A place for me to work stuff out and to post things that interest me.
Most of us can, if we choose,
make this world either a palace or a prison.
~Lord Avebury
I choose a palace.
~TKF
Do not let your fire go out,
spark by irreplaceable spark,
in the hopeless swamps of the approximate,
the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish,
in lonely frustration for the life you deserved,
but have never been able to reach.
Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won.
It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
~Ayn Rand
The democratic society's mythology of equality with its
attendant erasure of difference is an impossibility
in an actual, lived sense.
Therefore, according to this view, this
imaginary erasure cannot achieve an
actual democracy, because a sense of
community can only come with the recognition of difference.
~Slavoj Zizek, as paraphrased by Catherine M. Soussloff
Links!
A brand new link! Check it out!
deviantART
I thought the place was very cool. Oh, and all you Alias fans, you can find a very nice wallpaper there--
or rather, here--and a gorgeous Evanescence one, too!
Watcher's Diary
Slayage; The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies
Convert just about anything
Comes in really handy when you want to convert fahrenheit to celcius and vice versa!
Links to 100s of free calculators online
Everything from your due date to how much a house payment would be to a regular calculator
Reference Guide to Chicago Manual of Style
Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Atlas & Almanac
Quotation Search Engine
Complete HTML True Color Chart
Epicurious Recipes
Inn Recipes; Recipes for all Occasions
JobStar-Resumes & Cover Letters Advice
Overstock.com: Up to 80% off most items
Ediblenature.com
Things My Girlfriend & I Have Argued About
(Trust me--you'll be laughing outloud!)
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
| |
|
|
Beyond the Invisible
| 
The tale of the world is like a tree.
...
Sturdily rooted in the past, the tale's branches spread out through the days that come. The many stories that make up its substance
unfold from bud to leaf to dry memory and back again, event connecting event like the threadwork of a spider's web, so that each creature of the world plays its part, understanding only aspects of the overall narrative, and perceiving, each with its particular talents, only glimpses
of the Great Mystery that underlies it all.
~Charles de Lint, Moonheart
|
|
| |
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
It's Official
I'm evicted. I've been out of town and someone threw the letter from the landlord under the end table. If I hadn't been looking for something else, I never would have found it. It says that we have 3 days to pay up or clear out (3 business days, barring weekends and holidays). Since I never got the letter, my 3 days are up tomorrow. (Is that even legal--especially if we have a lease?)
I haven't a dime to give him and he wants a $1000 to consider letting us stay. I called to ask him for 2 weeks leeway, since I planned on moving then, anyway. I left a message, but there hasn't been a response. I did tell him that Ferg cleaned me out and, in fact, threw me so deeply into overdraft that I didn't get a bit of my paycheck that got Direct Deposited last week. I wouldn't get a paycheck this week, either, if it wasn't for 3 frantic phone calls to my temp agency to try to get them to stop the DD and mail me the check, but I won't get it until Friday at the soonest.
Meanwhile, even if I say "Okay, I can't win" and try to move out tomorrow (not possible, but let's pretend), there isn't a moving van or truck to be had until after this weekend because all the college students are moving back into the dorms. (Also, I don't have a bank card in my name because Ferg has my damned card and I don't have any money in the bank and I'm not willing to lose a significant part of my "escape fund" by putting it in there--especially if there's no point because I don't have a card in my name.) Aside from that, the family that Nikki is supposed to stay with during this school year is on vacation this week, so there's no where for her to go.
So I called him and left a really long message on his answering machine--4 messages worth--that basically said, "Ferg cleaned my account out and threw me into overdraft; I haven't a dime to offer you, let alone $1000. I understand completely why you're upset and you've been very patient with all of the various problems, but I simply don't have the money. I never received your phone calls and I only found the letter tonight because I was looking for something else, so this is the first I knew that you'd expect me out by tomorrow. I hope you're willing to give me 2 weeks, since there isn't a moving van to be found in the area. As for the money, I'm willing to try to pay you something--lord knows you deserve it, but I can't pay anything right now."
Um, at some point, I also added that I thought we had a lease which meant that he couldn't just summarily dismiss me in 3 days, especially since I didn't receive the letter until the night before. I added that the refrigerator hasn't worked in a month or so and I've lost a lot of money when the food went bad and he hasn't fixed it.
I wonder if I should stay home tomorrow, in case he tries to toss my stuff onto the lawn...
I wonder if I should call a lawyer...
I wonder if I actually could move out by tomorrow...
Jesus, my stomach is killing me.
9:14 PM
|
|
| |
|
|
|
bravenet.com
