back in the thick

being back in school is great, but it comes with all the cuts, scrapes and bruises that go with taking long summer breaks.

1. somehow the first day i lost my wallet, luckily i cancelled the cards before they were used. it could still turn up, but these things always seem to happen when i radically change my daily schedule. i'm lucky i got home that first day. they wont let you ride amtrak without an id. i hopped on without a ticket to plead mercy. i guess they were running so far behind that the engineer never got to my car. thank goodness i didn't have to take a bus home.
   
2. most transfer students were not properly placed in theory classes, so now we have to be the bad guys and not only drop them, but they are going to have serious problems finding a lower level class in their place. things like this always seem to happen at big state schools, and i know from experience it happened to me also. even so it doesn't make those students feel better. i tell them if they every join the army it will feel similar.
3. good news! we finally upgraded the computer lab. bad news... nobody could get msword to run in osx because of a permission problem. result... first night of the mused technology class down the drain.

still, these problems are nothing compared to what my former private school colleagues are currently experiencing. i'll take these any day compared to the horror story that is elite private school education.