In desperate need of a break
Taken from 'bikerlawblog'
The past two days have been immensely frustrating for me. On Tuesday, I realized that I'd lost my student ID, and would have to pay AUD60 to get a new one. That itself was cause for dismay, but it wasn't until the next day that I fully appreciated the nightmare of not having one.
Not having a student ID meant that I couldn't use the Monash shuttle bus - which meant that I had to use normal public transport. You'd think it would be faster since I wouldn't have to walk down to the bus loop, but after two days of public transport I can now gleefully tell Melburnians - I have now joined the ranks of the public transport haters.
It's still nowhere near as bad as Malaysia, but being someone who doesn't take public transport all that often and especially not on regular days, it was really, really frustrating. Take this morning for example - I woke up at 8 for a meeting due at Caulfield at 9, thinking surely I'd be able to get there in time.
Boy was I wrong.
I missed the early bus at 8, and thought well okay, I'll just catch the next bus, it'll be fine. I went to the board and saw that the 8.13 bus was going to be a little late, but thought that would be okay.
It ended up arriving at about 8.30.
Then we drove down to the Monash Bus Loop, and the driver just SAT THERE for a few minutes while I was anxiously looking at my watch.
And when we FINALLY got to the train station, it was 8.50, but I figured I'd make it in time if I could catch the train.
Which JUST LEFT right as I reached the station.
The next train was 9.05.
Sighing, I figured I'd be a little late.
It got delayed.
When it did come, it arrived at 9.15.
I got to Caulfield at about 9.40.
Sigh.
Also, another lesson learnt..ALWAYS request receipts no matter what you buy.
On Tuesday I bought discounted movie tickets from my campus bookstore, and because they were just tickets the lady didn't give me a receipt.
I got home, realized that they were child tickets and tried to get them exchanged today.
The lady kept staring suspiciously at me and kept going 'well I didn't know what tickets you wanted' which is ironic since she herself had ASKED ME if I wanted student tickets, and I nodded yes. I mean seriously? If I'm at uni, I sure as hell don't qualify for child tickets, and do I LOOK LIKE I have kids?
Furthermore she was the one who didn't give me the receipt, so it's her fault technically, no?
Ugh. :( Add to that the fact that I have no idea what I'm going to write about for my rainwater story, and I feel like I need data but lack in data, and some people haven't gotten back to me about stuff, and damn I just feel so lost.
Easter :( Hurry up already.
posted by FluffyRed @ 1:28 PM
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