Half-full days of school

I've come to believe that you live in the world you choose- it really is a case of choosing to see the glass as half empty or half full. Right now, though its difficult to see anything but a dingy, cracked glass with coffee stains and a few cloudy drops hugging the bottom corner. Even if it is on top of an ocean of water. 

The weather isn't helping. It's a few degrees above freezing today, and the piss-mist of rain splattering the gray city forecasters are warning will freeze tonight. I'm irritated about my class schedule. I'm not looking forward to Structures II, I think that will be a tough class as its been awhile since I've taken structures, but that's not the main thing. There's this class we'll call HAL that deals with HVAC, acoustics, and light. This sounds absolutely identical to a class I took at ASU. I have the binder for the class every single day's presentations in it, and I have one of the two syllabi, as the class was taught by two professors at ASU. 

However, the professor here, let's call her rigorous, (glass is half full, remember?) is apparently unwilling to accept anything other than both syllabi in order to waive me from the class, and so I'm not happy with the current situation. Additionally, the HAL class overlaps with the class that I really wanted to take, the one class that has any appeal to me at all this semester (we'll see about studio). I called ASU and they told me who I needed to email, so my sincere hope is that they're currently working on getting me that syllabus and sending it to me in the next few days. Today or tomorrow would be nice.

However, I can't be in both classes simultaneously, so I will probably attend the start of each class. I hate it, but the madam professor also acts personally  and has an excellent memory. If I don't get anything from ASU within the next week, I'm pretty much screwed into taking the HAL class since I will either be dropped from the class I want to take from my not being there for the full class or already have too much of a workload to catch up to it. 

The third option is to simply say "screw it," and only attend the class I want to take. If ASU comes through in the two weeks, then I can take it to madam professor, and if she refuses to accept it, I can take it up with the head of the department who will hopefully intercede on my behalf. There are, of course, obvious risks. If ASU doesn't come through in two weeks, and if I continue to skip the HAL class, I'll fail, possibly lose my scholarship (if it drops my GPA enough), etc. etc. so I'm not going to do that. I could drop the class entirely, but I'm not sure of the ramifications as it still infuriatingly has to go through madam professor. 

For now, I will wait. And send polite email reminders to ASU if I hear nothing by thursday. So you can see why I'm less than exuberant about the beginning of this semester. And don't even get me started about how much I miss Saori.

Half-full. Half-full.