Murphy's Law states: "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong".
That law was the driving force behind today. It's just one of those days where bad luck stalks you and trips you up ever chance that it gets.
I woke up this morning and immediately my body did not want to get up out of bed. I DO have the most delicious bed at The Quarters, so it makes sense that I wouldn't want to leave. So I was moving quite slow this morning and was running late to class. I walked into class a few seconds before Anissa closed the doors so I was very thankful for that. But I realized on my way to school that I forgot the piece of paper that I had written my homework assignment on. Normally I would just pull it up on my iPhone...but we all know what happened to my iPhone, Reese yesterday. I am sad to report that it's looking pretty grim for him and my near future. I don't know what I'm going to do without a cell phone. I can't call or text anyone. It is the most helpless, horrible feeling. I am completely thrown off kilter without my iPhone and I can't even form proper sentences I'm so off. So I planned to go to the library right after my French class to get my assignment off the computers there and then get some lunch in their cafe and do my homework. But of course, Murphy's Law prevented any of that from happening.
When I got there I went straight to the computer lab, and for some reason everyone and his brother decided to go to the library to do their homework today and most of the computers were taken. I found one in between a girl shopping on Amazon.com for shoes and some guy furiously going through his e-mail. Of course, the computer I would choose would be one of the slow ones that won't even load up. And this is what pisses me off. There was NOTHING wrong with the computers in the lab before...nothing at all. But of course I would choose the day to go to the library when they've JUST upgraded all the computers to fucking Windows 7. I HATE PCs with a passion. These computers are like....archaic and aren't taking well to the Windows 7 update and are moving slower than molasses in the middle of January. Of course, little Miss Thang sitting next to me's computer was going at the speed of light compared to the fucked up thing I chose. I only have an hour to get my lunch, get my assignment and do my assignment AND walk across campus for class. Nope. That wasn't happening under THIS computer's watch. So after sitting there for 10 minutes I started making impatient noises. The girl could see that I was getting upset and I took a chance and asked her if I could use her computer to get my assignment just for two seconds. Well, I guess not everyone is like me because if it had been me in her position she wouldn't have had to ask...I would have offered. The girl looked at me like I had just asked her if I could kill her first born child. She SHOVES the keyboard in my direction and rolls her eyes at me and looked at me like I was covered in garbage. I didn't realize how many MEAN people there are here. So I thanked her immensely, logged onto my ULINK and OF COURSE the Syllabus where my homework assignment is located is NOT opening. Windows 7 starts freaking out telling me I'm a jerk for wanting to open up a document on it. How DARE I want to view a document on Windows 7! THIS IS WHY I'M A MAC. So finally a gave up, thanked the girl and started to get up. That's when the guy sitting next to me takes it upon himself to chime in. Now he WANTS to help me and unfreezes my computer and advises me to take another one. But at this time I'm just so upset and exasperated and behind on time that I don't even want to do this anymore. So I just leave and thank the BOY who was kind enough to help me unfreeze the computer AFTER Miss Thang chopped my balls off with her piercing stares and disgusted attitude. I just keep telling myself that she's just a miserable person and must secretly hate herself. But I was more pissed off at the fact that I go to a VERY nice university that has PLENTY of students and provides an EXCELLENT education for a good price. But what good are ANY of those things if they can't even keep their resources up to par? What IT guy do we have at UL that leaves the entire computer lab in the library completely fucked on the first week of school?? I want to set that person on FIRE. So what did I do next? What I do best when I'm upset. Eat. I went to Jazzman's and ordered an iced chai with a turkey, BBQ sauce and BACON panini. Murphy's Law comes back into play. Of course the panini that they charged me $8 for didn't have bacon on it. I guess I happened to pick up the one that the people just forgot it. I know that's a little thing...but after the episode in the computer lab I was just ready to burst. I wanted to go up to those people and tell them what happened and exchange it for a new one, but I was just so emotionally tired I just couldn't. I realized at that point that people in America are so rude. I'm American. I've been here my whole life. But I grew up in an international school as a child, I've been abroad and have hundreds of friends all over the world so I am well-exposed to other cultures. I don't recall people in Europe being so blatantly rude as Americans. People in America just STARE at you. I was sitting there by myself eating my sandwich and right next to me there was a table of men cackling about really dumb stuff. I could hear their conversation. I wasn't looking at them just minding my own business...trying to act as passive as possible. But that didn't stop them from STARING at me like I was some kind of circus freak. It wasn't a "ooh that girl is hot" stare. It was a pointless "omg...a person eating a sandwich...let's watch" kind of thing. I wanted to PUNCH them in the face. I guess I was just always taught not to look at people and mind my own freaking business. I do people watch sometimes but I don't stare. I just quietly observe. But not STARE and make it really obvious that I'm looking at that person. That's just rude. Especially when they are eating. So that pissed me off too. I guess after that just every little thing bothered me. I went to class and hung around for about 25 minutes in the hallway.
