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.
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I know you'll do well, don't worry yourself to death!
Sleep well!