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Now I've known this about student loans. When I first moved here I would go into panic attacks just seeing something from them in the mail. and you knew there was going to be zero help from customer service so upon seeing NEITHER of my loans had the income based repayment plan put on them automatically as I was assured would happen I called today after pulling up the email from August 14 at 2:03 in the afternoon.

( If I wrote this up as fiction no one would believe it )

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Current Mood: aggravated
Current Music: On the Case with Paula Zahn

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Tea and cake, Bridgnorth station, 25th September 2025

237/365: Tea and cake, Bridgnorth SVR station
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I don't want to dwell on this tonight, but in general? I'm neutral to mildly in favour of the principle of a universal ID card, physical or digital. From what I've heard so far, however, I don't trust this government as far as I could throw it to implement one fairly and safely.

Now, on to more fun matters. I was in Bridgnorth today (no E in that name, folks!) which was not for the most part very interesting – at least, the stuff I had to do was dull – but I did have half an hour or so free in the late morning. I pottered down to the SVR station as trains were running, and popped into the very nice 1930s-style refreshment room for a cup of tea and a cake. Jaffa orange and chocolate, since you ask! As the weather was nice, I sat outside, which was pleasant as I could watch some shunting and even see a steam-hauled service train arrive. It was annoying that an alarm started up after a while and didn't stop, but fortunately I was near time to go by then in any case. The framing of this photo makes it look like I was in a cage, but I assure you that they did let me out! ;)

Current Mood: awake

conuly

My fav event as harvest season approaches
is the rough seed that escaped the plots.

If there’s a cornfield adjacent to another bed
of vegetables, you can count on imperfection,

you can see stalks standing where they’re
not supposed to be, the winds have ideas,

seeds who choose wildness, here they are,
with red potatoes, alfalfa, peas, sunflowers,

they look pleased w/ themselves, outfoxing
clever farmers, making it to the unplanned

ground where nobody is around, recovering
where the amiable dirt will welcome them.

Seeds are so fun and determined,
there’s no concept of liberty, no need for it,

guaranteed if I were a seedling I’d abstain,
you know I would, I’d find a way to renounce

what’s expected of my common name,
gliding over the roads until a dream takes root

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Olaf In Sweden...

puddleshark

The wind has gone round to the north, and the weather has turned dry again, unexpectedly chilly for September. There was even frost on the car windscreen when I headed out on Tuesday morning. ( Read more... )

pilottttt

Для начала – спасибо всем за поздравления! Они меня порадовали и сделали моё утро позитивней.

Ну а теперь – собственно о планах. Помните, года полтора назад мы ездили в Сырдарью и гуляли там по полузаброшенному аэропорту, заставленному старыми «кукурузниками»? Я ещё тогда написал, что скоро там, возможно, начнётся движуха. Ну так вот, движуха началась. А потому в ближайшую субботу утром мы выезжаем прямиком туда, на место происшествия, чтобы в этой движухе непосредственно поучаствовать. Фото и впечатления, как обычно, выложу сюда во всех подробностях.

По более долговременным планам: у нас уже лежат выкупленные билеты и всё, что к ним прилагается, на начало ноября до египетской Александрии. Ну да, в бывшей Александрии Эсхате мы уже побывали, теперь пришло время съездить в ту самую, египетскую. Говорят, что там не понимают ни один язык, кроме арабского, но – думаю, что мы как-нибудь выкрутимся.

Ну а в качестве иллюстрации – вот вам ещё немного солнечного Ташкента.

Эта мозаика на территории УзЭкспоЦентра по какой-то причине ни разу ещё не попадала в мой объектив.

( Смотреть ещё )

Current Location: Ташкент, Узбекистан

dewline

Watching this meeting this morning:

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZQqTpmplM9I?si=SkzNXEhi0XNNJftS

Current Mood: busy

moxie_man

My car is packed with all the gear I need to survive. I head out to Calais, Maine later this morning to prepare for the coming zombie apocalypse. I will not have internet access while away. So, I'll also take this time to wish

austin_dern an early happy birthday. I will return after the apocalypse ends this Sunday. Unlike the latest predicted 'Rapture', the apocalypse is coming and will happen this weekend in Calais, Maine! What, you think Stephen King makes up his horror tales about Maine?

The Zombie Apocalypse is the theme for this year's Cobscook/Moosehorn International Scout camporee, now in it's 63rd year. My brother and I have been keeping it alive now for a decade and it is now the longest annual scouting event in the northeaster USA. It had been tied with the West Point Invitational Camporee until Covid when WP cancelled, but working with the Maine Center for Disease Control, we were able to keep our event going. Last year's youth leaders voted for this year's theme. This year's youth leaders will vote for next year's theme. This year we'll be set-up at HQ for the Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge just outside of Calais and a stone's throw from the Canadian border. Alas, thanks to firetrucking national politics, no Canadian units will be joining us this year.

