Volleyball

I am really good at making journal entries when I should be doing homework. I'm the queen of procrastination.I miss playing volleyball. I played for 8 years seasonally - also played club volleyball year round for 4 of those years. I was freaking fantabulous at that sport. I used to pick up the MVP award for entire tournaments. Sometimes I yearn to go back to those days. Hell, I hardly even have time to work out anymore. I miss the days when my most important responsibility was also my biggest passion. My knees can't handle any more volleyball anyhow. They're toast. I can't even bend my legs without an accompanying grinding sound, and I was told to stay away from impact sports 4 years before I stopped playing volleyball. I was in physical therapy for my knees for what seemed like eternity.I feel overwhelmed with responsibilities in general right now. I wish I were closer to being done with school. Sometimes I think about how much more enjoyable my life would be if I stopped going to school, but I didn't come this far for nothing.

Homework

I'm exhausted right now... I'm up doing homework. At least I'm actually doing it. I was trying to get as much done as possible, because my boyfriend wants to see me tomorrow, but there's no way I will get to it all. I'm just hoping to get through the standard homework tonight, and get to the lab write-up tomorrow. He's going to be disappointed. I might be able to do it if I pulled an all-nighter but then I'd still not be able to hang out with him tomorrow, because I'm completely exhausted after I do that. I need to go to the campus library and copy the answer keys to the even-numbered question, because I need confirmation that my answers are correct - I feel like I'm working blindly here. Maybe I'll go do that on the weekend while the Trans Am's tint is getting repaired.

Shower

I just got a new shower head - wooo! The water pressure in my house SUCKS and my shower heads always seem to drizzle out on me, but this new one Rocks!!! -and it's tall enough, too. Yay for enjoyable showers!

Car

Today I ditched class. I just didn't feel like hustling like hell to get there barely on time. I called one of my classmates and woke him up to make sure he went so I could borrow his notes later. I still haven't done my Physics Lab Write-up or any Physics-related homework whatsoever. Today at work was busy as hell for me. I had to finish up a big project - a 2000 page document which I submit annually to the FDA. I also had to cover for three - yes THREE people in my department who weren't in today - one subordinate, one co-worker, and my boss.On my lunch break I took my car back to the tint shop because the film detached itself from the window at the top of that "matrix". I was quite sad, because it looked so awesome when it was first done. The tint guy isn't sure why it lifted up, but the rubber circles get larger as they near the top, leaving less actual window between them, and I chose the darkest, and therefore thickest, film... thus hardest to apply. He has only done it to about 10 cars with that on top, and none of them lifted, so he called someone who had more experience with the new glue solution he used. He told him that he had to wait a week before trying to push it down, because the glue takes so much longer than the standard soap / water solution to dry. If it doesn't press down next Saturday, he is going to strip it off and try again, applying more glue towards the top. He said he doesn't mind doing it, because he wants to try to make it work on my car, so he knows he can - I guess as a personal challenge sort of thing.Yesterday my dad set off my car alarm while opening a door to his van, which was parked next to my car. He claimed his "leg" hit my car, but I clearly see a mark from a door. I don't think he will admit do hitting it with his door, even though I saw another mark on my car a couple months ago that looked very suspiciously like it was from my dad's work truck. I can't buff it out, so I just have to deal with it. I'm pretty obsessed with my car - my journal must be pretty boring.I really need to do laundry and shower!

Tint

Today I tried to schedule an appointment to have my boyfriend's truck's computer reprogrammed to handle the supercharger, but I couldn't get an appointment until Saturday, 2 weeks from now, and it is going to cost $850 plus any needed parts! That seems like a hell of a lot, but I don't know of any other performance place in my area. While I was looking through the yellow pages, I decided to start calling tint places to see if any of the places in my area could guarantee a few things for me regarding my Trans Am. I've been procrastinating getting the tint done, because on my other car, it looks like shit on the top of the back window, but my cool, customized cargo cover mat that my boyfriend bought me is getting totally sun-faded. Both of my cars have that "matrix" on top - those small rubber black circles (that I suppose are used for providing extra shade?!?), and when I had my other car done somewhere, they left all kinds of air bubbles on top. I called places until I found one that guaranteed that the tint would be flush against the window, so I ran right down there - it ended up being only about 2 miles from my house. I also wanted to ensure they wouldn't cut my defroster lines, but apparently that's not a problem anymore because they no longer cut it while it's in the window.While I was waiting for it to be done, I got some homework accomplished. I'm still entirely behind in Physics, but I'm 2/3 of the way done with my Differential Equations homework now. I haven't even started my Physics homework, and I also have that damn lab write-up to do.I just finished getting it tinted, and they did a damn good job. I had the sides tinted, too. I got the back limo and the sides 2 shades lighter than that. Oh, another thing that's cool about that place - they have a deal where if you pay an extra $25, and you damage it yourself or get a fix-it ticket from the police, you can bring it in; they'll strip it off, and (after you get the ticket cleared) they'll put it back on for you. I don't know if this law applies to states other than California, but here any tint on the front driver and passenger windows is illegal.Yay! My car is truly a sexy black machine now. Soon, I will install my suspension and add red accents to the body. Oh, and I just took a picture of my new K&N intake I got for Christmas while I was out there taking pictures.

