In which I am generally bitter

Generally speaking, I don't hate February. The only things I truly dislike about February are the commercial holidays (since when did Presidents' Day become The Country's Biggest Car Sale, and who in their right mind buys a new car in midwinter anywhere it snows?) and the fact that it always feels like the next set of bills and rent and whatnot is due about a week after the February ones. I usually anticipate the market and hate March, which has 31 days and no holidays, should be warm by the end and never is, and is the month right before taxes are due, which makes me thoroughly sick of tax preparer commercials.

Today, however, I hate February.

( TMI )

I got mail today from the KSU Alumni Association which, for the paltry sum of $25, will put me into a database of recent graduates. They claim it's a networking tool for employment purposes. (And there's a bridge in New York going cheap, too.) Even if I thought their primary goal wasn't looking for money from people who haven't even graduated yet, I sincerely doubt that anybody who wanted to maybe give me translation work would look at the KSU Alumni Association database in the first place. The Institute for Applied Linguistics, maybe. The ATA Student Members list, maybe. But not the KSU Alumni Association. (I'm not on the ATA Student Members list anyway; I registered as an Associate Member so I could get into the mentoring program. Which is looking like being a pain in the neck to get into, but that's a different rant.)

I suppose if I'm going to get anything useful done with my case study today, I had better go do it soon.