Random Word Association
Posted at 08:50 PM

So during dinner today, my sister was chatting about this bitch of a girl named Mona in her ballet class (well, all the little middle schoolers in my sister's ballet class are bitches, but she was Queen bitch). Then by random word association, it reminded me that "mona" meant "butterfly" in spanish, and the last time I applied the use of spanish knowledge in daily life outside of class was the summer we graduated CHS.

We were finally out of high school, and finally eighteen. We were still young and intoxicated with youth. We felt we were on top of the world. We could do anything. We were so alive.

My friends and I were at Kyle's house for a DDR party, or maybe it was to watch Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Kyle had a bowl of normal popcorn out, and somewhere in the conversation, somebody mentioned how kettle-cooked popcorn was so much better. So right then, Jiaz has a craving for microwave kettle corn... and then everyone else did too.

Jiaz decides he's going to run to Kroger (yes, we live in the Deep South, so your Albertson's and Kash 'n Karrys don't exist here) and get a box of kettle corn and maybe some candy too. Cal decides he's going to make his famous Mississippi Mud Pie and needs a few ingredients so he goes along too. I had a craving for hot cheetos (which are the BESTEST snack on the planet!) so I tag along too.

So the three of us hop in Jiaz's car (which smells like a cigarette lounge despite the fact that no one's ever smoked in his car, it just smells that way for some odd reason) and we set off for Kroger. When we parked and got out, I happened to notice a very pretty yellow swallow tail butterfly in the empty parking space next to us.
I picked it up for closer examination, and realized it was dead. But it was so pretty and so in-tact that it would be a shame to leave it in the parking lot and let some car squash it. So I carried it with me in the store.

We got our stuff and the guys opted for the self-checkouts because (I swear, this must be a guy thing) if given the choice of having someone else cash and bag your groceries or do it yourself, guys would rather do it themselves. It's kind of like how they'd rather not stop and ask for directions. But I digress.

I knew I couldn't take the dead butterfly with me, cause well, what would I do with it? And I couldn't just leave it out on the street...
So I left the butterfly on the scanner of the self-checkout for someone else to admire the fragile red and blue spots in its swallow tail.

"That butterfly sitting on the scanner just looks so ominous" says Cal.

"I think it symbolizes death, like in that one movie we watched in spanish class, where the girl's brother died and she sees all these butterflies everywhere." says I.

"Yeah, what's the word for butterfly in spanish again? I forget."

And while I was trying to dig up the spanish translation, a woman behind us spoke,

"Mona."

We turned around.

"Butterfly is 'mona' en espanol."

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The Georgia DMV
Posted at 04:48 PM

I had just turned sixteen years old and couldn't hardly wait to get my driver's license. Now, because the state of Georgia only has about 3 places where you can go to to get your driver's license, there's always an ungodly amount of people crammed in that building trying to get renewals/licenses/recover lost ones. I could have gone to Lawrenceville to take my written and road tests, but Lawrenceville now has a nifty little appointment system where you call them up 1 month beforehand, and book a date.
But I am, as you all may have noticed, an impatient person. So on the very morning of my 16th birthday, my father and I woke up at 4 am. We got dressed and had breakfast and were out the door by 4:40.
We drove for about a half an hour to Cumming and got to the DMV's. It was 5:16 am... and there was already a line of people beginning from the closed double doors all the way to the parking lot!!
And there the wait begins. It was quite cold that morning to be wearing a t-shirt and shorts, but it was summer time, so it can quickly get up to 90 degrees when the sun comes out. So my father and I sat on the curb and waited. And waited. And waited. Rain or shine, fog or wind, we, the people of Georgia wanted our driver's licenses really damn badly.

You ever stand in line for some hot new rollercoaster at Six Flags or Disney and think that was the worst, most grueling wait you've ever experienced for a 30 second ride?

Here, at the DMV's office, you get to take a ticket and sit down when the doors *finally* open at 8:45, when the sign on the door says 8:00 am - 4:00 pm, and if you happen to walk into their office past noon, forget it. They'll tell you to go home and come back the next day. So you do some more waiting when they finally open the doors. There's a speaker box up in the corner to announce your ticket number and to tell you to step inside to window number 4.

