We're refinancing, which means that the Bank is sending over an appraiser Friday to make sure we haven't let the house go to shit and that it's still worth enough to keep us within the desired ratio despite the downward spiral of home values (which thankfully isn't hitting our neighborhood near as bad thanks to it being undesirable). Of course ( Read more... )

My online Ed Psych class is one of those lame ones with a series of multiple choice tests and no due dates - just have it all done by the end of the semester. In my mind, because I took a late-starting online class last fall, the online semester ends at the end of December. Unfortunately no, it ends on Friday. and I started working on the class on ( Read more... )

( Therapy, psychobabble and feelings: enter at your own risk )

I could clog your friends page with a bunch of short, whiny posts, but instead I'm just going to do a list of stuff that's on my mind. I'll put it behind the cut to spare those of you who don't care to read about my misery.

( First, complaints... )

Thought it would be swell to charge my phone with Mungo's solar panel on Saturday. But of course, because the anthropomorphized universe hates me, my new phone overheated in the sun and will never turn on again. Fortunately I still have my old phone, but I really liked my new phone which had a qwerty keyboard, so this one now sucks (even though I ( Read more... )

I am not one to stay awake nights worrying. To the contrary, when I'm upset all I want to do is go to sleep and sink softly into oblivion. I have been known to sleep well past 15 hours if things are bad enough. But it seems there is one thing that will keep me awake: my daughter's safety.

( The details are long and sort of painful... )

God forbid you try to make something easier. Because you know that means that eventually it will come back and bite you in the ass HARDER than that thing which you were trying to avoid in the first place. Especially if it involves the DMV.

I got my name changed back to my maiden name before the wedding so that I would not forever have to drag around ( Read more... )

I'll try to keep this as short as possible.

I picked C up from school on Friday and she vented to me in the car about her art teacher, who she feels singles her out for behavior that others in the class are also doing. I explained that she can only take responsibility for her own behavior, and make strategies regarding who to sit with in order to ( Read more... )

Talking to the department head was utterly fruitless (and he called me a whiner - that was really fun. way to take some serious allegations seriously there, dickhead). Gotta love the Old Boys Network ( Read more... )

Wrote back & forth with the prof some more. He basically says "there's no dispute because I'm right", so I'm adding it to my list of innapropriate behavior to take to the department chair (found out I have to take it there before I appeal to the dean). Although I desperately wanted to, I refrained from telling him how utterly ridiculous that is - ( Read more... )