Happy Halloween!
My favorite holiday of the year for one reason: pumpkin carving. Here’s mine from this year:
Death to the middleman
This is going to be an angry, quickly typed rant about why I hate the middleman.
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Middlemen serve only one purpose - to screw everything up inbetween you and where you want something to be. Invariably you must go through such an apparently “clever” device (probably thought up by a politician or some such sort of person with too much money and too much free time) in order to arrive at the final destination. My personal example stems from the trouble I have been having since September with my veterinary school application and my middleman - TMDSAS.
I have had more problems with this stupid application than any one person should ever have and I just get angrier and angrier by the day. But I continue to remain calm and rational and give TMDSAS time to work out their middleman idiocy. And yet, it doesn’t ever surprise me when they fail to.
I sent them a transcript from the School of Rural Public Health twice, because it said I was required to. No one EVER told me that if there aren’t any grades on it then they don’t give a crap about it. No one EVER told me that having a backup plan for after graduation would give me such a headache. So today, since the application deadline is Wednesday, I notice they still say they haven’t “received” a transcript from the SRPH. So I send them a calm e-mail detailing that I don’t understand why this transcript has not appeared yet and what do I need to do so that my application is not jeaopardized.
In the meantime, I call the admissions office at the Veterinary School and explain my situation and the lady (who was wonderfully helpful) told me that everything would be okay and they would just wait a little bit because they know TMDSAS sucks and that they get overwhelmed (which is still no excuse for poor performance). So I feel happy.
When I hang up, I see that I have a missed called and a voicemail. So I listen because I don’t recognize the number.
What is this voicemail? Oh it’s an angry bitchy peron yelling at me, “WELL THE ANSWER WAS ON THE WEBSITE AND YOU SHOULD HAVE READ IT” (they must have filed it under some unknown something because trust me, I read the website), “SO STOP YOUR WORRYING CAUSE YOUR APPLICATION IS OKAY AND THE SCHOOLS UNDERSTAND THIS THING AND BLAH BLAH,” I stopped listening because really, when people yell at me, I stop listening.
I mean, really, that was uncalled for. Look, I’m sorry your job sucks and you are overwhelmed and all that jazz, but there is NO need to take it out on me when I am worried about my future (so sorry you don’t have one).
So I hate middlemen. Why? Because they screw up, make it hard for me to do what I need to do, cause unneccarry stress in my life, and then yell at me because essentially they don’t tell me certain information and waste my time.
Why couldn’t the applications have been sent directly to the veterinary school? I don’t know. Probably something else some stupid poltician or like-minded person thought up here in the great state of Texas.
Ugggh.
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Ahh… the beginning of the weekend. How wonderful! After a rather stressful and tiring week I am glad that my weekend officially begins on Thursday and not the traditional Friday. So I haven’t been to my International Communication class in a week. My philosophy - why start going now? I am REALLY looking forward to thise weekend because it is Fall Classic weekend, and that means lot of good friends, good sporting and good fun. I cannot wait to travel to Dallas tomorrow with Joey and meet everyone up there and take care of the ponies and then see some killer polo action on Saturday. It’s supposed to be sunny and cool and a bit breezy so I am happy the weather will be nice. Now just hopefully it doesn’t rain too much more so the fields don’t get soaked and the whole thing gets called off. I really like the polo crowd - they are like my surrogate Battalion family. I’m also looking forward to being on “official” photographer duty - it makes me feel important and I get to tote around my laptop because I KNOW I’ll be taking more than 1GB of photos the whole day!
Also, this weekend is Daylight Savings Time so I get a whole extra hour of sleep on Saturday night - which is good because I’ve heard that we’re going to have a dance floor (too bad I don’t know how to dance) and other fun things Saturday night after the games. And it technically also gives me another hour to study because that’s one less hour I’ll have to go to bed early because I’ll be so tired Sunday night! I’m so glad Joey is driving because 1) I like to be a passenger in the car and 2) I can study a little bit here and there if the motion sickness doesn’t get too bad.
So Hallelujah it’s Thursday. I won’t have this three-day weekend luxury next semester when I’m taking 18 hours… so I’m going to take full advantage of it right now when I can!
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