Originally posted by lavenderfrost at ...WTF.
Well, there goes my good mood for the day.

NYTimes, the bastion of quality reporting, reported on the gang-rape of an 11 year-old girl in Texas  that's led to charges against 18 high-school boys so far - all well and good so far, right?  Shit like this NEEDS publicity to raise awareness.

Only problem is, they ( Read more... )

I've got weddings on the brain recently... while Ben and I are not engaged yet and probably won't be for another year or two, two good friends of mine are getting married this year and it has made me think some. (I don't want to get married while I'm in vet school; so much of our relationship has been long-distance that I want the actual marriage ( Read more... )

The e-mail I'd sent to the Bev!Mo store address went unanswered, so I sent it a second time a week later. With yet another absent answer I wrote it out by hand and mailed it to their corporate offices. Finally yesterday the regional manager called me during class. I called him back today, and lo, I am triumphant. Here's what went down ( Read more... )

MY DAD IS TRYING TO GET ME TO JOIN TWITTER

THE APOCALYPSE IS NIGH

;_;

Washington Mutual was a great bank. But it's been bought out by Chase and the changes SUCK. Here's the letter I had to write them tonight ( Read more... )

There's a store down here called BevMo!, which is chock full of cool varieties of beer, a nice liquor selection, and a lot of interesting nonalcoholic drinks (like my beloved Dry lavender soda). Ben and I went there with Leah in December and stocked up on things like Kahlua and double chocolate stout. It was good times. We went there again last ( Read more... )

I spent the weekend in Los Angeles with Ben. I drove back around 1:30 today to avoid the hideous traffic, and all was going swimmingly -- it was actually the fastest trip back to my place yet, since there wasn't a single slowdown. I was four or five exits from home when I switched into the middle lane of five ( Read more... )

Why is my family the way it is ( Read more... )

1) Somehow there is no fucking hot water and I am really disgusting and NEED a shower and so I'm waiting in here for the hot water to come back... and then my brother just jumped in the shower. FUCK YOU, assface!

2) They stole my life! This was in the engagements section of the newspaper today: Jennifer is a graduate of Oregon State University ( Read more... )

http://sports.yahoo.com/golf/pga/news?slug=ap-golfer-birdkilled&prov=ap&type=lgnsRead more... )