Flirt

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Today Sucked

Today was not a good day.It started off by sleeping in, and then I really had to rush to make it to class on time. After I got in my car, I realized that I unquestionably needed gas. I stopped at the gas station and only put in a few dollars to minimize lost time. I then entered the freeway, where after driving for about 2 miles, my windshield was SMACKED by a rock, and it cracked. I am infuriated about this, because I just replaced my windshield from a similar incident a week and a half ago - actually, my parents' Christmas present to me was the replacement of that windshield, and I haven't even deposited the check they gave me for it yet.I then proceeded to school, and when I arrived I only had 5 minutes to make it to class in time. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any parking, so I drove around for 8 minutes before deciding to park in the last available Staff parking space. At that point I could care less about getting a parking ticket. The parking space was still completely on the other end of school, so I had to walk for a bit. When I arrived at the class, there was a note stating that there would be no class today. Normally that would be cool, but I have another class an hour after that one - same professor. There wasn't a note stating that the second class was cancelled. I hurried back to my car to use the time before the next class to find a legit parking space, and luckily, I hadn't gotten a ticket yet. However, the only place I found to park was astonishingly far from my class - it wasn't even on campus, so again I trekked through campus back to the phys. science building, where I wait with other classmates, only to find that the professor did not show up. I grudgingly made another trip back to my car, and finally made it to work. At work, I found people waiting for me, because they needed some Methanol released for pharmaceutical use (3 hours before I arrived), and two of the other personnel in my department who have authority are out of town, while the third is on maternity leave. My entire day at work consisted of running around hurriedly trying to ensure that everyone else's priorities were done on time.On my lunch break, I went to the windshield repair place, and they told me it would cost $50 to repair it, so I tried it. They injected the holes and let them set - and I can still see the damn things directly in my line of sight!Tomorrow morning is my first Physics Lab day, which just means that this weekend my time will be consumed in constructing my first laboratory write-up of the semester. Unfortunately, I haven't even done the standard homework / projects yet, so I really need to figure out a way to devote more time to school.On Sunday I received my 7th speeding ticket - 40 mph in a 25 zone - I can't stand getting tickets for going such a slow speed. At least I get to go to traffic school for this one - my insurance jumps up $100 / month if I get another ticket on my driving record.Closing Note: Fuck the government for being permitted to issue tickets for a broken windshield and then not bothering to keep their damn freeways clean of rocks!!!!!!

Stuff

Today was my first day back to school for the semester. I have the same professor for Physics as I do for Differential Equations - strange. I hope he ends up being a good professor. I can already tell he puts too much emphasis on homework. Homework is purely for the benefit of the student, so I like the idea that you don't need to turn it in, and whether you do it or not is up to you, as if you don't, you typically won't be prepared for the exams. He collects every assignment, but at least he waits until exam days. He also cares about attendance. Ugh.I just got home from work. I felt like taking my boyfriend up on his Christmas present to me and going to pick out my new car stereo parts, but when I called him he was in a terrible mood. On the way home from work today, he hit something on the freeway. He was in the fast lane, and something flew out from under the car in front of him and hit my boyfriend's truck before he ran it over, making noise the all the way through. He just spent thousands of dollars on bodywork to the front of his truck to pimp it out. He got a new hood with a sweet scoop and new sleek mirrors (obviously not affected), but he also replaced the front bumper with a new piece, and another piece under that to mount fog lights. He had it all painted, too; it was beautiful. He's not sure how much damage there is, because it's dark, but the truck's definitely fucked up. He's not even sure if he'll be able to drive it, because some of the pieces look like they're pretty low down. I seriously hope that nothing besides the body is damaged. Unfortunately, he won't be fixing that right away because he still needs to take the truck somewhere that can diagnose his damn engine problem. Three times people have thought they "fixed" it, and it's still seriously out of whack. He's going to try a transmission shop next (the RPMs are going berserk), but the problem probably arises somewhere in how the computer system is reacting to his supercharger. I feel so bad for him. I didn't even get to take a picture of him with his truck, yet, like we planned. We're both having some bad luck with random catastrophes to our cars.

