AGH MY FAMILY AND CARS WTAF.

• About three weeks ago, got my car inspected and had to have $500 of work done replacing the entire exhaust system. The very next trip, the check engine light came on.


• Two weeks ago, the gold Camry has to have a whole new water pump; I'm not sure how much that cost, but Google tells me like $300.


• Last week, Dad ( Read more... )

Got an email from my Biomolecular Interactions professor telling everybody to sign up for the online class. . . idk, document repository and grade report thing. It's still got stuff from last year up, which I'm pulling off and looking at (from fall as well as spring, which leads me to hope that he leaves at least one of them up all year for ( Read more... )

Ahh, Majel Barrett Roddenberry. Science fiction TV will not be the same without thee ( Read more... )

So. Busted up my van, sort of. I'm blaming it on the stupid sporty chick in the SUV that parked next to me. Unfortunately, when it comes down to the damages, they're all on me--it was her fault, but I did the actual damaging. The bitch pulls in to the spot next to me as I'm trying to pull out of this one at a weird angle at the very end of the ( Read more... )

Oh, and didn't mention. I'm home ( Read more... )

Wow.

Pages from an Israeli astronaut's diary that survived the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia and a 37-mile fall to earth are going on display this weekend for the first time in Jerusalem.

Watching SNL. Can Amy Poehler get any more pregnant? LOL.

Re: Palin's "Palling around with terrorists" comments. They weren't kidding when they ( Read more... )

So, got one of those photo enforcement traffic ticket things. Taken at the turn right before I turn into the plaza where my job's at (this job is getting more and more expensive every day--the gas already knocked me down to take-home pay being significantly less than minimum wage; this essentially cancels out everything I've earned over two weeks ( Read more... )

Ahh, tornado season. How I've missed you. IL how it decides to start storming like a bitch on the day I decide to ignore the parking space right in front of the building and instead opt for the one across the lot because I could pull through there (I've gotten into this hypermiling thing, and that's one of the little tricks, so you don't have to ( Read more... )

LOL at this being a fail morning. Herein lies a description of morning so far. Beware of rampant tense changing ( Read more... )

Stayed in bed this morning, since I had volleyball after school (meaning I had to drive, meaning I could stay in for an extra hour ( Read more... )