Well, that's one thing off my to-do list.

My landlord just spent the entire day here fixing the electrical outlets in the kitchen that weren't working. Woohoo!

Tomorrow I hopefully knock "Get glasses," "Get landline in apartment working," and "Clean out fridge" off the list as well. Those are the easiest ones to get off the list (and "Get laptop fixed" is only a week or two away, God willing), because the rest of it's stuff like "Get my teeth fixed" (which I'm probably going to have to do one tooth at a time just to be able to afford it) and "Find part-time job/new job" (yeah, 'cause that's worked so well so far).

I'm also going to stop at Target and buy myself new pens and a new notebook. Let's see if that prods me to write. (Strangely enough, that usually works.)

Okay, I'm off to make myself dinner. And maybe get a little drunk and watch the rest of Garth Marenghi's Darkplace. It's like the badfic of British comedy! I kind of want to snuggle it just a little bit. Oh, yes. :)

Links are fun! Except these ones, because people suck.

Southwest Airlines Thinks Your Outfit is Inappropriate

A Hooters waitress (and why her job has any importance in regards to this story, I don't know, although the writers are obviously on her side in this) is asked to leave a plane because her outfit is supposedly offensive. Her outfit? A denim miniskirt, a tank top, a summer sweater, and high-heeled sandals. Keep in mind, she was flying into Arizona, which lately has been only slightly cooler than the surface of the sun.

Apparently Southwest has said they don't have a dress code this would go against and the customer rep in question must have just decided to do this on his own, but sheesh.

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Also from the same site, a customer records his 7-hour delayed Delta flight in all its baby-screaming glory.

That one particularly hit home because one of the girls in the lesbian couple at work flew down to Florida last week to visit her aunt and had a similarly heinous experience with Delta and her flight being delayed for an entire day and a half. She ended up in Atlanta and got a voucher for a free hotel room, which turned out to be in a hotel that was experiencing a power outage. When she went back to tell them, the Delta rep snapped, "Well, WE can't do anything about that!" And when they wouldn't let her get into her luggage for tampons and she asked if they could help her with that (she didn't have a hell of a lot of money on her at that point), the rep basically took her head off and said it's not her damn job and she's got a bunch of other people to help.

We knew it must have been bad when her girlfriend said she got a phone call from her with her sobbing from stress on the other end of the line. Seriously, she is not that chick, although I can picture her giving Delta hell now that she's calmed down. :)

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Oh, and there's not exactly a news story associated with this (I don't think), but speaking of bad customer service ...

( Cut for the squeamish ... )

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Oh, and did I ever mention that a couple months back, a woman gave birth alone in a cell in the local prison after four hours of labor?

"Are you building a Smurf village over there?"

( Tonight's Top Chef )

And I'm currently watching Tim Gunn. Aw, he makes me happy. I'd even let him come to my house and dig through my closet even though it's less that I have no style and more that I have no money to buy anything fancier than off-the-rack at Target. *sigh*

EDIT: Oh, my God, that Top Chef outtake? Malarkey needs to take off his shirt ALL the time. Hummina. *grabbyhands*