04 November 2008

Puff 'n' Stuff


Scene 1: Interior. Counselor's office. Possibly a university, maybe a very expensive private college.

Student: I’m just really, you know, just really not liking it and a lot of the classes are when I’m doing more important things… you know… shoes don’t buy themselves, so, you know.

Counselor: Ok. So, just so that I’m clear. You want to change your classes, again. This is the first semester and it’s week two, and you wish to change your focus, if I can call it that, of study. Again. Yes?

Student: Ah, yuh! Hellooooo, that’s what I just said?

Counselor: I guess. Ok, so we’ve gone from Law, because it was “all lawyerish and really dull and stuff and there were thick books that ruined your YSL handbag shoulder straps, and you didn’t think the wigs would suit you.”

Student: The law gave me a big ass…

Counselor: …Indeed…, changed out of psychology to Early Childhood Development, because, “It didn’t have any of that stuff like in the TV show Medium, that it was supposed to.”

Student: That stuff is sooooo spooky. I’ve got a friend who’s a psycho, and she can totally read, like, what’s in my mind. I mean WTF!?

Counselor: I’m sure she can. Does it take long? No. Nothing. Now, if we can just get back to the point. You are dropping all of those courses in preference for… it says here Industrial Relations and other stuff. Is that right?

Student: Yep! OMG, I love that music. I danced, like, all night to some deep industrial trance relations. I was so wasted! If I don’t like it though, I might have to change. Sometimes I’m not so good at that stuff where you’ve gotta, like, know all this really boring stuff? I mean who cares, right?

Counselor: Excellent. And, uhm, the career path that you will be exploring with this qualification? Do you have any thoughts about this? Any thoughts at all?

Student: Oh, I’m totally going into HR. All my cool friends are there? And we can help people and make them do their jobs better and teach them all this really cool stuff? It’s going to be awesome!

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