hector_rashbaum: nicole anderson, b&w, big hair (good music)
I keep meaning to write up a post about the difference between misogynist characters and misogynist text. I'm entirely too lazy, yay. Also something sprouting from that last [livejournal.com profile] fanficrants post I linked, about where I believe author's rights extend and don't extend. Clearly too lazy for that, too. We shall see.

My dad's gonna rent a U-Haul and we're gonna tow my car home. I'm not entirely sure this is the best of all the options he came up with, but eh. And if he expects me to drive he is insane. Big honking truck with a car behind it nooooo thank you. He did most of the driving when we came down here, so he should be fine.

I've been stressing all day about the kitties but I think they'll be fine. My dad's gonna bring down two cat carriers, I've got plenty of food left so I can pack up a tupperware container for them, and I can do a shoebox or something full of litter. PetSmart sells a bunch of different kitty anxiety pills, so I'll probably drug them up for the drive, and afaik right now we're planning on stopping somewhere overnight so they can get some time out of the carriers to eat and poo. I'm still nervous; this is a long drive, and they've never even been in the car before, and I'm worried how they'll settle with the pets at home and I am terrified I'll have to give them up...but I'll do what I can. But. *frets*

Had a wicked migraine last night. Didn't wanna take Excedrin on such an empty stomach - caffeine, and all - so I took a bunch of Ibuprofen and crawled into bed around 11. Woke up wide-awake around 2, settled in to watch some tv, and around 2:30 my roommate knocked on my door to say she hadn't realized I'd been planning on going to bed so early, she'd been planning to go to the grocery store late, avoid the heat. I actually hadn't known our Ingles was open 24 hours, lol. I needed a check cashed and neither of us thought I'd be able to do it that late but we headed out anyway; we were right, no check cashy...and the manager told us even if we'd shown up during the day they wouldn't have cashed my particular check. Right, yay. I had a little cash so I grabbed some frozen goodies.

We had a pretty decent talk, she's less sullen and guilt-trippy than initially. So, y'know, yay. This morning (I say morning, it was after 2, w/e) we went to her bank to cash my check and back to the grocery store. I has food now; and since I was spending my birthday money I bought expensive tea instead of the cheapo store-brand bulk-boxed green tea I've been buying. The current pitcher is Bigelow Plantation Mint, which has always been one of my favorites. And I splurged on some Thai Kitchen Chili Garlic sauce because OM NOM NOM.

Rock Band PS2 is only $100 at Amazon right now. I...don't have $100. But for RB, that is cheap. Enh enh enh.
hector_rashbaum: nicole anderson, b&w, big hair (graar)
right, so. Last night I asked my roommate if she could take me to the grocery store sometime today, 'cause, y'know, car no starty. She said sure no problem.

Then I told her that I'm moving. Leaving within a couple weeks, but obv. I'll pay for June's rent and if you can't find someone so fast I'll cover July, too, and whatever I can do to make this less of a hassle, lemme know.

So, like, two hours later she came to my room to pull the most transparent guilt trip EVAR. Having taken a look at "everything" she was pretty sure she might need to ask me for July's rent, too, at least some of it, and oh she can look again but this is such short notice and she's not sure she can find someone and maybe she'll get a second job.

It would maybe have been a less obvious attempt to guilt me if I hadn't already offered to do what she was oh-so-torn-up about asking me to do. Good God. But eh, if she wants to play the guilt-trip game I'll tell my parents - who are WAY WAY coddling me it's kind of creepy - I'm too stressed to deal with it and give them her number so they can sort it. If she wants to pit her absolutely ridiculous shoddy attempt to make me feel worse than I do against my mother, I'm all for it.

Around noon today, when she was playing video games, I told her to just let me know whenever was good for her to the grocery store. If you've been following, you know I've been out of food since before my car crapped out, so grocery store trip = kinda important. Anyway she said sure, being all sullen - she'd barely acknowledged me before I spoke - and went back to her game.

It's almost 9 now. 8 and a half hours later she's only torn herself away from the video games to watch tv. Clearly it was too much to ask her to tear herself away from her very important business for twenty goddamned minutes, or at least for her to give me an honest "no" when I asked so I could've stressed about trying to find another ride.

If this is how she's gonna be I'm seriously glad my parents are rushing this.
hector_rashbaum: nicole anderson, b&w, big hair (hee-yah)
Dear Roommate,

If rent's gonna be a significant amount more this month than last month ($40), it would be really, really nice for you to let me know that BEFORE you come for the rent check.

Hopefully Dad can get the transfer through before the rent clears :/

She KNOWS I get my loan money from my parents and need a little notice to actually have it on hand, too. Bah.

(She's been driving me nuts lately for a multitude of reasons. BLARGH)

IN OTHER, less-whiny news:

Everyone who uses iTunes, check this out:

http://simplifymedia.com/index.html

It's a plugin/program/whatever. You create an account, and when you're online your buddies can listen to your iTunes and you can listen to theirs.

I'm HectorRashbaum, if you download it BUDDY ME yay.
hector_rashbaum: nicole anderson, b&w, big hair (graar)
Dear Roommate,

Thank you SO MUCH for neglecting to tell me the apartment's laundry is coin-operated. Would it really have been SO HARD to make sure I knew to have $1.50 in quarters before I could do laundry? Seriously, that's, like, one sentence.

"It's a coin laundry, dollar to wash and fifty cents to dry."

Because if you'd said THAT, I could've saved myself the annoyance of running all over creation to find one last quarter to start the wash. And God knows what I'm gonna do about drying.

Thanks for the help. Really. 'Preciate it.