Next Car

When my Trans Am's paid off, I'm going to replace my current commuter car. I'm thinking of what car I actually want to get next. My two main options right now are the new Pontiac GTO and the new Subaru WRX STi. The GTO comes with 350 HP stock, 365 ft-lb torque, and has the LS1 5.7L V8 engine with rear-wheel drive that I love so much in my Trans Am. The six-speed manual is always good. The car is really non-flashy, and bears to resemblance to the original GTOs. It is more aesthetically similar to a Honda Civic than an American muscle car, which I am sure they did to increase sales as the younger generations aren't very impressed with doors that reach into the next zip code and surprisingly small interior size (my Trans Am is freaking beautiful, dammit). If I bought the GTO, that would be my third Pontiac in a row - strange. The Subaru WRX STi lacks horsepower, presence, that sexy two-door look I love so much, and has cheap interior, but in the last issue of Hot Rod, they demonstrated that, with its all-wheel drive, 2.5L turbocharged four-cylinder boxer engine with 300 HP, 300 ft-lb torque, actually outperformed the Mustang Cobra on the quarter-mile, and would no doubt cream any rear-wheel drive on a windy course. That all-wheel drive comes in handy. It's like a turbo-charged go-kart!Depending on where I'm living at the time my Trans Am is paid off (as that governs my financial state), I may just end up being conservative and getting a Toyota, because I can get those at cost - it's just no fun.

Blah!

I went to the company party by myself last night. I didn't feel like dressing up, so I wore jeans, a black top (which my boyfriend objected to, as he objects to me wearing any top that shows a remote sign of cleavage), a black jacket, and black Vans shoes. I arrived a few hours after it began, and the 2nd person who I ran into was the Vice President, who looked at my outfit disapprovingly (the jeans and shoes, not the top). I found my friends / employees there, and sat at their table just in time to catch a cheesy magic show. I took a few pictures of people, and snuck out the door before I actually interacted with anyone else. In total, I spoke to about 8 co-workers. Boy, was that a fun night.That night, my boyfriend stayed up all night playing Socom 2. He is majorly addicted. He didn't stop playing until 1 in the afternoon, and had decided that he would stay up the rest of the day so his sleep schedule doesn't get adversely affected. Then, at 2 he decided he wanted a "nap", and I was supposed to wake him up at 3, and we would wash our cars. I couldn't get him up until 5:30, when it was time to go out to dinner for my dad's birthday. My boyfriend had a headache, so he didn't want to sit near my mom, because she is uncontrollably LOUD, but as we were the last two to show up, we sat directly across from her. She drank a bottle of champagne by herself. We're home again now, and he is back asleep again. He does this every weekend, and always has a hell of a time getting to work on time on Mondays. He really needed his truck washed. He has has bird poop on it for about 2 weeks, and the hood is freshly painted.My brother and his best friend are planning to go to Vegas this weekend. I may go, but I'm not quite sure... my boyfriend may not want to go, because he is real adamant lately about his weekends being to relax, and it might be hard for me to talk him into going on a trip. We usually take his truck to Vegas, but it's having some transmission problems right now. I don't want to take my little car, because I don't trust it to hold up on a long drive. I don't want to take my Trans Am, because I don't like parking it in public parking lots. It's already been hit twice while parked, and I only have 9000 miles on it. The first scratch / dent (see picture here), was a $500 repair, and the second scratch is not repaired yet, because my boyfriend said he'd pay for it - the car was in his possession at the time, about one week after I got it back from the body shop from the first repair.Damn, I was supposed to get some cleaning done around here, but everything is such a mess!

