record-breaking

I just made a record number of British people uncomfortable.

On my way to one of my seminars, I ran into the seminar leader.  ”Hello,” he said.  ”Hello!” I said, wondering why he was walking in the opposite direction of the classroom.  Then I walked into the classroom and realized it was empty.  I’d missed it, making two seminars I’d inadvertently skipped.  So I went to the English office to ask if attendance affects your grade.  Turns out it doesn’t and that the secretary doesn’t think I’m very funny (“Sorry I’m incapable of following simple instructions,” I said.  She looked slightly perturbed.)

I told her I would e-mail my seminar leader and tell him I was sorry for never going to his class.  She said she thought he would appreciate that.  But then, on my way downstairs, I saw him again.

ME: Hey, I just wanted to say that I’m sorry I keep missing your class.

HIM (visibly uncomfortable): That’s…okay….

ME: I just keep getting mixed up with the times.

HIM (visibly uncomfortable): That’s…okay….

ME: It’s really rude of me.  You take time out of your day to, um.  (Long pause)  Well, I guess I’m keeping you from something.

(Exeunt ME)

Goddammit readers.  While this means that I am now free to skip my remaining seminars, which are boring, I am still deeply frustrated.  I am not trying to be a dick and yet everyone thinks I am one.  This must be how Kanye West feels every day.