I don't know who you all use as your wireless providers, but stay as far away from Verizon as you can!  I'm so pissed with them I don't even know what to do.  I know people say AT&T's system is slow, but at least they're not complete and utter DOUCHE NOZZLES like Verizon is.  I have some choice things I would love to do to them, but I'll keep it to myself since this is a public post, but ask me what I would like to do to them and yeah, I'll tell you!

Bottom line, go to Sprint, go to AT&T, hell get a TracFone if you have to, but stay far away from Verizon.  You will be screwed over just as I was!

Edit-  Here's the basic gist of what happened to me so you'll understand.  The sales boy lied about what the wireless broadband service cost, my first bill was way overbloated and had a $5 dollar late charge (really on the 1st bill!?), then charged me an arm and a leg to turn off, when I told them I could only afford to pay them a small amount every month they refused to accept that, proceeded to turn my cell phone off because I wouldn't talk to them (even though my cell phone is is on my Mom's account), and forced me to pay them $300 dollars I didn't have.  So do you see why I wish nothing but ill-will upon them.  

Bottom line, if you like being screwed over then Verizon is the perfect company for you.  All others should avoid like the plague!

For the last couple of weeks I've been hearing birds chirping outside my window (I can hear them chirping right now).  I know that's not terribly unusual, but the chirping I've been hearing has been from birds I hear primarily in the spring.  So for a few weeks I've been under the assumption that its going to be an early spring.  Fast forward to blizzard number 2 (Actually the 1st blizzard shouldn't count cause it happened the tail end of last year, but I'm counting it!) and about 29 inches of snow later.

 

This is what my backyard looked like yesterday and it hasn't improved much either. Grant it, its really pretty,  but how am I supposed to get to school in mess like this?!

Anyway, needless to say I'm not amused by those lying spring birds who live in my backyard.  They were supposed to be ushering in spring and all its many promises, not a frozen tundra and all its many terrors.

Well sorta.  I've had a pretty tough time with school this semester.  My Economics class isn't going well at all.  As of right now my average is a 55.  That's because I missed a quiz (Just one and that's because I was sick on the day the class took it) and my professor won't let me retake it nor will she let me do extra credit either.  So I'm kinda stuck.  I'm really pissed off about the outcome and now the most I can hope for in the class is a B and that's if I work super hard and I only have three weeks to turn it around.  But I'm going to work hard to make sure I pass.

I haven't seen Jose at all this month, nor will I be able too with all the fu-snickens going on with school.  But we've talked nearly everyday which has been really nice.  He's starting to talk about the wedding a lot, something that really surprises me.  Last year around this time we were engaged but he never really spoke about the wedding or anything, so if he didn't talk about it, I certainly didn't want to feel like I was pressuring him about it or anything.  But man, he talks about it a lot now and it has me super excited.

Prime example.  On Friday, he was driving back home and I'm on the phone with him for the whole way and he asks me how did our wedding date come about.  I apologized and said that was kinda one of my arbitrary decisions.  See for a long time my dream wedding was to get married on a Tuesday in October.  And while it still kinda is a dream of mine, I know a week night is a terrible night for a wedding cause people have to work the next day, so in the interest of unity (and not wanting to hear people whine at me), I decided to move the wedding day to a Saturday in October, the 22nd was just a random last minute decision.  Jose says that's a good date cause it's close to the time he joined his company and he would be able to remember it very easily.  So I'm pleased he's so looking forward to our wedding.

I think when I go in for my 1st dress fitting in August, I'll take him with me.  Knowing him, he won't want to go, but I'll ask him.

But other than that it's been pretty quite for me.  I had a job interview on Monday, which I thought went well, but I haven't heard back from the guy so I'm assuming that I didn't get it.  Sigh, that's the story of my life.  It would have been a really good job too.  Its working for 1 guy, who wouldn't be in the office all the time, no co-workers, just me in an office all alone and I would have been putting invoices into the computer.  Easy stuff and with no co-workers to annoy or undermine my position it would have been perfect!  But alas...  Oh well, I'll just keep trying and I'll even re-apply for work-study at school.  There has to be something out there for me.

