After a week and a half of not having a car I stopped in to the car lot to check on the progress of fixing the Buick. They had said they needed to take it to a dealership and have them reset the computer and that that should fix everything but when I checked in on Monday morning they said it was ready to go. I even got a new battery out of the deal. I meant to write about this but didn't have the chance last night and today the car broke down again when I went on my lunch break. I had to walk back to work from Subway and I was so angry but when I called the dealership they were gone. I have felt really helpless over the past week, both having no phone and no car; no way to get around and no way to communicate with anyone to get help, and it seems like it's going to continue. I've tried to do a bit of research on lemon laws here in Alabama but the wording seems so vague and complicated, I really don't know if this car qualifies or not. I do know that about 50% of the time I've been in possession of the car it hasn't worked and that at this point we've paid out nearly $3,000 and still don't have a reliable way to get ourselves to work. Tomorrow Dean and I are going to go to the dealership after work but I don't really know what my rights as a customer are. I'm wondering if the right thing to do is just demand shit because I've been nice up to this point and I feel like it really hasn't gotten me anywhere. But the truth is that if they don't provide me with a car I can depend on then I'm going to stop paying them. I mean, they can try to sue me or something but I don't know how capable they would be of doing that kind of thing. I just know that if this kind of shit keeps up I'm going to be fired and I really can't be fired now when we're just finally starting to get caught up and I'm at a store that I actually like.

someone reactivated my account and gifted me three months! I really don't have a clue who it could be but it's an awfully kind thing to do. so thanks!

I'm hungry. There's some cheese tortellini that I made the other day in the refrigerator that I'd probably like to eat. Ugh. Life is hard.

I like this new apartment quite a bit. If it weren't for these asshole kittens it would probably be damn near perfect but they're constantly destroying almost anything they can get a hold of, jumping on the kitchen counters, scratching up the furniture and my books, gnawing on power cables, tearing the the plugs for the television out of the walls and knocking my wii over. This week I decided that I hate the kittens when I was thinking about the plot of Y the Last Man and how it would really make my life awesome if a disease swept through Alabama killing off all of the kittens instead of all the mammals.

note: I had to stop writing that paragraph to go into the kitchen so I could take the asshole kitten out of the sink where he was digging through the recently used dishes. I fucking hate that asshole.

anyway, quickly while my home isn't being destroyed, I have pictures.



the back portion of the complex is pretty much in the woods which makes for a sweet ass balcony view like this

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it actually has the biggest bedroom I've ever had the pleasure of sleeping in.

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and our bedroom leads into an ass kicking walk-in closet that leads to our bathroom.

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Outside of my apartment I've learned to socialize a bit with the impressionable youths I work with. We've introduced a kind of weekly game night for the people we work with at our apartment and last week was actually a lot of fun. We managed to get about 8 people packed into the apartment. We ordered pizza and divided up into groups playing things like Mario Party, Risk, Scrabble and Monopoly in about three groups. I need to send out some texts to plan for this week. But mostly when I go out of the apartment, which is very often, it's to Subway, where I've been promoted to assistant manager as of this week.

here's a picture of Subway.

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and here's a picture of Nick taking a picture of Subway.

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Dean wanted us to stop using so many cups at work for our drinks so I went out and bought myself a manly glass and it started a trend and now pretty much everyone has a big ass glass.

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Subway pizza = shockingly better than you'd think.

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these are some of my minions.

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this is where I spend most of my waking life.

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Also, I got one of these

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So yeah. I make more money now. More than I made in Illinois, actually. Not hourly, I still only make $7.50 hourly but now I get weekly bonuses and Dean says I'll get $80 extra this week, which should push my paycheck post-taxes to around $350, which is quite respectable for a week. I have some pretty major financial goals though. I have to, as soon as humanly possible, get a car and get back to Illinois because my sister has informed me that they're running out of money without me and will likely have to move rather soon. By my estimation I left behind about $15K worth of shit, so I need to get back there fast. Plus, I miss my stuff. Dean and I are in the middle of trying to buy a car, which would hopefully let me get back up there to get my stuff in a rather quick fashion. It would also give me some extended portability which is something that I've really been craving.