Some of the event stations planned:
Pathogens that can turn animals into zombies.
Feed the zombie (corn hole with an open mouth zombie on the board and rubber body parts in place of bean bags)
Head injury first aid (need to treat the victim quickly before the scent of bbbrrrraaaaiiiinnnnsss attracts zombies)
Ham Radio station so you can communicate with other pockets of survivors
Bug-out bag creation
Early warning system

In addition, we'll have our adult Iron Chef stew competition. This year's secret ingredients to be revealed on Saturday morning that must be incorporated into their stew will be themed for the camporee: bbbrrrraaaaiiiinnnnssss and kidneys (purple cauliflower and eggplant).

I'll be back late Sunday evening, provided I survive.

ndrosen

Deleting political spam emails from both Democrats and Trumpublicans is getting to be a full-time job. A few days ago, I received an email from Erika Kirk, referring to the evildoers who had murdered her husband. Evildoers, plural? So far as I am aware, one young man acted alone to assassinate Charlie Kirk; is his widow or are her associates trying to create the impression that the left in general, or all Americans who have problems with Trump, are culpable?

Likewise, there was an email from Adam Schiff, who at least has the merit of being loathed by Dishonest Donald, saying that he had introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United decision, and urging me to sign on as a “citizen cosponsor.” I did not do so, as I believe that the Supreme Court decided the case rightly. The issue was whether a movie about Hillary Clinton made by a non-profit corporation, Citizens United, could be regulated as a political donation to her opponents. A lawyer for the government admitted that this could also apply to a book.

So excuse me, Senator Schiff, but have you paused to consider what the Trump administration could do if the decision were overturned? An article about Trump’s policy errors and known or suspected crimes could be treated as an illegal campaign contribution to the opposition, as could a comedy routine by someone like Jimmy Kimmel, or simply a truthful report on the news of the day. Is that the America you want to live in?

cornerofmadness

that I have BIG classes this semester and if I put all the tests on one day, I'll be working for hours to grade it all in one night. That was my entire day.

That and finding out one of my EOBs was a denial for my DexCom monitors and I wrote and asked them WHY they denied a claim from the company they INSISTED I use. I hope that gets straightened out because that's 1000$ to me if they don't.

We needed rain bad. We're now on day 4 and flooding. fantastic. Lost my power third day in a row too. It was raining inside my building again. Also someone turned on the heat. Again. It was 77 when I showed up to work outside so WHY the heat is on....

I did manage to finish a

fandomgiftbasket story but I'm worried that it's toeing the DNW list (Jealousy is one request but so is no other pairings other than listed...)

What I Just Finished Reading:

Nothing Special vol 2 - a fantasy webtoon, it's cute

Jaws - I needed as J and one of my dentists handed me this to read. Someone's thesis on why there is so much malocclusion. Riveting (no, it's not)

What I am Currently Reading:

Cards on the Table - Agatha Christie - a good reminder she was a woman of her time and that Italians were NOT liked well in the 20s and 30s The victim seems to have deserved to die because Dagos are shifty and untrustworthy....it's not in there much but it was there in the beginning and I set this aside for years and now it's back about mid way in...

Colin Gets Promoted and Dooms the World - imagine Gavin or Lindsey trying to get promoted at Wolfram and Hart and you more or less have it. It's interesting but it's hard to root for Colin since he's actively evil and petty

What I Plan to Read Next: I'm so behind on my challenges. something for that.

Current Mood: nauseated
Current Music: Guy's Grocery Games

disneydream06

I bet the FCC doesn't demand he is removed from the airwaves.......

Fox News' Jesse Watters Calls to 'Bomb' U.N., or 'Maybe Gas It,' After Broken Escalator and Teleprompter During Trump's Visit

Watters characterized the malfunctions at the U.N. headquarters on Tuesday as an "insurrection"

By Lindsay Kimble

https://people.com/jesse-watters-calls-bomb-un-after-teleprompter-escalator-malfunctions-11816183?hid=7f1109a25d2362f31854399df255b82ba78f015e&did=17760579-20250924&utm_source=ppl&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ppl-news_newsletter&utm_content=092425&lctg=7f1109a25d2362f31854399df255b82ba78f015e&lr_input=758ad690760192cf49795c3f52223721cac5324e3e862e41c5d4db73a4d43f32&utm_term=midday&campaign=13583605

disneydream06

Isn't this like the Pot calling the Kettle black???

Meghan McCain slams Ben Affleck, Jennifer Garner's daughter's UN speech: 'This is why people hate nepo babies'

McCain, daughter of Sen. John McCain, quickly deleted a social media post criticizing 19-year-old Violet Affleck for speaking at the United Nations.

By Joey Nolfi

https://ew.com/meghan-mccain-slams-jennifer-garner-ben-affleck-daughter-violet-11816482?hid=7f1109a25d2362f31854399df255b82ba78f015e&did=19623640-20250924&utm_campaign=ewk_relationship-builder&utm_source=ewk&utm_medium=email&utm_content=092425&lctg=7f1109a25d2362f31854399df255b82ba78f015e&lr_input=758ad690760192cf49795c3f52223721cac5324e3e862e41c5d4db73a4d43f32&utm_term=news-alert

moxie_man

The cursed thing is real! Well, this isn't quite the one I described in my recent tail...er... tale, but it's pretty close. And commercially made for the Canadian market in the mid-1980's if I'm reading the fine print correctly. Should I ever find one, I will gladly let you play me and I will skunk you just so we can find out if this one is cursed like in the tale or not. :)

cribbage board with a drawn skunk on it

dewline

I am grateful that you are still with us among the living.

