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Old 05-06-2008, 12:17 PM   #36409 (permalink)
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Re: The Undead Gateway Thread

Someone up there must be out for me today or something.. I've hit a bad luck streak today, and it is only 11am..

I spend late last night trying to study for my Materials Engineering Final. The homework and past exam info on the class website that has been there for months has suddenly vanished, so I have half of the study materials I was hoping to have. Then when I try to print out my other materials, my ink runs out, so I have to do all my studying off my computer.. I get 2 hours of sleep, wake up to take my Final, walk out to my car and my Battery is dead. Mary is asleep so I have to go back inside, grab her keys, find her car, pull her car up to mine. Then I find out that the jumper cables don't reach. So I have to put my car in neutral, push it to an open spot, maneuver her car in a spot that can reach. You all know how parking is in this damn city.. I'm surprised I accomplished this feat by myself.

Finally get the car jumped. Put away everything, drove around to find a spot to park her car (While leaving the GTO running).. Got in my car, and drove to my Final Exam 15 minutes late... So I'm taking my exam, halfway through, my calculator craps out. So I'm writing these huge long equations without being able to come up with a final answer, so I wrote an apology on the front page of the exam, explaining my calculator situation.. I go to hand in my exam, and he tells me to keep the formula sheet. I head out the door, and take a look at the formula sheet only to NOW notice that there was a whole other side full of equations. He gave us this formula sheet a week ago, and that sheet had no other side! I didn't even think of looking on the other side, since I spent the whole time studying just the one side that he gave us! Had I known there was this other side (which he probably explained in the first 15 minutes I missed), I could have done the problems much more accurately, and much faster! Instead, I spent the entire exam time trying to derive these damn equations!

So I get back in my car, and notice that my Fuel Gauge is below empty, and the car is beeping at me telling me I have 0 miles worth of gas in my car.. I was going to be really pissed if I ran out of gas at that point.. but it turns out that the dead battery f-ed with my fuel sensor or something, because I was able to drive a couple miles to the gas station (Freakin 4.40/gal to fill up!), and the pump shut off 2 gallons short of my tank's capacity... Still, the gauge reads empty... God Damnit..

So I come home, ready to put this rant in the Random Rants thread, but alas, It is the ONLY thread on here that I can't open up.. So here I am... Posting for you guys.

Edit: Oh, and after applying to 30 companies for the past 3 months, I still can't find a job for this summer... Looks like I'll be going back to serving/bartending..
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