This can't be as bad as the Jared commercials that encourage women to be money-grubbing, materialistic whores. I absolutely will not ever set foot into a Jared.

Can you hear? Cause if not, I have a bag full of crunchy, cheesy goodness that you might be interested in.

A girl that can't hear me talk would be like the best thing ever. I just need to find a way of meeting them that's less crazy-infested than craigslist.

Also, if you want to meet deaf chicks, come up to Rochester and transfer to RIT. They have a huge school for the deaf there.

President Obama talking about the soldiers killed at Ft Hood:

"Here is what you must also know: Your loved ones endure through the life of our nation." "Every evening that the sun sets on a tranquil town; every dawn that a flag is unfurled; every moment that an American enjoys life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness _ that is their legacy,"

I think these are powerful words and a fitting prelude to Veterans Day.

"Every kiss begins with Kay"

O'RLLY? Pretty sure we had kissing before this store ever existed.

Those are bad, but damn if I don't hate the Jared commercials more, esp. the one where she's out on a date and sending pictures of all the things this guy bought her to her whore friends. Doesn't matter what kind of guy he is, just what he buys her! Hatehatehatehatehatehatehate

Jared commercials make me want to projectile vomit.

Ah, Katy, you're definitely in my sights.

JC, we could sit around eating a bag of Cheetos and you could read to me from one of your favorite books. I hope you don't mind orange fingers.

argh. I am having a computer problem and need someone's help (anyone!!). First, I'm totally stupid when it comes to computers so it's probably something obvious.

I have a cd with a tutorial and hundreds of test questions. I downloaded in to my hard drive and it created a desktop icon. I ran the program last week and had no trouble at all. But now when I click on the icon nothing happens . It's like maybe it's trying to pop open but it's not working right. So just now I uninstalled the whole program and then reinstalled it. Still can't run it. I can see that I have made a folder and all the programs are in the folder, including the .exe file. So I click on the .exe file and still nothing happens! It's like my computer is blocking it from running. wtf? Help a girl out here. What am i missing?

do a ctrl-alt-del and look in the processes list to see if it's running.

Do you have antivirus/firewall software?

yes i do but i know nothing about how it works

will a firewall stop a program from running that's installed on my hard drive? I told you I was stupid

also, i was able to run this program last week but now it is refusing to open

I very very seldom watch live TV and I'm pleased as punch it's saved me from the apparently despicable Jared commercials.

Katy: First step. Shut down your computer and restart. (Full disclosure. I know next to nothing about computers either.)

I just had a sudden bout of coughing that resulting in a lot of very colorful phlegm. Sorry for the gross detail, but I'm going to take that as a sign that I'm down for the count.

Worse than the phlegm, the cough absolutely tore me apart. I now have a really really sore throat. It's not in the coughing area. That is, when I cough, it doesn't hurt. It's north of that, and my throat is murder when I swallow.

Where's that FUUUUUU picture?

Solo. I'd have Oma make you chicken noodle soup if you were closer.

Edit: Have appointment for my H1N1 shot next Monday. Just got to stay away from people until then.

Solo, please tell us you are not going to work tomorrow.

What's the brand?

I hope I didn't get anyone sick. I realize I let you down by going today, but when I got up I really thought I was on the mend. I felt fine all day (relative), too. It was symptoms of just a common cold. No fever or chills, just runny nose and a scratchy voice. Didn't hurt to cough.

That cough just now did me in, though. I mean, I'm sort of worried I tore something or pulled a muscle. It felt fine before that violence. Argh. Obviously I'm just sick probably, but man alive this is pain.

It's times like this that I wish I lived closer to some people who cared enough about me to bring me food. I don't know if I even have any soup. Blah.

Sorry eMe.

Confirm. I have decided that no matter how I feel, I'm going to call in tomorrow morning. I would call in tonight, but I've never done it before and I think if you call at night it's a recording and you leave a message.

I want to just call tomorrow morning at 6:15 (it says to call by 6:30) and then go back to sleep.

Like I said (I think), I left subplans today on my desk just in case tomorrow I was ill. So at least I'm good to go for one day. If I'm out the next three days, this is going to really kill my semester. I was rushing to fit things in as it was, missing three days where I have to give sub(par) plans will suck.

Sorry you feel so bad and I wish I were there to help you out. I feel so bad for you. This is what Dr. Sanjay Gupta said about his H1N1 cought:

"It wasn’t the kind of cough where something is temporarily stuck in your throat. It wasn’t the kind of cough where simply clearing your throat would’ve been adequate. This was the kind of cough that hurts when you do it. A stinging pain that makes you wince and guard and hope that you don’t have to cough again any time soon."

the brand of my firewall? You mean like AVG anti-virus?

Yeah, see I don't have that. When I swallow, I have that. But just coughing, there's a minor pain from the irritation, but that's to be expected.

The truth of the matter is that I don't care what I have personally. Obviously if it's swine flu I care for how it will affect those around me. But all I know is that I'm sick and I'm not thrilled.


ps. I think Wook gave it to me.

Yeah, those commercials are beyond bad -- they're viciously bad, they're warped. I feel sorry for anyone they make the slightest impact on, male or female.

Yeah, that's very good indeed.

Landlord just showed up at my apt with a policeman in tow


Backstory:
Landlord is very flaky and flat broke (had most of her money seized by the IRS). I have absolutely no faith that she'll refund deposit (exactly 1 month's rent) when I move out at the end of this month. So I told her to use my deposit as the rent, and was planning on moving out as normal (having apt as clean as when I moved in, paying utilities, etc).

She came over last week to get some stuff out of the apt she'd left. I told her that she could keep the deposit as my last month's rent. She was not happy with this at all. She then made the mistake of threatening to call my son's workplace (he lives with me), apparently thinking that the prospect of him getting in trouble would get me to back down. Instead, I ordered her out of the apt at the top of my lungs and threw her stuff out the front door (yes, very mature of me).



Today:
So today she shows up with a policeman (who was perfectly nice, and apparently just wanted there to be no trouble). She wanted to get some of her stuff, and served me with a notice to vacate the apt within 3 days. She kept trying to ask me (in front of the policeman) if I was going to pay the rent and I kept telling her to stop talking to me. She finally left, saying she'd need to come back for more of her stuff.

As I said, I was planning on leaving in an orderly manner. Now I'm tempted to drag things out and make her life miserable (I likely won't, but it's tempting). If given the chance, I'll tell her that if she leaves me the **** alone then I'll leave as planned. If she actually starts eviction proceedings, then I'll fight it and drag things out.