Saturday, August 26, 2006, 11:52 PM
Shamelessly ripping off something I posted on a BBS about my moving experience today. I'm just really frustrated.
Has anyone else had bad experiences with U-Haul? I'm basically sitting in my apartment with all my stuff packed up and I have no way to move it. I made a reservation for today (earlier on in the week), they were supposed to call and confirm, and they didn't. So I had called them back at the national number and confirmed it, and they reassured me that the regional people would contact me. They didn't. I called all the regional places myself and they're out of trucks. In the whole city!
Then, to top it all off, when I call the national number to complain, she starts giving me crap about how my reservation is for Monday. Which I know is utter crap because all the other people I talked to confirmed it was for today!
So yeah, now I just don't know what to do. My building requires that we reserve elevator time (which is difficult to come by. And even if I manage to get some before Thursday, I don't know how I'll get a truck and people to help me move out. Which no one can do during the week! Plus I start class on Monday.
*sigh*
Did I mention I spent 45 minutes on hold yesterday with them and no one ever picked up?
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( 3.2 / 200 )Monday, August 21, 2006, 12:59 AM - Miscellaneous
Friend of mine from college "sold his soul" on E-bay awhile back. He's pretty random, but also a really decent guy. I'm not going to go into the details. Just Google "E-Bay Atheist" or check out his site/blog, Friendly Atheist.
Anyway, he's gone and come out with a book. So I figure I should throw up a link on here in the random event that someone would be interested in buying it. It's up on Amazon.com here right now for pre-ordering. I plan on getting myself a copy.
He's actually really eloquent, so it's worth checking out.
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( 3 / 254 )Sunday, August 20, 2006, 11:41 PM - Personal Musings
All those years of toiling away over mundane pieces of literature, analyzing poetry on the spot, going feminist over a paper for Jane Eyre ... it's all been for absolutely nothing.
Okay, not nothing. Want to know how my carefully (and expensively) cultivated writing skills came into play today? I wrote out the wording for all of my sister's wedding invitations. Doesn't sound like a lot, right? Well it's pretty insane. There's the Mehndi/Sangeet invite, the ceremony/reception, save the date, directions, a little program/schedule of events to go in the envelope, the RSVP card, and the program that'll actually be handed out at the ceremonies. I'm sure there's more, but those are the things they are getting printed in India so they needed to be done this week.
It's freakin' insane. I feel so ... shallow. Who needs Shakespeare? I can just sit around studying wedding magazines. Why bother carefully crafting an essay about literature? I know how to decorate a room so it looks pretty. That's just as good, right?
I suppose the English major has been helpful in a small amount to other people. I've helped countless people with their writing. Everything from fan projects to school essays to business memos. Maybe I should've been charging that whole time. And there was that one time my brother was trying to think of a word to describe a concept, and I told him he was thinking of "metonymy".
Maybe one day I'll finish my novel and it'll all prove worth it. In the meantime, I'm going to continue masquerading as a wedding planner. The 18th century lit anthologies are being boxed up and replaced by wedding magazines. Am I on some sort of delayed track to becoming a housewife?
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( 3 / 248 )Friday, August 18, 2006, 04:26 PM - Personal Musings
As some people know, I'm moving back home. I lived with my sister this past year, the lease is up at the end of August, and I'm not a full-time student so I don't really need to pay a thousand bucks a month to live downtown. She's moved into a condo my parents own downtown, so I'm left to pack up the rest of the stuff here.
It's so awkward, telling people. I've run into a lot of people from high school or my earlier years of college recently, and the conversation's always the same.
"So, what are you up to?"
"Ummm, I've got one more class to take. College screwed me over." (First round of embarassment.)
"Oh, so do you live downtown still?"
"Yeah, but I'm moving back in with my parents." (Second round.)
"Oh. So, still planning on medical school?"
It just goes downhill from there really. But honestly, I'm not too upset about moving home. Sure, there are some negatives. I can't have Dan spend the night, I won't be in the city, my life will be more dictated by my parents and it's hard to go back to that ...
But on the other hand, there are plenty of good things. Not wasting money on rent, I get to see our dog every day, and I get to spend more time with my parents (remind me that's a good thing in a couple of months).
So I don't know. I know other people living with their parents and they all seem completely mortified, so I kind of do the same. But is it really such a bad thing? I plan on leaving once I'm actually on my feet, and I plan to make the most of it in the meantime.
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( 3.1 / 213 )Wednesday, August 16, 2006, 03:04 AM - Personal Musings
What a disaster of a night. It was good, as in we had a lot of fun. Too much fun. He knows I miss him and I know he misses me. That could be bad, and I'm really hoping he forgets about it. I want him to forget about our ten minute hugs too. I don't know if I can handle redoing the friendship.
I might post a picture later once I get back to the parents' house and find my USB picture transfer thingy. There's one picture that my sister took where she then exclaimed, "It looks like he's licking your ear!"
He was.
This is going to be interesting ...
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( 2.9 / 241 )Tuesday, August 15, 2006, 10:59 AM - Current Events
Had to throw in something about this. Happy Independence Day, India! I believe it's the 59th anniversary.
Honestly, I wish I could be happier about it. India's made some nice strides lately, to be fair. But there's still so far to go. Are things going well for the economy in the long run? Will the Hindus and Muslims ever get along? Will India and Pakistan ever stop their heavy handed (nuclear backed) bickering?
India's so ancient. Centuries of religion and culture have given it a terrific background and given me a terrific heritage, but it also means centuries of strife. But I suppose in many ways India's still young.
I could blather on about Partition and all that, but I'm going to leave it for now. So happy independence India, and to Pakistan as well!
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( 3.1 / 271 )Tuesday, August 15, 2006, 09:28 AM - Personal Musings
So I'm supposed to go out tonight, meet a friend I haven't seen in four years. Four years! We used to be the best of friends, joined at the hip and would barely go six hours without seeing each other. There was a falling out and then sort of a slow, painful death to the friendship. Or so I thought.
Four years later, I get a call (he still has my number? I don't have his!) and he wants to meet up. Being the total idiot that I am, I agreed to it. For me, this is more painful and awkward than the thought of meeting an ex-boyfriend. Not that I have plenty of those.
Who needs old friends anyway? Isn't it better to cap it off at two years? That's plenty of time to have fun, get to know someone, have some good memories, and then cut it off before anything has the chance to go bad.
On the other hand, I have a lovely night of drinking ahead of me. Just need to make sure to have AIM off when I come home ...
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