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May. 18th, 2002 10:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dragonlady7i've bitten off every one of my nails.
but i wrote something.
don't know yet if i like it.
garan, earlier days at the dragonhall, with the woman i brutally kill off later as a device to make him properly angst-ridden, enough so to damn near kill himself to end the war that killed her. most of the scene was about playing with light and shadow and him being in it; scene set in a dimly lit room, and there was a bit of light that he was forever leaning into and out of, and i was trying to really visualize how it would look.
Unfortunately, the woman turned out to be a sulky bitch, and i was hoping to keep those to a minimum.
but she's stuck in that now. i don't really know how else to make her be.
it's ok, she'll die soon anyway.
says something about garan, though, that this is the kind of woman he'll dig. hmm...
i'm not sure where i'm going with this scene. i do know i'm really scattered in my efforts of late, and if i don't prioritize and learn to self-motivate, i won't be getting anything done this summer.
<th>if i have a job this summer</th><th>if i'm unemployed this summer</th>
also, if i have spare time,
etc.
fuckers over at yahoo still haven't answered any of my emails or messages about cancelling that fucking account that i signed up for believing firmly that it was something else due to their misleading marketing process... So I called my credit card company and told them I'll be disputing the charge. So if on Monday I can't get through to yahoo! by phone or email, I will be mailing off my letter of contestation to the credit card company. I'm not fucking paying for them registering me a domain name when that's not what I wanted in the first place. Fuck that. All I wanted was POP mail. Nowhere could I find any information about POP mail, except that the questions about it were in the FAQ for the Premium service. Ok, Premium, I figured; what else are they charging me $39 a year for? So as soon as I'm done signing up (suspiciously, i can't find anything about POP mail either way anywhere on any of the help pages, and I do hit every one on the way through; but i figure ok, there's a big 'cancel' link, so if this isn't what i want, i'll cancel it. but surely it's what i want, or they would have listed their POP service separately. I can use this other stuff they're selling me, sure, as long as i get POP access...) a FAQ question pops up, and there sure enough is a question about POP mail... "why can't I POP my Premium (tm) account?" WHAT? Fuckers.
So I said fuck that, it's another $29/year for POP access. I don't want this Premium bullshit, I just want POP access. So I'll cancel this, and get the POP stuff.
"$25 of your fee is not refundable. thanks."
WHAT?
Right. You can't do that. If you don't say it's not refundable, it's refundable, dammit, even if it means you have to cover whatever expense out of your own pocket. Nowhere in the whole process did it say "no matter what, we keep 3/4 of the fee you pay, even if you then don't get the service."
Right. Fuck you. I'm not paying it.
I've been on hold, cumulatively, for about an hour now, over the course of this week. One time, the bitch at Customer Care was like "oh there's no wait over at Billing. Here, I'll transfer you, and it should go right through. Okay?"
15 minutes of Kenny G. later, I hung up. Obviously "no wait" meant "all the phone techs are having a masturbation break".
Why should I pay 10 cents a minute to listen to Kenny G. when it was their deceptive page that led me to purchase a service I don't want in the first place? They're fucks, total fucks, and I'm really not interested in doing any further business with them. I give them 10 more minutes of hold time. Then I mail that letter off to the credit card company, and it's THEIR fucking problem that their customer service attempts are ludicrous. I'll have spent ten bucks in long distance over a $25 dispute.
in other news, things are still bizarre around here... but at least all the showers lately seem to have been solo.
but i wrote something.
don't know yet if i like it.
garan, earlier days at the dragonhall, with the woman i brutally kill off later as a device to make him properly angst-ridden, enough so to damn near kill himself to end the war that killed her. most of the scene was about playing with light and shadow and him being in it; scene set in a dimly lit room, and there was a bit of light that he was forever leaning into and out of, and i was trying to really visualize how it would look.
Unfortunately, the woman turned out to be a sulky bitch, and i was hoping to keep those to a minimum.
but she's stuck in that now. i don't really know how else to make her be.
it's ok, she'll die soon anyway.
says something about garan, though, that this is the kind of woman he'll dig. hmm...
i'm not sure where i'm going with this scene. i do know i'm really scattered in my efforts of late, and if i don't prioritize and learn to self-motivate, i won't be getting anything done this summer.
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also, if i have spare time,
- attend Empire State Games
- hang out with abbie-- go up to camp?
- teach annie webdesign
- check out BSC and RPI FC
- keep from getting out of shape
etc.
fuckers over at yahoo still haven't answered any of my emails or messages about cancelling that fucking account that i signed up for believing firmly that it was something else due to their misleading marketing process... So I called my credit card company and told them I'll be disputing the charge. So if on Monday I can't get through to yahoo! by phone or email, I will be mailing off my letter of contestation to the credit card company. I'm not fucking paying for them registering me a domain name when that's not what I wanted in the first place. Fuck that. All I wanted was POP mail. Nowhere could I find any information about POP mail, except that the questions about it were in the FAQ for the Premium service. Ok, Premium, I figured; what else are they charging me $39 a year for? So as soon as I'm done signing up (suspiciously, i can't find anything about POP mail either way anywhere on any of the help pages, and I do hit every one on the way through; but i figure ok, there's a big 'cancel' link, so if this isn't what i want, i'll cancel it. but surely it's what i want, or they would have listed their POP service separately. I can use this other stuff they're selling me, sure, as long as i get POP access...) a FAQ question pops up, and there sure enough is a question about POP mail... "why can't I POP my Premium (tm) account?" WHAT? Fuckers.
So I said fuck that, it's another $29/year for POP access. I don't want this Premium bullshit, I just want POP access. So I'll cancel this, and get the POP stuff.
"$25 of your fee is not refundable. thanks."
WHAT?
Right. You can't do that. If you don't say it's not refundable, it's refundable, dammit, even if it means you have to cover whatever expense out of your own pocket. Nowhere in the whole process did it say "no matter what, we keep 3/4 of the fee you pay, even if you then don't get the service."
Right. Fuck you. I'm not paying it.
I've been on hold, cumulatively, for about an hour now, over the course of this week. One time, the bitch at Customer Care was like "oh there's no wait over at Billing. Here, I'll transfer you, and it should go right through. Okay?"
15 minutes of Kenny G. later, I hung up. Obviously "no wait" meant "all the phone techs are having a masturbation break".
Why should I pay 10 cents a minute to listen to Kenny G. when it was their deceptive page that led me to purchase a service I don't want in the first place? They're fucks, total fucks, and I'm really not interested in doing any further business with them. I give them 10 more minutes of hold time. Then I mail that letter off to the credit card company, and it's THEIR fucking problem that their customer service attempts are ludicrous. I'll have spent ten bucks in long distance over a $25 dispute.
in other news, things are still bizarre around here... but at least all the showers lately seem to have been solo.
