Honestly, how hard is it to answer a gosh darn email! It’s been about a week, and my Spanish teacher hasn’t responded to my email. I hope that there is a course evaluation because I need to finish this course and soon and she is not making it any easier!! First, there’s the 1 month absence that I wasn’t aware of, and if you’re in the middle of teaching a class you should not be running all over the continent. Second, it’s really difficult to mail tapes to the states with return postage if you’re sending it to a different country. A thirdly, I’d like a response to my gosh darn email!!!! Is that SO much to ask for?? It makes me so angry. Time after time, I run into these professors that are about as responsible as a drunk teenager. My history professor is right on, always replies to my emails within a day and corrects my assignments within a week. That’s plenty for me. How am I supposed to complete both of these Spanish courses within the remaining 2 1/2 months of summer if she can’t reply to a single email without it taking her 3 weeks!!! I am under too much stress here to be pushed around like this.

And if the whole teacher thing isn’t bad enough, there is a dog here that is out to make my life miserable. I swear, that’s its sole purpose in life. Last night when we got home from the movie, my Spanish work book was wet and scratched. It’s still usable I hope (because I don’t want to buy another one for just a few pages) and just now, the same dog went and did a number two in the upstairs bathtub (yes, the one that I use… boy, am I glad I already took my shower). I chucked all three dogs outside. I thought they were being too quiet this morning. Of course, the other two dogs are fine. But this one, it’s a hellion. If it were my dog, I’d have given it away long ago. Or else had it go through doggy boot camp. My Alley has never been that bad.

I definitely need a break from house-sitting.