Bored

I was so anxious to leave work today that I left work 45 minutes early, even though I didn't have any other plans tonight except to watch the new episode of SG-1 (LOVE that show) with my boyfriend. I got home and I've been pretty bored ever since. I should do laundry or something, but I kind of feel like doing absolutely nothing right now. This is my last free weekend before I have to go back to school. My boyfriend called me after work, and he's not going to be able to come over here. He had a hard time driving to his house, and he could barely keep his eyes open (we were up really late last night), so he thinks it would be too dangerous to drive over to my house (~17 miles). I guess I'll be watching SG-1 by myself tonight. What an eventful Friday evening.I have to go to my company's annual party tomorrow. My boyfriend won't go with me. I don't think it's fun, and neither does he, and thus refuses to go. I guess I'll be going there by myself, too... but I was considering taking one of my guy friends, one of my brother's friends, or one of my boyfriend's friends as a fill-in date. That sounds like too much work and planning, though. I'll probably just go by myself, stay a short time, and return home.I had my windshield replaced in my small car today. My parents replaced the windshield as a Christmas present. I felt slightly bad, though, when my boss called me while I was still at home and told me the windshield company was already at my work to replace my windshield. I was 1.25 hours late for work, not at all unusual for me. He ended up leaving and coming back later in the day, and wasn't cranky about it at all. :) That's always good. So now my windshield is all sparkly, new, and not cracked. One thing that sticks out in my mind from today is that the windshield guy asked me, "so what do you do around here? secretarial work?" Oh my god! Well, I know he was fixing my cheaper car, but that makes me wonder if he assumed it because I was a woman, because I don't look bright, because I don't dress or convey an incredibly professional demeanor, because the car is on the "cheap" side, or what? Pretty much, any of those besides the worth of the car are marred rationale. I don't think even think the car rationale is reasonable, as at my work, one Ph.D. drives a old, beat Toyota, the Ph.D. who directs our synthetic chemistry division drives a standard Toyota Corolla, and the Director of my department (Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs) drives an 80's model Toyota Celica and an '84 Toyota Pick-up truck. Oh well, at least my poor little neglected car is getting some attention and much-needed maintenance.That reminds me... I read a disturbing survey in a pharmaceutical magazine I subscribe to. They held their first ever salary survey. The results of people in my position were slightly out of balance. The overall average salary was $101 K + (the highest option), while the average salary for women was $70 K to $80 K. The other average is an overall average, so even with the majority of women being under that, they did not pull the overall average down from $101 K. It appears there is still unfairness in the workplace.Aww, I just remembered that my boyfriend was going to let me take pictures of him this afternoon, with his truck. Damn - I hope he lets me take them later, because he normally avoids cameras at all costs, while I love to gather pictures of people I love (mainly myself though - is it wrong to love yourself? No!).Update: I called him and woke him up after SG-1, and he came over here in time to catch the next replay of it with me. Now he's playing SOCOM 2. :)

Computers

I don't know if any of you work with computers all day - but damn - you don't realize how much you actually use them at work until the network goes down.Today we had a worm infect my company's intranet, and we had to do our best to accomplish something without the use of the network, internet, printing, or e-mail. It was pretty bad. Not only did I have to try to find tasks I could accomplish without the help of my little electronic friend, but I had to try to keep my staff of 5 people busy all day. They brought in our entire IT department from a site a couple cities away and cleared the problem just as I was leaving for the day, so I'm glad I won't have to deal with that tomorrow. Damn I love computers. I like the era I was born into. The numerous advantages over our parents' and grandparents' generations make me very appreciative of our current technology... even though I'm pretty sure if my future children or grandchildren read this they'd be laughing uncontrollably at me and the primitive environment I was raised in.

Doing Nothing

I'm just sitting her procrastinating going over to my boyfriend's house - I usually like going over there, but he received Final Fantasy 10-2 for Christmas, so he'll likely be playing it the entire time I'm there. He was very good about not playing it on Christmas day, though - it must have killed him to leave it sitting in the box so long. He's the biggest video game fanatic I've ever known.I took my little car to the dealer today, hoping that they will find the problem with the brakes. At low speeds, it's been locking, unlocking, locking, etc. in quick succession for almost a year now, and no one can ever find the problem, but it is a little disturbing when I start skidding through a stop sign. When that gets back, I'm going to take the Trans Am in, because when I hit the brakes in that car at high speeds, the steering column vibrates. I don't know what the deal with my brakes are... I mean, I hardly ever stop - my 6 speeding tickets show that.My boyfriend bought me a new stereo for the little car for Christmas - I had originally spent a few thousand on that stereo, but it's almost completely dead, and I want to upgrade to an MP3 player anyway, because I'm too lazy to change CDs. My brother bought me K&N intake for my Trans Am, and he'll be installing it this weekend. My parents are donating towards the cause of repairing my brakes, and I got some miscellaneous pajamas, socks, hair things, and make-up from parents (mine and my boyfriend's).I haven't done anything productive so far on my Christmas break, but it feels pretty good... I keep feeling like I should be accomplishing something, though - damn nagging feelings.

