August 23, 2007

• [mood | Furious]
  [music| Andy Lau 劉德華- Superman 超人]

  Warning: This is a major bitchfest…. Read at your own risk!

  Moving:

  UGH! OMG  First off let me say that I HATE moving. I am so sick of it. I have moved, seriously, once a year for like 10 years. I don’t know why I do this to myself.  I have been in Cali for 2 years and this will be my 4th (yes f-o-u-r-t-h) apartment here (in my complex!). Yeah, the mailman hates me. Oh well.

  Anyways, I always try to be organized. So before leaving to Taiwan I went ahead and signed the new lease, scheduled the movers, arranged for all things that were coming UPS/Fedex to go to the new address, change over parking info, forward my mail, set up the new utilities, call the Dish Network and have them schedule a move, set up for the internet people to come out, etc. I was scheduled to come back on the 15th and start moving on the 18th. That would give me 3 days to pack.

  Wellllllll so the 18th comes and I go downstairs to start taking small things to the new apt (no need to waste hours on the movers for things I can do myself ) and I realize that someone is still living there. WTF???? Ok I know by California law the tenant has to move out and the apt has to be turned over (cleaned, sanitized, carpet cleaned, walls repainted, damages repaired, etc. before they can rent it out to someone else….and there was no way they’re going to do this all in the next hour). So livid, I call the rental office. They’re like “Oh, the tenant isn’t moving out–he decided last minute, while you were in Taiwan, that he didn’t like the new apt and wasn’t moving”. Ummmm WTF?! OK so 1. why not call me and let me know and 2. if I already signed the lease, doesn’t that make the new apt mine???

  Ugh so I call and cancel all the utilities and go to reforward my mail, which is totally screwed up now, and also came to realize that that tenant received all of my mail while I was in Taiwan and sent it all back!!!! (He knew someone else was moving in, he could have totally taken it to the rental office) But noooo he had it sent back. So there goes all my bills, my 五月天(mayday) concert tickets (now I have to go pick them up the day of the concert), my paycheck stub, my new credit cards, etc. So I spent a whole afternoon calling, paying over the phone, etc.

   我真的超級無敵非常他媽的好生氣﹗﹗﹗﹗﹗﹗﹗

  So later that day, the rental office lady calls me back (thought you didn’t have my number, biatch) and tells me that there is a new apt I can move into on Friday. It’s $80 more a month. Well I flip out on her and tell her she needs to give it to me for the price of the original. She says she’ll talk to the manager and call me back. Thankfully she worked that one out and Friday it is. Totally sucks because this week was repacking and now refowarding mail, tracking down my fedexes (that guy is an idiot–he just put it inside his apt and didn’t open it…. then after I picked it up he called the rental office and said I had a package but UPS came and got it…yeah, I look like UPS). This move has totally screwed up my work schedule, I was supposed to run a 補習課for my former 8th graders this week, and now it looks like I have to move it to Monday (which was supposed to be my copy/prep day for school). If that rental lady tells me Friday I can’t have my new apt I think the next time you will see me is on the evening news…

  School:

  Oh joy, it’s that time of year again. Time for back to school. You know the back to school commercials are really starting to piss me off  I did get some work done today (parent letters, course outlines, course expectations, syllabi, etc.) as well as my expense budget for Taiwan (what a bitch!!!) and notebook w/ receipts (it’s so awesome) and updated my school webpage…I need to go to work and print out all the things I made today and make copies. Maybe tomorrow….

  I did get a sneak peak at my rosters…8th grade class looks like it sucks! lol and my 7th is pretty sweet. Of course I won’t know my elementary kids or my new 6th graders. I am teaching from 8-10 at TCES and then from 10:50-3:25 at the middle school. Should be okay! And I am getting 6/5 pay this year baby, yeah!!!

  Movie Updates:
  It’s been a LONG time since I’ve posted one of these…(remember my weekly cuteegg movie posting?) I saw a few movies in Tawian…

  Transformers: I give it a C- Personally I think I am being generous here. I thought it sucked. Sure the first few times they transformed it was cool, but the story line, or lack of totally sucked. Blah!

  Die Hard 4.0: Damn, how can Bruce Willis be so damn old and in shape and making those movies? 他死不了﹗ 好吊﹗I give it an A+, it was very entertaining!

  The Simpsons: Hillarious! I give it an A++!

  Secret 不能說的秘密﹕I have to give it an A because I LOVE Jay Chou. It was a good movie. I don’t know why none of my Taiwanese friends would go w/ me to see it (booo!) but it was a great story and 拍的好﹗If you can DL it somewhere you should!

  Hmmm I think I am out of things to bitch about or update you on….I better finish my packing!

  PS. It should be against the law for some man to look that good at 45! Damn 劉德華帥到不行﹗﹗﹗

  For some reason I can’t post  you tube videos on here (help!) so here’s the link …

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_p2ZmGGl-8

   

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