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Jun. 25th, 2003
And another thing
Jun. 25th, 2003 08:38 amEpiphany:
I really, genuinely don't want to be doing this job right now. I like the environment, I like the people I'm working with, I don't mind the subject matter and I have no real problems with what I'm doing...
except that it's completely not what I want to be doing.
And I'm going to be here for another five hours hating my job not because it's a bad job but because it's not what I want.
I really, genuinely don't want to be doing this job right now. I like the environment, I like the people I'm working with, I don't mind the subject matter and I have no real problems with what I'm doing...
except that it's completely not what I want to be doing.
And I'm going to be here for another five hours hating my job not because it's a bad job but because it's not what I want.
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The things you find out
Jun. 25th, 2003 10:52 amJust a few notes.
My counselor feels that I probably have dysthymia, a mild, chronic form of depression. Here's a link to the WHO definition if you're curious.
My bottled water - from both bottles - tastes salty. Inquiries lead me to believe that this is due to under-hydration, which is frustrating but understandable given that I felt like I was sleeping in a blast furnace last night.
I think I'm going to buy an iBook.
HULK SMASH.
Jun. 25th, 2003 01:13 pmOkay. So I'm not as blindly, spectacularly angry as I was five minutes ago. I am, however, pretty annoyed.
I went over to secure a loan for a new iBook (plus a little gadget that'll let me move files from the iBook to my PC). I was told that they could not grant me the loan, because I had two outstanding problems with my credit.
I said, what?
They said, you have an unpaid credit card bill of $450 from CapitalOne, and an unpaid phone bill of $150 from Verizon.
Again I said, what? So I got up, and thanked the loan officer, and walked back to my office, and spent five minutes being blindly, unspeakingly, unhearingly livid. Because one of those charges I had paid off, and the other wasn't mine.
So when I'd calmed down, I made some phone calls. The first was to CapitalOne. I was icy and angry and absolutely, perfectly polite as I informed them that they were reporting an outstanding charge on my account fully a year after I had paid it off. And after being transferred three times, I was told that, yeah, sure enough, I had, they'd alert the credit agencies and send me a Paid In Full letter.
Then I called Verizon. Apparently a telephone bill had not, in fact, been paid. It was not my responsibility - it wasn't even the phone line I used - but it was in my name, and it was blemishing my credit rating. So I growled a bit, scaring the poor guy on the other end, and paid the verdammt bill.
With the two exceptions of the credit card bill I am paying off and my student loans, my credit rating should now be, if not clean as a whistle, at least not reflecting any outstanding, unpaid balances.
I'm still pretty pissed off, though.
I went over to secure a loan for a new iBook (plus a little gadget that'll let me move files from the iBook to my PC). I was told that they could not grant me the loan, because I had two outstanding problems with my credit.
I said, what?
They said, you have an unpaid credit card bill of $450 from CapitalOne, and an unpaid phone bill of $150 from Verizon.
Again I said, what? So I got up, and thanked the loan officer, and walked back to my office, and spent five minutes being blindly, unspeakingly, unhearingly livid. Because one of those charges I had paid off, and the other wasn't mine.
So when I'd calmed down, I made some phone calls. The first was to CapitalOne. I was icy and angry and absolutely, perfectly polite as I informed them that they were reporting an outstanding charge on my account fully a year after I had paid it off. And after being transferred three times, I was told that, yeah, sure enough, I had, they'd alert the credit agencies and send me a Paid In Full letter.
Then I called Verizon. Apparently a telephone bill had not, in fact, been paid. It was not my responsibility - it wasn't even the phone line I used - but it was in my name, and it was blemishing my credit rating. So I growled a bit, scaring the poor guy on the other end, and paid the verdammt bill.
With the two exceptions of the credit card bill I am paying off and my student loans, my credit rating should now be, if not clean as a whistle, at least not reflecting any outstanding, unpaid balances.
I'm still pretty pissed off, though.
