Monday, April 11, 2005

Can I Complain About My Schedule Again?

I ask this question because I know that you, cyber-traveler, are no doubt utterly bored with my constant whines about my schedule. Perhaps you'll remember that I was extra happy about my previous schedule, which gave me whole afternoons of lazing about. Unfortunately the wheel has turned, and a new schedule has been produced. I now have a class at 8:00 in the morning (no change) in the south of Madrid (big change), in the outskirts, a place untouched by the metro. I have to travel to the end of a line and take a bus from there. Gads! The Spanish class that I was going to take via my company has been placed in the middle of the only free time that I have on Mondays and Wednesdays, so I already warned the girl who organized it: This does not bode well for my attendance. To tell the truth, in my head I've already stopped going. My Saturday class is still intact, of course.

I'm not terribly unhappy, it's just the whole system that frustrates. Why should a schedule change so dramatically every three months? Another problem is that the company's policy on everything seems so willfully shrouded in drama and mystery. After a week of hiding the process from us, of cutting conversations short in mid-sentence when we walked into the office, they unveiled our schedules with a great "Ta-Daaaaaaa!" All this sleight-of-hand and disappearing, reappearing time gets old.

And I'm totally going part-time after this semester.