for the LOVE, how is it that this is only Tuesday?

I would have sworn that it was at LEAST Thursday, if not Friday.

For some reason, I am utterly disorganized this week.  (aside to the peanut gallery: YES, even more so than usual!  Hush!)

Now then, another to-do-before-more-recreational-internet list:

-Continue practicing for and take piano test

-Turn the completed-but-unreadable-by-anyone-by-the-composer theory project into something that my poor teacher has a prayer of being able to grade (yes, it's finished--just totally and completely unreadable.  my handwriting is bad, and my notation is worse.)

-review comments on scholarship application essay A and formulate some sort of intelligent reply to the teacher who is so kindly looking it over

-write scholarship essay #2 (it is researched and outlined, I just have to, well, WRITE the blasted thing)

-do the French assignment du semaine (yes, Madame, I SWEAR it will be done and done correctly by Saturday!)

-write out/translate the preparations for the week-from-Monday French oral exam (see previous remark)

I have that nasty suspicion that I'm forgetting something.  Grrrr.  Must go review planner.  I feel like it's...what?  A paper?  No.  A project?  Being worked on.  Financial aid?  FINISHED FOR THE WHOLE BLASTED YEAR, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!  (every time I thought I was finished, they requested something else: a truly pointless worksheet that covered nothing that my FAFSA did not, a copy of my high school diploma--never asked for in the two years I've been attending the institution, I might add---etc, etc) Did I pick up an extra shift at work?  Agree to a trade?  Don't have a note of it or remember it.  A meeting with a teacher?  I don't think so, but....

Le sigh.

Off to bed.  If it's important, I'll wake up at 2 AM and remember. 

However, a couple of lines-of-the-week, courtesy of the customers.  Both are Shakespeare-oriented, interestingly enough:

Customer, handing me a copy of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet: "Do ya'll have the movie the book was based on?"

Me, deadpan: "Absolutely.  It's in the drama section.  Right next to A Midsummer Night's Dream, which, incidentally, also inspired Mr. Shakespeare to write a play."

I wouldn't have DREAMED of saying it if I had even the faintest idea the customer would have gotten it.  Needless to say, she didn't.   According to her T-shirt, the parents of this intellectual young female are paying about 30K/year for her to attend a local university. 

The second one was more disturbing, and happened a while ago.  I'd neglected to blog it 'til now.

Phone rings. 

Me, answering" "Thank you for calling The Bookstore.  This is ubicaritas; how may I help you?"

Customer on phone: "Yes, I'm a teacher at XYZ High School (public), and I was wondering if you have the Sparknotes version of Romeo and Juliet."

Me: "Let me check." Pause. "Yes, I have three copies, ma'am."

Customer:  "Only three?  I'm going to need about 50."

Me: "FIFTY?  Er, okay.  Well, how soon do you need them?  I can order fifty and have them here next week."

Her: "Well, I teach eleventh grade, and my students are going to read it in class.  Can I just send them in next week to get the books?"

Me:  "Yes, ma'am, as soon as you get an email saying we have them in.  Now, to just check, these aren't the 'easy-read' versions of Shakespeare with the modern English on one page and the original Shakespeare on the other.  These are the outline-basic-plot-structure Sparknotes versions."

Her: "Yes, that's exactly what I need. It'll cover everything they need to know.  Thank you!"

Well, at least she said thank you.

But our educational system is still going straight to the netherworld in the usual conveyance.