I witnessed something that I barely get to witness because I don't go to clubs or bars often. I watched some guy try and pick up a girl. It was...really weird. This guy was REALLY working it too. He's one of those dominant males that has to flex his ego and self esteem by talking really loud above everyone else to make him look much more important and legit than everyone else. Aka: my father. But anyway. This guy sees this girl and I can see by the look on his face that he's wanting to bone her. Men aren't that hard to read. Every single thought that crosses their minds are written all over their face. And his face was sporting the "I'm going to tap that" look. I was kind of grossed out because this girl in particular had not grown or developed physically past the age of 8. She was really short, bone thin, no chest, no butt, no NOTHING. She had the body of an 8 year old child with the face of a 20 year old hooker. Aka: Toddlers and Tiaras. But this girl was really legit in college and just looked like she belongs in child pageants. My only conclusion I can draw is this boy HAS to be a pedophile or have some kind of complex about his manhood because this girl was so small. And clearly not interested in him. But he was the "ALPHA MALE" and had to strut himself all over the hallway showing off for her and all the other females in the vicinity. First she dropped her planner on the ground and he DOVE to get this planner for her. Like she was so incapable of getting it herself. It fell at her feet. Then he starts talking about the free jambalaya they were giving out on campus and how he can make it so much better because he "loves to cook". Right there he's playing the "man that can cook" card because apparently all men think this is a huge turn on for women. He's really going on about the spices he uses and all this shit and the poor thing looked really confused. Apparently he's really bad at this...alpha male thing. Then..the best thing that could ever happen to hype up his scam....his buddy walks through the hall. This is how this panned out. Girl drops her pen...she's really good at dropping things. Buddy walks right in front of the girl's pen and it's like they had some kind of guy ESP going on "Dude, let's show this girl how chivalrous we are and pick up her pen". Alpha male picks up the pen and hands it to his buddy who gives it back to the girl in one fell swoop with a "here you go ma'am". The girl is hooked. I'm watching this happening and it's better than Animal Planet. Seriously I'm really looking for an old British dude to walk in right now and start narrating..."the alpha male now shows off his manhood by talking with his cohort about last night's rompings in order to impress the female". So now Alpha Male does that weird handshake thing that all men do....I can't replicate it but they all do this like..hand slap when they see each other which is like "man code" or something. Then he cranks up the volume on his conversation with his buddy in order for the girl to hear "Yeah man...my teacher kept me after class today to tell me how thankful she was for me taking care of her son in his time of need."..."Yeah, I remember when I went to his friends house and kicked down the door to get his money...", "Yeah but I didn't want to fight..I'm more sensible than that". Right there, Alpha male has just played three key cards. First card: he's a good person that takes care of his friends. Second card: He's macho enough to go fight someone (this is where he shows off his brawn and bravery). Third card: But he's a pacifist. He doesn't like fighting no matter how capable he is. All the while he's checking the girl's reaction to see if she's listening. She was. And smiling softly. She's clearly impressed. I guess this is where brains and beauty separate. Because while she's being all bashful and impressed I'm gagging and rolling my eyes because I can completely see through the act. So his buddy leaves and he ends the conversation with "Call me if you need a drinking buddy" and the cool little hand slap thing again to show the girl he's cool because HE DRINKS ALCOHOL. OOOH LOOK AT ME. I DRINK BEER. WHICH IMMEDIATELY MAKES ME A GREAT MATE BECAUSE I CONSUME ALCOHOL. DUUURRR. Then he turns his attention back to "Toddlers and Tiaras" and starts talking about how he's got his own place and it's freaking sweet and how well established he is in life. As the time for class approaches he closes in on the girl and introduces himself properly and to all the other females in the vicinity...except me. I'm standing JUST as close to him as all the other "hot" females are, but he doesn't introduce himself to me which makes for an awkward situation for everyone else. I couldn't fucking care less. I found it quite amusing. When he sees the awkward look on his "female of choice"'s face, he then plays the "nice guy" card and introduces himself to me. Like, "I'm such a nice guy I'm going to pay attention to the ugly fat chick too. Look at how sweet I am". I shake his hand and immediately feel the need to sanitize myself. The class before us evacuates the area and we pour in and I'm dying to get away from him. Of course, Alpha male doesn't stop there. Alpha male continues to make himself known to the rest of the class by talking really loud about how lame statistics is making it known to all the females in the classroom that he is Mr. Cool and the person you want to get to know and to all the males that this is HIS classroom and HE cracks the jokes around here and HE gets the females. Why doesn't he just beat on his big monkey chest and show his fangs and scream? Well now...he shows his true male colors and turns his attention to the other females in the area forgetting about "Toddlers and Tiaras" and I can completely see the look on her face that she's upset and jealous as he makes himself familiar with a curly-haired brunette with big eyes and a "just got my braces off smile" wearing a sorority t-shirt and a machine-made tan. I feel bad for her. I mean..it's not her fault that her common sense and brain capacity is relatively small and that she falls for scams like that. I felt like extending a hand of friendship to her and maybe offering to go under the knife with her and give her some of my breasts. She really needs some of those and I just have way more than one human being should have. And then treat her to seven pizzas. Someone with that little body fat really weirds me out. That was my source of entertainment for the day.
Of course as I'm walking home Murphy's Law takes one more stab at me. I go to check my new mailbox and the key that they gave me DOES NOT FIT in my mailbox. This is the SECOND key that the Quarters has given me that does not fit the lock it's supposed to. They had to replace my entire lock to my front door because they could not find the key that went to my apartment and now they've given me the wrong box key. I'm going to get my roommate to try hers tomorrow. Today was such a bad day that I hid in my room for the rest of the afternoon and the entire night. It is now verging on midnight and I have only left my bedroom to make quesadillas. I had a slight freak out when I got home because I attempted to turn on my iPhone and it still doesn't work. SO I guess I'm fucked. I was so upset after the kind of day I had that I completely had a panic attack and started sobbing and pulling my hair. But...one of my best friends in the world, my little Indian boy Ananth Kini came to my rescue and made me feel better. He has those kinds of magic powers over me. And now....I will YouTube...because I can sleep in tomorrow and it's the weekend. Please please please GOD let next week be better. And either bring Reese back to life or somehow inspire my father to buy me an iPhone 4. Amen. Lol. Sorry that was sacrilegious. No picture today guys. But if I could choose a picture to use for this entry...I would take a picture of Alpha Male standing in Baboon stance beating on his chest with his mouth open....OH! I'll add the picture from my textbook. XD
End Day 6
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