Sticking it to the Man

I know I'm avoiding the pink elephant in the room ( my dad, my dad, my dad) and that i should probably write about my very tearful breakdown in therapy ( I think i even made him cry) but because i am good at avoiding things...i digress.

Today I stuck it to my arch nemesis(from last semester), and that's clearly blog worthy.

Last year i took a English Class with Josh , this dude who would not shut up about how much he was really into English. He was sort of cute in that "I wear shirts with collars, and dress shoes to look smart" way, but i just couldn't get over his...sucking up. Maybe he really does like English, but he just kept going on and on about it.

Throughout the semester i kept running into him, shooing him the arch nemesis glare the whole time. If college has taught me anything, it's that i am hella competitive, and i kind of drive off of that. I hate when people say "hey I'm really great at this" only to prove that they aren't pretty great at anything (I'm having this problem in my creative writing class). So I put my guard up, and my fighting stance on as soon as someone starts talking pompously about something they may or may not be good at (however if their actions do back up their word, all is forgiven...and then i love them)

Anyway, me and Josh have the same weird advisor lady. She talks a mile a minute, has no concept of having a linear conversation, and gossips on the staff. I love this her. However her flightiness was a small problem today since it's advisement time.

Basically we have to sign up for a time with our advisor, pick classes we want to take, and then head on our way. It's suppose to take 15 minutes, and then the next student will come in and repeat the process.

I went to her office on Monday to sign up on the advisement sheet on her board. As i rounded the corner F*cking Josh had gotten there first. I stood back and watched him sign up for a time (scowling of course).

I signed up for 11:30, right after Josh's appointment. I wish i could say it was because i wanted to scowl some more at him on advisement day...but the time simply fit my schedule best.

So today was advisement day, and as i figured me and Josh were a) the only ones waiting outside her office because b) we were the only two who had signed up on Thursday. Unfortunately as 11:15 rolled around, crazy insane but funny advisor lady had not shown up. At first i was like, she'll be here in a few minutes don't worry about it, but the closer it got to 11:30, i was like " We'll who between the two of us is going to get advised if she doesn't show up. I mean my time is at 11:30 but technically he should go before me"

Feeling a little brave (because for some reason lack of sleep, worry, and headaches gives me a "i don't give a shit attitude" ) i walked up to Josh and was like "what time were you suppose to get advised". He was leaning against the wall looking at his file " 11:15" he said in another stupid collared shirt " but I've been waiting for a while, and she just hasn't shown up"

Being a person who just can't sit around and do nothing, i told him I'd go to the main floor and see if they had any clue where she was, and what we should do since she wasn't here. After a short chat with someone in an office, I was told me that we should wait a little bit, but if she didn't come after that time, to reschedule for another day.

Being the nice person that i am, despite disliking him, i told Josh he should probably wait a little while but reschedule if he didn't feel like waiting. Maybe i was making him nervous, or maybe he just had some where to be, because of instead of waiting...he rescheduled and then left.

I of course was going to give her a few minutes, before leaving a comment that would have went something like "where the hell were you?". After about 5 minutes, when i too was becoming fed up with waiting, i started packing my shit to go. But patience paid off, because as soon as i put my ipod on, she came strolling around the corner, apologizing for being late.

Me: It's okay, there was another kid waiting though, but he just rescheduled

Lady: He should have stayed, he could have still been advised.

At the time i didn't think much of it, but as i was walking back to my dorm, i was like "shit i totally delayed his advisement process by suggesting him to move his time. If i had kept my mouth shut, he wouldn't have to come back in a week, wait in the hallway, take time out of his schedule just to do the whole thing all over again..."

Of course i was saying it the guilt turned into a little happiness.

I inadvertently stuck it to him.