supercheesegirl

teh, teh, teh. will the wonders of this apartment never cease. so at&t was supposed to hook up the phone yesterday, but it never happened--no dial tone. the same today. so dann is thinking there's something actually wrong with the phone line, since at&t says they connected it, and then they kindly offer to send a repairman out for $130. dann told them to fuck themselves and disconnect the line. then he called verizon, but they can't hook anything up until the old line is disconnected (the old line being the one that doesn't actually work, remember) so we won't have a house phone till at least monday. at least, if ever. i'm seriously considering investing in a cell phone, since there's little likelihood we'll ever actually get a real phone, and i want to call my mom. besides, of course, needing to give out a phone number for jobs and stuff. i put the non-working number on a few resumes yesterday. like they're going to call anyway, but still. i think i may shower up and get dressed and walk over to the verizon office in a few minutes. i should also take my suit to the dry cleaners; i saw one yesterday not far from our house when farbo was driving us around.

oh, speaking of yesterday, chuck palahniuk is hella cool. i'm really, really glad, however, that i don't live in his head. dude. but i'll definitely buy his short story collection when it comes out in a few years. i don't know if i could read one of his novels all the way through, but short stories are different. and, funny, as he was reading one of the aforementioned short stories yesterday, i was thinking, wow i bet he'd like mark richard. and then during the question and answer period, someone asked him who his favorite authors were, and mark richard was one of them! rock on. i met that guy. good stories.

people i owe money to:

maddy: around six or seven bucks (because she covered me for my chocolate cake when the atm machine wouldn't take my card last night)
dann: $16.50 for groceries
jorn: $370 for various stuff (moving van, airfare to rochester for amy's wedding, that kind of thing)
dylan: around $700, i think

i do not, however, owe any money to sarah farbo or to susanna. there's two friends i don't owe money to. i'm kinda scared about making rent this month. i think i've got about $800, plus there's my security deposit check that will hopefully be arriving soon, plus i've got some proofs to do for dr. langenfeld so there's another $100 or so when i get that done. so i think i can make rent for october, even if i don't get employed for a little while yet. dylan and jorn are being nice about whenever i can pay them back, but it's still kind of hanging over me, you know? my money's not my own. i also need to get a cell phone (probably) and get a new car insurance policy, plus i really should go through the getting my car licensed in massachussetts thing, which will cost a chunk. that can wait a little while though. plus i've got mastercard bills and i need to be getting some money together because my first student loan payment will be due in december. i'm kind of terrified. hooray for the big city.