Various annoying things!

[brigdh]

1. I finally made it all the way to the library to get the books I need for a report that's due tomorrow, only realize, while standing outside the doors, that my student ID is in the pocket of the jeans I wore yesterday and I therefore can't even get in the building.

Since I am not fond of the idea of spending an extra 45 minutes in the freezing cold to walk all the way back to my apartment and then return to the library again, I have retreated to a nearby coffeeshop to sulk.

2. Another one of the zippers on my bag broke yesterday. Since that's now two pockets that won't close, I probably should give in to the inevitable and buy a new bag. God, I loathe the process of trying to find a messenger bag that is both big enough to be useful and has protection for my laptop, and they're always more expensive than I really want to pay. (No, ebay, I do not want a bag with a picture of freaking HIM on the front.)

3. My roommate is making another one of her infrequent visits to our apartment, and has yet again marked her return by cleaning everything. She is going to give me a complex if she keeps this up. I swear to god, people who have not seen my living habitats, I am not dirty. This time she also brought supplies with her; our table has a tablecloth and- get this!- a centerpiece of flowers now. They're plastic, but still.

I haven't had a tablecloth anywhere I've lived since high school. I feel like I don't belong anymore.

Comments

[shei.livejournal.com]

My roommate is making another one of her infrequent visits to our apartment, and has yet again marked her return by cleaning everything.

Having your roommates clean is good. For me at least because I do not clean. I didn't do any housework except my dishes when I shared a house with some chicks in Germany. It's not like I actually talked to them so I didn't feel guilty about dumping it all on them.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I don't mind her doing it in and of itself, I'm just starting to worry that it's her way of saying she thinks I'm an incompetant housekeeper. Although we don't really talk either, so I suppose I shouldn't care what she thinks of me.

[shei.livejournal.com]

Maybe she just needs/likes to clean. I've heard people like that actually exist.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Could be! At least, that's what I'm hoping for.

[p-zeitgeist.livejournal.com]

You know, you might be able to buy a couple of zippers and sew them in to replace the broken ones. If I had a sewing machine here I'd say you almost certainly could (or rather, that I could without too much pain and suffering). As it is, it still might be easier to do it by hand than to find a new bag you like -- I'll have a look at the patient, if you like, when we manage to get together.

You might also want to cruise Sierra Trading Post (http://www.sierratradingpost.com), which sometimes has such bags and sometimes also has astonishingly good prices on them when it does. It's all very hit or miss, but I bought my own computer backpack (and my sister's, and various of my friends' computer cases) from them, because they had these killer expensive packs on closeout for twenty dollars apiece. Which is to say, sometimes you can do better there than on eBay.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure it's really worth the effort of sewing new zippers on; it's only a Jansport bag. Thank you, though! I'll have to remember that that's possible the next time a zipper breaks on something worth saving.

Thank you for the link, too. I'd just been trying to remember what the name of that site was; I'd had other people recommend it before.

[iilii.livejournal.com]

Okay, so I finally finished Crime and Punishment. You have to tell me what you thought was so funny! :)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Um. Did I find something funny? You'll have to remind me of the context; I have such a terrible memory!

[iilii.livejournal.com]

Okay, clearly I'm a dork, because I must have mixed up something you and someone else said about the book. Which is strange, because I've only talked to a couple people about it. ^^;;

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Oh, no worries! I mean, it might well have been me, though I can't remember anything funny about it now. Maybe I was mocking the translator? He did a really terrible job on mine.

[iilii.livejournal.com]

Heh, no, it was supposed to be something funny at the end with the prostitute Sonya. The only thing I could think of that it could be was that all the men in prison in Siberia knew her without her apparently spending any time with them... but of course the book didn't mention exactly how they "knew" her.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

I guess that was someone else! It doesn't ring a bell at all, though, now I'm laughing at it.