Another very warm, sunny day. Started off very overcast with a prediction of rain that never materialized.
The morning was one of those space-headed, very low blood pressure things for reasons unknown. Sometimes nothing flows to my head without my hanging upside down.

Resolution: No more online or credit card purchases.

There are three different things I'm paying for this month on purchases or services I either haven't recieved or have already been cancelled. Emory has still not credited me for the expensive night classes I registered for that were cancelled. MBNA is still billing me finance charges for the computer I've already paid off completely- handling charges included - last month. And I still haven't recieved the Amazon.com DVD's that, according to online communications, were supposed to have been shipped to me on March 10. From now on, I am only purchasing items I can immediately hold in my hands. Not registrations for future events. No catalogue or online purchases. This resolution will continue AT LEAST until I have gotten compensation on the things I've just mentioned.

I so want this job and would be perfect for it.

Plus, they have this wonderful Heidleberg Prosetter that looks like a giant inkjet, completely proportional to small desktop printers including oversize ridges in the plastic ornamentation and the giant power button on the side. I feel like Invader Zim in the darkroom.

And the staff are lovely to be around. I truly hope they like me. I want this job.

It's raining petals today all over town. A shower of pink and white every time the breeze comes up.

Today I had two very good interviews. One for a big company that has quite a long standing reputation in this city. The other for a new company very very close to home.

I'm not as desperate as I think I am. Tomorrow morning I'm cancelling that appointment. I still have limits and that is a good thing.

I attract stalkers and weirdos like lint.

The rant of the day: I can't work at a bank because they will not accept my amended birth certificate. The problem lies in that for a bank, you have to be registered with the IRS and the IRS requires, along with fingerprints, the state AND city of birth. This does not appear on an amended birth certificate like my own. Once again, I am made into a second-class citizen because I am adopted.

Cheap. Fast. Good.

You can have any two you like but never all three.

You decide.

This from Pam:

Things You Have to Believe to Be a Republican Today

1. Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you're a conservative radio host. Then it's an illness and you need our prayers for your recovery.

2. The United States should get out of the United Nations, but our highest national priority should be to enforce U.N. resolutions against Iraq.

3. Government should relax regulation of Big Business and Big Money, but crack down on individuals who use marijuana to relieve the pain of illness.

4. "Standing Tall for America" means firing your workers and moving their jobs to India.

5. A woman can't be trusted with decisions about her own body, but multinational corporations can make decisions affecting all mankind without regulation.

6. Jesus loves you and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton.

7. The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay.

8. Group sex and drug use are degenerate sins ... unless you someday run for governor of California as a Republican.

9. If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't have sex.

10. A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our longtime allies, then demand their cooperation and money.

11. HMOs and insurance companies have the interest of the public at heart.

12. Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy. Providing health care to all Americans is socialism.

13. Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer are junk science, but creationism should be taught in schools.

14. Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him and a bad guy when Bush needed a "We can't find Bin Laden" diversion.

15. A president lying about an extramarital affair is an impeachable offense. A president lying to enlist support for a war in which thousands die is solid defense policy.

16. Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet.

17. The public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades, but George Bush's MADD driving record is none of our business.

18. You support states' rights, which means Attorney General John Ashcroft can tell states which local voter initiatives they have the right to adopt.

19. What Bill Clinton did in the 1960s is of vital national interest, but what Bush did in the '80s is irrelevant.

20. Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is communist, but trade with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international harmony.

I would add #21: Going trillions of dollars into debt is good for America,
unlike the surplus in the 1990s.

Goth


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