Rusty spork please?!

AHHH!!!! This is me today:


I had a ridiculous non-stop day of meetings and doing shit, a horrible advising appt with a student who made a registration advising appointment with me who wasn't even in ACES, (for anyone besides Crissy who doesn't understand why this might be frustrating, during our 7-week registration advising period we are booked pretty solid each day with back to back 20 minute appts with OUR students.) This girl should have came over as a walk-in, but instead somehow found our RAAP website and made an appt with me to discuss how she no longer wants to be in the Music Education program after 3 semesters, and now wants to do....
MARINE BIOLOGY ORRRRR BUSINESS MARKETING!

WHAT?!

Yea. Try having that conversation and recommending courses in 20 minutes. I clearly did not, then ran over horribly the rest of the day, and of course my appt right after here got there 20 min early. My day picked up when I went to class, then swung by the Rainbow Center b/c they were giving out their annual free t-shirts today. This year it says "The Rainbow Center: 10 Years and still queer... no, it's not a phase". Love it! Then I went down to check out all the homecoming banners that are on display. The Rainbow Center and the Asian American Cultural Center's banners were by far the best, it's going to be a tough one. Homecoming here is INTENSE. The student organizations work endlessly for months preparing for the various competitions. I'm judging the royalty pageant this year and am super excited about it. Anycrap, that was quite a side tangent.

Speaking of GLBTQ stuff, today in Oneonta (one of the few highlights of my day) this extremist father-daughter duo from the religious reich stationed themselves in the quad spewing anti-gay messages. Fong was the first to inform me of this and I got so upset. But then Bunker started texting me with pics of the ongoings, which brought me such immense pride b/c most of the campus community flooded the quad to protest these horrible people and support the GLBTQ community. I honestly cannot say how overwhelmed with shock/pride/joy by this, Oneonta students really standing for something for once! It was just the right medicine I needed after the bad taste I got in my mouth about Oneonta yesterday after reading the horrific things students posted from Oneonta on juicycampus.com.

So anyshit, back to today and why it needs to end. So after the banner viewing I realized my dad called while I was in class b/c yet again Social Security sent a letter to his house addressed to me regarding the $11,000 debt I have b/c of him. I'm so fucking sick of it, that hasn't been my address for YEARS and I've complained to them so many times about sending stuff there b/c he reads it and/or sometimes doesn't give it to me, and also this debt isn't my fucking issue. I amazingly got him to sign a letter stating this, and told them not to contact me further regarding it and deal with him. BAHHHHH. And of course he had to be all gruff and assholish and be like "yea it's mike, I got a letter from SS, I don't know what you want me to do with it.. click". Fuck you asshole. Mike? As if that's supposed to hurt me that you don't call yourself my dad anymore? I cut you out remember?!

Then... I come home and somehow my Mac which is supposed to be indestructable has some popup about malware, I stupidly click on something then all this shit about Trojan viruses appear and I freak out and download some free virus software for Macs and install updates and am praying it's fixed. The last thing I need. THEN, I get an email from someone I've been trying to help ALOT this semester saying how hard of a time they're having and how they think they aren't going to return to school next semester.

AHHHHHHHHHH

I officially hate today. The only thing that made it worth keeping was all the amazing Oneontans who stood up against the hateful whackjobs. Oh, and the little things in life. So I just spoke with my father which is ALWAYS a downer. I saw Joe was online so I asked him to tell me something funny and he said today he saw a garbage truck with a plush teddy bear rigged on top. Little things like that make me remember how lucky I am, and how to stay positive. If people who's jobs are cleaning after others shit can still be positive enough to have a teddy bear strapped to the top of their shit eating truck to spread and scatter joy around town then I can be positive too.