Maria maria-- or Why I may not be graduating in the spring
So Maria forgot, naturally, that I was supposed to be in that tutorial I need.
If I don't have it, I don't graduate. We've talked about this. She agreed. And yet, when I cornered her today, it was a different story:
Me: "Hi, Maria, I just wanted to ask you about the History of anthropological theory tutorial..."
Her: "I'm sorry, but that's only open to the four people who need it."
Me: "I'm one of them. I'd talked to you a few times during the semester. See, I'm graduating this spring."
Her (shocked): "Really? But-- oh, that's going to be difficult. Finding time slot...five students...fit schedule...inconvenience...only for students who were out of the country when it was offered...blah blah. Have you had cultural?"
Me: "I have to take it this year. We had discussed my taking the tutorial concurrently with cultural."
Her: "No, that's impossible. You can't take this without having had cultural."
Me: "Maria. I have to graduate this spring. I'd love to stay, but I do not have funding for a fifth year here."
Her: "Oh, well, I guess we'll have to work something out... Gotta go now bye."
John advises me to try the course and if I can't keep up, stay an extra semester. Tina says I should stay an extra semester no matter what. But I'm a pauper and the job isn't helping that much.
Oh, gods. I am so stressed. I just want to chew my arms off and claim disability or something. I need an appointment at Parkview. That has to wait until monday.
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