Political

Where do you fall on the liberal - conservative political spectrum? (United States) brought to you by QuizillaStrange - Apparently I'm conservative. I wonder how accurate this thing is.

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I saw Ret...

I saw Return of the King last night. It was pretty good. I'm actually not much of a fantasy fan, and I never read the books (very extreme opposite of my boyfriend). I usually like Action, Comedy, or SciFi. Watching the previews before the LOTR, I realized that I really want to see Ashton Kutcher's new movie, The Butterfly Effect - that looks damn good, and it's a good role for him to take right now, as he's richer than hell but starting to be taken not so seriously.You can see the trailer here.I heard that The Last Samurai is excellent, and I also want to see the new Rock and Vin Diesel movies - both look pretty good.OK I'm done with my little movie kick. I got an A in my Physics class, woo! -only one more day of work until my much-anticipated vacation.

Vacation

I haven't written in a while - I've been SO busy with finals and work! I'm out of school until January, and after I work Monday and Tuesday of this week, I'm out of work until January 5th. I can't wait for the break! I'm not planning on doing anything extraordinary during my break, but the luxury to sleep whenever I want / don't want to will be great, and I'll even have time to detail my cars! I can clean my room, paint my nails, and touch up my hair with fresh pink dye - wow, the menial little possibilities. I've also been busy improving www.lightsabercrew.com - there are actually a lot of users of that forum, and they all depend on / cry to me to keep giving it improvements and keep it running smoothly. During my Christmas break I plan to design a sister site, the light side, to it's current dark side, and add a portal to the forum, as well as other minor mods.Last Tuesday I went to an Ill Nino / Sevendust concert at the House of Blues Anaheim - it was awesome. I went with my brother, my boyfriend, his sister, and her boyfriend. Unfortunately we missed the beginning of Ill Nino's set, who we all primarily wanted to see. We all like Sevendust, and they had a great set, but Ill Nino tore it up. Then I took my Physics final the next morning at 8 a.m. I hardly had any sleep the night before, and I believe that contributed to my mistakes - I did shit like used the force of friction throughout an entire problem instead of the work of friction, and on one problem, we were instructed to solve by dynamics, and I used energy. Damn sleep - I should really do that more often. Then, that night, I went to the Static-x show at the same venue, with my brother, my boyfriend, his sister, and 3 of our friends. I haven't seen them since their "Machine" record release party at the Troubadour in Hollywood, I believe... it was well worth the wait. I hadn't seen them with their new drummer yet. He's excellent. Since the passing of Lynn Strait (Snot), Static has done a great job of filling Snot's shoes as my favorite live band. We were all too tired to see the (hed) show the next day - but we've seen hed live at least 60 times, and probably 10 times just this year. I've also seen Static almost that many times, but had gone too long without a show. Speaking of music, the new Spineshank album is the best album of the year. Go pick it up!We are going to have a small kickback at my house for the New Year. No one is in the mood for a large party. We had one of those pretty recently and I think we're still mentally recuperating. I finished all my Christmas shopping - I haven't bought anything for my best friend. I never know what to get her. We don't actually hang out enough, I think, for me to be able to know what she wants. I doubt she'll get me anything either - we'll probably go treat each other to some mutual activity later - neither of us gave the other a birthday present this year, either.I took a bunch of silly pictures recently - almost makes me want to get a pay-account so I can use them all.Tomorrow I'm going to see Return of the King - I heard it's the best of the trilogy... better get some sleep.

