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wThursday, July 29, 2004 | |
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Yesterday I drove out to school and talked to the TA who taught my class last quarter. First of all, I was a little late and had to sit through half the class to talk to her. Boring. She said that she thinks I should take the class again because it's exactly the same and will therefore be easy for me. I had been hoping she'd just offer to let my midterm and final grade stand and make me write 2 papers. But no. Afterwards I went to the office and discovered that summer school fees have skyrocketed. Past the available limit of my credit card. They gave me a form and if I get the Dean's signature and the instructor's I can go at the student rate and save the $50 application fee. Still, it's a total rip-off. The best part of the whole experience was driving even further out to BFE with my sister to have dinner at Black Angus. They charged us full price for our drinks during happy hour because we didn't order them at the bar. Other Black Angus' don't do that, grr. Also, we got cuts of steak explained to us. That didn't really apply to me, since I don't eat red meat. I only believe in killing cows for shoes. When we left, my pants were quite tight. Amazingly I drove home stuffed, but without getting sick. posted by Jenny on 7/29/2004 06:02:00 PM |
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wTuesday, July 27, 2004 | |
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I think it's interesting that I can take a 2 hour nap, have dinner, watch the Dodgers lose and come back to AOL to find them playing the same song on Radio@AOL that they were when I left. And by interesting I mean lame. There was an article in the paper today about USC going back in time to claim a football title from 1939. God what a bunch of whiners. It made me sorry that USC isn't coming to the Rose Bowl this year so that I could hold up a sign that said something like, "Waaah, you forgot about 1939." Then I realized that they ARE playing at the Rose Bowl this year. Mwahaha. The trainer from Sea World who was "attacked" by a killer whale during a show was interviewed on the news this morning. I think it's fucked up how he's taking the opportunity to defend keeping whales in captivity. Not that they should just go around freeing all the whales, but does every Sea World need to have 10 whales jumping every hour on the hour? And should they really send a whale off to any little tank who offers them a couple of hundred thousand dollars? Personally, I stopped going to Sea World 15 years ago. posted by Jenny on 7/27/2004 08:01:00 PM |
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wMonday, July 26, 2004 | |
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Today was my mother and her evil twin's birthday. We went to Spago for lunch with 3 friends. One of them brought her niece who just moved here from Japan and doesn't speak a word of english. Other than that nothing that interesting happen. Well, except that my mother traumatized me this morning by flashing where I came from at me. I screamed for 15 minutes while she told me to be quiet. My sister and her sister didn't believe me that it happened, but she told them she did it. Then I asked her in front of my dad about it and she denied it. Maybe because that's disgusting! Also, my parents said that if I want to go back to school next year they will pay half of the rent on an apartment for me. Too bad I have to go to school to get the money, though. I saw a poster advertising local Pop Warner sign-ups. Football players can weigh up to 150 lbs and cheerleaders can weigh up to 200 lbs. If a morbidly obese 12 year old wants to cheerlead I don't see why they should stop her. But still, rock on girls, you can weigh 50 pounds more than a football player and still make the squad. posted by Jenny on 7/26/2004 09:14:00 PM |
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wSunday, July 25, 2004 | |
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Comic-con 2.0 We left earlier this year, though I swear we arrived at about the same time. Even though we where the parking lots were this year, it still took awhile to find one. We ended up walking even farther this year than last year. Had we been able to park at the hotel we would have just hopped on a shuttle, but oh well. Pre-registering is definitely the way to go. We did save a few bucks, but more importantly, we avoided the line. We walked around the main hall looking at all the dealer's and stuff this year and actually picked up tons of "freebies" (though moreso on Sunday). We had our picture taken inside a plastic White Castle burger by a half naked girl. That was something of a highlight. I had sort of wanted to check out the Star Wars event in Hall H on Saturday. I mean, this is the last Comic-con before a Star Wars movie comes out, so why not. Well, we had planned not to, but with nothing else to do at the