Today's rant...

Thursdays are a particularly long day for me. I get up at 3:30 to catch an early train into NYC, and then I'm here until 9ish. I don't usually make it home until after midnight. So as you can imagine, Thursdays are a day where people being rude and insensitive particularly piss me off.

Case in point: I'm sitting in the Gottesman Libraries at Teachers College as I type this. Across the aisle from me is a woman who came in and promptly "borrowed" a chair from one of the meeting rooms and wheeled it out to the studying area. While I agree that the classic wooden chairs at the tables are not the most comfortable for long periods of time, stealing chairs out of the meeting rooms is an unacceptable move.

The reason that this is irking me is that I have a group meeting for statistics later this evening and I will no doubt have to:

1. Kick people out of the meeting room at 6pm because they don't keep an eye on the time
2. Have to move chairs around because some insensitive jerk will have taken them from the meeting room

I want to focus on the work at hand and not on having to deal with logistical crap. To the Evian-toting woman sitting in the ganked chair: thanks for being a self-centered jerk!