Current Mood: hopeful

loganberrybunny

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Mary Macarthur and women chainmakers, Cradley Heath, 24 Sep 25

236/365: Mary Macarthur statue, Cradley Heath
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I was in Cradley Heath today, which to be frank is not the most photogenic of towns. However, I did manage to find something interesting. This sculpture stands in Mary Macarthur Park and depicts her and several of her colleagues. They worked as chainmakers and in 1910 they were on the desperately low wage of five shillings per week. The charismatic Macarthur, a prominent campaigner for universal suffrage who had also been at the forefront of women's trade union activity for some years, led the workers out on strike. Her speeches attracted large crowds of supporters in and around Cradley. After ten weeks they won, and the minimum wage in the industry was increased to eleven shillings. Sadly, Macarthur died of cancer in 1921, aged only 40. This statue, by local sculpture Luke Perry, was unveiled in 2012.

Current Mood: impressed

disneydream06

Today it is my great pleasure to send out...

*~*~*~*~*GREAT BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISHES*~*~*~*~*

To my dear friend,

nursesparky.

I hope you have a spectacular day. :)

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sabotabby

Just finished: Antifa Lit Journal Vol. 1: What If We Kissed While Sinking a Billionaire's Yacht?, edited by Chrys Gorman. There are some really good stories in here and one good poem, and I'm cautiously optimistic for the future of the journal? I'm thinking a lot lately about didacticism in art and its purposes, and of course about writing dystopian fiction while living in a dystopia. There's the sort of "this thing that is happening is bad and you should be upset about it" kind of classic dystopia, and there's the hopepunk variant of "here are some people fighting against the bad thing?" but I think we ought to be pushing past both of those tendencies. To what end? I don't know. I'm thinking a lot about Rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco, which sadly I have never seen staged but is one of the most brilliant explorations of fascism in the way that it weirds it and adds something new and useful to our understanding of fascist psychology, and thus our ability to resist it. (It is unfair, of course, to critique something for not being Ionesco.) So I dunno how to do that, I am a hack and a fraud. Anyway, there were a couple of really standout stories—one about a house contents sale, one with a retelling of Fall of Jericho, one about a group of church ladies resisting ICE, and of course the title story.

Currently reading: Gothic Capitalism: Art Evicted from Heaven and Earth by Adam Turl. Adam is a Marxist artist and critic whose work I really enjoy, so when they came out with an actual book that I can recommend to people, I was all fuck yeah. This examines the relationship of art to capitalism and resistance, drawing on Benjamin, Fisher, Brecht, and so on. It gets points right off the bat for explaining uneven and combined development, which the Historical Materialism crowd is always on about, in a way my never-went-to-grad-school brain can actually understand. I just finished the bit on the ways in which conceptual art arose in rejection of the commercial art market and then almost immediately got subsumed into it. Anyway, it's really good.

dandylover1

Hello, Dear Readers. Let's do something we haven't done in a while and start with some music. I know I set this for the twenty-third, but since it's so early on the twenty-fourth when I am finishing this entry, I will include this piece for today.

( Thoughts on Haydn: String Quartet Op 64, no 1 )

Not much happened today, except for an adventure with a bug that pleased neither of us. I was outside, eating my game hen when I felt a bug on my thumb. Usually, I don't care if bugs are on me, since I'm outside, after all, and I knew it wouldn't be a mosquito that early in the day. But I didn't want it to get into my food. I turned my hand and felt pain. The bug was clinging to me, presumably with a stinger. And no, despite the question of both my mother and a friend, I have no idea what it was like. I'm blind. It was a big bug on my hand that was causing pain, so I pulled it off. I went in the house to show Mom, and she said that she didn't see a stinger, which meant no vinegar, but she did put some Neosporin (antibiotic) on it. Even now, it still hurts, but more ina paper cut way than anything else. It's not swolen or anything like that, just annoying. I can only hope it wasn't a bee that stung me. I love bees. I would feel terrible knowing that I killed one, even though I had no choice. They are necessary for the world to survive. Still, I do hope this heals quickly.

We didn't go on our walk as planned yesterday. Mom had to wait for an important phone call. Perhaps, we'll go on Wednesday, though she did say she had a lot to do. Perhaps, we'll start next week when things are calmer.

They said it was supposed to rain. First, at five, then at seven, but it didn't. Fortunately, it's still warm, but tomorrow is supposed to reach only sixty-eight, so I'm not thrilled about that. But I think it's supposed to warm again later this week, which is good.

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The Life & Times of a Time Weary Wombat

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Highly incompetent

In The News.....

Cake by the rails

Rogue Corn by Nikki Wallschlaeger

Hmmm.... Swedish Efficiency Apparently

Holme Gardens, September

О планах и не только

Ottawa: Public Works and Infrastructure Committee

Off to prepare for the coming zombie apocolypse

Left and Right; Citizens United

I need to remember

W.T.F. News.....

I.M.H.O......

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