Then they ask you to fill out a bunch of paperwork, you take your written exam on a computer, and you wait some more outside for the road test proctor.

At last, I was done with testing and I passed!! The most important thing next was to get my picture taken and have my card made!

And all that waiting just amounted to standing in a little blue box on the ground for 3 seconds and having a flash go off in my face.

So I was officially deemed a legal driver at 1 in the afternoon on June the 12th. And my class D license would expire in 4 years unless I come back to the godforsaken place again on my 18th birthday to get my class C. Well, after having waited so long the first time getting my license, I figured I'd wait some more before getting my class C.

So I waited until my parents were getting their licenses renewed, two months after my 19th birthday to get ahold of my class C. And it took us another 6 hours wait to get it.

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My Love-Life Plans
Posted at 10:56 PM

Well, being back at the good old Georgia Institute of Technology has only 1 benefit: the ratio of guys to girls is 7:1
So that's 7 guys for every 1 girl.

Since I've only used up 1 of my alotted 7 (Colin) I've decided I'd map out how I'm going to get my other 6. So far the plan is:

Break up with Colin.
Go out with Matty-boy (ever notice how all guys named Matt are really hot/cute?)
Cheat on him with Bonesies
Break up.
Make the hot white-washed abc senior guy in my chinese class split with his current gf.
Go out with Mr. HW-WABCSG!
:D

PS. I'm just kidding Colin, you know I <3 you ;)

Hi Dad! I'm being sued...
Posted at 01:55 PM

So yesterday evening, I was happily playing my 2v2 warcraft game and beating up on noobs in Colin's apartment. Suddenly, the phone rings, and Jiaz walks over to answer it. Two seconds later, he hands the phone to me and says, "It's for you"

So I pick up the phone and this african-american woman with a thick heavy accent is saying something amid the cries of "Goddess, light my path!" and "Your building is complete!" All of a sudden I hear "We're filing a lawsuit against you..."
And I jump out of my seat and turn down the volume and ask "WHAT?!"

"... failure of payment of $363.55 on behalf of the First National Bank of Moran (Meran?)"

And I'm thinking: WTF?

"How did this happen??" I ask.

"You opened a checking account with the bank and took a loan" says the woman.

"No I didn't, I don't even know that the bank of what was it? Moran? Exists!!" I said.

"Ma'am, what is your home address so we can mail you another copy of the suit being filed against you?"

I give them my address.

Then they ask for the last 4 digits of my SSN for "security reasons", and in my confusion and stupor , I gave them the last 5. She asks me to repeat the number. This time I gave them 4.

"That's not what you said the first time, which means you're lying about who you are, we will take action against you on Monday, have a nice life."

And the bitch hung up.

The caller ID on Colin's phone showed up as "Unkown Caller" which meant that the number was probably blocked or screened. I had no way of calling them back. Except for a fax number where I fax them proof that I had my SSN number stolen (which did happen last last April) or proof that I paid my $363.55 to the bank of Moran already.

So I run back to my dorm, and ask my roommate if someone had called MY dorm asking for me first. My roommate says no one called.

The phone rings in my dorm. It turns out to be my dad. I told him I'd call him back later, I'm in the middle of something important.

So I was thinking it might have been a prank call. Because who else except someone who knew me really well would know that I happened to be in Colin's apartment at the time?

I googled "Bank of Moran" and nothing came up. Apparently there is a State bank of Moran in Texas But no National Bank of Moran.

So then I googled (Thank God for Google!!) their fax number
and discovered that they are indeed a real, legit company called American Recovery Systems, part of the Illinois Collector's Association.

Well crap, that's not very good for me!

So I went on their website, and found their customer support number (it's not even toll free) and spent about 20 minutes on my cell phone, calling long distance to Illinois.

They were the ones who had botched things up. Apparently, a Cindy Jenningson had last contacted the company about a year ago with Colin's dorm number, and that was the only number they had on file. And it was just a freak coincidence that the person they're after is also named Cindy.

So if you're out there reading this and your name is Cindy Jenningson, I would pay up or hire an attorney, cause they're going to be "taking action against you" on Monday the 30th!

My dad calls back.

"So what was this important thing that you had to do?"

"Oh, I was almost sued by a bank today Daddy..."