I am soooooooo pissed at UCLA right now... the dumbasses who work in Murphy Hall. I've been waiting a month for the CPA Board to approve me to sign up for the exam and I get a letter today - you do not meet the education requirements... WTF??? The letter said that I didn't get a degree, according to the official transcripts. I look at the enclosed transcript and it was dated 7/26/00 - I graduated in December. I KNOW I filled out that stupid transcript request form right but I guess these braindead idiots thought I finished before Fall 2000. When it says, "Last Semester Attended" you write the last semester you were there right?? I always put Fall 2000 when asked when I graduated. Now I have to call the CPA Board and tell them what happened and hope they don't take another freakin month to review my app after the UCLA admin idiots send it again. I have to go to Murphy Hall and show them what I DON'T want them to send - do I have to pay them again for this shit?? Freakin idiots... I shoulda known. My roommate works as one of these people at LMU and you already know what I think of her.

Anyway, to update you guys on everything that has happened this past month...

Dante moved out, yada yada yada... I have more money in my pockets now because everytime he asks me for money now, I say, "Don't you have money? You can't pay me back the money you owe me but you have money to waste on rent." That gets the job done everytime. I also find myself more annoyed at him... you know how you look at someone and you think, why am I associating myself with this idiot?? Yeah, I feel that a lot. I hate how he plays music loud in the car (so FREAKIN GHETTO). I hate how I have to explain how to do stuff step by step with him and I already KNOW he's going to mess it up. I got a new computer last weekend (XP finally! whoohoo) and all day at work, I'm worried about how he is messing up my computer here at home. I hate how he's too good to put the cap back on the toothpaste and how he uses a ton of toilet paper each time (you can get by with 5 squares or less to wipe your ass, he just lets it roll). I have premium toilet paper too (Cottonelle), not the shit you steal from work. I hate how he leaves food out and I have to throw it away because it goes bad... I should stop... I want to finish this post sometime within the next hour! Oh - but I need to add this - I didn't talk to him for a week after he was telling me how he watched Fahrenheit 911 and he believed that it was all true. I don't need to be around stupidity like that.

D: "I saw a picture of Bush shaking Osama Bin Laden's hand".
ME: "So? I have a picture of Mike Tyson biting some baby's ear off. Does that make it real?"
D: "But they wouldn't put it in a movie if it weren't true."
ME: "Yeah, Hollywood doesn't make shit up. All those movies out there are TRUE stories. They wouldn't do a 60 Minutes news report based on false documents either. You're right. Michael Moore doesn't exaggerate at all."

God, I'm so glad I'm surrounded by intelligent people at work. People who I can hold a decent conversation with. Most of the time we're laughing about something or other. I've spent way too much time with co-workers lately. We go lots of places together - Knott's Scary Farm, Yankee Doodles (for pool, foosball, etc), the mall, and of course - drinking after work. I'm not too much of a drinker though - 1 strawberry daquiri is enough for me.

Remember how we used to be up early to get to amusement parks before they open (8am)? And stay til it closes(2am)? We got to Knott's Scary Farm at 7:00 pm (they closed the office early because the partners knew a bunch of us were going to Knott's Scary Farm and because they wanted to go to the Dodgers game that night) and by midnight I was sooooooo tired. We went into one last maze and I was just screaming at anything because I was exhausted. It didn't help that Jon kept telling the people there to scare "these 2 girls" (me and Marilu).

Work is going so well. I can't believe I'm finally at a place where I am HAPPY! I don't dread going into work, I go in on Saturdays sometimes just for the hell of it because a couple people are going in too and because I always have something to finish up. I can't believe how busy this job is! I have so many little projects pending but I never get to them because there is so much work. We got another new client in the last couple weeks - a model - Victoria's Secret, Sports Illustrated, blah blah blah - good for her, but the one thing she's done that I am SOOOOOOOOOO unbelievably jealous of her for is she was "the girl" in a Justin Timberlake video. Lucky girl.

The client with that 3.5 million dollar life insurance check has been driving us nuts lately. Her husband died a couple months ago and he was the earner in the family. Their house is paid off, she has millions in jewelry, furnishings and artwork, they have millions in investments and the bank, she gets about 2 mil a year from his royalties, etc... and she's worried about running out of money because there is no new income. She was asking me how much the messengers cost, we cancelled a couple phone lines just to save money. Oh my god - the problems of the rich. We were talking about this and Caymi says, "What?? Run out of money? Thats every week!!"

There has been nothing "Must See" good on TV lately. Just the usual shows. I did add Desperate Housewives to my TiVo though - thats the only show I can't wait to watch. Joey is ok, but not something I'll drop everything to watch. In fact, when The OC starts up again, I might even skip Joey. Apprentice (go Kelly - just cause he's from UCLA) and America's Next Top Model (go Norelle, because Republican Kristi was eliminated already) are good too but I don't look forward to every show the way I did with The Amazing Race. Arrrrgh, I'm still waiting to find out when that show is going to start up again.

All right, thats it for now - I need to go get some In 'N Out so I'll be digested and ready to work out at 10pm. Some Red Bull will help too.