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January 31, 2005
La la la
I think late nights make me more assertive (or rude?) via email.
Hope my advisor does not *kill* me for not agreeing with her point *shrudder*. Have scary feeling in the morning she is going to totally make me feel like an idiot for my view point. Cest la vie.
Got 10 more lines to ax. Two inch margins need to DIE.
Posted by szujin at 01:45 AM | Comments (0)
January 23, 2005
Wal-mart hates me
Today, Scott and I went to Wal-mart. Anat and Oren had been raving abou t how cheap everything was, and we decided to finally make the treck out to the Wal-mart.
And I have to tell you, Wal-mart is A LOT cheaper. Going there was like letting a three year old loose in a candy store. I was buying things left and right; I was FINALLY going to get thyme (ok, so that sounds retarded, but I was REALLY excited about the thyme)! I think everything at the Wal-mart was at least 30% cheaper than Giant Eagle. Scott and I must've stayed a good two hours there in our consumer bliss.
But as we were checking out (as I was putting the FIRST item onto the conveyor belt), we heard an announcement, of which we ignored. But it KEPT ON COMING BACK. And so I finally listened and they were asking us to evacuate the Wal-mart. LEAVE THE WAL-MART (ie. "No Wal-mart for you!"). Everybody out. Wal-mart? Suddenly closed for business. No, you can't finish checking out. No, you can't pay or buy the goddamn pretzel you have been craving for the last two hours. Out the door you go, and when you stop one second longer? The Wal-mart manager will YELL at you.
So...we were forced to the leave the Wal-mart without a SINGLE ITEM PURCHASED. It was SO...unfruitful. Like working on your computer for three hours and then it dying on you without letting you save your document.
So where did we go afterwards?
Giant Eagle.
Blah.
Posted by szujin at 10:25 PM | Comments (0)
January 19, 2005
Customer Service is RETARDED
Recently, I have had a string of customer service experiences that have left me unexplicably PISSED OFF BEYOND BELIEF. As the number of these incidents increase, I start to wonder if I am the one being difficult. I am thinking not, but maybe I am just slow.
The case for today: Citibank Driver's Edge (Ass Rewards R Us)
I have been DYING for a Citibank Dividends Card recently. Apparently everybody and their mothers have this card (5% cash back on groceries and gas is hard to turn down I suppose). I on the other hand, CANNOT GET THIS CARD. That is of course, I call and transfer my Driver's Edge card to the Dividends card and lose all my rebates that I have earned on the DE card (approximately $200, which quite frankly, I do NOT want to lose). So I was calling to find out if I could use my rebates on some random thing when I was surfing their site (b/c it is extraordinarily hard to find the rebate form for some reason...) and stumbled upon a page that said "5% cash back on Driver's Edge card." IMAGINE MY HAPPINESS. I shit you not. Let me redirect you to this wonderful page (b/c I swear I am not hallucinating). It is here. See that first line? It says FIVE PERCENT CASH BACK. So I ask when CS rep picks up, if I am getting this, and if not, why not? Is it promotional for only NEW customer (does not say this), or is there some qualifications I am supposed to meet(but I do not since I am NOT getting 5% back)? The CS rep tells me only that "You do not have 5% cash back, you only have 1%. You would need to switch to Dividends." Which I say to her, "Umm...but your website says that I can get 5%, could you tell me what are the rules?" which she gets a little mad at me (but refuses to look at said webpage) and puts me on hold and comes back later to say "You USED to have 5%, but now you do not" (which I am thinking is BULLSHIT, b/c trust me, I would KNOW if I were getting 5% at some point in time) And so I insist again that she hasn't told me shit (but much nicer), and she replies in that "YOU ARE STUPID" voice that "Your account does not qualify. If it qualified, you would get it. But it does not say your account has it, so you do not qualify." WTF. And since it seems like I cannot talk to her anymore before I get pissy and she gets more pissy (b/c apparently, we? are having a BIG MISCOMMUNICATION), I decide to hang up. WITHOUT GETTING MY FIVE PERCENT.
I am frustrated again. I hate customer service. Why can't people be non-assholes and actually KNOW WHAT THE HELL THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT.