time and the hall apparently not full we decided to go for it. They were letting people in costume walk right in, but the rest of us had to go outside and wait in a loooong line. They told us we might not get in before the panel started, but after 20 minutes or so in line we made it just in time. One of the guys who walked right up was dressed as Darth Vader sans helmet. Well, by the time we got to the front of the line his friends had shown up with his helmet. It took 2 of them to cover his head in some elaborate hood and put the helmet pieces together on him. Later when we were inside they said that in this movie we will get to see how a man becomes Darth Vader. I already saw that in the hallway! alright, so our seats totally sucked. We were like 1/4 mile away from the stage, probably 6 rows from the back and kind of off to the side. I only glanced up at the stage when Carrie Fisher came out. I realized that it wasn't worth the effort to see little specks when I could just watch one of the many, many screens they had up. The extras they showed for the DVDs looks awesome. I was really disappointed to hear that the DVDs will be the special editions, though. Blah. Nothing beats the original. Ewok song! Since I don't have an X-Box I could give a shit about the video games they were pushing. It was cool that they got Hayden Christiansen and all, but I still think the guy is whiny. Shattered Glass was a pretty good movie, but I think the part could have been just as good or better if someone else had played it. The one thing we really wanted through all this was to find out the title of episode iii. Well, after sitting through this whole panel it was opened to questions from the audience. I was just embarassed for most of these geeks who asked their questions. Finally, when some guy got up and smuggly asked a dumbass question about Jar-Jar and if George Lucas feels guilty for creating the character, we decided to get up a leave. After having sat in there for the whole thing we left 5 minutes before the end only to MISS THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE EPISODE III TITLE! It would have been totally awesome to hear the annoucement, but alas, I was not a patient in my Jedi training. Next we sat through the Paramount panel in Hall H in order to ensure a seat for the Sony one. Team America looks totally awesome. I've seen Trey Parker and Matt Stone at a panel before. They sure are entertaining. Sky Captain and the World of tomorrow looks like it sucks. I was interested for about a minute to hear about the green screen process, and about 90 seconds that the film was initially intended to be a series of 5 serials. But other than that, I could give a shit. They should have let Bai Ling talk more. She was the only person that seemed worth hearing from. Sony was Sony. Never having seen an entire episode of Buffy I didn't feel any great sense of momentousness with Sarah Michelle Gellar's appearance. I was suprised she talked about Buffy at all, I thought maybe she'd be a big bitch about it. She talked about it quite a bit, though. She barely let Jason Behr get a word in edgewise. She sure likes to talk a lot, but I could tell she doesn't like to listen. Our hotel/motel room was in Coronado and was quite an experience. The dinner we brought back to the hotel was good. Our room was in a courtyard overlooking a Mexican restaurant. We had to walk through the area where people were waiting for their tables to get to the rooms. There was salsa and chips all over the floor and drunk people with their margaritas blocking the way. Otherwise the room wasn't that bad. For breakfast on Sunday morning we went to a cafe around the corner and had crepes and blintzes. That was the best part of the trip. Sunday was all about Firefly. Again, I never saw the show. We got there early to get seats. Caught the end of the Shaun of the Dead panel and it looked like a really good movie. Had I known that was going to be a major part of the zombie movie program I probably would have gone to the trailer program where they show all the movie trailers and then suffered through the zombiness. I'm not going to get in to the signing session for Firefly (Serenity). I'll just say that we didn't make it through the line despite my sister having left the panel early. The security guard told us we had to leave because, "I'd rather this whole line just disappear", though many people who he wanted to leave did end up going through the line. They tried to bribe people to leave with lots of free t-shirts from Seed of Chucky and Shaun of the Dead. I wasn't actually in the line, so I was grabbing shirts and passing them out. Funny thing, no one left. Finally they gave us pre-signed copies of the mini-posters to leave, which we did once the cast was gone. I got one too, and it's destined for ebay. Also, my ticket number was within the range for a She-ra doll. My sister bought one while I waited for some guy to run to an ATM so I could buy him a Batman. It turned out I could have bought 2 She-ras with one ticket. The accidentally gave me 2 tickets, so I have my left over one to a little kid who wanted a Batman. Better it go to him than some dealer, I figured. posted by Jenny on 7/25/2004 11:09:00 PM |
