a standard plea, one of a thousand, sent at a cranky moment in niqui’s life:
From: Howard Dean
Subject: Now more than everDear sabrina,
Our nominee can’t build an organization to take on John McCain yet, but we canJohn McCain is raising money and campaigning across the country — he’s looking at the White House.
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are also raising money and campaigning across the country — but they’re still looking at the nomination.
Hillary and Barack can’t build an organization to take on John McCain directly yet, but we can. And we have to — it’s our responsibility as Democrats to make sure we’re prepared.
I need you to make a contribution now so we can make sure John McCain doesn’t get a free ride — Americans everywhere need to know the truth, and we’re going to make sure they get it. … [Contribute Now! blah blah blah]
…
From: sabrina
To: Democratic National Committee donor feedback
Subject: Re: Now more than everOh my God, are you serious? The Democratic candidates are acting like 7 year olds squabbling over the last cookie in the jar, and it’s MY problem to defeat McCain???
I’ll donate to the fund that reschedules the nominating convention for the middle of April so we can get this excruciating insanity over with, but until then, you’re on your own.
Don’t unsubscribe me from the mailing list. I’m still a Democrat, even if it pains me to be this completely inept. But I wanted to at least pretend someone was listening.
–sabrina
this was sent the day of the university of chicago’s rebuttal to the ciinton campaign’s “he wasn’t even a professor!!!! that liar!!!!” claims, which went along the lines of: “yes, he was.” i was a little tired of this bullshit. i heroically refrained from laying most of the blame for said bullshit at the clinton campaign’s door, in the hopes of having someone think “hey, disgusted voter!” instead of “oh, another disgusted cultist.”
From: DNCMemberServices
Subject: Re: Re: Now more than everSabrina,
Thank you for your recent email. We value your thoughts. Your comments have been forwarded to the Chairman’s office.
Thank you again.
DNC Member Services
Democratic National Committee
(202) 863-8000
DNCMemberServices@dnc.org
i’m shocked to have gotten a response. of course, i’d be more shocked if this ridiculous situation resolved itself somehow. i’m not holding my breath.
that special time of year i like to refer to as ‘get rid of crap i don’t want anymore on craigslist.’
would you like an Apple DVI to ADC video adapter to connect your powerbook or macbook to a studio/cinema display? how about a huge fucking pile of computer books? maybe some buffy the vampire slayer reference books for your next scholarly yet pop cultural opus? or maybe you’d like a free broken, but much-beloved, tape deck you could use to teach a child in your life the beauty of electronics repair and/or multimedia/3-dimensional artwork? there’s always some old pans i found in a thrift store last year and, this year, decided i didn’t like? or how about an obsolete video capture thingie or a 6-port belkin firewire hub? sadly, you are too late to adopt my radioshack rf modulator (perfect for the old TV in your life which only has coax in).
so far this year i have made, hrm. $155? selling crap on craigslist, but more importantly, i have gotten lots of crap out of the house. i like selling crap on craigslist. it’s basically like donating crap to the brown elephant, only instead of getting a tax writeoff, you get to not have to drive up to lakeview* and deal with the frigging parking situation, and also, sometimes people give you money for your old crap, which means then you can order pizza delivery and not cook dinner. which is never not awesome.
but now i have to run off so i can delete the remaining stuff from my old tivos, cancel the service on them, and then put them up for grabs as well. ta!
(* yes, i am aware that there’s a brown elephant on milwaukee about 1/4 mile from my house. however, i like the lakeview store better, and also pretentious people who wear skinny jeans, such as many people in wicker park, do not deserve to buy my castoff crap. my castoff crap has standards.)
a little bit ago i signed up for an account with prosper.com, and started poking around. prosper is in effect a tiny marketplace for lenders and borrowers to give each other their services. borrowers sign up and offer up information tidbits about themselves such as credit ratings, why they want a loan, and number of recent delinquencies, and are assigned a risk rating; lenders then offer up their own personal cash and, using the information tidbits about borrowers, bid on lending individuals cash at whatever interest rate they feel makes it worthwhile to make the loan, in return for the borrower’s promise to repay (against the threat of prosper levying a ding on the borrower’s credit rating). in theory, the middle ground between defaults and the interest rates on loans that are fulfilled should work out to something reasonable — and higher than what a regular savings account is earning now, if you gauge your risk right.
there’s a bit more to it than that, but what appeals to me about the site is it lets me indulge my crunchy granola liberal (help struggling women overcome bad decisions like i did!) while pacifying my inner free market capitalist (yeahh…what do i get?). so i’ve set up a transfer of $100 for after my next payday, which is enough to make two $50 (minimum) loans. if they both go bad, then i’ve spent my entertainment budget for april (and, for the record, yes: this is categorized under Entertainment, in my Quicken). if they both work out, then that’s $8 or so more that i didn’t have before, which i shall promptly spend on a sixer of a decent microbrew.
either way, it’ll be interesting to see what happens. (she says now, before anyone takes her $50 and runs.)
cadbury’s produced a whole series of … CREME EGG SNUFF FILMS. oh the gooanity.
i am, unlike last year, quite set on the cadbury’s creme egg front at the moment. i found a display in the CVS near work a week ago that still had, like, boxes and boxes of them. so i managed to get some. and then bill brought me a dozen wee ones (they make wee ones, apparently!). so i am well supplied to ride out what wasy refers to as “the bullshit that is STILL MORE SNOW.”