grievances

Published
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Alfina the Vague
on September 30, 2004
in Academia and Food and Drink
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This just in: The life of a graduate student is pathetic. I am in my office at 12:28 am supposedly writing in preparation for an appointment with my advisor tomorrow. I could have been doing something else tonight, such as a) watching a movie with friends, b)eating dinner with friends, c)going out with friends, or even dare I dream it d)all of the above. But no, instead I am experiencing the mercifully infrequent option e)finally getting my comeuppance for all that procrastination. Luckily, plenty of other people I know are at least equally pathetic. And that, folks, is the beauty of Schadenfreude.

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  1. 1 mel
    September 30, 2004 at 5:02 am

    yeah, i found myself thinking the same thing as i got up at 5am to work on my next objective memo, a draft of which is due tomorrow. i have ruminated on it, but i really, even now, haven’t decided if this poor woman’s rights were trampled by the fictitious state’s fictitious department of social services.

    in other news, if a restaurant serves a customer bad shrimp, they are responsible for making that customer sick, but they are not responsible for you slipping on her vomit. be advised.

  2. 2 mel
    September 30, 2004 at 5:03 am

    of course, in my case i could have still been sleeping peacefully…none of my friends are awake at 5am to do stuff with…

  3. 3 Vague
    September 30, 2004 at 8:01 am

    i hear that. it’s 7:30 and I am back in the office again–a mere 5.5 hours after I left it. I guess I just missed the cracked plaser walls and institutional furniture. And in re the vomit, thanks for the warning; i’ll watch my step!

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