Friday, January 30, 2009

Ice Days and W-2's

I'm mostly writing right now to vent, not because I have nothing better to do (I'm a graduate student, after all--there's ALWAYS something better to do). As I've stated before, we don't have internet at our apartment. So, I steal a few minutes here and there to check emails, etc., making sure there is nothing telling me to evacuate the building because it's on fire (by the way, UNT, I don't know if email is the most practical way to alert people in the case of an emergency), and trying to stay on top of these things. So, this week (yesterday at about 2:00) I got an email saying that I needed to pick up my W-2 in the main office before today. I was relieved to have read it before, especially since I was booked solid from 2 until after the office would be closed. Unfortunately, the part that I didn't read said that I needed to pick it up before NOON.

I march into the office today at about 1:20, ask for my form, and am greeted by an unhappy administrator telling me that the email SAID noon, and he waited until 12:45, but now they were on their way to be mailed. Not that this is a huge deal anyway, because I will get it in the end, but I hate being treated like an idiot (even when my actions justify it). I wish people would just be respectful all the time, because even little things like this really hurt me. I'm a sensitive soul!

Anyway, in Other News, we got two Ice Days this week, due to adverse weather conditions. This really threw me off in the second week of class. I basically took it as a total vacation and didn't do any work at all, to realize upon returning to school that I actually had homework I could have been doing and so forth. Whoops. Hooray for too much idiocy from Rachel this week!

Additionally, Andy and I met with Pres. Benavides of the Spanish Branch yesterday, getting two shiny new callings. I'm a little intimidated by mine, but excited. I will definitely learn a lot, and I hope that I can do some good. We're excited about Andy's calling, too--that will be fun. I feel glad to be a part of the branch--it's nice to feel needed and like we can make an impact in the branch. Details to follow once we've been sustained on Sunday. What a party!

Other than that, "married life" is great, for those of you who want to know. (Why people always ask that is a mystery to me. What am going to say? "Wow, yeah. It sucks! I hate it!" Very unlikely. Of COURSE it's great. You're silly.)

3 comments:

  1. I hate it when people talk to me like I'm stupid! Just today I called one of the offices on campus, and I was sharply informed that I contacted the wrong office and should have picked a different number; so they quickly transferred me (apparently desperate to not have to talk to a crazy idiot anymore). Silly me; I forgot that as a University employee I should have all-encompassing knowledge of every office on campus and their function. I guess I won't make that mistake again (yeah right!).

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  2. They ask you if married life is good because they're thinking dirty thoughts about you and want you to acknowledge them... or something.
    But, yeah, do they expect you to say no? You should try it and see how they react.

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  3. Oh, Jeanette, of COURSE I have said it wasn't great. And yes, I know that "married life" is a euphemism for "sex," at least in many LDS circles. However, lots of these people who ask me are not LDS, so "married life" to them really means "married life." I still don't get it.

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