Christmas Stuff

I'm pretty stressed out about Christmas presents right now. For some reason I'm always broke, even though I make pretty good money. I spend it like water. I just bought my first presents yesterday. I bought my boyfriend some miscellaneous stuff from the Franklin Mint store. I bought him a cool dagger and a dragon - it's the fourth dragon I bought him. They're about $300 each, so he's a pretty spoiled boy, but I feel kind of bad buying him miscellaneous objects instead of something he could use. I bought him exhaust for his truck for his birthday, though, and so I guess the miscellaneous objects are pretty cool.Here's a picture of the dagger - it's really cool looking, called "Vampire's Curse", and has a polished wood dagger that slides in and out of the guard. It's about 40 cm tall.Here is a picture of the dragon I bought him. I love the Michael Whelan Dragons. I have the set of 6 miniatures of these. His are about 27 cm tall. Now I just hope he doesn't find my live journal - that would suck.For my brother I am buying a set of APC Black Racing Bucket Seats for his 71 El Camino... unfortunately, today he just found out that his car isn't an El Camino at all! He's had the car over a year and we all thought it was an El Camino, but he checked the VIN, and it turns out it's a 71 GMC Sprint. Freaking crazy. However, there were only ~4000 of those made, so it's actually more rare and worth more money (it's just got a lame name). We all loved the connotation his "truck" had as an El Camino - I don't think a Sprint gets the same redneck with a mullet vibe, but I'm sure he'll learn to deal with it. :) What sucks is, now that he found out it's not an El Camino, he is considering working to give it a factory restoration, while previously he has just been focusing on upgrading performance parts. Well, I'm probably getting him the seats anyway, because either way he'd have to redo his upholstery. These are they:I also picked my brother out some merchandise from viewaskew.com (Kevin Smith-related paraphernalia). -can't go wrong there.I haven't decided what to get my parents yet. I picked my mom up some perfume, but I need to find something else, too, because I feel like a cheap bastard. I also have to buy something for a chick at work - we did the Secret Santa thing. I get really stressed out about this present stuff. I havent' even thought about what I'm getting for my best friend. I can't wait until Christmas is over so I can finally install my Hotchkis suspension set on my Trans Am.

Relaxed

I feel pretty relaxed at the moment.I finally get a slight break. I have a lot of studying to do, but this four day off of work and school is NICE.Although I'm feeling pretty calm right now, I'll take this time to complain about what an annoying person my mom can be anyhow... I eat my parent's free food every day on my lunch break. Today I get there, and my dad is home, which is strange, because he works all the time. I asked him why he was home, and he told me it was a vacation day. My parents were originally going to go camping, but the campground burned down in our recent California fires, so he was home instead. Then my mom chimed in that he was "supposed to be cleaning the garage!" I asked her, "Dude, you gave him chores on his day off?!?" She tried to explain to me that "they" (meaning "her", I checked with my Dad) decided that since they weren't going camping my Dad was going to clean out the garage. My dad is a 61 year old man who is overweight and has to troubleshoot broken elevators when the repairmen can't find hte problem. This means that my dad had to climb stairs all day carrying an absurdly heavy toolbox, and my Mom is so hyperactive, that she is basically trying to get him to do chores every weekend, and every chance she can get. My mom works from home. She teaches classes for how to make porcelain dolls twice a week. She has to pour the porcelain into the molds (prepare the basic elements) and fire the porcelain in the kiln in between classes, but that's pretty much it. Yet she is somehow under the false impression that she works as hard as my Dad. She never relaxes, and if you are ever around her, it is bitch bitch, nag, nag, all day long. No one ever wants to be around her, and I tend to feel quite sorry for my Dad since he is an incredibly mellow guy. I love my Mom, but damn! Sometimes it's just too much. I suppose I should just be happy that my parents are still together.