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wWednesday, July 21, 2004 | |
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I am going to Comic-Con this weekend. We decided to stay Saturday night so my sister could see Joss Whedon again on Sunday. Now this seemed easy enough when I went to the Comic-Con website last Thursday and saw that they had a hotel with an open room. Naturally I booked it. Tuesday (as in yesterday) I get a phone call from the travel company saying that there was a mistake and I shouldn't have been able to book the room. I checked my email, there was what looked like a duplicate email with the title "Hotel Confirmation". Had they not called I wouldn't have opened the email, because it said confirmation, not cancellation. Therefore yesterday was spent scrambling to get a hotel room. I thought that I knew San Diego well enough that I could find one at a smaller or private hotel. Nope, they're either already official Comic-Con hotels or booked. I did find a Comfort Inn near Sea World for $799, but call me crazy, I passed. After a few hours I left to return Mario Party 5 (awesome game) to Blockbuster. When I came back, my sister was booking a hotel on Coronado Island! Still, we had been excited to have an awesome room in Downtown San Diego with a shuttle stop for the convention and near all kinds of other things. Now we're paying more to stay in a crap motel and are worried about how to get to the convention without having to pay an arm and a leg for parking for 2 days. Talk about screwed. British Airways is having a big sale right now. I have money but no time and really no one to go with. Time is really the issue to travelling, being alone isn't it so much. Then again, I still have no job. I already wonder how it's going to go over if I finally get a job interview and have to ask for Labor Day weekend off. Well, the day before, the 3 day weekend and they day after, really. posted by Jenny on 7/21/2004 07:57:00 PM |
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wSunday, July 18, 2004 | |
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I got the awesomest Roos today. Huh, the font looks funny, and I see a bunch of new options up on top on blogger. Spellcheck, block quote, numbered list. However my return key does not appear the be working. I'll add html blind returns, but I like to also separate by hitting return. So back to my Roos. I really wanted this gray pair that I tried on in black the other day at the promenade. I found I site where I could get them for $54. But Nordstroms is having this huge anniversary sale so my mom told me to go check it out first. Well, they had another gray pair there for only $30. My mom offered to pay, so even though these aren't as good as the pair I really liked I'll take them and maybe get another pair of shoes later. Not that I need any more tennis shoes, I have 3 pairs of Pumas already. The show guy at Nordstroms measured my feet and said I was a size 7 1/2 almost an 8 in women's. I told him no way because the shoes I wore in there were size 9. He tells me that altheltic shoes run small. Um, they're Pumas. So he tells me he'll bring an 8 and an 8 1/2 and I'll see that they don't fit. He brings out an 8 1/2 and a 9 1/2. I try on the 8 1/2 thinking the other box is an 8. Well, the foot he measured turned out to be my smaller foot because I couldn't even get my left foot in the shoe. Then I noticed the 9 1/2 and they fit on the left foot fine. They are a little big on the right foot, but if I got a 9 the other one might be too That is just more evidence of how the shoe department sucks at Nordstroms. I used to sit there and fan myself with my Nordstroms gold card trying to get help. Once I needed a pair of snow shoes in late December. I saw a pair at Nordstroms in the men's section, and since I wear the smallest size they carry I figured they'd have a pair in stock. Well my friend and I waited in the department for 45 minutes trying to get help. All of the salesmen said they were busy but instead there were 6 of them talking in a big group by the register. A guy came in and they got him a pair of shoes which he bought without trying on. The gold card trick didn't even work. Well I went back later that night with my dad. We walked through the door and someone offered to help us before we even stepped into the department. My dad told them to talk to me and the guy rolled his eyes at me. When we were paying I told the supervisor what had happened earlier that day and he said he remembered me! Jerk! posted by Jenny on 7/18/2004 09:13:00 PM |
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wWednesday, July 14, 2004 | |
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First day of treatment. 
