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I have managed to prep nearly all of my World class at Kent for the rest of the semester, as well as my World class for Stark. I've still got a few lectures to finish for Africa, but luckily, I've got one more day of uninterrupted glory.
I could get a shitload of work done if it wasn't for.... well, going to work and school.
Unfortunately, I couldn't convince my brain to do anything today after two wire-to-wire days of productive working, from waking up until bed time. I've seriously covered time for the equivalent of 20 lectures (or 25 hours of contact time). It will definitely help me be able to focus on my dissertation for the next two months.
Today, though, I worked up a new MySpace profile for entertainment purposes. It was nice to focus my mind on something interactive that wasn't school or work related. Go and check it out, and let me know what you think. It's admittedly rudimentary (and partially ripped-off from a free overlay template, though I've changed just about everything), but it's my first step out of the MySpace mold, and starting here will allow me to do something that I think will end up pretty cool when fully implemented.
Interesting peripheral news all around. We bought a dryer on ebay, strangely enough. It's a used Maytag. Amy, who's become quite the connoisseur of online review sites, said that the reviews for this dryer were solid everywhere. It's about six years old, but it's about 20 years newer than the dryers that the used furniture joint down the road had for the same price. It is up in Bellevue, which is near Sandusky, and that's about a 90 minute drive. We had thought staying overnight about hitting the Lake Erie islands and whatnot, but decided against it for money's sake. Either way, it will be a nice drive, I think.
We also went to buy a vacuum today at Target. Yeah, with the quadruple paycheck coming, and with the apparent omplete loss of sanity that comes with going through three vacuums in 16 months, we decided to markedly upgrade in that department to a Dyson... you know, the one with the creepy guy on the ads talking about losing suction? Well, we threw that in the cart, as well as some other essentials and went to pay. Being as how my check technically hits the account tomorrow, I wrote a check knowing it wouldn't deposit until the next day or later.
Well... for the first time since... what, 2003 (and that was a fluke) I had a check rejected. Apparently, according to the check verification company (and you should believe I called, since I had no reason for a check to be rejected), the amount of the check was so significantly higher than any retail purchase I've made via check in the past seven years that it was rejected because they thought my identity had been stolen.
So, even though I had followed the rules during that time and had the money coming to pay for this check, I couldn't write the check because I had been poor too long and hadn't written a check of that size to a retail establishment.
Fucked up. So, we're going tomorrow and we're going with some fucking cash. And the Wario game for Wii will also be included.
AND, here's the other news. Virgil the Volvo is fixed! He had yet another ignition coil go out (number two this time). The mechanic said that it wouldn't be cost-effective to simply replace the remaining four right now, but he was (apparently) embarrassed that the car only lasted a week on the road, even though it wasn't his fault. He took off $40 from our bill. Virgil's under-budget amount helped us to pay for the dryer and to (consider) get(ting) the vacuum (that didn't happen because of the check assholes that didn't allow me to spend my own money).
Last night, the most miserable little TV show was on PBS. It was basically a salute to the Baby Boom generation. This show chronicled the history of the Baby Boomers, and had millions of stupid testimonials about how the Baby Boomers changed everything, and for the better.
Honestly, it was one of the bigger crocks of shit I have ever seen.
YES, the Baby Boomers helped bring in the Civil Rights movement. YES, the Baby Boomers helped bring feminism to the forefront, started environmentalism, helped end sexual oppression, helped give 18 year olds the right (but apparently not the initiative) to vote, protested actively against war, etc. But right around 1975 (and what wasn't mentioned in the show, my point of contention) is that Baby Boomers got really fucking lazy and decided to take the rest of their lives off.
It's the funniest (not really funny, but bitterly ironic) thing, that Baby Boomers ended up turning into their parents. These free love, equality loving, drug using hippies turned into Reaganites and, worse, Bushies. They turned into their PARENTS!!!!!!!! Where were you all of you fucking hippies when Reagan agreed to turn ketchup into a vegetable in school lunches so he could build thousands of nukes to point at the Soviets? Where were you fucking hippies when Bush took us into a worthless war to make money? Where were you fucking hippies when various administrations have ended social programs, cut education funding, institutionalized the discrimination of homosexuals through marriage amendments?
This show reminded me of when the journalists of the world celebrate the breaking of the Watergate scandal, with Deep Throat and all of that, as the time that truth-seeking journalists helped bring down a corrupt administration. Yeah, those journalists did a fine job there. But where were they since then? Covering O.J., Michael Jackson's molestation, Bill Clinton's dick, Britney Spears' shaved head... and nothing about the layers upon layers of government corruption and greed, especially in the current administration.
You know, it's great what the Baby Boomers accomplished. But, you know? Don't blow your horn on PBS so much unless you're willing to apologize for the transgressions of the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s.
Posted by Your Friendly Neighborhood DJ on March 30, 2007 12:50 AM | Permalink
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