Little more stressed now:

1) I need to become bilingual, quick. Manager said she'd consider me to replace a woman's during her maternity leave if I could speak French fluently. Although I was pretty good in French (got my OAC in it)*, I haven't taken it since high school. Isn't it funny that only a week ago I was just about to recycle all my old French educational materials and I somehow thought, "no, I never know when I'll need to brush up." It's not fantastic enough to be psychic, so I'll just say hooray for coincidence, and, perhaps, intuition.

2) Tax receipts for both of my schools are not coming in. U of T said that it was mailed in February but big fucking surprise!, the lady at the registrar's** office says, "it is University policy not to take responsibility for an item once it has been mailed." I can order a duplicate, of course, but it must be done in person and there is a charge. Guess where I'll be at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning?

Notes on the above:

*OAC: it just occurred to me that since the Ontario Government cut out OAC (grade 13), the term is as obsolete as "heterosexual" and "WordPerfect" and "contraceptive foam." Saying you had your OAC in something used to mean you were somewhat accomplished, I guess the way they use AP in the states (if that isn't obsolete by now either).

**registrar: during office hours, these people are the scum of the Earth. They might be okay after they leave work, but there's no one in whose faces I would rather spit than my college registrar. It is socially unacceptable to spit in the faces of those you dislike, so it never hurts to have in your tool belt a few ways to annoy specific people. This is key: don't just do general annoying things; do very focused and targeted annoying things. My two favourites are to address the registrar as the "Register" and to call the country "Prance" when you're talking to French people. Watch them twitch; it's a marvel of science.