I'm Feeling a Much Needed Vacation Should Come My Way

Today was the first day of class.

Now i know a couple of days ago i wrote a whole post about going with the flow but i wasn't expecting several fire alarms, a loud (but trying to be respectful) roommate, a very HOT dorm, and a Cable problem in my dorm. And it's only Thursday.

I was hoping that my last year in school would be go smoother than previous semesters. Despite my lackluster performance in some of my hardest classes to date, last year was really good. With therapy, keeping my first real job for longer than 3 months, getting feedback on my writing, and living in the hippie dorm with relatively quiet roommates and few fire alarms, I had it pretty easy.

This semester is not working out quite as well.

I was not terribly excited or nervous about my first day of classes. With all the crap happening in this dorm i was more worried about being awoken at some odd time in the morning by the ever so loud fire alarm.

After a quiet night on Wednesday the phantom fire alarm puller struck again early Thursday morning. At this point i cannot even cry from frustration because there is literally nothing i can do about it. It isn't like everyone else who is sitting out there isn't as frustrated as i am, but until they catch the asshole it looks like this crap isn't going to end.

My loud roommate is being a little more respectful with the noise, but her friends are still pretty loud. She keeps having Dinner Parties which last forever and is rather loud. My room change is looking pretty grim right now, the dorms that are open are in the freshman quarters and the thought of downgrading to a freshmen dorm without a fridge/stove/oven sucks.


Despite the early morning interruption, i made it to my 8 o'clock class on time, only yawning occasionally. My first class was creative writing. The idea of having to read my stuff aloud is a little frightening but i figured i have to do it sooner or later. During the summer my professor asked me what type of writing i wanted to do and at the time i didn't have a clue. But with having to write this 20-30 short story for THE NEW SCHOOL and taking this class, i realize that i have no interest in writing short stories/novels/or poetry. I'm much more interested in film, but nonetheless this class will help me learn about character development, plot, and dialogue.

My next class was Adolescent Lit. I was so excited about this class when i first signed up for it, but as soon as my professor opened her mouth i was convinced that i had to drop this class. She is basically a struggling writer who is pissed that she is a teacher. The first thing she did was read this book she worked on, and then she went to talk about how pissed she was at the publisher. I was okay with this part of the class but soon her craziness came out. She is so politically driven that is scary: Everyone is oppressed, the government sucks, you suck if you don't agree with her, and you just suck period.

OKAY????

Not only was she totally weird and crazy but ANNOYING GUY (from summer session II) was in the class. I almost fainted when i saw him. He was the same old annoying asshole from SS 2, but the professor was having none of it. It was like watching a death match on live television, too brutal to look away as these two nuts bags went at it. Needless to say i dropped that class as soon as i had the free time and am now taking a Film Class.

It is only Thursday and i am exhausted. I'm trying to keep my spirits up but everything is taking a toll. Now i have a decision to make: Stay in this dorm and wait until/if something opens up or move into the freshman dorm without the luxury of apartment living (my own bathroom/ kitchen).

I also am deciding what classes to drop/add because my classes are all jumbled and all my professors are pretty weird.

I need a vacation.