My day was okay, but complicated by a crazy thing that happened to me on Monday! Over the weekend I was staying with my friend-man. Monday morning I went outside to discover that my car, which I had parked in front of the house as I usually do, had disappeared! Vanished. I called the police and said "I think I'm reporting a stolen vehicle, maybe?" (confused because my car is probably worth like 500$ tops and there are lots of nicer cars to steal on that street). I gave the make and model of the car and the police said "Oh, hmm, we impounded that car, actually." They sent a very nice police officer to come explain to me what had happened. APPARENTLY over the course of Sunday night my car became self-aware and propelled itself down AND ACROSS the street, into another car 3 houses down! The neighbor had woken up to discover my car nestled into his car and called the police, who were unable to contact the owner of the ghost-driven vehicle because my license plates are from another state. And they knocked on a few doors to inquire, but not the one I was staying at, because my car had strayed too far. So they impounded it.
I recovered my car and the damage to both seems minimal, so I guess everything is okay, but that was a weird day!
Today I went to the bank for the third time for yet another attempt to complete a very simple task (open an account for the small, nonprofit organization of which I was recently appointed treasurer). TURNS OUT THIS IS NOT A SIMPLE TASK. These are hours of my life that I will never get back. Today's attempt was even less successful than the first two, and now I have to hunt down some documents that do not exist to prove that my organization is real and not, I dunno, something I made up so that I could embezzle less than $10K in a very stupid and obvious way. UGH, BANKS.
that's super great about your kids! This was my first semester teaching too, I feel like we are grad school soul sisters! Except that I was thrilled with my final exam grades for the opposite reason -- they were low and thus helped keep the class GPA down. Because we are under intense pressure to "fight grade inflation" which translates to "keep grades low in an intro-level class, because that makes tons of sense." anyway, cheers!
NOT GREAT, BOB! (I still use that line whenever I can.) I'm in the throes of the hardest couple of weeks in my academic career and do not think I'm handling it very well. And the end is not really in sight.
also, I spill coffee on myself nearly everyday!
My day was going okay and I even got to chat briefly with some monsters this afternoon, but my mom just called to tell me that my parents' garage burned down! They are both fine, but the garage and the car in it are def not fine. I'm bewildered and bummed that my parents have to deal with this. The end.
yes and yes. That's a pretty great podcast and especially good when smart/interesting/funny guests are on it (which to be fair I think is most of them).
Those are some scary stories and I am really sorry to all involved. Boo, epilepsy!
But in the Honolulu flight scenario, did somebody at least get to scream "IS THERE A DOCTOR ON BOARD?!?!?!"
Haha, what? I have no idea why videogum would "cover" this story, but SINCE YOU ASKED!
Te'o was definitely in on it, right? The Deadspin article says he "talked to her on the phone" (and went to sleep with her on the other end in her hospital bed, very normal). Since there was no suggestion that the other guy had a real live girl pretending to be the girlfriend, I don't understand how this would be possible unless Te'o was part of the fabrication.
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