions blah blah blah blah BLAH!! Several short assingments, a seminar paper and a final exam. (Final exam?!! for grad students?!! @#$$#@!!!)
No word yet on whether I'll be able to drop a class for a directed reading. Too bad I can't drop the Anglo. Drop kick it in to next week!
Grumpy. Hungry. Need much sleep.
Posted by Clifton at August 26, 2003 06:14 AM | TrackBack