Also, I seriously miss playing bass and have had multiple offers to start bands, so if I can get to Illinois quickly I might just buy a cheap bass to practice on and see what happens. As soon as the car situation is cleared up I want to buy an Imac as soon as possible. I haven't had a computer I've liked in years and for as much as those machines do they're worth the investment.







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I moved across the country to the south! Alabama, specifically. I'm completely restarting my life and trying really fucking hard to make a better life for myself.

can&#039;t wait for 2008 to end. I need a fresh start.

my oldest friend killed herself last night. I'm not really sure how I feel about it. Sometimes I feel like my life is so devoid of human contact that I've evolved to an emotionless state of drifting robotic apathy. And then something happens and makes me very very sad and I begin to feel alive again. But already I'm receding back to my corner.

i don't know why I keep checking back here. this is a wasteland.

halloween night and not a damned thing is going on. I need to evacuate from the midwest.

my account got renewed on accident, I'd completely forgotten about it, which is a shame because I don't have much use for this site anymore. There are really only a handful of models I actually like, though I do love their sets quite a bit - wendy, clio, ember, quinne... but generally the girls who don't ever turn pink are significantly more attractive than any of the new models each week.

plus, after three years I've yet to really make any friends here. I guess if you suck at that sort of thing in person you're not really guaranteed to accelerate yourself through the digital social stratum. Ah well.

I'm both glad I'm buying Don's Wii from him and also not happy about spending the money on it. He's pretty much giving me a couple of games, four controllers and the system for $250, which sounds like a pretty good deal as that's what the system alone costs. It's just at an inconvenient time, but October 2nd is his last day, which is exactly two paychecks from now so if I set aside $125 each week, I'm set. Easier said than done, but if I stay out of the comic shop and don't eat too much, it should be fine. Apparently after work on the 2nd he's going to Utah to go camping. My reaction to this news was WTF, but apparently that's what macho straight dudes do. They love the natures. Then when he comes back from Utah WTF he's moving back in with his parents in Park Forest, which is a suburban shadow of Chicago, so he'll be pretty far away. Again, not incredibly please with this because Don and I have actually kind of become loosely affiliated friends in the past year of working together. I'll miss going out to the bar with him, making fun of customers with him and actually getting him to read some days. It seems like when you just get to know someone that's when it becomes even harder to know them.

In non-shameless self-promotion news, I just got off the phone from Katie. She seemed to realize I was kind of sad, which made her sad, which in turn made me rather sad. Vicious cycle and what not. Apparently she is with her friend Emily over there and they're back in Tokyo. Sounds like they're having fun too. I love that every time she calls me I can hear little Japanese kids screaming in the background. She said she went to Hiroshima and the museum was awesome but really sad too. I think I'd like to go there, but I'd probably annoy her because I'd end up standing in the same place for hours at a time thinking about unique situations before the bomb was dropped for way too long. She said they had a bike that a guy donated after his kid melted on it, but the bike survived, then they buried their kid in their backyard. She also said she was surprised that there was a big display essentially saying, "yeah, so we were jerks and attacked America and they melted our bones. Most unfortunate"

Mondays are like my Fridays. I'm really glad tomorrow is Monday. And by Monday I don't mean Friday, I mean Monday in the traditional sense, so it's going to be just like Friday in the traditional sense. I just want to SLEEP AND SLEEP.

I still haven't heard back from management about getting a Hertz promotion and getting more MONEY, which is the only that can make me stay. I actually wouldn't be surprised if they were just going to keep delaying it to try to keep me around without actually paying me more. Unfortunately I also haven't heard back from any prospective employers, though I did only apply for a debt consolidation place that a 'friend' just got hired at and that security position at the hospital. Tomorrow night I need to make time to look and apply for more jobs. It's just such a bitch trying to find a job that will pay me not entirely horribly and also be tolerable. I HATE having a job where you just dread going in every day. I remember when I worked at Mobil I would start dreading going to work on Tuesday afternoon on Monday morning.

This morning I received a pretty understanding e-mail from my local comic shop not only confirming my cancellations but informing me that, at my request, I could cancel the comics I just ordered from the catalogue this month because the order hadn't been submitted yet. So now I'm on the road to financial independence. Kind of. I'm guessing that this means that I'll stop getting DC comics automatically around the end of October and the beginning of November. I hope this internet thing works out.