Thursday 
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Can't find any pictures from Saturday or Sunday. Also, forgot to get these during daylight... 
Seventh day of treatment. 
This morning after I changed the water. I don't really think these pictures show anything. If only I could train the fish to do the same thing at the same time every day I might get better pictures. Oh well. posted by Jenny on 7/14/2004 01:15:00 PM |
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wTuesday, July 13, 2004 | |
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I have lexapro, or a prescription for it, anyways. I was in the office for about 5 minutes. He said that after talking to me he thinks that I'm better off on it then not, so he was giving me 4 months worth. I seemed to have convinced him of that in less than 5 minutes, though I do talk fast. I was thinking, if I see him every 4 months that works out to 3 times per year. At $75 a visit he's making less than $200 off me each year. Then again, he might be getting money from the drug company to give me lexapro. But some of that offsets support staff and office rental, so it could be less than $200 like I said. Now figure that the earliest appointment I've been offered was 8:00 am and the latest is 3:45. Plus he works at least 4 days per week, I suspect 5. I wonder if it's all 15 minute appointments or if some people come in for an hour or maybe once per week. If he saw all his patients for 15 minutes every few months that would be an astronomical amount of people for a single practice. If there is a new person coming in every 15 minutes it's the parking guys who benefit, because that is a total rip-off. posted by Jenny on 7/13/2004 05:51:00 PM |
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wMonday, July 12, 2004 | |
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I just wanted to say that if you ever plan on calling an ambulance or fire truck, please try to allow 20 extra minutes for traffic. It is more reasonable (or likely) to plan your accidents ahead than to expect every idiot on the road to move out of the way of a speeding convoy of ambulances. posted by Jenny on 7/12/2004 07:25:00 PM |
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wSunday, July 11, 2004 | |
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Sort of ironic, really.  You are a GRAMMAR GOD! If your mission in life is not already to preserve the English tongue, it should be. Congratulations and thank you! How grammatically sound are you? brought to you by Quizilla Speaking of ironic, I caught (what I think was) the tail end of Alanis Morrisette on Regis and Kelly the other day. She was singing, "Ironic" and really didn't seem happy about it. It reminded me of when that song came out and took over the air waves. I was in 11th grade and liked to point out all of the things in the song which aren't really irony. I thought about making a list, but didn't want to go log in to blogger at the time. Maybe I will some time. 
We took my mom's old friend out to dinner for her birthday. I wrapped her gift in the brown package paper and then cut, bent, shaped and painted it so it looked like a flower. It was not my idea to add the ugly pink greeting card. I think that starting tomorrow I will update about my fish. The only thing is that it's hard to get on the computer for any length of time since my sister got back. posted by Jenny on 7/11/2004 06:00:00 PM |
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wSaturday, July 10, 2004 | |
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I started calling my mom by her first name close to 15 years ago. I got tired of going to school events and calling out "Mommy!" only to have every other PTA mother in the room turn around but mine. Calling out her first name is the only chance one of her children has at getting my mom's attention. But my dad has always still called her "mom" when talking to us. Sometimes I'd get confused and think he was talking about his own mother. Well just now I saw a bottle of "Wine Away" red wine stain remover and asked my dad if he bought that. Usually my dad buys the wine and lately my mom buys the silly gadgets. Plus, buying something to clean with is totally out of character for my dad. I wanted him to say he bought it so I could say, "when she gets home, let's test it on something!" (As in spill some red wine and see if it works). Anyway, my dad told me that he bought it, but it was my mom's idea. But... He refered to my mother by her first name! I can't remember him doing that before. I feel like this is some sort of victory on my part that I've finally converted my father as a have my sister to calling my mom by her first name. Yet another one of these today - Woohoo! posted by Jenny on 7/10/2004 12:18:00 PM |
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I only have 2 more pictures saved before I have to crop and resize more. Woohoo! Alright, that's not really much of an accomplishment. 
