August 18th 2006

savvy shopper, me

I should also mention that I bought two of my books online today, one for about 1/3 of the bookstore price. (Note to half.com seller: I hope when you said, “No highlighting” that you also meant “every page isn’t underlined half to hell and back.” Because that would lead me to give you negative feedback.)

Now if only the new prof teaching one of my classes would turn in his book list. Because how can I cut my books for the first day of class if I don’t have them in hand?

shut the hell up!

God, they are SO LOUD.

I have NEVER lived in a building with people this loud. Currently, they are jamming–their band, that is. Drums, electric guitar, electric bass. LOUD. We have teh TV turned up pretty damn loud so we can hear the football game, and it’s still almost not loud enough.

I keep telling myself, “Twelve more days, twelve more days…” Usually that sort of thing works. But tonight I am not so happy. Not so willing to be relaxed about it all. Maybe it’s because this morning, the neighbors UPSTAIRS were playing music at 8 am, loudly, while I was trying to catch a few more Zs. Honestly, I wasn’t so bothered by it, but I was really worried it would wake Mr. Angst, who was still sleeping soundly.

The upstairs neighbors, at least, are noisy only occasionally–like, once every couple of weeks? The downstairs neighbors? Have been jamming right under my living room every night this week. Yeah. They suck, a lot.

Update: Oh my god, they’re having an effing party. A party that looks to have more people than I would EVER invite into a space this size (dozens and dozens, I would venture to guess), and is JUST NOW ramping up. (It’s after 10 pm.) Mr. Angst went down there a couple of hours ago, before the people started showing up, and asked them to turn the amp down and they essentially told him to deal with it, because “that’s this neighborhood, and you shouldn’t have moved here if you didn’t like music.”

Why can’t our neighbors be more like this guy?

i won’t do your job for you

Mr. Angst just received an email from an HR person asking him to forward his resume.

She also asked him to include a list of all prior compensation packages he’s ever received. AND his current compensation package requirements.

Can you say effing lazy? Lazy, lazy, lazy HR person.