Hey I still sometimes add stuff here

Well its been a few busy and fun weeks, and if you are my friends you've either seen pics on facebook or flickr. So, I have started a new semester of classes and oh boy the same as before, just boring. Web site development was the first class, and is an online class. Guess what remember when my adviser said I would be bored the first six weeks, well turns out he was right and wrong, I will be bored not just the first 6 but all 15 weeks will be boring. So I got to learn how to create a web page, and use Google analytics in week 1, week 2 will have links, tables and image maps, this program wants me to become an alcoholic. I mean seriously what the hell is wrong with my school, yes its a school now no longer a program. Wahoo! (please note the sarcasm)

Class #2 is a fun management class, yes I have to take management again. But this time with less management theory and more talking about what/why we need. Awesome, so I have to go to a class and learn things I know again, and what I do everyday...I'm beginning to see a pattern with these classes I'm taking. In all seriousness though I might complain about these classes but I really do like my job and what I'm doing. I have fun at work, and that's what's important, I can sit through the classes and talk to people take facebook quizzes and find sneak peak tickets to movies during classes. The only drawback is the busywork that I don't really want to do.

On a totally different side note Motor City Brewing Co. has their Summer Brew back, so any takers? It's good stuff.

I'm bored

I have reverted to blogging when I'm bored apparently. So I'm finally a librarian, and you know what it's absolutely nothing different than before at work, just a new title, and a bunch of useless old business cards that need to be replaced. I would feel a little better about my "promotion" if I wasn't already doing everything before, I mean I was basically a librarian for less pay and no benefits. My favorite part is after working here for six years, I still get put on probation for 6 months for the union, and 12 months for the City. Right, thanks I'm totally going to disappear and become a horrible employee now that I'm full time.

So the whole crap of me getting rid of my blog was premature, I get bored and will do this but not as much as before. In all honesty I don't care if people stop coming to this blog, for the few of you that do I get to make you laugh or cringe in horror for some of the stuff I have posted or will post. That's right, cring in horror, I should start adding some of those videos to this blog that I talk about, so in other words Mike will never want to click on a video again when I start.

And finally and update about school, so I'm officially a slacker, big surprise right? I don't even know where my class meets anymore, and have no idea when homework is due. It only takes at most 45 minutes to finish an assignment, and is completely pointless busy work. I don't know if any of the teachers try to make class challenging anymore, or they just have such low confidence in their students that they make it easy. This could also be a ploy by the school to make students grades look better, but enough with the conspiracy theory crap. If any of you want a career change and need to find something easy to do, become a librarian. You too can learn the power of finding stuff online, and write papers abotu the future of the profession, make sure to include the internet changed everything and we need to adapt blah, blah, blah... I have written basically the same thing in three classes now, and because the lack of communication between teachers exists no one can tell I resubmit the same thing. I even told a teacher I wrote this for another class and am just copying it for you. Oh well I hope beyond hope that I might do something fun in this program, at least once before I graduate, but I'm not holding my breath

I was told to blog...

...why do people tell me to blog? I don't have much to say, so lets have a recap; School-still boring
Work-I'm finally a librarian
School- did I mention school is still boring?
Paczki Day- Drinking and fun
Blowout Day 1 - Hasselhoffed Eric, Drinking and sort of fun
Day 2 - Didn't go, saw a blue floppy penis
Day 3 - Drinking and fun, threatened, had an awkward conversation and many drinks.

Yes I was threatened, if you f*ck this up, you f*ck with me...Now go get us shots. Nice, thank you. School is getting ridiculous, I am beginning to think that this program is intended for the slightly mentally challenged wanna-be librarians. I had to go talk to my adviser, told him about my class I was going to take he tells me I'll be bored for the first six weeks of the 14 week class, and already know 80% of the class...what? Can I only pay for the 20% I don't know? Interesting email from my teacher telling me I can skip class, because she doesn't have much to talk about and would be pointless to come, thank you! Monotone teacher is still monotone, and is getting stranger each class, I honestly believed she stopped caring 20 years ago, but now I'm not sure if she ever cared about teaching. So...I'm really running out of ideas, I am getting bored seeing the same re posts online, so I blog less. I have no idea if I will blog more consistently or just give up on this site, its been getting less and less traffic, and I am getting bored with it. We'll see, so this might or might not be my last post; tell me what I should do, because I really need advice, or a reason to try to blog.

Catching up on the posting...

