Sunday, January 08, 2006

Hope Overture

You know those damn puzzles they handed you as a kid. They usually were in gifts bags you were handed at some party by a kid you may not even have liked, but hey free cake. They are cheaply made out of plastic, and it's a picture scrambled with one piece missing. Your objective, if you choose to take it, was to some how make the picture whole minus the missing piece. I hated those puzzles for the shear fact that i sucked at putting them together. I just spent the whole time, usually on a bus, pushing pieces anywhere, hoping Picasso would be proud of the work i had made.

Well thats what i feel like today, as if i am sitting on the number 60 bus (or 61 it's been a while) to White Plains, trying to put together a stupid puzzle that is hard as hell to complete.

We signed up for classes way back in December, maybe even at the end of November, i can't remember. Anyway, i thought i had my schedule down pack. I mean all morning classes, cause i rather get my classes down so i have the whole rest of the day to do whatever i want to do, which is usually nothing really productive. Planning your sheducle is like putting a puzzle together. I mean you basically have to get classes that do not overlap and that either are one after another or have at least a good enough break to snack before classes. From what i know from college students is A) we hate having large gaps between classes. You don't want to wqlk back to the dorm cause you will get comfortable and not want to head back out B) Evening classes also suck, just the thought of having a class run past 8pm makes my head hurt.

The way i planned my classes was that on Monday, Wednesday i would have 3 classes ending at 12:05, Tuesday and Thursday i would have 3 classes running until 12:15, and Friday i would have two classes until 12:05. Now on Wednesday i have my bio lab, which is 2 hours and 45minutes of nothing. What i didn't see until yesterday was that my Bio lab and my Spanish Class Overlap, the WORST THING EVER. Oh it sucks.

I don't see how i missed it, how i could have screwed that up,and now have to ask my Bio lab coordinator if i can join in on another lab, which the only other best time would be Tuesday at 3:30-6:15 ( i know it seems dreadful, but that was actually the best time, other than 8am). All day i have been doing the "if remove this class and put it here, then i can take this and put it here, and then add this class..." what i keep forgetting though is that most of the classes are filled up. I mean i can't even find a Fine Art to take. WTF.

My only other possible solution was to drop Spanish and take something else. But of course they are all classes at the same time 10:10-11:00 on MWF, which would still mean i was overlapping.

So i have to wait until tomorrow to go see what she'll say about me joing another lab section, which means my head is hurting because of my stress level arising from a 35 minutes of overlapping.

I hate that i didn't catch that sooner.

I planned to write a post on Love.

And instead i have one of hate to stupid schedules and pieces that don't fit

I just needed to ramble.

I hope this all works out.

3 comments:

kittens not kids said...

sonofabitching schedules! i have night classes three nights a week this term. but i get to sleep in until at least ten am everyday.

i hope you still write about Love. i'm curious to read it.

sue said...

We'll keep our fingers crossed for ya...

Breathing said...

My schedule this semester feels like a rocking horse. Tibetan at one on tuesday and thursdays, seminar on The City at (gasp!) 7:45 on Wednesdays and a yet to be determined meeting with my advisor weekly. probably on tuesday. I am debating whether or not to teach yoga on Monday afternoons: a car drive feels like it will interupt my day. I imagine schedules are quite a different beast on the east coast.

avizijw: the sound of schedules as they clamor for attention from their cages of malnourishment or glutony