(put yer mouse over that picture there, just once, twice for a more trippy effect, ok,
thats annoying, know you how i feel right now. congratulations)
i called my mother today to tell her that i just mailed some very important
financial aid papers to her and that she has to sign it and give it back.
she was all excited that that was finally coming her way, and that she
also got the loan papers for the macintosh that i'll never see, but more
on that later.
something that i never thought would happen, did. on monday, my friend
mark, stopped over my house in wethersfield, connecticut and droppped
off my computer. before i moved to colorado, we schemed about making a
computer together, something like a dual pentium 600 with two monitors
in a huge full tower case, black with alot of little LED lights that flash
on and off intermittently. just to be cool. when i left for colorado,
i also left that computer, for him to pick up and upgrade. he actually
has his own computer business and he does this for a living i guess you
could say, so it didn't seem like the dumbest move on my part. have my
friend recieve a bit of business from another friend and at the same time,
maybe get alittle price break.
well, its been three months. he hasn't upgraded the comp. in fact he
hadn't even touched it. while i have been away at school, he has put his
business on hold, his parents sold his house without telling him and he
got a new job refueling jet planes at an international airport. last week
he told me he worked for one hundred and ten hours.
damn.
but my old comp is going to be sent to me tommorrow so it seems like
i can stop commandeering this computer in my dorm comp lab. i don't know
if i should be happy about him bringing my comp back to me or totally
pissed off beyond hell because he kinda just took my stuff, didn't do
what he was supposed to do with it and claimed (probably truthfully) that
he didn't any time to do anything else about it. but i'm not one to hold
a grudge.
and hes a mate en all, so what cannae ye dae?
i bought a macintosh last wednesday anyways along the lines of the apple
loan program. that wednesday they decided to raise the prices by hmm...
$1000 and i won't see that thing for another 20 days garunteed. it seems
like apple screwed up big time, they ran out of the chips they needed,
and they have so many backorders, blah blah blah. here, read it from a
super good source.
i should be stoked i'm getting what is in essence something built for
professional graphic developers and its goin to be in my little janitor-closet
of a dorm.
should go well with the plant hanging from the sprinkler system, the
chinese illustrated toilet paper lamp shade, the three or so clockwork
orange posters, our plastic wrapped door ( you wrap the whole door in
plastic, and draw all over it, we're on about 7 layers of marker, paint
and picture art on that thing) and that imac ad on my closet door. the
one right next to the banana peels, the mystery stain, one of the three
foot speakers and the betty page print out. but i'm extremely frustrated
to have a company say that they have this product, and when i buy it,
jack up the price and tell me "it might be a bit until we get it
in stock" then again, without their loan program, i'd have no way
in getting a new computer really.
i'm tired of getting screwed over. seriously. i got a new job making
a website for the electrical engineering and computer department at school.
they're hiring a open option freshman that will next semester be enrolled
in the fine arts program to build a sophisticated website for hard core
computer people to use.
i love that.
unitl i found they took $1800.00 out of my financial aid because of that.
i recieved a letter with a revised financial aid reciept where i guess
i'm now in the student work program. they forgot to tell me that little
part.
i'm getting sick of what is essential a struggle to get some sort of balance.
some times it just seems i'm just wigglin like a worm, those times the
only thing i can do is get out the jugglin pins, the skateboard, do handstands,
take stupid pictures and have fun fun fun! i think i could live without
a computer, money for college will come one of these days, and if all
else fails, i'll just become an underground artist and start submitting
to juxtapoz, make covers for time
magnazine, waking up at 11:00 to watch my favorite mid afternon program
and have time to skateboard all around my san fransico apartment, and
just be all tatooed and be humble again. all in four years. be ready.
oh, someone i knoew from this summer actually replied to a letter i wrote
and sent me silly putty. ahhh yeah.
