the fotocopiadora is the bane of my existence

i know i know they a lot a complaining happenin around here...
but i have got to say this, the first couple weeks of school the fotocopiadora has been a nightmare.
on the one hand one might be thankful that one is not required to buy really expensive textbooks and that since there are no copyright laws in chile one can aquire all the required reading over at the good ole fotocopiadora.....howev.

we all got to go there especially in these first few weeks which means that the crowd is outrageous and the lines absurd and as we should all know chileans are not actually big fans of lines per se, so when i say line im actually reffering to a jostling mass of people who are all trying to get to the stressed out lookin dude behind the counter

now the key is to have all yer shit ready to go right? the little request slip, the cash whatev, have it all in hand and work yer way to the front where you will attempt to catch homeboys eye...sounds pretty simple right?

wrong

ever been at a crowded bar and had the bartender not only not notice you but take orders from everyone around and behind you as hands reach over yer head with they cash and whatev, thats what its like...

i have been dreading the inevitable trips to the good ole fotocopiadora which are necessary if you wanna read the crap the profs are gonna test you on asap...and they dont usually make available all the reading for the whole semester so you do have to make several trips...later on in the semester this is a minor annoyance, in the very beginning this is absurd.

so they just put in place a new system where you take a number and wait for the number to flash on the screen above yer head, the chilenos immediately began working out ways around this system such as handing orders to friends whose number is coming up instead of waiting, and now the system is practically useless since some people have taken to grabbing handfuls of numbers just to fuck it all up...

thus we are all doomed to spend many moons waiting impatiently for the fotocopiadora dude to notice us and finally take our order and tell us slowly and loudly as if our faltering spanish actually indicated brain damage exactly when to come back for our often smudged, sometimes opening bassackwards never fuckin bound even if we check the lil box which signifies that we would like our selection bound en vez de stapled big ass pile of arent you excited as hell to read say foucoult on literary theory in spanish??? or the book you couldnt find anywhere, missing a page which actually means two since the entire novella is fotocopied meaning two pages to every one that opens backwards which means you think maybe it would have been worth the trouble to keep looking for the actual book since one cannot really read this much material under these conditions anyway...

so there it is.
my beef with the frickin fotocopiadora...but the semester is now off, a classmate is willing to let me buy the book they have cause they already finished it anyway and my ass going to throw in my smudgy backwards missing a page copy along with the amount they paid cause it actually seemed like a decent novel that id like to actually read...

well gotta check out for now, paper due tom at 10 am and im about to bullshit my ass off in spanish...check you cats later.