[headdesk]

so i've applied (with cover letter and resume and everything -- it's so crazy) for a Bar Staff position in the StX bar for next year.  pays a little money, couple of nights a week, comes with guaranteed (but sadly not subsidized -- can't have everything) housing.

requires an interview.  i get an e-mail last week from M the Bursar, saying please can they interview me this coming thursday, 3 march, at 2pm.

i write back saying i have a tutorial on thursday at 2pm and asking for a different time.

this is not, by the way, the first time they've done this -- it seems to be their habit, to just [waves wand] schedule people for things, without any regard for the fact that we're, you know, students and might have an academic obligation here and there.  obviously they can't keep everyone's weekly timetable at their fingertips, but if they're going to need to schedule things, you'd think they could ask people for some indication of when they're free, rather than making all the work for themselves after the fact.  there are so few hours in a student's week that are non-negotiably committed to academic obligations -- but tutorials are the holiest of the holy.  you can ditch a lecture (and people do it all the time), but a tutorial is a one-on-one (or, in my case, two-on-one) meeting with a professor, and is not to be missed without (so say the exam regs) written permission.  i imagine it's a little more relaxed than that, and if i were running a 103-degree fever or similar i wouldn't get in trouble for telling the prof i wasn't going to be able to make it, but you get the idea.

e-mail comes from M the Bursar just now, saying they can move the interview to next thursday, 10 march -- at 2pm.

i don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[eta: in response to my reply "It's a weekly tutorial; Thursday 2pm is the *only time* out of the week that I can't make it", M the Bursar has e-mailed: "We are now offering next Friday 11 March at 1.45 pm.  This is our final offer!"  i'm choosing to believe that the tone of this is joke-y, because i'll tell you what, i don't think enough people applied that they can refuse to hire me on the grounds that they couldn't schedule an interview in one of the 39 hours per working week that i am free this term.  :-)  but, whatev.  i am free next friday at 1:45, and said so, and wrote it in my calendar in ink, and apologized for my schedule making everything so difficult.  (one hour out of 40, i'm booked.  rar.)  so it is, as they say, sorted.]

evening roundup

picked up two mother's day cards for my mommy today, because mother's day UK is this sunday (and in case we forgot, there's a note from the caretaker in the entryway to the building -- dude) and mother's day US is not until may.  (note to self:  also do not forget father's day, innit.  [/cannons_at_dawn])  cannot decide which one to send first, but think i will choose the one with a picture of a breakfast tray with hot coffee, juice, croissant, flower, etc. and inside note reading "this is what breakfast in bed might look like if i actually made it for you."  hee.

and!  prezzie from juice817 today!  [bounce]  yayyay!

dudes, how did i not know about the superdrug in market street?  it's right across from boots, which is fairly bold of them, but i'll tell you what, it was OMG less crowded.  a good deal smaller, but it had what i needed, so today it got my business.  w00t.  also bought binder and hole-puncher for printing-out of professor's textbook -- a massive drag, but cheaper and easier than trying to find the thing in a bookstore and then paying £40 for it.  and pencils, pencil sharpener, push pins that look like ladybugs.  got a decent amount of reading done this afternoon as well, but not enough, ugh.  self-assessment time right about now, and if i'm honest my SA will have to say something about the picture of me in the dictionary by the entry for "procrastinate".

also, bought duct tape (called "elephant tape", wtf?) for my card-holder-and-keyring, half of which finally separated enough for shit to start falling out.  i'd fixed it with duct tape before, but the previous duct tape repairs were shredding, and done emergency surgery this morning with a band-aid, the outline and one end of which are still visible.  heh.  but, like, this thing has been with me since my freshman year, y'all.  i can't abandon it now.  plus i don't think they make them anymore.

[eta:  GO SCOTUS GO!  the nine wise men seven wise men and two wise women four wise men and one wise woman overruled the three less-wise men and one less-wise woman, deciding 5-4 that execution of juveniles -- that is, execution of convicts of any age whose crimes were committed when they were juveniles -- is unconstitutional.  HUZZAH.  it's not enough, but baby steps, man.]

[eta2:  Roper v. Simmons, Justice Kennedy writing for the majority.  thanks to girlfromsouth and xyellowroset.]