Ok, I am done. POOP.
Posted by szujin at 12:53 AM | Comments (0)
January 13, 2005
Argh
Earlier (deleted post) I said how the Chinese class was easy.
As if karma was coming back to BITE ME IN THE ASS, I feel dumb as shit right now.
I LOVE being in a meeting where I am too STUPID to catch with the flow of the meeting.
I LOVE how my ideas are SHIT, and within two minutes, we are onto "better" things where I feel like people are just humoring me.
I LOVE BEING HUMORED.
Oh, my favorite.
I HEART grad school.
Posted by szujin at 12:00 PM | Comments (1)
January 05, 2005
Leaving on a Jet Plane (aka my Nissan Altima)
I am leaving for Pittsburgh soon (boo).
Today was an extraordinarily busy night for me. I met up with three different groups of friends. Thought I was going to meet up with one in the afternoon but turned out she had to work. Then two of my other friends called, found out I was going to meet up with first girl and DEMANDED that I meet with them too("You cannot pick her over us!!!") So, with some "impressive" maneuvering ("I really have to pee and since we are in a parking lot, gotta go!"), I managed to meet my last set of friends by 11:45 pm without missing a beat. :)
First set (count: 2): Good friend from college + wife. Very good dinner and apple pie. :) Only scary part was that I realize that I get EXTREMELY panicky when I have to drive in the dark with A LOT of cars around me EVERYWHERE. I don't remember being this weird about driving in the dark before, but apparently CARS scare the shit out of me.
Second set (count: 1 + 1): girl I had not seen in two years. Then my other friend (I see all the time...) ended up joining us and "catching up" became "general socializing." Which was all good and fun, but I had not seen said girl in TWO YEARS!!! Poop. But yeah, we got kicked out of Starbucks around 11:00 and talked in a parked car for a while until I had to pee like a mofo, which meant...
Third set (count 2): Met them at a local bar. One girl is extraordinarily beautiful (apparently) where all guys oogle over her and you (read: me) feel ugly and gross. But, it was good b/c said girl is going to France for like, forever, and other girl is best friend from high school. So we chatted and talked for a while, and now I will not see them for a while.
It's always strange to realize later that the friends you had from before? They are still cool and fun, and you still love them. And that you miss hanging out with them all the time.
Poopers for going back to Pittsburgh. I'm gonna miss Atlanta again (especially the no work part).
*OMG, make me stop saying poopers. What am I? Three years old? (embarrassed for self)*
Posted by szujin at 02:02 AM | Comments (1)
January 03, 2005
Body Pump
Leaving ATL in two days. . .
Saying good-bye to Bodypump for another year or so.
POOP!!!!
PS. Fixed comments. HA, Eric (too bad that one was REALLY easy...)! :P
Posted by szujin at 11:41 PM | Comments (1)
January 02, 2005
Blah and Atlanta
Memories suck. When you feel blah over stupid emotional things and the environment you are in only brings up more memories, it is the suck.
But otherwise, being in Atlanta has been fun. I've got to see lots of high school friends (dunno where all my college friends went, all my close friends ended up being the ones I knew in high school. . .). Got to eat lots of good Vietnamese, Korean food, and home-cooked Chinese food. Even went to Mac Grill for Kimmie, Tzu, and my "any time the three of us get together in Atlanta" ritual dinner.
New Years was decent. Apparently, Waffle House is no longer the 24 hr diner of choice any more (poop) as I was outnumbered 5 to 1 for Tofu House 88 over WaHo (had to shed a silent tear for WaHo and self at that moment). Unlike the two years ago at Halo, where all of us got silly drunk (I don't really remember being silly drunk, but then again, I was reminded of events of that night that I don't remember doing, so I am guessing that is silly drunk, no?), this year we were pretty good. Wasn't really in the mood to drink as much (old and farty), but not so much for some of my other friends, which kept me entertained enough.
Tired and bored now. Feel like I should take full potential of being in Atlanta (ie meet up with more people), but I just feel like sitting at home.
What a dork am I.
Posted by szujin at 08:44 PM | Comments (1)