Edit-  I'll be doing a real entry in a bit, but I just wanted to get this off my chest first.

When its snowy outside I am forced to remember two poems from a man named Ogden Nash, neither I remember the title too, but I do remember how they go.

Winter is the king of showmen
Turning tree trunks into snowmen
Houses into birthday cakes
Spreading sugar over lakes

Smooth clean frosty white
The world looks good enough to bite
That's the season to be young
Catching snowflakes on ones tongue

Snow is snowy when its snowing
I'm sorry its slushy when its going.

The other poem goes like this (And this one speaks the truth).

I do not like the winter wind that whistles from the north
My upper teeth and those beneath
Jitter back and forth
Though some are hanged and some are skinned
And other face the winter wind

I do not like the summer sun that scorches the horizon
Though some delight in fahrenheit
To me its a deadly pison
I think that it would be more fun
Without the sizzling summer sun

I do not like the signs of spring
The fever the chills the icy mud the pungent bud
The frozen daffodills
Let other poets gale and sing
I do not like the signs of spring

I do not like the foggy fall that strips the maples bare
The radiators mating call
The dank rheumatic air
I fear and taken all in all
I do not like the foggy fall

The winter sun of course is kind
The summer winds a savior
I'll merrily sing of fall and spring
But when they're on their good behavior
Otherwise I see no reason
To speak of praise in any season

I hate group work!  I think its stupid!  I especially hate group work in school cause I'm usually the one who gets stuck doing all the leg work and getting none of the credit for it.  And we have a group assignment for my economics class.  And on the 1st day we had to pick a topic.  The one woman wanted to do "the role of money" and I wanted to "capitalism" not because I agree with it, but because I know it yields a lot more information than "the role of money" does.  But I see on the group topic today, "We're going to do the role of money."  I just responded, ok, fine.  I know I'll get some shit from that from my professor, but whatever, I'm pissed off.

I'm washing my hands of this assignment.  I'll do the powerpoint for it and thay can read my copies of Business Week, but I'm not running myself ragged looking for anything.  I know the point of a group assignment is to work as a group, but they didn't take my suggestions into consideration so I'm done.  And I hope for their sake they know where to find this information cause in doing my preliminary search for it, its not easy to find.

With all that has been going wrong lately, I haven't been focusing on school as much as I should be.  I've been thinking I've been doing terrible in my classes.  Grant it, I do need to hustle with Economics cause I missed last week's quiz cause I was sick, but I think I can make up and do well if I work hard.  In Management I thought my answers were terrible and I was afraid to look at my gradebook.  However, I did finally check the gradebook and it turns out I have all A's.

Then while I was on cloud 9 about that, I get a letter from school that says, our records indicate that this past fall you have a 3.5 to 3.6666 GPA, keep up the good work!  That really boosted my confidence through the roof!  I want to continue to get good grades.  Good grade make me feel accomplished.  Especially when everything else is a big old mess.

Thanks school!  You made my day!

Thanks to everyone who sent me Facebook messages yesterday.  That was so very nice of you.  When I sign in (Cause my LJ is RSS looped to Facebook) I'll respond.  But I did want to thank you guys, I am very touched.

So 32 is a year I've been dreading.  Not for the whole getting older thing cause really getting older doesn't bother me.  I kinda look at aging like this, you can either age, like it, and shut up, or die.  And I'm not ready to cash in my I'm alive chips to the grim reaper just yet.  I still have some things to accomplish here. 

My primary lamentation on turning 32 is my curse of the 8 years.  As you no doubt remember me saying at the turn of the year every 8 years something awful happens and so far this year hasn't been the exception to the rule.  The bank thing and the Jose going into the hospital thing.  There are a few other things that I haven't mentioned either, but it's not been a picnic and it's only just the beginning of the year.  We have another 11 months to go before 2011.