...because of my social reprimand last night. So sorry that I have not been posting every day, or posting stupid videos/links for all of you to go to. I have been busy, well not really but at least I can say that and make myself feel better. So it's been a while since I've complained about the newest adventures in my academic escapades.

So I am taking a whole two classes in grad school, why you ask because it's expensive and that's all I can do at a time. So this semester I am taking cataloging, and referencing, yes I know I sound like a fun, crazy, wild guy you all know and love.

These classes maybe the reasons that I drink as much as I do, seriously one teaches you common sense, and is filled with students who apparently have A) No social Skills B) Know nothing of real life C) Have been home schooled D) have been beaten repeatedly with the ugly stick E) Have had a mid life crisis and decided to change their career paths E) the few of you are actually cool, and I will talk to and F) A grade school teacher teaching grad classes. I actually get homework time during class, something I have not had since 4th grade, oh and if you can't find all the requirements for the assignment that's ok, it's hard to find things and you will not be marked down? Seriously thank you, that two hours you gave me last week for homework, I was at the bar drinking away my Motor City Ghetto Blasters, and the one shock top, which I will never drink again. Oh and I will get another two hours in class to do homework this week, so I'll put up a poll on what you think I should do during this homework time.

So far the best part was after the first assignment, we have a guest speaker come in to talk about real life situations. She started off by telling us that the last time she used what we just did, was for the assignment when she had the same class years ago. Guess what she uses Google to look stuff up, and never goes to reach for a book. Thank you, you mean that the internet has made the task of finding information easier? No, you don't say. I mean I can determine if a source is reliable on my own, holy crap thank you for this nugget of information. In all my collegiate life I never knew that the internet was a large warehouse of information that can be accessed anywhere and at anytime. I mean why should I pay for this degree when I can find everything on Google, it's such a time saver, and anyone can use it. Am I being too cynical here?

Second class has surprisingly more socially acceptable people, except for the teacher. Truly a surprise to find a class filled with mostly social people, the teacher is monotone, and appears to have stopped caring about teaching about 20 years before I enrolled for the class. So during her reading the freaking book to me for 3 hours at time, I take those stupid facebook quizzes, or read blogs/sites, or read watchmen. The teacher also has a habit of telling you very disturbing stories/facts mixed into her reading us rules; some great gems were her racist comments, disturbing revelations of her husband and "Daddy," and usually anything else she tells us that is not read from a gigantic rule book.

So, this a fun semester filled with beer, and me slacking through again. If I learn anything worthwhile I will be amazed, but looking forward to registering for a web development class this summer, and one of the main points of teaching is frames, you know what, 1995 called and they want their outdated web design idea back. WTF, I now think they are going to teach me how to log into AOL in this class, FRAMES SERIOUSLY!??!! Should I be prepared to hang myself now, is this the reason it's an online only class, that the people who know what they are doing do not beat you senseless for even mentioning the word frames in 2009? I half expect to log in and watch the first video and hear behold the power of FrontPage 5.0!!! Welcome to the new and exciting life of web-sites. ARRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

So this summer might be filled with more booze than I thought, and I'm going to love to learn about web design drunk! Behold the power of education, and how it is greatly improved with the addition of alcohol.

It's not a video

And yes I am posting at work, but technically I'm still at lunch so it doesn't count. But it's been a fun week, being told I am not doing my job, then that I don't know how to do my job, and my sis telling me I don't have a real job. But the woman complained printing took too long, and it was my fault, I did what I could and that was apologize for the delay but that was not good enough. Today I had to tell a patron that limewire is an illegal program to use at the library and if he did not stop we would ban him from using our WIFI, he didn't seem to understand that we cannot be responsible for distributing illegal music/video/software or whatever he was downloading, then he follows it up so where can I get music then? Seriously dude, I might know where but there is no way in hell I am the one who is going to tell you.

And then I had to go to Ikea, it was great the store was empty, and I needed to buy a bed frame. So since it was empty I decided to see what else was on sale, ehhh not much that I could use, big discounts on oddball items that no one wants. But I went to pick the damn frame I wanted, get the girl to help me, she tells me they have 4 in stock I was like cool, she tells me downstairs, I go down there and guess what they are no where to be found. I start walking up and down aisle 28 looking for the damn frame. I go to the help desk, he looks it up, and it is a full service item, which means that it's not with the other frames, but they actually have to get it from the back for you. Ok, he prints up my ticket, I go pay, and then pick it up. But bedding woman couldn't you have told me this? In the whole conversation of that's the one I want, and do you have it, you couldn't have said but it's not down there, and I have to print this up for you? Other than that it was ok, I guess.

