Enough already

I swear to you RIGHT NOW, if someone else I know dies anytime soon, I’m dyeing my hair and moving to New Guinea. Because I frankly don’t know what else you do when all the news everywhere is bad news. On Tuesday of this week, a man I work with dropped dead of a massive heart attack in the shower at his home before work. His wife works here as well, and was already here when she got the call. He was 44.

My co-workers went to see the wife yesterday afternoon and, as is to be expected, she was a basket case. Apparently she kept saying, “I feel like I’m in a bad dream, this has to be a bad dream, will I wake up soon?” and everyone around her just had to hug her and shake their heads because HOLY HELL what do you say to that? Yes, this is a bad dream, but no, you’re not ever going to wake up? I mean really. I’ve said so many prayers for her I’m running out of words.

In other news, I’m pretty for sure that my professor thinks I’m a dumbass. This class I’m taking – the next-to-last one before I graduate in December THANK YOU JESUS OH MY GOD I’M ALMOST DONE – is like a business-y, MBA kind of class, which means that I don’t know shit about it. I mean we’re talking value-added reports and compensation plans and managing yourself and, I’m sorry, what? So I emailed her – the prof – the other day, and I’m all Hey Dr. So-and-So, I’m a little worried about my performance in this class and she emails me back the following:

“Don’t be too concerned. I’ve been doing this class for a number of years and students with all levels of experience–including none–end up doing just fine. In fact, I think this is a great class for those with little experience in editing management because it introduces some concepts and tools that people may not get any experience with until they’re faced with them in the workplace. The reason I have you turn in the cases one at a time and then as a portfolio is because most people need feedback on their first attempts at the cases. For the cases that require working through the budget, use the worksheet–that’s key. I created a Word document from the sample in the book and that’s available in Course Docs and as an attachment to the thread I created last week. After you’re gone through it a few times, the calculations make more sense. I think you’ll be fine.”

She thinks I’ll be fine. Did you read that? Do you believe it? Yeah, me neither. If I wanted to get an MBA lady, I woulda signed up for an MBA. But I didn’t so much, and now I’m in this class and really I would drop it if I had any sense but I don’t and so now I’m stuck in it because I just want to be done so very very much. Pray for me people. I need someone (I’m talking to you here, Higgins) to lend me their business-idea-minded brain. Just for like, two more weeks. I’ll give it back, I swear. Or maybe not.