A Small Rant, A Huge Rant, and an Announcement

First -

I would very much like to know why the hell I'm being spammed with all these financial and insurance companies trying to get me to work for them. I certainly never applied for any such jobs. Seriously! If I wanted to work with people's money I'd have probably majored in something besides chemistry. Anything but chemistry. Like accounting or business or something...

Secondly -

This second matter is of some amusement to my roommates and I. It appears we are being evicted. Yes, yes, you heard (read) right. The girls who pay their rent on time and keep a mostly clean house are soon to be homeless. How did such a thing come to pass you ask? Well, let me tell you. I live in an apartment that houses four women. Now the four women who currently live there are not the original women who signed the original lease about 3 years ago. Nope. There have been 8 or so who have come and gone in between. As each new lessee moved in, the rental company made them sign a contract stating that they were taking over the old lessee's contract. Easy enough.

Next, they told each new lessee to pay the $250 deposit to the old lessee who was moving out. That way, if the leasing contract was ever dissolved, it would be easy for the rental company to give back the deposit. Duh! That's how every place I've ever lived in has worked it. It makes sense. Geniuses!

Well, the time has come that the leasing contract is to be dissolved. The rental company has decided that our apartment has garnered too much paperwork (from all those leasing agreements signed in between), so they would like us to start afresh. Sign a new lease to make things easy. So we agreed. What difference could this possibly make. None, they just want to get rid of paperwork.

Funny thing is, we just got a lovely notice from said company stating that we are to sign the new lease February 1st and that if we don't pay our $250 deposits, we'll be evicted. WHAT!!!!!!! We asked them why we weren't refunded our first deposits. Apparantely they went to the effort of tracking down the original lessees and paying THEM our deposits. And the checks have been cashed. And apparently we are at fault. ARE YOU FREAKIN' KIDDING ME!!!!??? Like I have $250 dollars to just lose. So now we are meeting with the boss's boss on Friday to tell him he's a moron and threaten him with small claims court. Delightful! I can't possibly express how much I am anticipating this meeting. Gee whiz, I might not be able to sleep tonight from all the excitement!

Finally -

After having no job and a minimal social life I am proud to announce that I will soon have another blog dedicated solely to reviewing books. I've read tons of them recently (due to all that extra time) and find it cumbersome to post them in here. I'm still working on it, but I'll be sure to keep you all posted.

Can you hear me now? How about now? No? Now? Better here?

It may very well be that I'm just excessively tired because finals and senior comps are looming over me like a pro-wrestler getting ready to body-slam me, but I swear people are committing my #1 pet peeve more and more as of recently. What is this pet peeve you ask? Here are the two very related parts to my pet peeve:

1) People talking on their phones when I can't escape the situation. This includes people talking on their phones in the elevator, in the same car/bus/train as you, in the computer lab, in crowded stores, etc. No I don't want to hear your conversation with someone else. Of course there are exceptions, but you had better have a darned good reason for making me suffer through a one-sided conversation. Hang up and call them back in a few minutes. My favorite example: The girl who was breaking up with her boyfriend on the phone while riding a public bus. Seriously, do you really want other people to hear that? Isn't that sort of a private conversation? I definately don't want to hear it. Uncomfortable!

2) People giving their phones priority over me when I am with them in person. This one has more exceptions than the first, but still, as a general rule, people you are with have priority over people who are calling you. If you're expecting a phone call (or need to make one), you should let the person you are with know that you may have to take a phone call. You should also make the conversation as short as possible. Try to leave the room if at all possible (refer to above paragraph). And you should never, never answer an unknown number when you're with someone else. That's like saying some unknown person is more important than whoever you are with. Ouch!

Okay, I feel much better after sending my complaint off into cyberspace. Btw- I do realize that there are much, much worse things in the world than my minor complaints. I do have some semblance of perspective.