The Honeymoon is over.

The honeymoon period is over. Over, I say!

I just returned from the most miserable, patience evaporating bus ride ever. While being on a crowded bus is unpleasant, being in a bus so stuffed that people start yelping (yes, imagine a frantic, desperate tone, like a dog) that the bus driver has to open the second set of doors because they can't possibly move to the front to get out, is another story.

I should have not got on this bus. No one could fit in the front doors so he opened the back. I (and others) were met with another solid wall of people but pushed onwards. Why? Because I had been waiting for nearly 20 minutes and was loathe to waste another 20 or more, totaling almost an hour of my time. Especially since the next bus was very likely to be just as jam packed. So I shoved myself on that bus.

And could not move enough to get out. Eventually, after crawling over people, squishing by them, shoving and squirming in an almost tear inducing manner (from frustration) I escaped.

This may have been less than pleasant on any other day but it came on top of a most trying afternoon. Today was my second day of orientation and while the first half was much like yesterday, the second half made me want to get up and walk out. I suffered through learning how to access my email and navigate the website, which I knew, with good humor.

Then we had to sit through a lecture on what plagiarism is. We learned that copying and pasting is indeed plagiarism. We sat through five slides of examples, with the exact passage side by side being told "doing this is plagiarism." We sat and sat through being addressed as if we were in high-school.

I felt like my time was absolutely wasted. Going through the subtler aspects of plagiarism would have been helpful. The less clear cut times, like using a phrase from popular culture that is commonly colloquial, yet has a source from a television show or movie. Things like that.

But no, we never went over that or even citing less tradition sources, another not always known topic. An acceptable topic at our level.

I know I can't copy and paste into my paper and not cite. I know. And I am angry I had to sit through a drawn out lecture on it.

And then go buy an 115.00 book. Trust me, I looked online. I scoured the internet. But it just HAD to be the 2011 edition. Which means no used copies.

"Discovering Computers 2011: Living in a Digital World."

I do not want to discover anything for that much money.

So I fumed my way over to the bus stop. Waiting almost 30 minutes.

And was greeted with the challenge of getting on and off a bus so crammed with people that I'm surprised the bolts didn't pop off and the sides explode outward.

Needless to say, I am cranky.