First Day Drama

I started school again and to be honest I was feeling a little nervous. I mean it's been 3 years since I attended a class and well you can imagine how rusty my studying habits are now. Plus I know absolutely no one on campus. But I wasn't going to let that get me down because well I'm not a hard person to get along with so I knew I'd get along with someone. But that wasn't an issue on my first day no the big drama came when I went to the security office to get my new ID...

First of all I had to wait on line for about 2 hours, I'm not kidding. Then when I get to the front of the line, finally, I give them my student ID and wait and wait and wait for the camera to flash. The hold up? Well apparently on the school system I'm coming up as STAFF instead of STUDENT. Obviously I'm not a staff member so I'm told to go to the main security office and have them look into the problem. Since it's the first day of school the techie who is suppose to take care of the problem is not there so I have to leave a note and call back the next day.

I call back and the techie tells me I worked for OIT which is the office of information technology. This is true but I haven't worked for them in three years. Unless of course since I'm back at the school I automatically get a job but I don't think that's the case. So techie tells me he has to call human resources to get me off their list blah blah blah and I have to call him today to find out if finally I can get that stupid piece of plastic with my future bad picture.

But believe it or not that's not what pissed me off what pissed me off was waiting in line for 2 hours in front of the most annoying guy on campus. Seriously if he mentioned the army or St. John's again I was gonna whoop some ass I was pissed!

Now I don't know this guy never met him and didn't even talk to him while I was on the line waiting. Plus I'm not a snoop I'd rather not hear your business because it's your business not mine. But when you talk loud enough for people in China to hear then you start to get on my nerves and I had to take 2 hours of this.

This guy was a recent transfer from St. John's and was recently in the army. So the army decided to pay for his education but only at my school and not St. John's U where he would have wanted to stay at. So then he proceeds to tell numerous buddies how crappy the Greek system is at my school and how wonderful St. John's is, and how crappy the athletics department is compared to St. John's.

Seriously if he loved St. John's so much why didn't he stay there? See I think it is beyond rude to bash the school you are going to for free because if you loved the other school so much then stay there or keep your mouth shut.

So other tidbits of information I gathered was that he was recently engaged to a girl in Hungary and that his mom and fiancee get along amazingly. Oh and did I mention he was in the army? Because every 5 minutes he worked the phrase I was in the army into whatever conversation he was having.

Believe me you would be pissed after his 2 hour conversation with the words St. John and army coming up in almost every sentence. So maybe it was fate that made the screw up on my ID because that actually calmed me down and got me off of murderous thoughts.

So besides that dramatic first day I'm liking my classes made some friends and enjoy the privilege of parking wherever I want to on campus. Seriously it feels so good to park my car in the teacher parking lot.

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