Gee, you'd think the head of the grad department would know that us undesireable lit majors are forbidden to take Article and Essay Workshop (now renamed with the clever moniker "Narrative Non-Fiction"). You'd think he could have said something when I went in to get some advice for my schedule for spring. Gawd forbid we try to get a little cross-pollination going between the programs, not to mention, THEY COULD STATE THAT IT WAS FOR MAJORS ONLY ON THE COURSE DESCRIPTION WEBSITE LIKE EVERY OTHER CREATIVE WRITING CLASS DOES! WAY TO GET MY HOPES UP FOR NOTHING, PEOPLE!!! Here I was, blissfully thinking that I could get my writing mojo going, but, NOOOOO!!! (This is probably where Lucy Lunchmeat should stop reading, or else she might start hating me.) It's bad enough that non-creative writing majors are treated like the proverbial red-headed stepchildren around here, plus they even nuked the major I really wanted, but to tease me into thinking that I could take a damn class of theirs is really just too mean! Other English departments actually WANT you to take courses in the other majors, but not this one. Can't let those lit people think they can try something new, just go back to your dusty books in the library, half of which are in deep storage in an undisclosed location and it takes three or more days to get them.

Speaking of the library...in the "Adding Insult to Injury" Department, it took me a half hour just to log into the registration system, only to find that there was a financial hold on my registration. Wanna know the amount? Because you'd think it would have to be pretty hefty to hold up a student's registration ability. It was...$1.50. Yeah, the damn school was about to go broke without that $1.50 library fee, I guess they don't tell you that at the library anymore, you just go through life, checking out books, joyfully unaware that there's the spectre of $1.50 owed to the university hanging over your head. I go to the web site to pay the $1.50 (which magically morphs into $3.50 with the $2.00 "convenience fee" tacked on...grrrrr.....) and, for some reason I can't pay under the Opera web browser (which works fine for EVERY SINGLE OTHER SCHOOL WEB APPLICATION, I MIGHT ADD), so I have to open up Internet Exploder, log in AGAIN, and then get reamed an extra $2.00 for "convenience" sake...Only to find out, that I can't take the damn writing class that I was so excited about. Fuck. Well, I know my place, so I'll just put those highfalutin' creative writing notions all out of my head, yessir.

I have a friend here who wants to transfer to another school, and I this morning I can understand his attitude.