Aggravating Indifference

That Sound You Hear? » What's On My Mind by Gary Allan
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Big News » Word has it British kids have taken to the streets to slap random people. And photograph the act. Okay. So it's called "happy slapping" and it's incredibly pointless. They use these new video cell phones to capture the shock on people's faces and then post them online. In case you were wondering, yes it's illegal. Gotta love those Brits.

Now, today's story...

Two posts in one day! In your face, people who complained about my previous lack of posts! Ha! Ha.

So the President is presently present on my TV. It's not like I'm missing anything important. We all know how good Joey and The O.C. are. Yeah. Moving on...

Actually, tonight I wanted to write about this morning. As my previous 3 A.M. post explained, my group had our treatment presentation today. This huge project we've been planning and researching for two months. Our client never showed up.

After shepherding this thing down the field for so many weeks, on the one-yard line — nothing. It was infuriating. Although it was just our group's bad luck. We got the client that doesn't care. According to Flanagan, this is common. Lucky us.

We still had to present though, but instead of having a client to focus on, we had a classroom full of people who really could care less. We did a decent job, though clearly the presentation didn't have its intended effect.

I might also point out that about a half hour after we got out of class I received an email from our client — the representative from the chemistry department. She apologized for "forgetting" that the time was changed to 8:15. Even if that were true, she still didn't show up at 8:30 (which is what we had originally told her).

This afternoon, I sent her an email. It containted just one word: "Thanks." Sarcasm gets the point across best.

I'd also like to point out that the other two groups had great clients. They were interested and impressed with the presentations. Both bought the packages. It's incredibly frustrating to be the head of the only group that didn't, especially since we had one of the better presentations. The chemistry people just didn't want a video. They shouldn't have volunteered for the project.

That's all. I'm finished complaining. Just thought you'd like to know. No? Too bad. You could've stopped reading at any prior moment. Yeah, that's right.

More Work: I had Dubya on in the background earlier while I was writing this post. He was talkin' nonsense about how social security is gonna run out by 2041. I can't tell you how excited I am to be able to work until I'm 90. It's great news.