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So I've been waiting all day for a package, since I figured I missed yesterday's delivery as I was in class (after all, I saw one of those "you weren't home" tags for some other apartment in the vestibule of the building, meaning they never got into the building). So I finally got the idea to look up the tracking number given this afternoon....and it says it was delivered yesterday morning, an hour after I left, at the front door.

When will people realize you don't leave packages in the vestibules of apartment buildings? Of course, it's nowhere to be found. I even left a note on the "special instructions" page to call my number if you can't get in the building. No such calls. I looked outside of the building. I looked in the lobby. I even looked in the trash (except wherever they store most of the trash, I don't know where it is). Nothing.

So now I can't prove I never got it and the claims forms on the website seem to not give any direction for "I never got it, but your idiot driver said he left it out in the open." I don't have a car, so I have no choice but to order. So now I'm out $100. Thanks a hell of a lot, FedEx!

Sigh...I can't live in this place anymore. But I can't move out of it, either.
 
The Yankee said:
Sigh...I can't live in this place anymore. But I can't move out of it, either.
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Yes, you can! Move to Drexel!! Sure, we don't have quite the nightlife that NYC has, but we got nature galore all around us. Oh, and even though it is in BFE, Fedex still knows how to get here. :D

MY random rant for the day: TELL ME IF YOU'RE USING ME AS A GUINEA PIG FOR A TRAINEE WHEN I GO IN TO GIVE BLOOD!! I am not keen on big bruises on my arm, failed blood donations, or being delayed an extra 45 minutes this morning while I was forced to lie there with ice packs on my arm. :mad:
 
I'd actually need the money to move. Knowing that housing probably wouldn't be $900/month doesn't help me get my crap out of here now.

That's what I face as I'll probably move to the Twin Cities region sometime after graduating. At least I'll hopefully have time to pay for such expenses. And at least when carriers are lazy, it's left on a front door that's not the main entrance to everyone in a six-story apartment building.

Bloody hell. At least some money came in today...but I was factoring on that.

As for nightlife...I've pathetically made no use of NYC nightlife in my 22 years here. Outside of a few bars last year. So that's that.
 
Hey, the cost of living is way, way, way lower here in the Midwest. You don't need nearly as much money to move here. ;)

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My own rant is that I had a biology test two days ago and got a 78% on it where most of the class got 80's and 90's. The worst of it is that I could've jumped a whole five points by doing a pathetically easy extra-credit assignment and I forgot to do it. :wallbash:
 
puglover said:
Hey, the cost of living is way, way, way lower here in the Midwest. You don't need nearly as much money to move here. ;)
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It's like having the start-up costs for opening a new store. Maybe the credit card companies will throw me thousands of dollars of new credit again (Hey, it happened last year when I got a free increase! Turned out to come in handy. But maybe it won't cost as much as my limit.).

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My own rant is that I had a biology test two days ago and got a 78% on it where most of the class got 80's and 90's. The worst of it is that I could've jumped a whole five points by doing a pathetically easy extra-credit assignment and I forgot to do it. :wallbash:
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Been there, done that. Then again, in the grand scheme of things, those five points turn out to mean next to nothing, depending on the class.
 
The ID requirements just to get a non-driver ID here are insane. I don't even think I have IDs that add up to six points according to how they value each ID. And many of those IDs require........a state ID such as a non-driver ID just to get it in the first place.

Nice Catch-22 there.
 
I hate apologizing.

Just putting that out there.

Even more than that I hate when I have to apologize for things that never happened.

Only 9 more days of apologization.
 
This is basically a rant thread about the tings people do that piss you off. What do people do a lot that you just can't stand?

I can't stand people who critisize, rant, or complain about books they've never read, movies they've never seen, games they've never played, references they've never used, or anything else they've never experianced.
 
Moderator Action: One rant thread is more than enough.
 
What I was going to post in that thread:

I hate how some people call everyone who is slightly to the political left of them a 'communist' and everyone who is slightly to the right a 'fascist' or 'Nazi'.
 
That reminds me of "useful idiot" comparison, which equals to calling someone idiot since they disagree with that person opinions or are unable to think anything else.
 
I went to NYC this weekend for a meet, and the people in Newark, NJ were a-holes. I guess I already knew they would be, but oh well. And their food was so darn expensive. A combo meal of the Chicken Grill sandwich at Burger King was $8. Thats ridiculous.
 
My rant is about that I'm in the cream of the crop Algebra class (highest level for 8th grade) and they're giving us basic facts tests (0-9, multiplication and division).

If you were a teacher, would you give stuff 5 grades below a grade level? If I asked this teacher, he'd probably say no.

But he is giving us this.

Well, at least we aren't getting basic 0-9 addition and subtraction facts like we did in 5th grade. And for a short period of time, we were getting basic-facts for 6s, 7s, 8s, and 9s in the highest math.

My mom says, "He's just following the guidelines given to him."

Last year, we didn't get a single basic-facts test ever. And that was pre-algebra. Heck, everyone that had him would be ready for Algebra 2. But NO! They don't offer Algebra 2 at my middle school.

Another girl and I started a petition in elementary school to rid the school of its spelling programs.

Here is a sample of words from these programs:

3rd grade: 80% easy words that even a kindergartener could spell. Heck, even the word I was a spelling word.

5th grade: Even worse. There was only one word that was to this grade level: necessary. Sample:

bed, bird, I'm, we'd, head, and other 3-6-letter words.

So I'm creating a petition to stop these basic-facts tests in higher-level math classes. (Pre-Algebra and Algebra)

If he doesn't want to, then we take it to the principal. If he rejects the petition, then we take it to the school board. If not, then the newsletter publishes it in the editorials and the common people decide whether basic-facts tests should be a part of high-level math tests. If they still don't give in, we go up to bigger newspapers.
 
I started Drew Brees (16 pts) over Brett Favre (27 pts) and Jake Delhomme (29 pts)
 
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