fuck santa cruz
so, since my class' eres pages aren't loading, i figured the only thing that will keep me from killing everybody in a five block radius is to vent on this thing. i pay $500 a month to split a room in a house that has a faulty fuse-box, a leaking toilet, fucked up appliances, no telephone, no working blinds/windows to keep it warm, a strong urine/fecal matter scent, and a landlord who would rather fritter away his money than actually maintain a suitable living area. among other things. our neighbors are - for the most part - assholes. while the house is only the tip of the iceberg, i'm also starting to get sick of the bullshit policies this city runs. the UC students have a fuckton of money, the city obviously exploits it, but there's no sign of any of this money actually benefitting the city and/or the college. pseudo-liberalism arguments aside, this city is stealing and deceiving - pocketing more money than i have ever seen put to use for the homeless/needy/poor/etc. much less public services such as fixing streets, maintaining clean neighborhoods, and rounding up all the fuck-ups and bitch slapping them for turning this town into a walking punch-line. it makes me sick that they continue to jack up prices and fuck us over. what makes it worse is that everybody is content with this fact, but would rather deal with it through kicking off ROP/army recruiters and other useless displays of protest that are both unnecessary and fruitless. paying for a view is one thing, but having to rough it in a shit-hole house erected circa 1950 that could sell for $200,000 more than any house in a twenty year old, beach-side suburb today is bullshit. additionally, to add to the complete utter lack of responsibility and hypocrisy of this town, some fuck decided it would be awesome to bang up my car while it was sitting streetside in front of my house during the last 24 hours and left no note to explain it. soooooo, on top of paying for an internet that is too slow to load UC webpages, paying for a cellphone service that doesn't work anywhere within the city limits, and paying an excessive amount of money in rent - i now get to make a $50-$150 deductable for somebody else's fuck-up. since getting police to maintain law is not only futile due to their lack of interest in student-related affairs (besides collecting money for underage drinking, party violations, and any other law they invented to steal money from us) - coupled with the fact that if word got out that i got the cops to help me a hippie might castrate me - and the dipshits that did this were so fucking insensitive and irresponsible as to fuck up a CAR in front of the house that I PAY RENT FOR, i have since decided to forego any sense of sympathy or interest i have had in this city and replace it with rage. ultimate irony - we live across the street from a UC cop and a family of cops that pays so much attention to us it makes me think we have a family of illegal immigrants living in our house instead of a bladder control-challened puppy. to make it short and sweet: santa cruz is the worst fucking town on the face of the planet.