07:11 pm - plz advize i can't decide if i should get another car or not.
plus: convenient as fuck. i like being able to get where i need to go whenever i want, and to be able to bring people places. possibly need one for parts of my job. i should be able to get the company van for fridays, and i have no idea if i will need to drive for josh or not (tho if i don't, it's an hour commute each way on the bus), but for my weekend shifts having a car was part of the criteria. maybe something could be worked out?
minus: cars are expensive. they pollute too. dan, you can take the bus, lazyass! or zipcar or whatever. on that note, i'm not planning to live anywhere particularly rural/suburban. i like cities, plan to stay in them, and cities are nothing if not traversable. also i am looking at getting/learning to ride a bike, FINALLY. and by finally, i mean again, since i got one last year and corey promptly lost it because he's a shithead. but that is a whole other post. also i want to get a segway. i won't, because they are expensive and stupid, but goddamn do i want one. np: matt pond pa - in the aeroplane over the sea
02:10 pm - no cars go hahahahahah i just got a recorded call that my car's warranty is expiring.
so anyway, the situation is that my car is officially a total loss. insurance is giving me its value minus $1000, as soon as progressive gets around to making up a number for the value. i have been assured this will happen today, so i assume it'll happen next week sometime. np: old man's child - in defiance of existance - black seeds on virgin soil
“there was a ginormous storm today, floods and hail and all that, and my car was washed down the street onto the sidewalk, while i was at work. it has been towed away and is most likely totaled. hmm.”
10:48 pm - politicians as a counterpoint to this: so 2 years after democrats retook congress in a supposed sea-change, i pretty much like them less than bush at this point. at least when bush does shitty things, he is doing what he wants and what he thinks he should do. they are just being craven. and obama too; every few weeks he takes himself down a peg on any kind of optimism i had in him. politics is politics, once again, and instead of good vs evil, it's evil vs less evil. or evil vs cowardly. i hate when people i supposedly prefer are in power and they still are all shitheads. righteous anger is so much more satisfying than chagrined disgust. i'm voting a straight al quada ticket in 08. there's a group with the strength of their convictions.
okay time to go downstairs and drink. first day of summer party at watermyn tonight! state: disgusted np: some band playing downstairs
whatta ya think? it is def encouraging that even the republican candidate now is all for multilateralism and national healthcare (and in some ways his healthcare plan is more progressive than either clinton's or obama's). but this really downplays the effects conservative judges can have, among other things. np: Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless - 03 - Airwaves
01:57 am - I DON'T KNOW HOW TO QUIT YOU i keep trying to quit via via, like i'll tell ahmir i am giving my notice, and then next thing i know he is just changing my schedule slightly instead. he's very persuasive for someone who has trouble with the language.
god it's hot. bedtime! someone come fan me with a large palm frond.
“So I just dropped Wayne off and I was ___ driving out, and there is this lady at the corner who's waving at me and I noted who it was I figured it was just you know someone from UCP(?) like Sayonet(?) hey that's recognized. So I leave back and got anyway leave back and driving off and I see in the rear view that she's still like waving to me like come back in notions so might ok and I parked and walked over to her. She me her car keys and says can you back my car up for me I'm to fat, and I'm like what apparently like somebody had parked right next to her way to close to the car so she couldn't squeeze in ___ so she had me like reverse her car out of the spot so that she can get in and listen to me I never laughed before get my car because I'm to fat it's kind off confusing situation but anyway the moral of the story is I'm still hero and backed the car out I couldn't figure out what reversed it right in the car for like 30sec because I'm just see I don't first of all I don't drive automatic and just like steering this thing and I can't find R anywhere on it because it was on the invisible dashboard adjusted guys but you know. So that's just the story of my ultimate heroism(?) today but I wouldn't share that with everyone. Good night.”
02:52 am - amazing i was kinda mopey at work today, as per my mood of late, but then things took a turn for the great. board meeting was the most perfectly scripted sitcom event i have ever taken part in, just by sheer luck and the petulance of the universe. then heather invited me out to seaweeds to say bye to jake before he leaves tomorrow (she also plied me with whiskey, which gave me heartburn). this somehow ended with jake giving us many of his worldly possessions. heather got 2 sweet plants, lined paper, and a spice girls cd. i got a bunch of giallo dvds, a jamiroquai cd, and a weird painting apparently done by jake's cousin. tomorrow the 3 of us drive jake home to ct, probably listening to heather's 10 yr old emo mixes the whole way. np: tarantella - esqueletos - 07 - misa gringa
02:21 am - flee if you secretly have no interest in my existence, now is a fine time to defriend me or whatever. i don't want to waste your time or mine. a message of why would be appreciated, but not required.
12:13 am this is something i believe very strongly:
"Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer.... Whoso would deserve well of his fellows in this matter will guard the purity of his belief with a very fanaticism of jealous care, lest at any time it should rest on an unworthy object, and catch a stain which can never be wiped away.... If [a] belief has been accepted on insufficient evidence [even though the belief be true, as Clifford on the same page explains] the pleasure is a stolen one.... It is sinful because it is stolen in defiance of our duty to mankind. That duty is to guard ourselves from such beliefs as from a pestilence which may shortly master our own body and then spread to the rest of the town.... It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence." [http://falcon.jmu.edu/~omearawm/ph101willtobelieve.html]
except when i don't. np: The Flaming Lips - Transmissions From the Satellite Heart - 11 - Slow Nerve Action
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