“It’s just another Manic Monday.”
Kelli, I have a 1988 Chevy S-10 with 257,000 and I know what you mean about getting attached to old cars.
I hope the rest of your week goes much better.
Jeez, talk about mundane. I’ll have to regale you all with my adventures in public transportation when I was poor.
Kelli, I can really sympathize with you. I’m having a sick day today. I woke up this morning, almost too tired to eat my scrambled egg. I drove to UNO in a trancelike “survival mode,” the only reason I didn’t wreck the van. I skipped first period classes so I could sleep, and almost shit myself but got to the restroom just in time. Like you, I never shit in public restrooms unless it’s absolutely necessary. I didn’t even have time to put tp on the seat.
Anyway, I slept for about an hour and a half, missing my second period, but managed to get to my third class and actually made it through without falling asleep. ( I guess that sleep did me some good. ) But I decided I couldn’t stay any longer and just went home. After eating a sandwich I was again incredibly tired and went to sleep until 5:00 PM or so. I awoke feeling sicker than I had all day, dehydrated.
I’m somewhat better now, but I’m glad that I don’t have any classes tomorrow. Of course, I’ll probably end up cancelling a meeting with a friend that I haven’t seen in a year, but at least I can recover from whatever ails me. It’s probably the result of an irregular schedule with little sleep. I’m going to have to stop staying up all night reading the SDMB.
Oh, and the van I drove to school is my mother’s. My car was put out of commission ( sp? ) last wed. when some asshole ran a red and hit my side hard. The driver’s side door doesn’t open anymore, and the axle was bent. The damage is more than the value of the car. Still waiting for the insurance companies to do their work. I probably won’t be able to find a car in as good condition for the same $.
I guess I’ve had worse days. There was one day a couple of years ago, when I was in summer school. . . But I’m not even going there. I’m just blathering now. I gotta take a shower and get to bed.
“Oh we were brought up on the Space-Race, now they expect us to clean toilets. When you have seen how big the world is how can you make do with this?”
Pulp, “Glory Days”
Hope your Tuesday is starting out better than your Monday Kelli
Shit happens! 
Stuff does indeed happen. Damn!
Got home tonight to discover that the iguana has escaped from his wood and wire cage in the side yard. Simply gone, no clues, all four feet of him.
Hubby opened the credit card bill to see that someone has gotten hold of the number (we are still in possession of both cards) and racked up $4000 in charges, most of it to Amazon.com. The main thing this credit card does in life is take the $22.95 per month charge from AOL, but the people at AOL are adamant that it couldn’t have been accessed through them. Hubby does use it once in a while to charge stuff for his classroom that he gets reimbursed for, but the balance on this card rarely if ever goes over $200 (and usually doesn’t even get there). Don’t you think the credit card company might have thought something was wrong, and called to see if it was really us?
On the bright side, we had the sheriff out here to report both events. (He told us that this was his second iguana call this week – earlier in the week they had found one wandering the streets.) When we called the sheriff’s department, they asked us for our address, and when we gave it to them they didn’t know where it was. They laughed and said that was a good thing.
Sigh. I wonder how much hassle this credit card thing is gonna be.
-Melin
There have been previous reports of credit card numbers having been stolen from AOL; that would be my assumption, though it’d be almost impossible to prove.
IIRC, it was AOL staff (not network crackers) who were found to have stolen some numbers from the database. If you’re interested, you could probably find the story on http://www.aolsucks.com
Laugh hard; it’s a long way to the bank.