Tuesday, February 1, 2011

AI 5th quarter

I hit a rough patch today and in a culmination of events I felt like a foreign specimen at a school I've been going to for a year.

I haven't made any friends, just people I see regularly and say hi to, but nothing further. And I was ok with that. As long as I was getting my stuff done I was fine. While I was in class today I got a phone call saying that the audio recorder I borrowed was late.

"OK, so how much is that going to cost me?"
"10$ an hour."

All I could mutter was shit. It had been 4 hours. So I returned it and tried in vain to dispute it. The girl there just filled out my paper work without saying a word other than, "That's it" when it was over. I was really irritated by how disinterested she always acts and this was just the event that tipped me over the edge.

Later when I went to return the headphones that I had borrowed, the guy who is in my stop motion class was there. I handed him the headphones, he didn't say anything, he didn't look at me. I said, "Thanks," when he handed me my ID and he didn't say anything. He didn't even acknowledge me. He just sat back down and stared at his computer.

Up till now I've been ok with this school despite the many things I could find wrong with it, but this makes me really feel like I don't belong there.