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Had my last physical therapy session today ! Kinda relieved. I didn't mind going but it's 4-6 hours a week I'll have back to do my own thing. Just got to keep doing the goofy exercises for all eternity to fix myself. I did get a free t-shirt. I'm wearing it now. Ahaha. Also this means I can go back to the gym which is a relief. I've been shedding weight since the accident through a combination of stress and not doing anything apart from walk around at work and I now weight a scrawny 170 so that's going to have to change.

On the settlement side the lawyer is waiting to harvest up all the paperwork before that gets rolling. They've offered me like $3,600 for my car which is annoying because apart from some minor hail damage which they deducted like $1,100 for it's in perfect condition >:[ They also tried to sneak a $250 deductible into the settlement but hell no called them out on that shit.

Work is pretty blah. Looming feeling I'm going to be stuck in this position until I quit . Urghhh. I'm working on it. 

Bought a house ! Sort of. It's still being made . Lookit



Gonna be ready in 3.5 months :> I can't wait


 

soooo last tuesday i got rear-ended getting on the highway by some 18 year old girl on her fifth accident. amazing

car is totalled and i have whiplash and pain in various amounts

i ran out of vicodin on saturday and i'm reasonably convinced that cyclobenzaprine is a placebo. on the bright side i'm no longer constipated

on the bright side i have a doctor's apptment on thursday that will hopefully result in lots of expensive cat scans, MRIs and other crap to figure out why my arms hurt 




the rental chevy aveo is growing on me, maybe they'll let me keep it

i hadn't been too long away 

Life update ?

I don't really write in this thing that much, it feels either preachy or pathetic. I have a day off today which is nice. Big weekend coming up at work so I'm having a lazy day flopping around my apartment and breathing off the hangover that was greatly exacerbated by being at work at 8:30 this morning for a meeting. Only 90 minutes late, not bad. I'm listening to music which is.. unusual. The cigarette lighter in my car died 6 months or so ago, and i have no tape deck/CD player so I've been listening to the radio ever since. Listening to your own music after a long absence is kinda nice. Nostalgic. Eh. 

Apparently I'm getting a raise this week because my review in March was good.  I don't know how much it's going to be but I'll be a little disappointed if it's like 18 cents an hour or something because I work my ass off and my pay was cut by 10% when I moved to Oklahoma so it'd be nice to have some of that back.  That and I really need to start saving some money, I donno. Allegedly I'm going back to school either in January or next year for a masters but I've been letting it slide. Really need to start studying for GRE again. Once again lettin it slide. There's nothing quite like daunting uncertainty about your future to make you put off preparing for it ? Gosh. 

In a supreme show of willpower I have so far managed to resist the temptation to entangle myself in a football manager game this week. I think it's because the season starts in a couple of weeks and guys get some sort of male broodiness about this sort of thing ? Who knows. I need projects like that to take an interest in and nurture, I just need to find a productive one instead of a fake sports team. When I was living with my parents I had grand plans to renovate the vegetable garden and stuff but I moved before I could swing into action in the spring. I donno. Even if I don't actually do it , it's really therapeutic for me to just. Plan it out . Imagine it. I'd make a good Caribbean dictator I guess. Running some sort of start-up business would be cool as hell. I had a really good idea for one while I was drunk like 6 months ago but I have no idea what it was. Then there's capital, credit, following through, etc. Feh. I always thought a local info type website a la Campus Food  but more diverse would be cool . Unfortunately I have next to no technical ability with that crap so I'd have to, i donno, pay someone. Eew.

Sara gets off work in an hour but she's going to her mom's later tonight so I think I'm gonna hit the gym late night tonight. I'm always most enthusiastic about that sort of thing in the evening. I tried to go at like 3am the other night but was convinced otherwise. Maybe it's the heat ? it's 154F outside or something and I hate being exhausted and dehydrated and then climbing into a pressure cooker of a car. I'm sucha newt. I don't work til 2 tomorrow so it's not like I have to be up early. I really want to . Work hard. It's probably a healthy way of taking out life's frustrations. Better than kicking down a door. I hope the cuts on my hand don't open up again. Don't juggle glass kids. AAaaaa

google gears is detecting my location !!! but i think it might have crashed

chemistry wanted

 i donno man

i can't write these things

i just want these things to go well

why don't they ever go well

barf

Does anybody have some I can borrow


But seriously. Just declined for a Chase credit account on the basis of "Few revolving accounts opened long enough to establish credit history". Where do I begin ? It has been suggested that I get a department store card but I'm not sure how often I'd actually use it... what else is available ? 

