[barend]

What the hell is MSTing?

[Bond]

Mystery Science Theatre 3000 -- a show in which people would watch a bad movie and heckle it in amusing, culturally-relevant ways. Good for the humerus gland.

[looktothesky]

More women should be like you.
...with a swimming pool and all that too.

Unnecessary drama is funny in a MST3000 way (granted it's a good episode, and not a lot of the garbage episodes I've seen). But when it's awkward with friends, or online or something -- it just doesn't work!

[Bond]

Doesn't it?

On any occasion, MSTing is always a blast!

[Cyzyk]

My life is full of drama at present, which is annoying.

[Bond]

Try to turn it into a "dramedy", then.

[Mirithorn]

Complaint: I spent about two hours wrestling with my scanner today. This was especially exciting because I have about zero knowledge of computers, so my problem solving technique involves doing random things until something works. In this case, my scanner, which was formerly hooked up to another computer, refuses to scan and says "Error: Unable to connect to PC". I have tried everything in my arsenal. I have unplugged the scanner, unplugged the computer, screwed with the printer settings, tried to open the scanning thing on the computer before hitting the "scan" button, restarting the computer, and unplugging the scanner from one plug and plugging it into a different one.

This makes me mad, because I have some exciting bits of artwork (in particular, I've recently been getting into crayons again) that I would like to put on my deviantart account before they are inevitably damaged, even if nobody else looks at them. Mad is probably an understatement. If I ever go on a murderous rampage, malfunctioning technology will probably be at the root of it.

[Spoon Poetic]

So they email me, 5 fuggin' days before class starts, telling me "Oh, by the way, if you don't have a Math Placement Test score of at least 3 on record, you won't get credit for the Statistics course you're signed up to attend in 5 fuggin' days. And Math Placement Test scores expire after a year (something we never told anyone, ever!)."
And then I go to take the test (it's an online test) and it says my university ID doesn't exist???

Stupidheads.

[Slade]

I spent half of my weekend trying to find a ride to Buffalo from Rochester for a job interview. I got one scheduled for this morning and went. The interviewer was 15 minutes late in meeting me (I got there 15 minutes early), and then after I got back from Buffalo, I was contacted by the company and informed that I didn't get the job. I hate stupid wastes of my time and energy like this. If you're not going to hire me, don't sound interested in me and waste my time, jerk companies.

[Spoon Poetic]

So I'm working to try and fix this mess the math department made of my schedule (see my post above Slade's), and the only person available to talk to, I swear she has an I.Q. of 15. She can't answer questions, give me phone numbers, names, she barely seems to know she's working in the math department. GAH. And class starts the day after tomorrow and I'm no closer to fixing anything, despite all my efforts.

How is it that no professors are in, all over campus??

[Deepsycher]

"We have to call out ONE! professor just for ONE! person, it would cost us this amount of money but that professor could serve many more majorities than you can imagine at the same time. It's not cost effective, its not economical. We have the mass majority to serve so why should YOU! be any DIFFERENT?" - This sort of attitude I have yet to face.

I should start to advertise in the newspapers my services to work privately then count myself lucky but I can't see much of a future for me. I am going to get busy soon and the only enjoyment I get would probably be is my sleep.

[Jane Sherwood]

THE FUN NEVER STOPS AROUND HERE!

I've come this close to a panic attack twice today over two classes, and I've only been to three! WHOO! This combined with all the other shit that's happened before the semester even started, makes for quite a fun semester to look forward to! YES IT DOES!




Oh god, shoot me.

[Deepsycher]

Complaint: I spent about two hours wrestling with my scanner today. This was especially exciting because I have about zero knowledge of computers, so my problem solving technique involves doing random things until something works. In this case, my scanner, which was formerly hooked up to another computer, refuses to scan and says "Error: Unable to connect to PC". I have tried everything in my arsenal. I have unplugged the scanner, unplugged the computer, screwed with the printer settings, tried to open the scanning thing on the computer before hitting the "scan" button, restarting the computer, and unplugging the scanner from one plug and plugging it into a different one.

Would that be a HP printer/scanner with a built in display using HP director?

I had a lot of problems with that.

[looktothesky]

I spent half of my weekend trying to find a ride to Buffalo from Rochester for a job interview. I got one scheduled for this morning and went. The interviewer was 15 minutes late in meeting me (I got there 15 minutes early), and then after I got back from Buffalo, I was contacted by the company and informed that I didn't get the job. I hate stupid wastes of my time and energy like this. If you're not going to hire me, don't sound interested in me and waste my time, jerk companies.

I had an interview like that this summer for a secretary position. They had me dress up formally, go all the way down to their office for 3 hours, go through numerous presentations and whatnot, just to have me come back home and not get the job. I hate that -- but careers are only going to get worse.

...portfolio interviews... gawd, I can't wait.

[Slade]

Blarghity: Today I learned, to my complete expectations, that my best friend back home couldn't get me a job with his company. They're really cool and they like me, and for the position I'd be in I'd be working for peanuts, but they just don't have the room for me, and not enough contract money until November. I'm feeling pretty crappy, I have to say. Rather screwed by companies, possibly inadequate in my field, I dunno. I've applied to a bunch of other places but haven't heard anything back from any of them. I'm going to start calling them, I think. With each new setback, it gets harder to stay motivated. I can deal when I don't get a job because I don't apply to many places, but it's different when I really work at this stupid crap and just get repeatedly ignored or shot down. And it was just a dick move for the company I interviewed for yesterday to pretend to be so interested in me and then turn me down. I can't concieve of how I could have given a bad enough interview to make them turn me down, given how interested they were openly saying they were in me. But at least I know that means absolutely nothing now, and I'm not jumping through any more hoops just because someone says they're interested. Alright, that's enough moping/ranting.