well that just sucks
Aug. 1st, 2005 07:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starzkiI was feeling good.
Then I got an email about an RSVP I just sent in about my professor's farewell lunch telling me that the cost is $30 a person. For lunch! It could have mentioned that in the invitation because some of us are poor and cannot afford to spend that much money on lunch. I sometimes don't spend that much on groceries for an entire week. Also, it's Greek food and I'm a vegetarian. Which means I'll only be eating the spanikopita. I like spanikopita, but I'm not paying $30 to eat spanikopita. And now I want to cry because I'll have to rescind my RSVP and I adore this professor but can't afford to see him off properly.
I'm about two minutes from throwing a tantrum. I need to calm down and take a breath. But the department secretary who set the whole lunch thing up knows how much all of us get paid. I don't see how she thinks that's reasonable. I can see the logic in wanting a classier send-off. But it's not going to be a classy affair if only the other professors and none of the students get to go. Then it's like only the people who really loved him show up when the fact is that the rest of us really do, we just can't afford the stupid lunch.
I'm not calming down. She just makes me so mad sometimes. But I'm hoping that with Dr. P. leaving, she won't be far behind. Half the staff hates her and the professors are only nice to her so that she'll process all their paperwork like she's friggen paid to do.
Wow. I'm cranky. I suppose that it has to do with having insomnia and waking up at 5 AM. I did start writing my next story. Unfortunately, I started writing the thing in chapter 3, so I have no idea when I'll actually start the beginning of the story.
I think I'll call my mother and complain to her. Because typing it out isn't making me feel any better.
Then I got an email about an RSVP I just sent in about my professor's farewell lunch telling me that the cost is $30 a person. For lunch! It could have mentioned that in the invitation because some of us are poor and cannot afford to spend that much money on lunch. I sometimes don't spend that much on groceries for an entire week. Also, it's Greek food and I'm a vegetarian. Which means I'll only be eating the spanikopita. I like spanikopita, but I'm not paying $30 to eat spanikopita. And now I want to cry because I'll have to rescind my RSVP and I adore this professor but can't afford to see him off properly.
I'm about two minutes from throwing a tantrum. I need to calm down and take a breath. But the department secretary who set the whole lunch thing up knows how much all of us get paid. I don't see how she thinks that's reasonable. I can see the logic in wanting a classier send-off. But it's not going to be a classy affair if only the other professors and none of the students get to go. Then it's like only the people who really loved him show up when the fact is that the rest of us really do, we just can't afford the stupid lunch.
I'm not calming down. She just makes me so mad sometimes. But I'm hoping that with Dr. P. leaving, she won't be far behind. Half the staff hates her and the professors are only nice to her so that she'll process all their paperwork like she's friggen paid to do.
Wow. I'm cranky. I suppose that it has to do with having insomnia and waking up at 5 AM. I did start writing my next story. Unfortunately, I started writing the thing in chapter 3, so I have no idea when I'll actually start the beginning of the story.
I think I'll call my mother and complain to her. Because typing it out isn't making me feel any better.
