Arg ii

Notes for future, personal reference:
1) Do not attempt conversation with older women with bad eyes in a library setting. They will easily become cranky when you suggest using a computer to do anything. They might also drop the f-bomb.
2) Just suck it up. Suck it up and give everybody an "A". I mean, really, what's the point of grading when the prof is just going to bump the grade up of everyone who asks. Why not save him the trouble? And your own face?
3) Just suck it up, ii. Do not pick a fight when somebody refers to their post-grad options as:
a) staying in California or
b) moving to that (dreaded, snobby, completely different country of the) East Coast.
Do not point out there is a whole, big country in between the two; do not mention 'the world out there'; do not argue with their Calocentric mindset. Repeat and believe: There is only Callyfownia. There is only Callyfownia. The only border that matters is between NoCal and SoCal. There is only Callyfownia...
4) Do not picture fighting a student. It will only make you madder. Let her believe that all Cubans hate Castro and the regime; that they are horribly oppressed and dying to get out of the country-- all because the Miamian Cubans say so. Do not think too much about the effects of the media, the naivite of the viewers, as you may want to jump somebody Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle-style.
5) Never, ever go gambling for real. You are down thousands on the Microsoft version of solitaire.


**Note to all: Although it may seem that author is having a series of very bad days, this perception is illusory. It was really just a couple of discontentments in two separate days with 3 or 4 good days in between.**