| Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 |
| 1:01 am |
So about 3 months ago I ordered $120 worth of parrot supplies from The Perch Store, an online vendor whom I've been shopping with for years. Apparently the site's owner decided that he didn't have to give people their shit at some point between my last order and this one, because I've learned that there are dozens who've been screwed out of their money - 1 person spent $1,000 back in August has yet to get her stuff or a refund. The lesson here is to google a business before you buy anything from them, even if they've been honest in the past. There was a whole forum about this scandal, but I hadn't known about it. I paid through paypal, so my money is probably gone forever. |
| Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 |
| 2:52 pm |
I took my Perch Store problems over to Parrot_lovers. I still haven't gotten a reply as to the status of my order, btw. |
| Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 |
| 12:48 am |
94.) Righteous Porkchop: Finding a Life and Good Food Beyond Factory Farms by Nicolette Hahn Niman. 95.) Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson. 96.) Jack of Fables Vol. 6: The Books of War by John Broome, Tony Akins, and Matthew Sturges. 97.) House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. |
| Thursday, November 19th, 2009 |
| 12:55 am |
Trying to get ready for bed. We're going to pick up the new car first thing tomorrow morning. |
| Thursday, November 12th, 2009 |
| 2:40 pm |
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| Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 |
| 10:39 pm |
It's entirely possible that this next Arabic exam is going to kick my ass. The course has finally decided to get serious. |
| Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 |
| 5:44 pm |
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| Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 |
| 11:46 am |
Fucking awesome. 37 days later, I still haven't gotten my order from the Perch Store. I've sent two emails and left two messages on their machine. No replies whatsoever. I tried to call again today, but their mailbox is full so I can't even leave a message. This was a pretty huge order, and they've taken the money out of my account so they really really need to send me my freaking shit. I'm not going to be shopping there again, that's for sure. |
| Saturday, October 31st, 2009 |
| 5:22 am |
I've been fighting my way through House of Leaves off and on for the last two months. It's to the point where I hardly care about what's happening in the book - well, that's not true, I'm desperate to see how it ends - I just want to be able to say that I finished this impenetrable fucker. It's a very, very scary book, but it's also a pretentious clusterfuck of symbolism. I can't quite quit it.  Two books I need to read: Stephen Fry's Making History, and Days of Cain by J. R. Dunn. |
| 5:17 am |
They're having a farmers' market at the mall this morning, so I'm going to check it out. I want to get some eggs, and lots and lots of fresh and wonderful fruits and veggies. They are also going to have beef, but it's corn-fed, so I don't really see the point. |
| Friday, October 23rd, 2009 |
| 7:32 pm |
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| Wednesday, October 21st, 2009 |
| 10:35 pm |
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| Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 |
| 7:48 pm |
91.)A Lion Among Men (Wicked Years Series #3), by Gregory Maguire. 92.) What We Believe but Cannot Prove: Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in the Age of Certainty, editted by John Brockman. 93.) We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan That Will Work, by Jimmy Carter. The Maguire was better than Son of a Witch, but nothing close to Wicked. I liked it, it just wasn't on par with his more amazing works. I just sort of wish he'd moved the story forward more instead of focusing so much on Brrr's past. Presumably there will be a 4th book, so maybe we'll get to see more of what's going on with Liir in the next one. What We Believe but Cannot Prove was one of those books that you buy and then wish you hadn't. Not a bad book, but I'd expected more stuff from biologists and social scientists to be in there. Mostly it was mathematicians and physicists, and honestly I'm just not interested. It might be a bad attitude to have, but if I can't see a thing and if that thing doesn't behave in interesting ways I just don't give a shit. I'm happy that other people care, but I don't. |
| 7:02 pm |
Everything just seems to be coming together for me this semester. Courses that are only distantly related to each other touch on the same concepts from a different prospective. Everything seems interconnected, like it's all converging toward the same point. Even Arabic and math seem to be working together to give me a broader, more complete view of the world and the history of the world. My first semester was hell. Semester two was boring drudgery. But this semester has just been so wonderful and interesting. And it's only going to get better as I complete the last of my required courses and stick exclusively to courses that reflect my passions. |
| Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 |
| 8:33 pm |
I'll have you all know that I have at long last learned not to argue with internet people who have their heads so far up their asses that they can not see the sun. I have learned not to, because it is not worth my trouble. Some people just want to read an ugly hidden motive to everything, and I'm just not going to play. |
| Monday, October 12th, 2009 |
| 10:26 pm |
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| Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 |
| 10:09 pm |
In other news, the parrot tree these people sent me is a completely different model from the one I ordered. I don't think it's just the obvious amount of variation that you'd see between gyms that are hand made from natural branches. It's really, really different, and the branch diameters are much wider than the site said they would be. So whatever. I guess I won't be buying from them again. What I'm going to do is I'm going to get some apple wood branches from my parents' trees and attach them in place of some of the manzanita. I'm just going to use the tree's frame and base, basically, then I think I can build the rest of it from there with apple wood. Cali will like that better anyway, because she can chew on the softer wood, and it'll be better for her feet. |
| Tuesday, October 6th, 2009 |
| 2:11 am |
Cali's tree came. It came much more quickly than I would have expected, and it's much bigger than I thought it would be. It's freaking HUGE. Once I get the willpower to put the dang thing together there will be pictures. So awesome and pretty. I bought a power screw driver. ^^ I haven't gotten my order from the Perch Store, and the tracking service doesn't seem to have any data about were it is or when I should expect it. Which is weird. I'm going to give it a few more days then I'm going to email somebody. |
| Monday, October 5th, 2009 |
| 1:25 am |
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