It's All Relative

I Need a "Re-do"

Tonight was a crazy night at work....insane actually. Here's the thing about Thursday's at my place of work: Thursday night is sushi night and sushi night brings out all the posers in Logan who think they are way "scene." Well, we only do sushi in the bar, supposedly, and so you must have a reservation, or there's no way your getting a table in the bar. But there are the people who have figured out how to beat the system and so they will sit in the main dining room and then as soon as the server comes over, they will ask for sushi. It really sucks for the server because Sushi takes at least an hour, because everything is made to order and we have only 1 sushi chef, who already has an entire booked out bar to make sushi for. So tonight we had about 4 tables wanting sushi without a reservation....lame. So these servers do what they can for them, but it really takes quite a long time to get their dinner....like 2 hours. Well, these people get pissed and start yelling at the servers and its all really ridiculous. So people are getting mad because they don't have their sushi, and the poor server can do nothing about it. So on top of the sushi fiasco, I had problems of my own too. I messed up a ticket and totally charged a credit card to the wrong table, but the table actually didn't even notice they had the wrong check, so they signed the credit card slip and walked out. Meanwhile, I am freaking out because I F-ed up so bad. In addition to all that, I was like running into to things and people all nght. I mean, I tend to run into things on a regular basis, for example I clip walls rounding corners ALL THE TIME. But in a busy restaurant, that's not so cool. Listen, it was just an overall bad night and I can't wait to go to sleep and start over tomorrow...Because tomorrow we head to Vegas for the Super Bowl Bash at my brother Christian's house. I am really excited to see all my family. I am also excited to see his cats Saki and Max. They are the coolest cats ever, I mean next to Fluff, Sam and Boots. They are fun to hang out with.
Did everyone here about my registration fiasco???? Well, let me tell you. Ok, so I was an intern last semester with a design and marketing firm here in Logan and I did it with the intention of getting 4 credits toward this semester. Well...I got the whole form signed by all 28 people who had to sign it and took it to the head of my department to have it finalized and have him give me the credits. Well, I take it to him and he says, I can't give you credit for this semester for an internship you did last semester.

I said, "Why not?"

"Because we can't do that anymore....we used to be able to but we can't anymore, the registrar won't let us. We also don't give 4 credits for internships."

Now, being part of this major for the past 4 years, I have a pretty good idea as to what can and can't be done within the bounds of the Department Head's jurisdiction. And I was fairly confident that this guy had every power of giving me this credit. I mean, it was like the President of the university taking orders from the secretary....I mean,come on. So I basically told him that I wasn't leaving until I was given credit for the internship that I was told I would get credit for. I mean, I was a total brat, but I couldn't just take this crap. If he didn't given me the credit, I was not going to GRADUATE. He told me he would call my teacher, also my internship boss and talk to her. He said to come back in an hour.
So I go to class and the entire time I am totally consumed with how the hell I was going to come up with 4 credits, and mind you, this was the LAST DAY to add any classes, so if I was going to do it, I had to do it that day. I was panicked when I walked back to his office. I was ready to stand my ground and do what I had to do, say what I had to say, in order for this guy to give me the credit I needed and deserved.
So I get back, and he tells me that I was going to get the credits, but he was going to have to pull some strings in order to do it, and he said that I was over the maximum number of Journalism credits....what? How can a journalism student have too many journalism credits??? Does that make ANY sense to anyone. No, it didn't to me either.Well, he added it all and signed what he had to sign. I was relieved, but this guy totally was trying to make me feel like he was doing me this HUGE favor, like he was going across enemy lines to get me this credit. Whatever....this is the head of the journalism department at Utah State. I mean, it wasn't that big of a deal and he made it seem like it was this huge issue. Anyway, bottom line: I got the credits and I am still graduating.

Now I need to go to sleep. Tomorrow I have a Oceanography review at 9:30. We will discuss submerison faults, and deep ocean trenches and how California will eventually drift all the way into Alaska in about 200 millions years. Cool. Let me know how that goes...