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July 03, 2004
LiveJournal Mud Slinging
So apparently Eric is trying to get people onto LiveJournal, which is sort of like trying to get people to be on the Jerry Springer show. And I wasn't really interested in getting involved, but Schlake's been trying to piss Eric off on LiveJournal, and I've always kind of wanted to take a few pot-shots at Schlake, so I've posted some nasty stuff in the Eric-blog.
Right after I was about to give up on my boys, Jarrod and Bill decided they would swing by on Labor Day or the Sunday before, just to shoot the shit and maybe sleep on the floor. So I feel much better. I'm sure I don't wander into their thoughts as often as they wander into mine, but that's probably a function of how few friends I have here. Not that I'm complaining…it's nice to have such a simple life. Then again, I don't get much contact with people other than Michael and Alex, and that's probably going to get weird in the long run, or else Alex will learn a lot about programming.
Alex and I were in Santa Fe today to go to the Women's Health Clinic, so we wound up eating at a nice New Mexican cuisine restaurant with Hillary afterwards. The clinic appointment didn't go as we had expected—there are three questions which determine whether a person is eligible or not, but apparently it wasn't possible for the woman to ask us all three over the phone before we showed up. So there we were and she won't be eligible for another month. I wanted to just get the appointment done, but Alex doesn't want to waste (effectively) $135 on a doctor's visit, because it would be $150 today or $15 after she gets coverage. I guess this is reasonable, because she is basically healthy though she seems to have mono, but mostly I don't want to fight about it anymore. I'm glad if she gets in and does it at all.
Now, I'm not opposed to people in our state speaking Spanish at home, or being bilingual. It's never been an issue, living in Albuquerque or Socorro. Apparently, and this makes no sense to me whatsoever, there are more people who only speak Spanish in the northern half of our state than in the southern half. I guess this corroborates my statement to outsiders that, no, you fucks, New Mexicans aren't Mexican, because if that were true, it would be a gradient towards Mexico rather than away from Mexico. But I'm also sort of more generally offended by it because I don't like it when I'm standing in a Wal-Mart 500 miles from the border and they're speaking over the intercom in Spanish. I also don't like that half the time someone I don't know speaks to me, they're doing it in either broken English or Spanish which I don't really know.
Now, Matterform Media is located at the Johnson Controls building, which used to be basically a small business complex but was purchased by NNMU, so now we're one of three rooms that aren't classes. We also are the room which heats up the most, so we have to have our door open or we'll bake. This combination leads to particularly amazing levels of stupidity when we have random fucks walking in wanting information. We've had about six people ask us what happened to their class, and five fucks came in saying that someone told them to come to the office and talk to the lady about the form. We say, we have no idea what you're talking about, we're not part of the school or the government we're a small business. 95% of the time, they then reply with something like “Yes, but could you help me? I need to talk to the person about the thing, but I can't express to you verbally who they're affiliated with, if they're government or school, I just need to do this thing that I don't know what is or how or anything really, and plus I don't know English so if you try and help me I won't know what you're trying to say, so basically I just want you to make it all better so I can go home and blame it on the man at the office at the building who said it was all better so goddamn it, it's your fault now not mine.” Sorry. We don't speak your language. If we charged a dollar per question, we'd have made at least $10 right now, and we could afford to go out to lunch or something.
Alex and I watched a really cool movie today called Uzumaki. It's a Japanese horror flick; we've gotten really into Japanese horror because it seems to be where all the atmospheric, good horror is these days. We got this movie on Amazon on the strength of the review. It was the first movie from the director of the fucking awesome Tomie: Replay (though he apparently also did the original Tomie movie, and it sucked so badly someone wrote a hilarious review of it on Amazon that I'd link to if I weren't on dialup and downloading something right now). Great movie, very campy, almost no blood or violence but still amazingly effective. Good Lovecraftian decrepit ancient town with evil pagan history, too.
Posted by FusionGyro at July 3, 2004 06:10 AM
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