mizChartreuse!

I already miss two nights of work each week for my evening classes (that is, when events are scheduled on those days, which they often are). This week, two professors in different classes are requiring me to attend other extracurricular activities. One is an Etiquette Dinner on Thursday, for which I’d pay $15 to have some old biddy tell me how to sip my soup. The other is this weekend’s production of Into the Woods, a musical which incorporates several classic fairy tale stories. Five bucks for students.

First off, I work at fine dining restaurants. I know which utensils to use when and I don’t slurp (unless it’s the very last of my cocktail…I still use a straw). Second, my high school performed Into the Woods. It’s a classic play, but I’m not incredibly fond of musicals nor do I want to sit through it again, especially when I could be making money. Besides, the entire play synopsis is on the Internets, and I bet I could even find footage of it on youtube.

Would you call off FOUR work days in a week? Who can afford that? To top it off, the circus is coming to town so after this week, I’m off for 15 days.There are students with JOBS and LIVES and children to support…

Or would you tell said professors to suck it and explain your situation? In that case, they could always come back with, “Well you knew at the start of the semester! You should have requested it off.” My last option, which I am seriously considering, is to just get a synopsis of these events from a classmate/cohort and pretend I went (since the Profs won’t be there). At the end of the day, my professor’s aren’t paying my rent, are they? No.

This is so dumb. What would you do?