TO MOLLIFY LINGJACKSON OVERDRIVEBERT WHO IS THE SQUEAKY DESERT FIEND, POST ON THIS THREAD AND ONE OF YOUR FRIENDLY ITR MODS WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE WICKED AWESOME, AND POSSIBLY OFFER AN EFFUSIVE ST

oh it was just a regular size, but it's been about six months since i last drank, plus i hadn't eaten all day!

ok going to sleep now, last bump for the night! goodnight, ITR! <3 <3 <3

Goodnight RR!

haha

i woke up to the sound of my cousin rogering his latest sugar-baby

GOOD MORNING!

to you, i have been at work for 3 hours

no one is rogering anyone here

sorry to disappoint

worst guitar store ever

i have decided to move to seattle, and the week after next, perhaps

Cool remy! Seattle sounds awesome to me. I want to visit it someday!

I have just woken up, believe it or not. But I was up half of last night with ear infection boy. Good times.

ear infections are the worst. i used to get them a lot from swimming. they were especially unfun when they moved to the inner ear, and i'd lose my balance.

Yeah - they DO suck. suzy said she never got them as a kid upthread and that is just really lucky for her. J has never had one and this was 4lex's first since he was 1 1/2. The Up All Night With Kids feeling was BACK. Wow, I had totally forgotten it!

I was reminded of how painful ear infections are myself when I was pregnant with 4lex - and I still remember it vividly 10 years later! I hope that never happens to me again. Because OUCH.

WELL! seattle's great, remy. i think you'll dig it.

so yeah. let us know what is up.

will i be able to find cheapo work?

oh sure, i don't know why you wouldn't be able to.

seems like there's lots of temp stuff if nothing else.

it's been ten centuries since i got a new job so i'm not an authority on the subject, but i know plenty of people who've started as temps and easily become permanent.

or, you know, just done temp stuff. or gotten something permanent right away.

i am actually looking for something braindead -- possibly barrista or similar. basically i am moving to seattle to finish work on the novel / screenplay, and want to be able to focus on that and not work stuffs. i will send you an email offboard in a day or so, when i make my plans?

yeah, great, remy!

double great

slowly the ITR consolidates its forces, poised and ready to strike

^^^ I wish I could draw a picture of what I see in my head when I read that.

wow a little seedy today

congratz on making a moving decision, remy

oh shit i have to tell you guys about this GROSS nightmare i had (this is just the end part because i can't remember the rest):

president bushes, snr and jr, get shot outside this huge house i'm living, their bodies get brought in, and there's blood EVERYWHERE - they've been shot in the head and there's these enormous gaping wounds. i have to wrap their bodies in these huge sheets of plastic, and gather up their brains that have leaked out everywhere... and then microwave them. not sure what was going on in this part of the dream, but i put their mushed up brains into two plastic containers and put them in the microwave.

then i called this guy to come pick up the bodies, and i gave him the containers in a plastic bag and told him 'no matter what, DO NOT TASTE THE STUFF IN THESE CONTAINERS' because i wasn't allowed to tell him what was actually in them.

christ almighty no wonder it's a seedy day

That sounds terrifying. And messy. And gross.

Wow.

If I were you Mr Balls, I would put my tin hat on right now

so i made a big (for me) deposit this past wedneday, and the fucking bank refuses to release any of the money until next thursday and now i am out of money, and the people on the WaMu help line were real shitholes to me.

me: 'so i have several thousand dollars in the account, but you will only allow me access to fifty-two dollars until five business days have elapsed?'

them: yes sir

me: would you be willing to release five hundred dollars to me?

them: absolutely not

me: why?

them: because it is on hold.

me: but you have the ability to release a small percentage of it to me, yes?

them: that is not the issue, sir. what is it you are asking me to do?

me: what should i do? what would you recommend in the meantime? i have X dollars in the bank, but you will only let me touch fifty-two of them, and i have expenses exceeding fifty two dollars coming due in the next four days.

them: i cannot give you advice.

me: ...

them: ... you need to get off the line. thank you for calling, sir.

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Can you go to that bank in person? Because I would do so immediately and inform them that I was closing my account and explain exactly why I was doing so.

Alternately, can you call during business hours and talk to someone who can explain just what the hell they are about?

I mean, I can conceive of 24 or even 48 hour processing times, but a week is beyond ridiculous.

I am going to make a cake to take to my Mom's house tomorrow bump

Yeah, switch banks. BoA only does 48 hrs IIRC.

It is kind of insane how totally pissed I was feeling on your behalf earlier, remy. I've never even met you and I was ready to go on into that bank myself and demand your money for you.

Maybe I should try to get more sleep huh.

Remy, besides killing bankers, you must remain in SF through next weekend. Then that way I can say I've seen you in LA, there and Seattle in the space of six weeks. (I am selfish.)

you should sleep, sara, and dream of disease-free chilluns

and yes ned, i will be here through next weekend ... though i might need to find new accommodation, because the cousin and i are going to be at loggerheads within the next two days

Hmmm. Well one of the SF bunch surely has couch space.

'ask chaki!'

remy, I will sleep, but not before 5.5 miles on the treadmill, a shower, and putting Easter stuff together for the kids. Luckily the only thing I really need to do tomorrow is glaze the cake I made and go to my parents' house; I will eat, drink and vegetate in HSTNGS all day.

So this is my pre-treadmill bump.

also remy, I hope you find a good place to stay!

post-treadmill bump

NEW YORK, March 5 (UPI) -- Former U.S. child star Danny Bonaduce will be seen mentoring aspiring young actors and their stage parents in a new reality show, VH1 said Wednesday.

Bonaduce is best known for his work on the 1970s sit-com "The Patridge Family."

His new show, "I Know My Kid's a Star," is to premiere March 20 on VH1.

A sneak peek of the first episode will be available on VH1.com, starting March 13.

The show challenges Bonaduce to seek out "one great, aspiring, triple-threat, stage-hungry kid, identify them as a star and train their driven, stage mom or dad to be a supportive and fit parent who won't end up driving their kid into rehab," VH1 said in a statement.

During the course of eight, hour-long episodes, the series will feature 10 parent/child teams living in a house in Los Angeles, willing to do whatever it takes so the kid can be a star.

Bonaduce and casting director/manager Marki Costello will judge the teams based on skill level, poise, likability and stage presence.

In the end, one team will win $50,000 in cash and a year of representation by Costello.

why on earth would anyone let his/her child near Danny Bonaduce?

at least they're pimping their kid to rich johns

I feel dirty just having read that.

remy, do not continue to do business with WaMu. It is your duty to capitalism. (I have USAA, there's nothing I hate worse than shitty bank service - the only purpose of them holding your money for more than 24 hours is to steal interest from you and pocket it themselves)

(of course I don't mind using my debit/credit as a "credit" card all the time because the 48-96 hours they spend "processing" the payments for those transactions comes out of the vendors' pockets, not mine, and I get a cut)

i know this is not the case for everyone, but boa (and its prior incarnations) have been treatin' me right for about 10 years now.

definitely, tom. i am running out of banks to switch to, though...
fleet bank had great customer service, but they were eaten by the gigantic b.o.a. conglomerate, who lost $1,000 of my money two years ago –– which necessitated a $50 'tracing' fee before retrieval. i think i will try to switch to a local credit union in seattle?