unrelaxed
i think i should be more relaxed right now than i am. in fact, i’m kind of wound up, which is really unfortunate, given this is my first “real” day of summer. i got some shitty news today; the director guy of the College Scholars program told me i might not get reimbursed for my research expenses because i waited too long to tell him about the project. i can see his point, but at the same time, it kind of pisses me off because:
- i just wanted to have a formal proposal to show him (and i didn’t submit stuff to the IRB until recently), and
- i just need to have a short meeting with him between now and the end of the next week, yet he says he has no time. evidently, he’s going out of the country next week, but i still think he could fit in a half hour somewhere. ugh.
hm. here’s an idea, Apple. before you release OS X, make sure that’s it’s possible to cut-and-paste between OS9 and OSX apps without the computer taking a shit. just a thought.
i have no fucking idea what Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is actually about, and yet i am absolutely certain that i would hate it more than any other movie that’s ever been produced. no male should ever see that unless it is with a female partner who promises him something excellent for enduring that torture.
[two : fuck NICOR, Ameritech, and ComEd]
somehow, i have conveniently forgotten to pay several of my bills. this, combined with running out of checks, has created an undesirable situation. i sought to remedy this problem by paying via credit card over the phone, yet NICOR’s piece of shit system kept cutting me off and ComEd had the goddamned AUDACITY to try to charge me 3 DOLLARS to pay via credit card. are you KIDDING ME? they buy an automated system, cut the salary of the customer service rep out of the equation, and have the nerve to try to charge me 3 bucks? blow me!
i then tried to go online to pay. the only decent online payment option was offered by Ameritech, but your e-account thing isn’t activated until you receive a password in the snail mail 2 weeks later. way to put the speed of the Internet to good use, guys!
other things/people that should die:
- Oprah
- Dr. Phil from Oprah
- Al Franken
- clickable maps
- Rosie O’Donnell — and her death needs to be painful
- the producers of all of MTV’s shows
- the producers of Fear Factor
- the guy who does the voiceovers for NBC
- Zoomerang
- all people who disagree with me