This is by far the ugliest invitation ever. It's from a bridal shower my mom went to. Shellacked (shell-acked) and glittered to holy hell someone thought it needed some gold spray paint too. Does anything ever need an entire craft store aisle? It was so sticky I could read the want ads that were stuck to the back. Oh yes, and the edges have been burned. Enough said? Oh, and after the invitations went out with the beach theme the couple switched their honeymoon from Hawaii to Alaska. Haha. Now it's one more picture. Hurray! Did you know that it's shellac in the present tense and shellacked in the past tense. I figure there was probably no "k" in "shellac" so after typing "shellacked" I looked it up and discovered it was "shellac" and therefore decided the past tense must be "shellaced", possibly with a double "c". That looked wrong, so later I looked up "shellacked" only yo discover there was in fact a k. This is probably the most research I've ever done into spelling something. adding the "k" sounds like one of those spelling/grammar rules you were taught in first grade but never had an application for until now. When it comes up it only seems oddly familiar as opposed to second nature like those things are supposed to become. posted by Jenny on 7/10/2004 11:53:00 AM |
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wFriday, July 09, 2004 | |
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 Which Princess Bride Character are You? this quiz was made by mysti 
One of the 6 piles of crap my sister left upstairs (the other 5 were in the hallway) when she left. Oddly enough, she comes home today. My mom finally cleaned them up this week and made one bigger pile blocking my door, grr. posted by Jenny on 7/09/2004 09:08:00 AM |
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wThursday, July 08, 2004 | |
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All of the May pictures I set aside are up so now we start on June. There are more pictures that I've taken intending to post but the ones I resized and uploaded already will do. Also, I'm going to start taking a picture every day of my fish to see if I think it's getting any better. It's really hard so I end up taking 8-9 to get one useable one. Otherwise pictures of my sick fish are pretty boring. Nothing else to report really. If there is I can't remember it anyway. I'm supposed to take my sister's car in to be washed and detailed. My mom told me to pick a scent should would like. I think she would like her car to smell how she left it, but I'm going to get pineapple, pina colada or coconut, depending on what that have. 
All this ketchup was left over after I ate a single order of fries. posted by Jenny on 7/08/2004 01:25:00 PM |
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wWednesday, July 07, 2004 | |
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Today I made a 13 mile trip down to Petsmart to find out they were out of what I needed. Also, their teenage employees know even less than the ones at Petco. They had more dead fish than alive fish. Their fish made mine look not so sick. So I went to another Petco on the way home where they were out of stock of the thing I went to buy, but they had the waste absorbing gravel I wanted so I bought some. Clearly a mistake because they had 1 checker and 6 people in line. Some woman tried to cut in front of me and then accused me of cutting when I inched in and blocked her. They had someone passing out forms looking for people to review the employee that helped them. Finally someone asked them to open another checker, once there were 10 people in line they did. 
I'm glad I had this, otherwise I might have been molested in my ghetto hotel room! Just so you know, all the other doors in the room were plastic molded to look like wood. posted by Jenny on 7/07/2004 06:52:00 PM |
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wTuesday, July 06, 2004 | |
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After the manicure. 
