my week in review
my week in review Friday January 17
after three days of this, i needed to get out of town (and a haircut)i spent all of last weekend and early week at wpgu pulling new cat-5 cable through the ceilings. it's not a job that requires a lot of skill, but it most certainly requires a bit of physical effort and a chunk of time. i had both, but after laying just short of 2000 feet of blue cable, i don't feel like dealing with it anymore. that's unfortunate, given that i only have two cables (out of 20) left to install.
sarah.nerd > mark.nerdi went to visit sarah at illinois wesleyan, and i am both proud of and disgusted at her for this. i thought i was the worst person about fridge poetry, as indicated by my november poetry rants. after she got ready to go to work, i left for illinois state to see delynn, my roommate katy's sister.
thanks for the advice, delynn.this is the parking garage that delynn told me to park in. she knew that i would get a ticket, but apparently isu doesn't really crack down on non-students who get tickets. she didn't know, however, that they just tow everyone without at permit at 4am. i woke up at six to move it and found it had been moved for me.
the deathtrap where katy thought i wasn't.this is watterson, the dorm that delynn lives in. i slept on her air mattress, which since she travels every summer, is rather hardcore. however, katy didn't realize that i was going to be sleeping at her sister's place, she just thought i was visiting. apparently, there's a huge difference, so katy called delynn at 4am (after she and i had been long asleep) and made sure i was behaving myself. i'm affronted by the suggestion, but i'll let it be. delynn yelled at her enough for waking us up.
delynn and i had gone out to dinner, then she did homework while i studied (what else?) japanese. however, the rest of our evening was occupied by strong bad's email, and if you haven't heard of it yet, you need to go see this one and this one.
so that's my bloomington trip. we spent all thursday day getting my car back, which included a ride with the coolest bloomington cabbie behind todd's christmas cabbie experience. this guy, his name is tim, used to be a "pest control specialist", and he worked in the business for 20 years. then he got edged out, and he was telling us all about it. then, he told us about how he was going to get those bastards back and start up his own pest control business and steal their accounts from them. then, he told us about his two dead ex-wives, the first of which died because she ate poison mushrooms. he didn't say what the second died of, and i don't want to know. she was a terrible cook, though, and he made it sound like he killed her.
we got to the towing place, and there's this HUGE sign saying that they only take cash. the phone book had said credit cards and checks accepted. i mentioned that to the man who was barely audible behind the plexiglass window counter. apparently they've had problems with angry towees? maybe just precautions, i thought. and then i found out what makes some people so angry:
he said that the credit is only for non-impounded vehicles, and then goes back to his monitor. i told him about the phone book, and he asked me if i had "seen the asterisk saying otherwise". those dirty asterisk-using sons-of-bitches. they KNOW you don't see it. they're just playing with you for kicks. i told delynn and the cabbie that we were going to have to go to busey bank, and from there i'd get the $50 to pay to get my car back. tim, without even listening to me, pulls out a wad of cash and slaps down $50. "you can write me a check," he said.
how cool was that? i tipped him $10. good luck tim, i hope you end up starting your own pest control business, and i hope you manage to edge out the company that edged you out. but do me a favor. don't get married.
after getting my car back, i drove delynn to class, took sarah to the airport so she could go visit her man at duke, and then drove back home. the day was not going so well, but then it improved sharply when i did the following things:
- ate at hot wok with ashley and nathan
- went to murphy's with cara
- watched lock, stock, and two smoking barrels. that movie is great, and i've only seen it three times. i want a copy. no, i want a british accent.
