November 21, 2001
pay day
11.21.01--pay day
i will marry the first person to express mail me a piece of pumpkin pie.
check it out. i was supposed to be payed at the end of last month. october 29 if i remember correctly. however, the man who handles all of the salary paperwork here at the school was putz and kept "forgetting" to prepare the contract i needed to sign. because of this, i didn't get my money when i was supposed to. upon learning this, i went (along with the other assistant in the same situation) to speak with the man (who is not even THE Man, but rather one of his paperwork peons). he acted all shocked that we hadn't been payed and then called the rectorat in caen to see what the deal was.
as it turns out, the rectorat had only just received the paperwork and had yet to even enter it. they said the money would be there on the 16th of november. so fine. i waited. the 16th rolls around. guess what. no money. so the other assistant went once again to see the man.
apparently when they said "the 16th" they really meant "we will think about transferring the money on the 16th, but then we'll have a two hour lunch break, drink a few glasses of wine and then forget all about it. we won't actually transfer the money until the next monday and after that it will surely take a few days to appear in your account."
the paperwork man told us that if hadn't arrived by friday(!) he would call the rectorat again.
what the fuck people?
but, i was getting to my point here.... I FINALLY GOT PAID!
so if anyone was thinking about filling me with champagne, taking advantage of me, and then stealing my cash card, now would be a good time.
my wonderfully geeky friends just kicked some ass at the ndsu academic bowl. "pink freud" was the team name. they're so clever i might be sick. kendra, jen and i would have mopped the floor with the other teams faces last year had we entered. instead we chose to hightail it to minneapolis to see dave matthews band open their winter tour. (this was before i'd heard any of the everyday songs, while i was still "saving myself" thinking that they could only be better than the lillywhites. before i became disillusioned. it still makes me a little weepy. let's stop talking about it, okay?)
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