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like no one saw this coming

25 March 2007 at 12:26 sabrina Comments off

“We’re going to stay with Mr. Danks,” said Guillen with a smile, revealing the news during his postgame press conference. “It was a long conversation. I think the way he throws the ball in Spring Training, he earned that spot. We all like the way he went about his business and was pretty tough.”

dear john danks:

i am a white sox fan, and that means i feel no obligation to remain supportive even in the face of a failure to be good at your job. therefore: you’d better not suck. you wouldn’t like the things i like to shout at players who annoy me. especially ones who are only here because someone traded away one of my favorite players.

people who were mean to BA all last season because they were pissed rowand got traded? got nothing on me.

suspiciously,
–sabrina

baseball, fandom, letters, white sox none

Bye-Bye Old and Broken, Hello New Hotness. Attention Old and Broken: Please do not buy out New Hotness, kplsthx.

24 March 2007 at 18:12 sabrina Comments off

so i have had my checking account for a long time. it used to be at wingspan bank, which was one of the all-electronic banks back 8 years ago or whatever, which was nice because i pretty much never have to go to an actual bank to do anything. i could transact whatever i needed to via ATM, they had nice rates, and (what caused me to switch to them) they weren’t complete bastards like bank one (who had acquired first chicago and made everything far more sucktastic). imagine my disgust when a couple of years later wingspan bank was acquired, naturally enough, by bank one.

then: imagine my corresponding glee a few years ago when bank one was purchased by chase. finally! i thought; finally bank one can be on the receiving end of some acquisition pain and suffering. it’s really only just sad that my analysis of the situation was limited to joyful, joyful schadenfreude about nameless, faceless hordes of evil bank one employees suffering under the merciless rule of jp morgan chase, and did not include any insight about the corresponding suffering of customers: i.e., me. however, my will had been broken; i didn’t see any point in jumping ship again as certainly whatever institution i chose would be bought out and subsequently made hateful. deregulation, centralisation, consolidation, hoo-frickin’-ray. i didn’t see a point in trying to get a better deal: sure, the customer service was crap, the fees were crap, but i had quicken all set up and stuff… .

and then my new debit card was lost in the mail.

chez niqui, finances, idiots, rants, whinging on none

I just want a new ATM card, dude!

22 March 2007 at 18:07 sabrina Comments off

you know that thing where my mail service really sucks? i mean, seriously, just honestly stinks?

my debit card expires at the end of march and i haven’t received a new one yet.

today i decided to call chase to see if they could get me a new card to my local branch — the one right next to the division blue line stop — for me to pick up, thus bypassing ~~the black hole~~ 60622.

very long story short: if it was an illinois account, i could do this, but my account is not an illinois account — apparently because it’s gone through a couple of acquisitions, totally nothing to do with, you know, me and my always-having-lived-in-illinois-ness — and there is no way to make it an illinois account. that’s right. there’s no way to say “this person actually lives in illinois — you know, like how the billing address has ALWAYS BEEN IN ILLINOIS?” it turns out that the solution is actually to open a new checking account. so this will be fun. i was going to file my taxes this weekend but i always do direct withdrawal or deposit, so now i guess i’ll mostly do them and just hold off on the money bit for a couple weeks. actually, i’m grateful i hadn’t already filed since now my checking account’s going to be all upheaval-tastic. this is going to be great fun: i get to change my mortgage auto-withdrawal, my netflix, all kinds of stuff. this will be great. hey, they are sending me free checks!

i swear to you, if i get home today and there is a debit card in my mailbox, i can not be held responsible for my actions.

ETA (1920): no debit card upon my arrival home. um, hooray? also: as promised, the new checking account was created right alongside my old one by the time i got home from work. too bad it’s the wrong kind of checking account and i’m going to have to call to fix that!

thank goodness my new philosophy of life is: fuck it!

chez niqui, finances, whinging on none

je tue le temps aussi!

22 March 2007 at 16:42 sabrina Comments off

Le pouce un peu relevé,
Index et majeur collés,
Et les autres bien repliés.

Je tire sur tout ce qui bouge,
Esprits fantômes aux yeux rouges,
Courants dair et grains de poussières

Je tue je tue le temps en ta en t’attendant,
L’impact arrivera plus tard
Subsonique comme toi un peu en retard

Elle s’en va un beau matin
Plus jamais elle ne revient
J’ai lu ça dans un quotidien

Si jamais tu ne reviens pas
C’est sur tu me manqueras
Mais moi je ne te louperais pas

Je tue je tue le temps en ta en t’attendant,
L’impact arrivera plus tard
Subsonique comme toi un peu en retard
Un peu en retard

Je suis seul dans ma cabane
A compter les caravanes
Et les voitures qui tombent en pannes

Grâce à la pyrogravure
Je compose sur les murs
Des poèmes rien que pour toi

Je tue je tue le temps en ta en t’attendant,
L’impact arrivera plus tard
Subsonique comme toi

Pendant ce temps
Je tue je tue le temps en ta en t’attendant,
L’impact arrivera plus tard
Subsonique comme toi un peu en retard

Je tue je tue le temps en ta en t’attendant,
L’impact arrivera plus tard
Subsonique comme toi un peu en retard
Un peu en retard.