On a completely different side note, Fox's game time crew sucks, they don't know how to talk about games. Will Oklahoma go for it on 3 and1, well yes, it's F*CKIN third down morons, they will go for it! And enough with the Tebow man loving every 13 seconds, yeah he's a down to earth do good guy, but don't keep telling me this. Oh and it doesn't matter to me how long it takes for Oklahoma between plays, as long as they snap the ball before the play clock expires then great if not 5 yard penalty, or as everyone knows these as basic rules.

And this is my last week off before schools starts up again, but if last semester was any indication, I'll have about 15 weeks off from real work. It should be better though, because I do not have a computer basics class that will drive me insane every week, instead I have more basic library function classes :-) So depending on how those go, I will have more frustrated rant posts coming up, and those are always fun! Bright spots of the coming semester include: Paczki Day (YAY Hamtramck Polish Drinking Day), and St. Patty's Day (During Spring Break, double bonus). And for those of you who remember last year; WE ARE TABLE #3, #3, #3, WE ARE TABLE #3, WHERE THE F*CK IS TABLE 4? Hopefully we have drunk wannabe leprechaun leading the chants again. And about that whole designated driver thing...1 2 3 NOT IT.

And to finally end this post I was looking stuff up when I found an awesome definition of a word that originated in West Philadelphia where I was born and raised, on the playground is where I spent most of my days, chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool and all shootin' some b-ball outside the school when a couple of guys who were up to no good, started making trouble in my neighborhood. Got in one little fight and my mom got scared, said you're moving with your Auntie and Uncle in Belair. And you have just been belaired.

Sitting in the Library...

...not the one I work at, but the university Library, yes I know I go to another library to try to study, you'd think I'd be sick of them already. Trying to catch up in my classes and am realizing that a degree only proves how much bullshit you can actually put up with for your employers. I am reading about how to find information, and how to assess information in grad school. Seriously if I had no idea how to do this I wouldn't be here.

This is still a thousand times better than what would be considered a computer fundamentals class that I am taking. The joys of online classes for a person with little motivation are few and far between, and sitting through mandatory videos about stuff you already know how to do is awesome! Let me repeat awesome!! Everyone should do this, go and watch videos about stuff you know for up to 3 hours a week, see how soon you want to kill yourself. So, so far I've learned how to use Word, Excel, Powerpoint, basic html/css (not the good css where you actually create a style sheet, but the ghetto kind where it goes in the head of the page and of course no mention of php), and we will learn Access and databases next. I can barely contain my excitement about this, I mean wow databases, it's not like I had to learn how to do this in High school, or the Programming classes where holy crap you would learn how to write your own database. Could I not test out of this class you greedy money hungry whore of a school? I was told that before I could talk to someone and explain what I do, and would not be forced to take this sham of a class.

Back to trying to read crap, or better yet there's a bar down the street can you figure out what I'm going to do? If you answered that I'll be the good student and do the readings, you
A) either have more hope for me than I do
B) Do not know me
C) Forgot that I stopped that no drinking thing

Update on my Degree

Well after dealing with the retarded bureaucracy at Wayne State, I'm finally done. Not without problems but I'm done. If you read my previous post you know the problem I had obtaining my degree, if you have not read it shame on you, recap here first, then read the rest.
Well back in Feb. I tried to get a class waived and boy was that fun, my student adviser sat on my HS transcripts for six months doing nothing, when I applied for my degree I find that out. So I went to the Advising center the following day, and wanted to talk to someone about waiving the class, I got there at 8:30 in the morning, which by the way sucks to go to Wayne State that early. I go to ask the secretary/student aide and asked him if I could see an adviser told him my major, and my problem he told me I needed my transcripts, I had not received the extra transcript from the Archdiocese of Detroit Archives yet.

So I go to the Business school who have a copy of my transcripts, and ask for a copy of MY records, and was told they're not sure if they could do that. WTF they are my damn transcripts, that I paid to be sent to the school, and was told at 8:40 am to wait to talk to an adviser, they don't come in til 9. Thanks, so I'm sitting their waiting, practically twiddling my thumbs, because there is nothing better to do, and advising the other students to run away from the advisers, and figure out what to do on your own, because they are completely pointless. So the first adviser comes in about 9:10 and, overhear the Secretary telling her they can't find my records in their filing system. AWESOME, so now you have completely screwed me over you lazy bastards. So the adviser looks for them, and finds them in the graduation pile, which they told me I could not do yet. So walking to her office I tell her I only need a copy of my H.S. transcripts, I am told to come into her office to talk, now if this was a porn, it might have been fun, but I had to wake up early on my only sleep in day of the week to come here dammit. So in her office she asks me what I wanted, and I tell here again that I only want a copy of my H.S. transcripts. She says that she can do that since they technically are mine, NO SHIT Sherlock thats why I'm here. Then she asks me why I and have to explain the same story again. She looks at me and says who did you talk to because we talked to Mrs. something, and they said they couldn't do it. So far I have talked to whover you guys gave me the number to, and was told that you have absolutely no idea what the hell you are doing, and I agreed.

