In June, I decided to renew my service with ATT DSL. In return, they were supposed to refund me 50$ for renewing. I sent off my postcard and rebate sticker in July, and waited. It was supposed to arrive in 4-6 weeks. When I didn’t hear or see anything from them after 4 months, I decided to give them a call. So apparently, they had been holding it in limbo, as the lady on the phone said, “Oh, we didn’t know what to do with it, because we didn’t know the reason for the rebate- was it for retention, new service sign up, new modem?” So she was telling me that, while they had access to my phone #, billing history, service history, password, and SSN, they had no way of emailing/calling me to ask this question, and they had no way of figuring out why I got this rebate? Riiiiggghhhttt. I just said, “It was a retention”. And then she said, “Ok, we’ll mail it right off”. Are you kidding me? That’s why they were holding it in limbo for 4 months?? I guess it’s a good way to get out of giving rebates to people who don’t double check. I just got a check in the mail, dated 1 day after I called.

My mind seems to be somewhere else today, because I seemed to forget everything I was supposed to do, except to go to orchestra rehearsal. Even my sleep was filled with random restless and strange dreams. This morning, I was preparing a reaction and forgot one crucial clean up step. So I had to repeat it from scratch, because, well, that little step was rather important. Secondly, I forgot that I was supposed to meet someone for lunch. So I completely blew that one as well. Thirdly, I forgot that I had A CLASS today. So I spent the day obliviously working in lab, blissfully unaware of the greater workings of the world. Then a concerned classmate asked why I had missed class. Face #1: (O_o); Then Mike messaged me that I blew off a lunch date. And then my face went like so: (o___O);; along with some of this: #%*&&!!! Oh well, at least my cloning worked. Perhaps that means tomorrow will be better.

I think I need more sleep. Preferablly not filled with dreams where I’m still unsuccessfully trying to isolate the same clone 3 months later.

I take casual carpool in the morning to work and everyone seems to have their own idea on what the best route is. There are no less than five popular routes to work.

They all start at the green symbol and exit off to the left. It’s horrible.

If you recognize the name of that high school, then you must be a Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan. And if that’s the case, maybe you can answer address my concern.

On TV.com there’s a poll which asks the question: “In the spirit of Back to School time – which TV high school would you like to attend?” And apparently the most responses have gone to Sunnydale High School. This doesn’t make any sense to me. Do you people not realize that there are vampires and demons and things that kill you there?

I would much rather go to East High from High School Musical, where everyone is singing and dancing all the time. How cool would that be??

I’m sure you have all heard that a lot. We all know that drivers are most at risk for crashing in their first six months behind the wheel. A student driver is being charged with vehicular manslaughter after running a red light in San Mateo. Here’s the twist, this student is of the graduate variety. This 26 year old was driving a guest lecturer from UC Berkeley to Mountain View when he ran the light and was struck by oncoming traffic which resulted in the death of the lecturer. Now the lecturer’s wife “has called on universities to end the practice of having students drive guest lecturers during visits, contending the practice is unsafe.”

Unsafe? At 26? Or is she referring to the fact that the driver was a student? What a silly woman.

Misdemeanor charge readied in Halberstam death

That’s something I’ve asked when I take a day off and walk around the city. I’ve never had the answer, until now! Someone over at the Chronicle wrote a column about it.

Because look out your window. Who are these people? At any given hour on any given workday, well, it turns out it’s not a workday at all. Not for these hordes roaming free, anyway. By rights our parks and movie theaters and stores should be minor ghost towns between 9 and 5 — chanced upon by the occasional tourist or late-night bartender but otherwise peaceful. Instead, they’re inexplicably packed. I didn’t doubt that the packers had sound explanations. I just wanted to hear them.

The mystery of the daytime idle: Why aren’t you working?

So about a month ago I hopped onto a co-ed adult league soccer team. It’s the first time I’ve played with a full 11 person team with large goals in five or six years. It’s good to have running space again. Unfortunately, running seems to lead to injuries to me. In the first game I must have twisted my ankle or something. After the game it was swollen and hurt a little. A few days later a bruise semi-circle formed under the ankle on the inside of my foot. That’s not too bad. I’ve played two games on that, the last one with a brace which seemed to work pretty well.

Unfortunately in the last game I think I pulled or tore my hamstring. I had just got into the game during the second half and I made a break through the defense in anticipation of a through ball, which came right on target. I already knew I could beat any of their defenders in a sprint, but this time I think I ran a little too fast. I could feel something on the back of my left leg pull or tear or something. It wasn’t a pleasant feeling. I missed my shot (of course >_<) and started limping around. We got a corner kick which was deflected and recovered by me. I took another shot which was saved and then left the field to spend the rest of the game nursing my poor leg.

Those two shots were in addition to my four or so shots in the first half. It’s frustrating that I haven’t scored yet in this league. Every one was a clear shot that I should have scored. At least three were left footed and one hit a post. After I benched myself we scored two goals and won the game. Sucks to be sitting for that too.

So I’ve been using icyhot, which burns like crazy, and an ace bandage for pressure. It still hurts when I walk though. *sigh* I’ll probably sit out next game.