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I'm in no way offended (by you) and trust me, I was not very polite.

I will definitely be avoiding him until after the election at least. It's just depressing to be 36 and still think, "gah, my parents are IDIOTS." Between that and being in college again, I feel like I'm the oldest teenager alive.

I hear you on idiot relatives. One just asked me for money.Not that I think this person is an idiot, I love her, but gah, hate being in that position of relative bank.

Yikes. I wouldn't want to be in the position.

(Although I would like to be in a position where I had money that I could give to someone if I wanted to...)

I won a fight with Charter Communications today! We were without cable for five days - telephone (two lines), internet, television - and during the time we waited to have the services restored we were promised a pro-rated bill.
So, they offered me $8.43 as compensation. Towards the &180.00 bill for services we pay per month.
I'm not a mathematician, but even I could see that the number of days into the monthly payment worked out to more than THAT!
It kind of takes a while of being really bitchy, but we are going to get the pro rated bill - $30.00 - which I agreed to. I still think they owe us another $8.00 but whatever. I have only so many minutes to spend arguing on the phone in my lifetime.

Chalk one up to being really aggressive about corporations taking advantage of you. I fucking hate Charter.

Otherwise...I swam in the ocean this weekend, and it was amazing! I like getting knocked over by waves. Narraganset, R.I. - I saw that island house that Remy posted as we went over the bridge.

ATTN ITR:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VR4O68kUj5c <--- v. v. important

i just made my hair dark brown again woah

Cool! I kind of want to dye mine again, but I'm kind of not wanting to keep up with it.

Guys, why does the stage for the DNC look like the set for Starlight Express?

I so want Michelle Obama to come out on roller skates now.

haven't done mine since some lowlights i got in early dec, so i felt it was time to spruce things up a bit. i used semi-perm though so hopefully not too much roots/keepup?

haha will michelle obama also throw popcorn at the delegates? (that's what happened when i saw starlight express. 4th wall totally gone, y'all)

Clitter is awesome.

No popcorn or roller skates. ;_;

YET

OMG OBAMA DAUGHTERS A++++++ ADORABLE WOW

A. was sweating bullets there. "They let the six year old have the microphone?!"

Okay, tza, your hair sounds great. Where did you find semi-perm dye? I have heard good things about L'Oreal Color Pro (I think it's called...?).
I don't know how to pick a color out of a package on the internet...

natural instincts?
it looks kind of black. i hope it fades really fast.

Hmmmmmm black would be way too dark for me. That is why I shy away from doing this myself!

You probably look great, though - just need time for your eyes to adjust.

it was not supposed to be black... hope it will fade fast!

this is what i get for doing it myself for $10 because i was freaked out when a woman at a salon told me it would be $70 there. single process color should NOT be $70!!!

Okay, SEVENTY dollars?! WAHT

yeah and not even a fancy place!!!! oh and it was 'starting at 70' which means because my hair is longer than chin length it would likely have been more!

Good grief.

I can't remember how much it used to cost to get my very long hair colored, but it was way worse than that. (Yeah, it was the early 90s and it was in Minnesota, but STILL.)

i had my hair colored by these two really awesome girls from mpls last year. i wish i could regularly go to mpls for them to do my hair!

You should!

Ironically, it would probably be cheaper than having it done where you are.

it was free when they did it here, but that was because i was hair modeling for them at a wella color studio seminar thing.

Wow!

Well, you just have to make them come back and have you do that again... often.

Anyway.

I might make borscht tonight. Maybe tomorrow.

3 hrs of sleep SUX

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Please send them here too. I hate coloring my own hair.

Dan, why are you sleeping so little? (Let me guess... CRAZY JOB?)

Ned - way to go with the cooking. I've never had borscht. So I'm way impressed.

Ms. M - you're making me shy away from coloring my hair myself even more!

I've had borscht. It was pretty bad :(

Borscht is bullschit.

We were basically up all last night packing and cleaning; we've got a friend staying with us tonight so the house had to be presentable as opposed to the usual post-packing disaster we leave it in. I am now taking the tactic of not reminding my boss that I'll be out so that he can't tell me to change my flight.

good plan. We have half of microsoft here with us in the Xcel so as a consequence none of our computers are working properly.

lol Ed.

Dan, good tactics!

okay, is borscht really that bad?

Borscht is food of the gods, maybe polack/russian gods, but gods nonetheless.

I've only had it the once but liked it, then again I'm fine with beets in general. Friend of mine's background is Eastern European Jewish and when she heard I was going to try borscht she was over the moon. Anyway, we'll see.

How does one summon FAX ME, I can't seem to webmail him

TADAH!

Wow, it's like magic.

In fairness, the one time I had borscht was in... 4th grade? We made it in class. The culinary skills of 10-year-olds should probably factor into the nastiness of what I tasted.

I'm guessing Ed cracked open a beer; that's what I do. (Although in my case FAX ME showing up is more like a happy side-effect.)

i think this whole moderator thing probably makes the webmail screwy. What you want is j0hnjust3n(@)gmai1

Beets are just not good.

Sara, my main reason for not liking home hair-dying is pure laziness. It's messy and a hassle and I just wish I could afford to let someone else do it.

i've only had my hair dyed professionally one time, when i was 18. i always do it myself, and sometimes enlist a friend. need to do it again this week, might get jordan to give me a hand (he's good like that). i think i used clairol last time, which is just a semi - just squirt along your crown part lines, rub it in, squirt some near the base of your skull/hairline, work it up and in, massage all over, keep a wet facecloth nearby for cleaning skin (and use vaseline or just moisturiser over your ears/neck/face right before you begin dyeing). place cheap disposable shower cap over top and allow to process... and there you have it!

don't be afraid of hair dye! if it turns out shitty, you can just dye over it again. and use semi-perm, not perm, because it's way better for your hair.

Borscht is good - but people get freaked out by cold soups. Ten year olds hate cold soup and beets and vibrant cold soup is a nightmare.

I buy jars of pickled beets - and pickled beet "salad", which has some other pickled stuff in it- and eat it right from the jar.

I love smoked stuff (meat,fish etc,) - is that something I was brought up to like?
It's weird - I think tastes -both the idea of 'taste" and "tasteful" - and taste, flavors, sensations - are such an amazing combination between what you are told to like and what you actually like.
It's all sweet and savory.
Barbequed dog - if I were to be served it in a pulled pork type sandwich - would probably not taste any different from pulled pork.
there's tons of research on cravings, salt, sugar...it's all in the sauce, really.
Also the presentation.

WHAT? Beets were one of the original hair dyes!
Don't hate beets!

Now I'm going to be disappointed if Ned doesn't dye his hair with his dinner. Dammit.

My 1/4 ukrainian ass is gonna kick that of all the borscht haters!

Guys I have just had a meeting at my new place of employment and I am so fucking excited!!

Did you ever say where you're working?

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