so, as you may have guessed, i'm a grad student, from the url of my blog.
so since blogs are often used for venting, or emotional catharsis of the keyboard writing type, i shall do so here today myself.
to give u background, like i said, i'm a grad student, and i have very little income. meanwhile, the school i go to charges almost $1000 a year for parking. that in itself is bad enough, but say if paying this charge guaranteed one a parking space, it might almost be worth it.
however, that is not to be. instead, during the academic school year, when the tens of thousands of other students rejoin the campus (there is a brief reprieve during summer where parking is almost adequate), there is no parking to be found past 8am (exception being the far lot, which is only 10 mins walk, but if you have to lug a bunch of heavy crap everyday it sucks).
now, if you can imagine, i am not a morning person, and usually stroll into my lab around 9:30-10am. this doesn't cause problems with my work, or mean i work less than others. i stay late, until 6-7 pm everyday, and usually don't take a lunch break. anyhow, that's beside the point, most good people i know work just as hard if not harder, and longer hours to boot.
so..blahblahblah, as i was saying, no parking, parking is bad, etc. so this morning, knowing i probably wouldn't find a space, and would waste approx 20 mins looking, circling the various lots with "spaces", and then ending up in the far lot anyhow, which i should have gone to immediately upon arrival and then only spent 10 mins, parking and walking to campus vs. 30 mins, circling, parking and walking to campus.
so anyhow, i went to one of the closer lots, and lo and behold, someone was walking toward their card after i had been circling for a min. or two. i turned my car around to be in position to take their space after they left, and some dude in a vintage maroon mercedes also pulls up towards the space, on the opposite side.
I slam on my blinker before he does, which he never ends up doing, just sits there and kinda points at the space. so the guy whose space we are both eyeing gets in and backs out. Now, i only need to make a right turn into this space, where as the other guy, needs to wait and then pull a left into the space. so i could have rudely just pulled into the space while the other guy hadn't finished leaving. anyhow, i waited, and mercedes guy pulls in. i make a gesture of wtf? and honk. he is unfazed. so i peel out of the lot with lots of anger.
i circle a couple more lots, before settling on the far lot, and i'm pissed and sad and annoyed that that stupid incident made me all upset. so now my day is all f'ed up cause my mood is so bad.
oh well. that's the story..no biggie right?
i guess looking back on the whole thing, if he thought he had the first claim at the space (which is wasn't completely clear, but by blinker rights it was definately mine, vs. the stupid pointing he did) and i did "snake" him, he could have gotten way more ripshit than me. so i guess it's better that i got screwed than him. not that that's any comfort to me after wasting these 40 mins to get to my desk, and now wasting another 10 typing up this bullshit.
ok..thats all for now. props and love to all friends and fam out there.