But all-in-all my birthday this year was nice.  I went out, ate lunch, did stuff, won stuff, went to the ER with Mom (she slipped and fell today), and got presents.  So it was a busy day, but good.  I'm exhausted now.  I'm so tired that I'm not even in the mood to play Bayonetta, which I just got.

( The curse of Bayonetta )

Breathing through one nostril really blows (no pun intended).  I hate being sick!  Being sick blows too.  I barely got anything accomplished today.  I got all my management homework done, but still haven't done my now late economics homework.  Plus I missed the quiz today because I was so sick.  I'm feeling a little better now, I'm not having the sever dizzy spells I was having when I woke up this morning. 

Oh man that was rough.  Every time I got out of bed the room spun like a Las Vegas roulette wheel.  Which isn't good considering all the crap I have on my floor (my room is a bit of a disaster zone).  It was by sheer luck I didn't fall to my death.  Now the dizziness is mild.  Mom said I probably had a lot of fluid in my ears.  Which would explain why my head felt like it was ten times its normal size this morning.  Now it feels just slightly bigger.

My body's natural schedule is all messed up.  I was under the assumption up until about an hour ago that today was Monday.  And it didn't help that the show Big Bang Theory was on to further complicate my feeble brain.

I'm really tired, I think I'll go to bed early.  Maybe tomorrow will be a better day...

Oyasuminasai!

Really it was inevitable, getting this cold.  When I had left Philly on Thursday, I was up at 6 for my 8:30 class, then I didn't eat at all (except for a little 5 hour energy drink and two or three Special K strawberry bars), then after that I ran home, packed my gear, ran back out all the way up to NYC and didn't stop, eat, drink water, or rest until way later that night.  Then did the exact same thing for the next couple of days while Jose was in the hospital.  So, yeah, a cold was pretty much inevitable.

With all this craziness that's gone on I have fallen behind in school (its only week two but still).  With last week happening the way it did, I couldn't get adjusted to the new homework/ school work regime.  This semester everything is due on Thursday; my online work as well as homework for my Macroeconomics class.  Yesterday, as sick as I was, I did some of my managment homework, but I still have more to do.  Including answering 6 discussion topics.  Then I have chapter 1 and 2 to do in Economics, which is also due tomorrow and some of those econ questions are long and hard.

Well I'm not going to let this get me down or deture me.  I'm a little behind now, but I will work hard this weekend to catch up with everything and stay on top of/ ahead of the game.  I also need to get better because this weekend is my birthday.  Ugh 32...  Another damn 8 year.  And so far it's fully living up to its sucky potential.

Jose is finally getting out of the hospital today.  Thank you all so very much for your concern!  He's pretty much checking himself out, cause they wanted to keep him there until Monday.  Don't ask me why they wanted to keep him until tomorrow, cause they really weren't doing anything super duper special to his wound as it was.  I could see if they were debriding it, but they're just cleaning it, giving him IV antibiotics, and re-wrapping it so what the hell?  Why did that warrant a 4 days/ plus hospital stay?!  I swear to God, I hate Roosevelt Hospital.  Next to Einstein Hospital, that is the next worst hospital I've ever had to deal with in my entire life.  And I'm still pissed the nurse incident yesterday and don't think I won't be reporting this to the hospital administrative staff either!

Edit- He his back at the hotel with me now...  Currently he's working on an email to his clients and co-workers.  But he's already causing me trouble (He's not the best patient in the world).

However, I want to focus on something else stupid that happened.  Through another friend on LJ I see that there is a little "My Stats" link you can click on, so I go and see who's been checking out the life and times of the deranged fangirl and there's a lot of names I know, some names that are unidentified, and some names I don't know at all, which I don't mind too much.  Pretty much anything I want to be public is public and then I have my levels of filters which fall into these three categories, publicly private, suto-private, mega-private. 

( Otakon and me... )