Sipping the backwash of gods

[spookster_z]

What is stressing me out right now? I'm just sitting here with no tangible responsibilities, feeling stressed, and I'd like to know why. I thought having a planner would help, and it does. Nonetheless, it's time for the stress-buster that has yet to fail me: a list. Lists reduce boiling knots of so-called problems into the manageable human

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[omgnorabeth]

congrats on the car

[spookster_z]

Thanks! Haha, he got it for me intending to give it to me when I turned 16 cuz he thought I'd have my license then -- but I didn't get it till last year, lol.

I tried to look at some car insurance quotes, but one site just led me in circles and Geico gave me several drastically different and too-high numbers (like $620 for six months). Do you know of any good sites for that? :D

That zero credit thing does sound like it would be very comforting, as you said, once I have a job. Thank you! I'm not really sure how quickly I can get a job there. I'm willing to do fast food if that's what it takes, haha.

You're right, it probably won't be as awkward as I'm imagining -- I'll just do it. I think I just need a check-up to see whether my wisdom teeth urgently need to be removed or anything, and get a cost estimate... argh.

Very helpful, thanks!!! :-*

[sharkbite]

When I needed car insurance, I just filled out these online forms from the websites (like esurance & such)and they sent me quotes. I ended up getting insurance from my parents' provider.

AMUSING/SHALLOW STORY ABOUT WISDOM TEETH TIME! My English professor my first semester at CCSF told us this story. He was trying to teach us something... maybe about the importance of getting more than one source of information? It is vague in my memory because the story was about wisdom teeth. His dentist told him that he needed to get his teeth removed, but then he asked a friend (also a dentist) and another dentist and they said he didn't... so he saved a ton of money and didn't get them removed. If you saw his mouth, you would know this BECAUSE HIS TEETH WERE MESSED UP. They were crammed together and obviously did not all fit in his mouth. All I could think about was how messed up his teeth were.

I also need a job. poo.

[spookster_z]

I haven't tried esurance cuz I HATE their commercials! hah, take that esurance! Haha I will try to find another site.

That's a funny story. I really wish I didn't care about my teeth being crooked. I don't care about other people's teeth being crooked. I think it's a stupid, Western thing to care about that we only concern ourselves with because we have nothing better to do (we have food, shelter, free speech, aren't fighting for our lives, etc). But nonetheless... I don't want crooked(er) teeth. :(

Damn economy!

[sharkbite]

Ever the social cynic. ;) Even people who don't necessarily have ready food/shelter have a social sense of aesthetics even if they're different from ours... and it CERTAINLY isn't just a "Western" thing either. The cultures labeled "Eastern" were also into how looking a certain way is better than another.

Besides. I imagine that having extra teeth jam the rest of your teeth together is quite uncomfortable. Regardless of whether they look "good" or not.

[spookster_z]

I'm aware that all cultures have standards of beauty. But ours has taken beauty & youth to a central and an extreme, because it can afford to. Have you heard about the culture of the Nacirema? Most people might not realize it, but we're very similar to them. https://www.msu.edu/~jdowell/miner.html

[spookster_z]

That picture doesn't want to show up there. It might like it better here.