In case you haven't been following events in Germany, Barbara Emme worked as a cashier in a grocery store for 31 years before being fired for stealing €1.30 in bottle deposits. Unions and politicians alike are in uproar over her sacking, and after having her case for wrongful dismissal dismissed by a labour court, she is threatening to take it to the European Court of Human Rights.

Really?

Is it really a human right to be able to steal from your fucking job ? 

It sounds petty to get fired for stealing such a small amount after so many years of diligent service, but perhaps she should have considered that before jeopardizing her career for pocket change. Money might be tight but how much difference was this honestly going to make ? Pah.


Article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7915564.stm

 how can people possibly say they don't see how spending money on new roads, bridges, schools and hospitals will create jobs


who the fuck do they think is going to paint the walls and fill the potholes


god damn people are so fucking stupid it hurts get back in your car you god damn morons

as promised !!

In a few weeks or so, sara and I are going on a road trip ! we will be driving from new york to oklahoma with a few stops along the way. 

Here is our chariot



first rule of road trips: drive quietly and carry a tiny recently installed tailpipe. fuck you midas.

first stop of road trip: newark liberty international airport



sara will arrive !! and have the shortest turnaround in the history of new jersey tourism as she immediately heads back south in aforementioned chariot

second / third / fourth / fifth stops:



wawa !! glorious new jerseyish chain of futuristic delis where you can order sandwiches on a COMPUTER


creepy flickr lady seems to like them a lot ( sara , not the person in photo,,,,:Llsfgdh

after eatin a ton of sandwiches we are arrivin in DC ! for the second time :]



i really hope it's as warm as this, i love DC in the summer

i doubt it though :<

the rest of the trip is still a little up in the air, but involves virginia, kentucky, tennessee and arkansas - big mysterious southern states ooof

there is an underground lake though



there are letters hangin from the cave ceiling  and glass bottomed boats full of people from the early 90s

the planning continues;

so it occurred to me today that I now have a number of livejournal friends, but for the most part i don't know who you are

this is probably because

a) i know you, but don't recognize your livejournal username
b) i don't know you

fill me in !! and i promise i will write a real entry later tonight 



here is a picture of some snow i took for your trouble

I got yelled at yesterday for raising awareness for the Palestinian cause in my facebook profile, and told to 'start a blog'. I have a blog. Here it is. No-one reads it. But a shitload of Palestinians have died in the last three weeks. ARE YOU HAPPY NOW.


To be honest the greatest injustice is how the term 'terrorist' is bandied around by the West with respect to groups like Hamas and Hezbollah rendering them totally illegitimate in any playing field,  and leaving them no other way to forward their views except... terrorism. We pipe on about how we want democracy in the middle east but as soon as a group we don't like is elected we systematically undermine their power and force them to regress back to a paramilitary outfit, instead of evolving into the quasi-governmental status Fatah has obtained.

God I ramble on a lot

Not at all ; if someone wants to formalize a friendship or relationship or whatever under their own system of codified beliefs then why should anyone else be able to say otherwise. Possible exceptions; child abuse. Meh. 

No because birds are dumb fucking lizards with fur

A few months ago I would have said 'alcohol' before you even finished the question, but now I'm not so sure

Oh gosh. They wouldn't call it an eternal dilemma if it weren't ! Savory if I'm hungover or really hungry or sick, otherwise sweet is kinda nice. Or go to IHOP/Wafflehouse/something and get both mixed together I Guess

I will miss Woolworths a lot :< The pick and mix sweets, the way everything was just . £1 or £4 or whatever isntead of .99 nonsense. The way you could go in and get a frying pan and a bottle of water and they'd be the same price somehow. Buying a bath mat with a christmas pudding on it and discovering 6 months later that it's supposed to be a doormat. Whoops. I hope they put something nice in it's place and I hope those people get new jobs

In other news, like our entire "street" in the mall is shutting down. One store has gone already and three are having final clearance shutting down sales, and another is rumored to be on the way out. Also there are two gamestops so I assume one of them will go eventually. Mall drama. Exciting. We're going to be all alone.

Hrm usually I run quickly through my head to think if I've done something wrong recently and if I can't think of anything that I've done wrong then I go back through to see if something has gone wrong that could maybe be blamed on me. I guess I'm sort of glass-half-empty this way :<

should i be worried about this 

today  was kind of a waste i got caught somewhere between getting up and being productive and staying in bed and getting enough sleep so as a result nothing got done and i'm tired as hell

night shift in 2 hours

kill me

barf