Not as washed out as the before or other after picture.. posted by Jenny on 7/06/2004 10:43:00 AM |
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wMonday, July 05, 2004 | |
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I just downloaded William Hung's "We Are the Champions" video. Downloaded and watched, I should say. I used to make better quality videos when I was 11, lip-syncing in the living room, using a VHS camera. Even without his horrid singing the close up shots of his open mouth and those ragged teeth scared me away. My computer froze before it was done playing and I think that's very telling. posted by Jenny on 7/05/2004 04:36:00 PM |
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Before getting a manicure. My hair is gone, I started growing it back out before I left the salon. I hear it's for a good cause, but I still hate the new haircut. posted by Jenny on 7/05/2004 11:32:00 AM |
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wSunday, July 04, 2004 | |
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Lucky bamboo in the car's drink holder. If it won't go back in the console, why not use it for something. posted by Jenny on 7/04/2004 12:48:00 PM |
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wFriday, July 02, 2004 | |
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I took the lid off my red betta's bowl to add more water (since I drained some out of the bottom). Since betta's jump I'm always pretty careful. It jumped out of the bowl and landed on the counter. Before I could grab it it hopped from the counter to the floor. That's a pretty long fall. It wouldn't let me pick it up, so finally I just covered with a paper towel and scooped the whole underside up and back in the bowl. He is only occasionally moving his right fin. I'll have to watch him carefully now both because he fell and I think he has every diagnoaseable disease known to fish. I also have an appointment tomorrow morning to donate 10 inches of my hair to a kid's cancer charity. Now that I think about it I wish I had done more with my last day of hair instead of sit around the house with it pulled back and unwashed. posted by Jenny on 7/02/2004 05:23:00 PM |
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The craziest thing happened when I was coming back through the Cahuenga pass (after a meeting with my boss.) I was stopped at the signal at Franklin with 1 car in front of me, a truck next to me, and a motorcycle in front of the truck. A guy runs up and rips the driver and his passenger off the bike. At first I thought he was trying to rob them because he seemed to be trying to grab that bike and he ripped the girl's backpack off. I got out my camera because I thought he was going to run away. But instead they fought, and the rider tried to get back on his bike. The crazy guy ripped them off of it again. By now the light is green and there's a huge back up going all the way back to the 101, I'm sure. The guy gets out of his truck next to me and goes over there. I'm content to stay in my car, these are crazy people we're talking about! So next the guy rips them off the bike for a 3rd time. I'm guessing that maybe they cut him off further up the street or something, since the motorcycle kind of snaked it's way between the cars in the first place. Anyway, this time the bike (which has been throughly scraped up by the asphalt at this point) lands on a dents the car in front of me. The driver of that one gets out, leaving is 6 or 7 passengers inside. The number of people inside a comapct car was what impressed me. So now you have to couple on the bike, the crazy guy, the driver of the truck, the driver of the car and 3 or 4 people standing on the corner blocking traffic on Highland at Franklin. So even though I've realized that it's not a robbery and that guy isn't going to take off, I decide to snap a picture real quick and see what I get. Unfortunately the crazy guy pulling on the motorcycle is being blocked by the car in front of me. In the end the people on the corner heldt he crazy guy back while the couple in the motorcycle took off. He stayed on the corner yelling about something, probably what he thought they had done to him. The truck took off, and the car in front of me turned right on to Franklin and parked in the red zone, my guess is they called the police, because the guy was on a cell phone. I went home. posted by Jenny on 7/02/2004 12:10:00 PM |
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wThursday, July 01, 2004 | |
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This insurance adjuster from Geico keeps calling us about the accident my sister and grandma were in back in March. Just to say what happened in a nutshell, my sister was stopped in traffic with a red light ahead of her and the back end of her car in a crosswalk. The light behind her turned green and a woman went through the intersection running into the back of my sister's car and sending them into the SUV in front of them. The woman admitted that she was talking on her cell phone because she her office was just down the block. As if being in your own neighborhood excuses bad driving. Since about 2 weeks after the accident Geico has been calling us all the time to deal with this. After about a week my dad told them that he is representing my sister and grandma and to only talk to him. Well, this guy keeps calling and I keep telling him that my grandma died (it's been over 2 months now). I'm starting to think that he's just trying to get me on tape saying it as many times as possible or something. He's just been a total prick about the whole thing. Maybe the problem