This is like that one time the stapler kept breaking.

9:00 AM: I arrive at AUC and dash over to Ewart Hall to sign up for an appointment with Ms. Jehan, the ALI director.

9:30 AM: Drink volcanic coffee from L'Aroma.

9:45 AM: Go to my appointment. I am informed that it will not be possible to switch classes, as the class I was supposed to move to (as of Monday at 3:30 PM) has been filled. Ms. Jehan is very sorry, but this is the situation. "This is not paradise." Recommendation: ask Lisa for extra homework.

10:00 AM: Panic, because this means I have to go to fusha without having done the homework (to say nothing of the fact that I'm going to be spending the rest of the semester gouging out my eyes while everyone else tries to learn what a masdar is) AND I will only have 20 minutes to prepare my presentation for amiya.

11:00 AM: Our entire class learns that the posted room for this session is incorrect. We troop downstairs and across the building while I explain why I am even here at all.

11:03 AM: "You thought you got rid of me, but you were wrong."

11:04 AM: Lisa sends me upstairs to talk to Ms. Jehan again.

11:30 AM: I learn that in fact my space that was filled by someone else was in fact filled by myself. Tip for those in administrative roles: This is why we write things down.

12:30 PM- 2 PM: Amiya (same class as before the switch). My presentation was okay, but it's probably better that it was not graded.

2 PM-2:40 PM: Adventures at Hegazy. Good sandwiches. Slow service.

2:55 PM: I attempt to attend class.

2:58 PM: My new grammar professor explains quite forcefully that he has NEVER BEFORE PERMITTED A STUDENT TO ATTEND HIS CLASS WITHOUT A PASS, the implication being that he's certainly not going to start with me. Okay, fine, I will go get a pass from Ms. Jehan. BE QUICK ABOUT IT, WE ARE STARTING CLASS.

2:59 PM: I attempt to ascertain Ms. Jehan's location. She is gone for the day. Naturally, she is the distributor of these fabled passes.

3:00 PM: Dr. Taha tells me that I must attend the Ramadan Orientation at Hill House, and that surely the class which I was not permitted to attend will be arriving there soon.

3:10 PM-4:20 PM: Ramadan Orientation. Brief presentation. Free food! Class which I was not permitted to attend never shows up, which means that I have missed a day of class! After joining the class on the fourth day of the semester! And if Ms. Jehan will not write me a pass tomorrow, or is not available to write me a pass tomorrow, I will continue to miss class until Thursday! Oh, and since Add-Drop is over, I have to be in this class, or no class at all!

4:25 PM: Kanzy shuttle leaves because it is full of people who are not me (or Jess or Caprill).

4:41 PM: AUC Security Guy Who Doesn't Know What's Going On tells us another shuttle will come in five minutes.

5:15 PM: Shuttle has not arrived. We decide to take the Metro instead.

5:45 PM: Arrive at Kanzy. Internet is down. Internet is down a lot of the time lately. This makes me angry.

6:00 PM: Try to get internet in the lobby. No internet there either.

6:10 PM: Give up and watch The Office instead.