Shitty Day

My day just ended pretty crappy. Yes, ended at 5:30 pm because I've been awake for 34 hours straight right now. I worked from 5:30am to 11:30 am, school from 12:pm to 3:pm, work from 3pm to 5pm... I was just getting ready to go home and get some rest, and my boyfriend called me at work to pretty much---bitch display his displeasure at the fact that my ex boyfriend and my other friend have had his xbox for over a month - going on two. Those two mod consoles for a side business, and our xbox was modded a while ago - yes, actually it's ours - i paid for the mods... so anyways, the newer games weren't working, and we needed our bios updated. First they took my brothers and fixed that - took them about 3 to 4 weeks. Then they took mine (actually I drove it to their house and gave it to them). They've had it for a very long time, and the one friend won't answer his phone when my brother or I call, and he won't return our voice mails. I talked to my ex last night and he was a rude bastard (not out of character), but he basically said he wasn't going to get involved in any BS... and he didn't let me know what was taking so long... So today my boyfriend called me and he wants it back, and he's real irritated at the fact that they've had it so long, but I don't know what to do. He was yelling at me (not yelling, but as close as he ever gets to it, talking in his "highly irritated voice"), and I told him that it sounded like he was mad at me over the situation, and he told me he kind of was, because it was my job to take care of this situation, and I was doing a poor job... so that made me pretty mad/sad something like that, and I hung up on him and called my friend, who didn't answer. I left another voice mail. Then I called my brother to tell him that my boyfriend was pretty upset about it and to see if he could get ahold of our friend, but I doubt we're going to get anywhere. I will probably have to go to his house tomorrow, which sucks because it's completely out of the way of anything for me... damn eastern rancho cucamonga. If he's not home we probably won't even be able to get it, because his mom is a real snatch, and he works wacked hours at a warehouse. My boyfriend's adamant about getting it back by thanksgiving, though (by tomorrow, that is), so I'm just pretty bummed about the whole thing -- not to mention that when I'm this over-tired I get upset / sad more easily than normal. I also probably type in long run-on sentences when I'm tired but I'm too tired to read over what I just typed.... and now I sleep.

Credit

OK, I'm making one more entry today to rant.I am continually trying to improve my credit. I fucked it up when I was younger BIG TIME. Now I have 3 accounts in bad standing (from back then--they won't be gone for another 3 or 4 years), and 13 accounts in good standing or closed in good standing. However, I get denied for things that require credit checks all the damn time. The three credit cards that I do use suck ass, but I keep them in good standing so one day the magical credit fairy will sprinkle the magic dust upon my credit report and make it dazzling and illustrious!One of my credit cards (which has a 19.99% interest rate - eww) just gave me a $35 late charge and $19 finance charge, because they received my payment ONE DAY after the due date. Fuck Providian - right in their ear... if they report that to the credit bureaus as 30 days late, I'm gonna kick them in the shins. I pay my balance in full every month. I called them up and cancelled in a blind rage - they lose my $1000/month in senseless spending because they're a bunch of bleeding cunt rags. (potty mouth)Luckily I just got a brand new transparent orange credit card with a much higher limit and lower interest rate than that one, so poop on them.

Damn Work and School

I guess my journal's going to stay very boring, because my life is pretty boring. Work and school - school and work. I went to school today from 9 to 10am, and paid a speeding ticket from 10:15 to 11am (my sixth speeding ticket in my commuter car - I am yet to get one on my baby (my Trans Am)).So I paid my ticket, went to work, and worked from 11:15am to 8:45pm. Now I get to do my physics homework - I'm two chapters behind on the standard homework, and my weekly lab write-up is due tomorrow morning. This is the part of this entry I'm sure no one wants to read: I'm stuck on this one stupid issue... I found that there is a linear relationship between the hanging mass and the angular acceleration of a frictionless pulley system pulling on a small torque wheel fixed to steel disks... so anyway, yeah - the equation that relates them is:I need to explain why the relationship between m and alpha (angular acceleration) is linear... So everything in the equation is a constant except for the acceleration, which increases as the mass (small m) increases... It doesn't look like a linear equation, but it has a linear relationship, because everything else is constants. One of my employees (a mechanical engineering major) and I tried to freaking algebraically convert this thing to slope-intercept form all day, and we kept getting this wack-ass intercept (but an accurate slope)... That's due tomorrow, so I hope I figure it out by then.Oh yeah and besides work and school, my boyfriend puts me to work as his webmaster for www.lightsabercrew.com. I get to maintain an ungodly amount of user art pages and what not, as well as help him mod the forums there. Tonight one user sent me 23 megs of images that he wants added to his user art page, so I get to do that, in addition to all my homework... Good thing I'm wasting time making this worthless entry first.Damn my life is exciting... Wish you were me?

My First Entry

This is my first entry--nothing exciting going on.I just finished registering for this thing (thanks to brandawg) and completing my physics homework.I really hate homework. I despise the fact that I'm still in school and how slow the process is while I work full time. I have to work my ass off just to do 9 units a semester while I work as much as I do. I'm going to be quite relieved when it’s over (although I'll probably be 109 years old by then).