I finally get a copy and go back to the advising center talk to the same secretary for the 4th time in two damn days, tell him my story again, and my major, and he then proceeds to tell me that they do not help business school students, I tell him that I know how to read the signs posted everywhere, but I was told to come here by the business school. The older possibly a secretary sitting in the back overheard my conversation, and told me to come to her, I have to once again explain the whole ordeal to a new person, show her the letter I got from the business school, and she says she will get someone who can help me. About 5 mins later she brings over a person and tells me to tell her my story, again. She then asks me if I can get a course catalog from my school, I tell her that would be hard since my school closed a few years ago, and they don't have these anymore. She ten asks if I can get a course description from the school, and I re-explained that the school closed, and that means that they don't have these records there anymore.

Now this is where I tell her that this has happened to other students including my sister, and that the only thing I can get is a copy of a letter my old guidance counselor wrote, explaining that it was actually two semesters of speech. She says to bring it, so I call Kasia on the way out, and she says that she'll look for it. Fast forward about a week or two, I go back to the advising center, and ask to talk to Mrs. Whatever, because I was told I need no appointment to come see her again, being 9 am and me being there I hoped to get this finally done, but was told they were in a meeting till 11am, yes all guidance counselors, for Wayne State, had decided to screw and shun the students for 2.5 hours that morning. SO, I do what I always do when I'm bored, I go online and find weird, and sometimes funny things (you should know this by now, if you have seen/read any parts of my blog). She comes in about 11, and talks to a friend for like 10 minutes at the door, as I am politely waiting, thankfully she remembers me and my problem, so there is no need to go through the whole story again. I bombard her with multiple letters, from my old school, my sister and WSU, she looks confused, and says she will copy them take care of the problem and let my adviser know that I can get my degree.

I did not hear anyting from my adviser for quite some time, and email her last week, I kept checking online, and read degree pending, no response from my adviser yet. 4 days after the email I get this response:
HI Konrad,
We will forward your info over to the Records dept. at the end of the
W08 semester, they will then mail the diploma.
Hope this helps

Why yes it does because I need my degree to apply to Grad school, and I check online and says degree awarded, So I'm done with you, then realize crap I'm coming back to you for Grad School. WSU is a new circle of Hell, if Dante could write a new book it would be set at the campus offices of WSU.

God I love Wayne State

So, I apply for graduation, and get a letter saying I need to take an oral communication (OC) class. Well I gave my student adviser my transcripts in the summer and was told that it would be taken care of in a week. Well I should have learned in the summer when she screwed me over from taking ahttp://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6965818831522789265&postID=7998506785411160808 class I needed, and then found out in the fall that I should have been allowed to take it. The walk in adviser also told me, that my student adviser was working on my OC requirement, and was told by her that it should be done no problem, along with the new adviser she was training.

So I apply for my degree, and get a response from my adviser saying she couldn't read the copy of the transcript from High School, about 5-6 months after she got it, so nothing was done. I get a call a week later telling me that that my high school classes won't count and to call advising if I need any more help. So I call advising and she tells me that student advisers and academic records have no idea what they are doing, and to come to them on Mondays, because they are open late. Ok today is Presidents day and I don't have to work and Wayne is open, so I drive down there pay my $2.5o to park, and go to the advising center. I go to the desk and the secretary tells me that Mondays are by appointment only, and he asks me if I want to make an appointment for Wednesday, Thurs., or Fri, I tell him I was never told about the damn appointments on the telephone when I called, he apologized for this, then asked him about Tuesday, and he said it was a walk-in day, so tomorrow at 8:30 am, I'll be at Wayne State, and telling them I am not taking a pointless class to teach me how to talk, when I was told I don't need to. They have already sucked enough money out of me, and are not getting anymore. So tomorrow I'll either be leaving happy or being dragged out by campus police for arguing with staff.