bodldops | The Sum-up post

Basically everything I didn't have the time and/or inclination to rant about earlier. What else is an LJ good for, anyway? (besides fic-storing and RP, hush)

1. Dear people in the parking lot: The car that is not backing out, i.e. just innocently driving down the lane? It has the right of way. No really. Please be looking before you back out, since wreaking my car would be a Very Bad Thing, as my bike is still in San Jose and bus service is unreliable at the hour I need to get to classes. It's Too Damn Far to walk, especially for an 8am class. Also? Honking means something's wrong. As in Stop, You Stupid Bugger, and Look Around Please. Hanging Up The Cell Phone Would Also Be Nice.

ARGH.

2. Dear rubber-neckers on the freeway: Knock it off, dimwits. If you want gore and horror and angst, go rent a movie. You're slowing the rest of us down to a crawl. Not cool. Especially when the cat in the carrier sitting next to you is meowing non-stop for as long as the car is in motion.

Dear housemate: If you really want to convince me that you are a responsible, mature, capable adult? Leaving an uber-bitchy message on my answering machine that you knew I wouldn't get until probably after I saw you again is really not the way to do it. Before I suspected you of being a really tall toddler.

Now I know you are.

Plz grow up, and soon. Your mom may think your grrl!power antics are cute, but frankly, I've met five-year-olds with more class. Also, putting away a few dishes from an already-clean dishwasher does not count as 'doing a lot of the cleaning around here'. You try cleaning chocolate off the walls next time.

Dear credit card company no one in this apartment has ever heard of: You've left automated messages on the answering machine all summer. Every day, for all summer. Sometimes over twenty messages a day.

GET A CLUE. No, I'm not calling your 1800 number. I don't want to get charges I didn't want. I'm a student, dumbwits, there is no such thing as spare money.

Dear Deans Office: You lose. So much. This nifty new building you made for the students? Has more problems than it knows what to do with. Would it have been so hard to test out the mics and AV equipment, and put up our mailboxes before Monday? Or maybe have gotten all the seats in? How about our promised refrigerators and microwaves? No? Some printers so we can download and print lecture notes from somewhere other than our home printers, so we're not spending an arm and a leg on ink and paper?

No?

Yeah, we feel so special and privilaged. Yup. Especially when you locked us out of our microscope lockers. *facepalm*

Dear Rosie: You let a dog lick your baby's diapers to get rid of a rash?

Have you never heard of A&D ointment?

EW?

So.

All these pilots.

And so very few OOMs with all the pilots.

I mean, most of them served together at one point or other.

...

We need more OOMs. Maybe even a mission thing. Anyone up for that? Should I post this over in the plotting comm? Bueller?

I've got my RVT certificate. There's even a cute little card. :D!
Also, I've now got my voice recorder. YAY! This rocks so much. With rocking. Also? no more panicked writing of the notes.
YAY!

So, my dad got a family plan cell phone thing. And we all got new cell phones. I waved goodbye to my old model and got a new one, with all my pictures and phone numbers and such intact.
Sweet, yes?
No.
The little smartchip thing that holds the memory fried three weeks later.
So I get a new little phone. No numbers, no pictures, nothing, but I'm rebuilding.
Got a call.
This phone's from a defective bunch, and I need to return it to a Cingular store for a replacement.
MORE LOSING. WITH LOSING. ARGH. JUST WANT A PHONE FOR EMERGENCIES. IS THIS SO HARD?
Evidently, yes.

Dear Mom: When I grouse at you because I am not at all happy with the bathroom scale, this is not the time to expound your new theory on dieting, which includes cutting the last remaining non-fresh fruit/veggie/uberhealthy protien thing out of my diet. I've given up 99.99% of foods that are considered even vaguely unhealthy, leave my morning toast alone. Also, telling me you don't eat starches or most refined sugars any more makes me laugh when you just told me that you found a new Zone Bar flavor you love.
No seriously. Stoppit.
*sigh*