Must be that they're 'hearkening back to the old days' or something... It's okay. About three quarters of the restaurant industry smokes, too (it's the only way to get a break, apparently, because everyone then understands addiction and the need to feed it).

Hee. Multinational that bad? *is clueless about the industry*

Yeah, I know on the higher education thing. And tuition just seems to keep going up! The only good thing about it is, if I manage to land a job as a teacher (what I'm currently in school for), then at least most of the schools (around here anyway) pay like half of your costs. Otherwise, that would just be nuts ._. It's like double what I'm paying right now.