isn't that she died so soon after the accident, maybe the problem is Geico insuring dumbass people who slam into the cars in front of them totally unaware that traffic is as a standstill because they're so busy talking on their cell phones. Even since this accident they've passed more laws to make it illegal to talk on the phone while driving. It seems to me that insurance companies should charge high rates to people who cause lots of accidents, especially out of stupidity. In my neighborhood a woman was eating a hamburger while driving. She dropped it on the passenger side floor, and took both hands off the wheel to pick it up. She destroyed a ton of public property but her insurance only covers the damage to her car. You'd think that there should be a way to sue the insurance company to get the amount she's covered for to offset the damages and stick her with the costs for fixing her own car. I know someone is looking into suing her as a private citizen. Why can't insurance companies write into their contracts clauses where they can dump people who do stupid things like cause accidents while they're on their cell phone or eating a hamburger. Well, I mean, pay for that accident and then cancel the policy. But no, instead we get companies like Geico who are more concerned scoring verbal points on us because my grandma died before she could make a deposition than just doing the right thing and admitting that their client did a stupid thing and caused an accident. posted by Jenny on 7/01/2004 02:01:00 PM |
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I've been getting this scam a lot lately in my inbox. Having read about this scam years ago and being a reasonably smart person I ignore them. But here's my point: Contract. C-O-N-T-R-A-C-T! Take the time to spell check you fucking scams! Subject: CONCTRACT REVIEW PANEL Date: 7/1/2004 2:24:34 AM Pacific Standard Time From: dayo@guadiancee.com To: dayoadam@yahoo.com PRESIDENCY CONCTRACT REVIEW PANEL FEDERAL SEC GARKI-ABUJA CHIEF. Dayo Adam dayo@seeqmail.com Attn: President/CEO First, I must apologize for this intrusion into your privacy; I request your strictest confidence in this transaction. We are top officials of the Federal Government Contract Review Panel who are interested in importation of goods into our country with money that are presently trapped in Nigeria. In order to commence this business, we solicit your assistance to enable us transfer into your account the said-trapped money. The source of the fund is as follows: During the regime of the last Military transitional government of Gen. Sanni Abacha, government officials set up companies and awarded themselves contracts which were grossly over invoiced in various ministries. For more information you can visit these website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3168197.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3244092.stm The present democratic government of President Olusegun Obasanjo set up the Contract Review Panel and we have identified a lot of inflated contract money that are presently floating in the Central Bank of Nigeria ready for payment. However, by virtue of our position as civil servants and members of this panel, we cannot acquire this money in our names. I have therefore been delegated as a matter of trust by my colleagues in the panel, to look for an oversea partner into whose account we would transfer the sum of 31,320,000.00 (Thirty-One Million, Three Hundred and Twenty thousand American Hard Currency) in which we hope to use in purchasing Agro Allied equipment, and to enable us to own properties and invest in the stable economy of your country. Hence, we are sending you this email message. We have agreed to share the money thus: 1. 20% for the account owner (you) 2. 70% for us (the officials of the CRP) 3. 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local and foreign expenses. Please acknowledge receipt of this message for proper briefing on the safe modality for the execution by sending us the following: FULL NAME, COMPANY NAME, OFFICE AND HOME ADDRESSES, PRIVATE TEL/FAX NUMBERS.These information’s we shall use to commence the legal/legitimate & risk free transfer of the money into your account. Upon your positive response we shall provide you with our contact Tel/Fax numbers. Yours faithfully CHIEF. Dayo Adam Please respond strictly to: dayo@seeqmail.com posted by Jenny on 7/01/2004 01:17:00 PM |
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I just got back from seeing Spider-man 2. The movie was good, but everything else sucked. The theater, the people in the theater who kept calling out at the screen, the ghetto kids in the lobby, the 4 year old behind me kicking my seat, the couple making out in front of me (if that movie was any long I thought they'd pop out a kid) and the jerk next to me. I meant to post a picture before I left for the movie, but I drove my mom to the pharmacy before I left. It took an hour despite the fact that she called ahead and it's less than a mile away. So I had to leave straight for the theater. Also, yesterday I made an appointment to see my shrink next month about going back on Lexapro. Today my mom made me an appointment to get my hair cut. I will be donating 10 inches of my hair to Locks of Love. My hair will be just above the higher of my double chins. It hasn't been above my shoulders since I was 6 years old. I will hate having it that short, but it will grow back. 
I made a quiche! Mushroom and spinach with tomatoes on top to make it look pretty. And some cheese. posted by Jenny on 7/01/2004 01:33:00 AM |
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