elanya

I have had a lot of things I wanted to blog about more serioysly lately - for one the arrival of my wonderful, adorable, and apparently ravenous nephew, Howell Davis Hatch. Those among you who are asute will note that he is named after a pirate - in fact my favourite pirate! I still intend to put together a post on why this is, and why this is awesome, at a later date.

I am tired of being jerked around by jerks. Lately I have been feeling less complacent about shit that I forced upon me and I have less patience for dealing with crap. I am also finding that it makes me a lot angrier. I am less complacent, but also less patient, and more likely to yell and curse and generally terrify my pets (at least Jola, maze could care less even when I *am* yelling at him :p). My apartment complex has been the focus of much of my ire lately (today's infraction against my good will - suddenly deciding that we have semi-annual inspections.) We have a new property manager and she is a meddling cunt and I hate her. My response to this is to decide she merits only the barest of civilities. I had to deal with her for less than 5 minutes today after reading the inspection notice (some random time next week, huzzah) and it left me furious for over an hour. I admit this is not entirely rational, but it has been a slow build and I have had enough!

To add to this, I tried to pay my utilities bill by phone tonight. The phone system has always been shitty - I commonly have to call back several times to get the information entered properly - not my any error on my part, but because their system is a pile of dog vomit. It won't acknowledge that you have pressed anything, or it will double numbers you have only pressed ones, and other frustrating glitches. I tried calling 5 times tonight before giving up and using their (also awful) web interface..... which doesn't actually work in my usual browser.

So, in great annoyance, I sent them the following e-mail, subject: Your phone payment system is awful. Hopefully it contains no grievous typos :p

( Dear College Station Utities Minion(s) )

Now I should probably go to bed since I am going to renfaire tomorrow with Merc. Yay happy thoughts!

My bathtub faucet has been leaking *forever* in little drips. I had them fix it once and it stayed fixed for about a month (they replaced the cold water tap), and remained tolderable for a few more. Two months ago (possibly more now that I'm thinking of it) I started passing in a list of maintenance concerns when I paid my rent (which I can't do in person because of when they are open....which is never....). And nothing got done. It has been getting steadily worse - a constant narrow stream of water - lately. Yesterday I called and left a message (even though I called during their stated office hours, there was no one there :p), telling them they needed to fix it this week.

So, someone must have come today. Stuff has been moved around (shower curtain, stuff that was hanging on the shower rod, etc). but now it is about 5 times worse! It sounds like someone is running a bath, only it can't be turned off. its driving me nuts! So i called the emergency maintenance peeps and left a message there. We'll see what, if anything, comes of it :p Its going to be hard to sleep with it going, though -_-

I'm glad that i don't pay for water, and that it is the cold rather than the hot water :x

Also, they are supposed to let you know when they have been in your house - leave a note and/or a card, but there is nothing. Grrrr....

Also they were supposed to replace my miniblinds and haven't. One of them broke! By which i mean it snapped in half!

Grrrr......

I am officially getting a cold, booo! At first I thought it was low level dog allergies, but no - it's a cold. Probably because my sleep schedule has been so messed up over the holidays, and I've been sleeping poorly on account of being too lazy to flip my mattress so that the groove I'm wearing in to it is in a different less uncomfortable place ;p

So, I took a bath, even though my water was all dirty again. Baaaath! I think that after it rains, dirt gets into the water, and if my hot water heater gets filled before it is cleared out, i get a tank of dirty water :p Bah! Anyway, by the time I had my post bath shower it was running clear. Now I am having hibiscus tea (made with clean brita-filtered water that was in my nalgene), curled up in bed. That is not just an excuse to use my Iroh icon, but hey, you must admit that it is pretty awesome!

I got lots of stuff done today, including buying an asston of books for my history class, getting a calendar (Futurama!) after failing to find any of above mentioned textbooks at half-priced books (it was worth a look!), paying my tuition, and playing cupcake fairy to the department. Also i think i am done my SHA talk - I just need to look it over tomorrow. And I went to the gym, and took down my Christmas stuff. Rah!

Debating going to bed early tonight, but I had an hour nap (and some cupcakes) after I got *back* from the gym, because that seemed logical somehow ;p too sleepy to read or write, though, so I don't know what else to do!