free turkey!

What a screwed up day. Today was the first day of classes, which normally isn't that big a deal, just means more traffic and a parking nightmare. If only today were that simple. First I get a phone call from my (irresponsible) sister at around 9am (I was supposed to wake up at 10ish) begging me to drop off some shoes she needed for some class. No friggin way. I'm not gonna be held accountable for her lack of responsibility. So then I hang up with her and try to grab any sleep I can before it's time to go. A few mins later my mom calls to tell me something about a dentist appointment and if it'll conflict with my classes, which of course it does, so she says she'll try and reschedule. So I hang up with her and try to grab a few more mins of sleep. 5 minutes later she calls back to tell me that I'm now on the cancellation list for the dentist. whatever. Hang up, try to sleep again. 10 mins later my mom calls again to let me know the neighbor is coming by to finish working on the tile in our entryway and bathroom and that I need to move the car so he won't block me. whatever. Hang up, attempt sleep. 10 mins after that my sister calls again pleading with me to bring her shoes. She claims it's on the way to class. She obviously has no idea where UT is in relation to Crockett (her high school). No friggin way. Hang up, try to sleep. 5 mins after that my cell phone alarm goes off. Time go to class. I was robbed of almost an hour of sleep thanks to all those dumb phone calls. So fine whatever, I woke up early. I got ready to go and I start my morning speed-drive to campus. As I get to the intersection of my street and the next, I look both ways so I can go into the street. As I look to my right, I notice a brown thing in the street. It looks really out of place and I do a double take. wth is that?? that can't be what I think it is... So I turn right and drive down the street (in the complete opposite direction I need to be going) to get a closer look. As I get closer, the thing in the street begins to run, then stops dead in its tracks and just stares at me as I'm stopped in the middle of the street. Sure enough, I wasn't seeing things. There in the street, 4 feet from my car, stood a big female turkey. Now, it's odd enough seeing a live, wild turkey that's not on tv. But compound that with the fact it's in the middle of a residential neighborhood, with no major wooded areas nearby, standing in the middle of the street, staring me in the eye. It was a bizarre scene. I was pretty much speechless, but my mind was going W.. T.. F..!? I guess that was an omen or something. It pretty much set the tone for the rest of the day. I ended up getting to campus later than desired. There was literally no parking and I missed my first class (Anthropology). I decided to come all the way back home to eat lunch, then drive back to campus for work. At work everything was broken. The printers wouldn't print. Acrobat wouldn't save. UT's webservers were intolerably slow. And to make my life that much worse, everyone decided to change their class schedules, which meant the AppDev Team Leader™ and I had to redo the work schedule to accomodate the new class schedules. The schedule is almost definitely going to need to be changed every day thanks to last minute add/drops (grrr). My Government class sounds lame (as all gov is) and even though the professor is a Japanese guy, he seems a little strict. Immediately after Gov I went to my Japanese Religion and Society class which goes from 5pm to 8pm (blech) and it sounds like it's going to be the end of me. We have to read a ton of crap, like a book a week and write short papers each week. I hate reading. We saw an interesting, if not old, video on Buddhism in Japan which was pretty cool. I wish we could just watch videos/movies instead of reading. I'm screwed. Tomorrow I only have one class (Stats) so it should be a little less messed up. Unless I see an elephant in the street or something. Guess we'll find out..

(I'm not gonna bother to proofread this, hence the one-huge-paragraph'ness of it all, so forgive any jacked up engrish you may find in this post. I have to be at work at 8am so I have to go to sleep like right now)