Author: cheerfulchaotic

Estimated time in line, an hour and 15 minutes. We’ll see about that. =)

So, t-mobile customer service is composed of lying [actually, probably just incompetent] sacks of shit who told me that there was no problem using internet service in canada. It ended up costing me over $300 to do so for a weekend. Most of the charges billed came after my screen fried. Probably re-downloading the email that I would have deleted ages ago, if the phone itself weren’t a misleading heap of scrap, and actually did what I told it to, in terms of not deleting the email from the server I pulled it from.

So, why am I sticking with them, you might ask? Because none of the other companies are any better. Welcome to the free market.

A week ago yesterday, I buzzed my head with a low and loose high and tight. Yeah, maybe I should just give pics (courtesy , thanks Tony.)

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I have been in a shitty mood this past week. Part of it is doubtless due to my utter lack of productivity this week. The absence of exercise can’t have helped either. Well, at least those causes have obvious solutions.

As many of you doubtless already know, the guy who confronted Obama over tax policies may have a few skeletons in his closet (failure to pay taxes and trouble with a medical bill, failure to get a plumbing license when that is apparently required to do his job).

That’s not nearly as interesting to me as some of the misleading information about him. He is a registered republican. Not sure if he ever said he was undecided, but people sure got that impression somehow. He said his plumbing business would rake in over 250k/year. It doesn’t and it wouldn’t. Turns out he makes a whole lot less than that, and would be, if I understand correctly, taxed less under Obama’s plan than McCain’s plan. Heh, whoops. Dumbass.

(http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/us/politics/17joe.html)

Gotta love the mythical everyday joe making 250k a year, who can’t afford to pay 3% more on the extra back to the society that helps the business thrive. My dad is a physician, who owns two offices, works well over 40 hours/week and he doesn’t make half that. Puh-leez.

For some reason this reminds me of a post on White Privilege mentioned by in his status message.

Chicago’s GLBT film festival starts the day before l leave town for 9 days in san fran and ends the day I return. Perfect.

I think my biggest romantic problem is follow through and maintaining interest.

Quantitative	800	94 percent scored lower (maybe they need to increase the difficulty)
Verbal	800	99 percent scored lower
Analytical Essay	4	37 percent scored lower (ouch)

The essay is on a 0-6 scale. 0 is the score for people who can’t read or write english or generate original thoughts. 4 is the “there weren’t any glaring flaws with your essay, but it wasn’t particularly good either” I was hopeful I might get a 5. But, I didn’t expect to be in the 37th percentile. *shrug* [ETA: However, if you consider that there are only 3 groups remaining (4-6), even assuming the distribution between the three groups is even, group 4 would include the median GRE taker. Assuming it is lumpy in the middle, shallow on the edges, semi-bell-curvish distribution group 4 is even more expansive. I shrug and say, “whatevs.”]

Then again, how often do you have to write an essay with a hard 30 minute response deadline, and without any prior exposure to the subject? Same could be said of multiple choice tests, of course. Why do schools even care about these things?