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[19 Dec 2009|04:24pm] |
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White devil! White devil!
had to drive in "blizzard-like" snow last night, going home for the holidays. the trip is supposed to only take three hours max, but add snow and a 30mph driving limit and you get *drum roll please* SEVEN HOURS! i could feel the white hairs growing in...maybe a wrinkle or two as well. spun out car dotted the sides of the road like morse code. most facing the opposite direction, having literally spun around. i had to constantly reassure myself that "no, those car aren't driving towards you, God isn't that cruel." and as the idiot drivers of NOVA are prone to do, tailgate was still not out of the equation, even with snow. i've concluded that it is somehow written in their DNA, and may have sat on their smart gene as well.
it was like a episode of ice trucker. i was tempted to wear flannel and a furry hat as i wondered where me pay check was, since apparently, i reached Alaska....must have took a wrong exit somewhere. silly me. random muscle truck also attempted to show their ability to driving in ANY type of inclement weather as they sped past our turtle-paced caravan of cars at a good 50mph. but lo and behold, the lesson of the turtle and the hare rings satisfyingly true as we inch past said 'random muscle truck' a few miles down the road, face-planted in a snow-filled ditch and ass-end lifted high in the air...brass ball included.
nevertheless, i did make it home safely, car intacted, even though i'm sure it cost me premature grays and a few years off my lifespan. i will be eternally grateful to the Massachusetts car i followed the majority of the way, since apparently he can show anyone how driving in snow is done, ever me. i have also vowed to shot myself in the foot before i EVER do that again...ever. i may even be tempted to shot you if you ask, you have been warned.
and so the meaning of my seeming random word vomit at the beginning of this entry..."white devil"... beautifully alluring as any delicious red apple, but
deadly if given into the temptation to partake.
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[30 Nov 2009|08:54pm] |
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the stuttering is not because of a speech impediment, it's because my heater has decided to take a siesta, on the coldest day of the year so far. i could put the thermostat at 90 and it will still be 40. 4 layers of clothing is my current record. running to walmart now to buy a space heater. it kind of sad that i don't feel a difference in heat as i set out the front door...
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[16 Sep 2009|06:28am] |
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All American Rejects - I Wanna |
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<-- Must See
What: Harrod's dept. store
Location: London, England
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[25 Aug 2009|10:07am] |
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Mute Math - Typical |
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Got my apartment. Battery in my car also choose to stall out even before the ink was dry. Foreboding?...quite.
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[11 Aug 2009|08:36am] |
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Otis Taylor - Ten Million Slaves |
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my lethargic brain just got a shot of adrenaline today. i checked my student account a few days ago and saw that my balance still hadn't been paid for. back-story:
usually once i fill out that online form and click send, it's all fluff and squeals after that. the school handles the rest. i get a note via e-mail saying my paperwork is being processed and come august, my tuition balance is happily nulled to zero. low and behold, i didn't get any reply from the office and therefore e-mailed them. my usual counselor is completely mute; no reply for weeks. i freak and e-mail the everyone within remote connection to this issue...i get informed that my counselor no longer works for my school. thanks Houdini. my new counselor then proceeds to give me a crap answer that is remarkably unhelpful. i try to follow what he tells me to do and cross my fingers and toes that everything is fixed.
apparently it wasn't. i email my ass-hat counselor again and get the same crap answer with the same wrong app form, but i fill it out anyway and fax it get it processed myself (which should be the school's job...it has been for the last three years). i get a call the next day saying that the form wasn't the right thing i need to send in, it was a letter that was need and more importantly...it was too late to file...too late by one day. meaning now i have to round up a few thousand dollars with weeks if i still want to attend school this semester. my counselor is VERY luck i do not know his face; otherwise he would not have it anymore and i would have guaranteed it was a slow and painful process...i would have been smiling cheerfully the whole time.
either way, i'm ready to cry by this point. my hand feel numb and my face tingles from lose of blood. i can barely breathe as i ask if there is anything i can do to bypass the due date, telling them about ass-hat counselor and that it has always been the schools job to do the processing. they check their records and, fancy that, what i said was true. i see hope at the end of the tunnel when they say that they'll talk to their superiors to see what they could do. hour later i get a call telling me i'm in the clear, my app process and tuition paid within the week; i know there is a God and i am eternally grateful.
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[20 Jul 2009|04:58am] |
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with this a/c unit in my window, i don't have the full effect of sound-proofing a closed window can provide. meaning it sounds like a "rythmes of the city" noise-track playing 24/7 in my room.
apparently, when the dogs of the neighbors across the street fight... they sound remarkably like a horde of zombies... coming for snack time. i peeked out of my window, pale-faced and wobbly-kneed, hoping to God i wouldn't be re-enacting the house scene from 28 Days Later from the comfort of my own bedroom. i only saw an empty street, which in itself ranks a fair amount of its own creepiness (especially with the unfortunate addition of mysterious sounds of undead cannibals). then i proceeded to take the next few minutes to decipher that the noise was really canine oriented, but also simultaneously configuring Plan B of how long it would take to get to the nearest Walmart to stock up on ammo and ramen...
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[19 Jul 2009|02:43am] |
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They Might be Giants - I'm Impressed |
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New Author --> Neil Gaiman
currently reading Smoke and Mirrors, a collection of short works by him; also went and got his book Fragile Things and Neverwhere (have yet to partake, but still very excited). very whimsical in a "Alfred- Hitchcock-on-acid-while-chatting-up-the-green-fairy" kind of way. he's interesting...and british.
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[01 Jul 2009|07:17pm] |
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Tegan & Sara - Relief Next to Me |
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New Movie --> Public Enemies
"I like baseball, movies, good clothes, whiskey, fast cars... and you. What else you need to know?"
-John Dillinger (Johnny Depp)
One of my favorite actors in 1930s mobster garbs; asymmetric smiles and with more confidence than Michelangelo's naked statute of David. tissue anyone, i think i just drooled a little. other than the fact that i could barely bring myself to blink when that man was on the screen, the movie itself was brilliant - "making your emotions cry 'mommy'" good. i'm also a sucker for romance, Dillinger and Billie rocketed themselves up there to Big and Carrie ranking. I almost wish more of the plot line could have been there to follow the sweethearts' story. His face when she gets caught...definitely nailed that one, felt my heart clench while curling into protective fetal position and everything, you feel so bad for him. Very tempted to buy the book as well.
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[30 Jun 2009|05:32am] |
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Way Out |
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HIATUS
EKGing back to life as we speak (figuratively).
July 08 - July 09
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L'arc en ciel - Drink it Down |
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2008.6.07 - Kyocera Dome Osaka
2008.6.08 - Kyocera Dome Osaka
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I think I just saw god...twice.
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