I'm seriously thinking of applying to law school ( Read more... )

We got phone and internet hooked up in our new appartment! So nice to be able to get my blitz fix on the weekend again ( Read more... )

So I've decided I shouldn't be let near any home improvement-type projects. Even simple, mundane things. Like last night, when the rod that twists our blinds closed broke. So I got some Krazy Glue to re-attach it. Simple, right? By the time all is done, the thumb and index finger of my left hand are glued together, and a piece of the broken rod is ( Read more... )

On Saturday I bought a Honda Civic (in leu of the more sporty Mazda I was considering). It was almost certainly the right decission. The economical, logical, practical decission ( Read more... )

...it's always interesting to see the reaction of people who haven't known you for very long (such as, for example, at a new job) when you lapse into Dartmouth-speak. Most react with a mixture of confusion and skepticism, but the look of outright horror on my team leader's face when I said casually "I'm going to blitz Julia" was priceless.

This is probably so common it doesn't even bear noticing for those of you who grew up in a major city, but it's a tad new for me. Before this year I had never lived in a place where I walk into the company break room at lunch time and hear at least 3 different languages being spoken among various conversations within earshot. Mostly Chinese, but ( Read more... )

To replace a small pane of glass that doesn't even do anything?? It doesn't roll up and down or defrost, it just sits there and keeps the wind out. $686.82?!?!? Are you fucking kidding me?!? It didn't cost me half that to replace the WINDSHIELD!

I hate California.

Fortunately, I'm in good hands with Allstate...

...my chair just broke.

I leaned to one side and the seat just snapped in half, front to back.

Son of a bitch.

So I'm about to go out to run errands today when a cop knocks on my door. She asks if I own a white Subaru parked around the block, and when I say I do, she tells me that someone shot out my rear window ( Read more... )

Ok, seriously, I know airline pricing is completely fucked-up, but this is just ridiculous. Booking another trip east next month, we have to coordinate getting myself to and from Boston as efficiently as possible, Kat to Boston and home by way of Ithaca, on the same flight out as my sister who will be visiting us. Fun times ( Read more... )