payback time.

Oooh, you are so in for it now! Poking karma with a pointy stick is never a good idea. Still, I shall think good thoughts.

I don't like cranky sorellas. They're no fun.

Thinking about Fay's lovely if heartwrenching post yesterday, do other people not have a hometown? I mean, I moved around a lot when I was growing up. I've actually lived in Chicago a lot longer than I have anywhere else. My parents now live somewhere that I never really lived. I don't think of anyplace as my "hometown."

Coming in waaaaaaaaay late to this – I’m Alaskan. Probably always will be, with an overlay of whatever/wherever I am at that moment. However, Fairbanks is not Home. Alaska is not Home. I go there, and I feel the same sorts of things Fay so wonderfully described.

I live in SF, one of the more cosmopolitan cities in the US. Within an hour of wandering around NYC, I felt perfectly comfortable there (even with the lack of grid in Chinatown). I don’t know that either of them will ever be my “hometown”, but I know I felt more at Home in both of those cities than I ever will in Fairbanks.

I guess, and this past week has really brought it home to me, that my “hometown” is where my people are, and since most of my people are here, this is my hometown. You people get me. We have a shared history, we know what our geography looks like, we have a common language.

Home is where I live and love. My hometown is where my friends are.

In a lot of ways, I don't think that home is where the heart is; nor do I think it's the place that you love. I think, like how Plei described Seattle, that home is the place that made you -- you understand it, and you understand yourself. It's like -- you know the rules of the game, to so speak. That's home.

Hmmmm. I guess that’s why I call myself Alaskan. The gestalt of the state has never left me, even if I don’t relax when I go there. I can’t – there’s not enough people.

Caesar salad:

I AM MADE OF GRONK TODAY. omgwtfbbqjetlag.

Sorry I missed most of the game, but Maria kindly texted me so I knew the outcome immediately (whilst watching the Mayor play King Arthur). Shame about Zidane, though.

I'm deffinately a New Yorker and I suspect that is what I'll stay no matter where I end up living. I'm pretty sure I was one before I got here (well, proto-new yorker).

My home town is a small one in Jersey. I like being FROM Jersey much better than I liked being there.

It occurs to me that you were also joking. Nebbermind me; I'm waiting and cranky. Sorry, Lee.

No worries, and yes, I was joking (or rather, being snarky), based on Vortex's Bastards post. Sorry that didn't come across.

But a lot of small and/or sleezy landlords just keep it or deduct for things that you didn't do and know its not really worth the fight for you to go after them.

It’s TOTALLY worth the fight for us to go after them in MA. I found, in my research today, that if they pull that shit or don’t pay us interest on the money, they have to pay THREE TIMES what we were owed, plus court costs and OUR attorney fees. They better not go there. I’ve had it. They will see the wrath of vw.

Landlord hasn’t called me back. I think she’s afraid of me. If I don’t hear tonight, she’s getting a SCATHING letter mailed to her tomorrow, registered mail. Have I mentioned that I’ve had it?

My dad thinks I'm over-reacting. I had to explain to him that I think I've under-reacted for far too long, so over-reacting seems completely reasonable to me.

ION, Emily has fabulous hair! (She just got a cut and color.) You must all pester her for pictures.

ahh... the EDD has come back to haunt me. In february i go t a notice from the edd that I was overpaid unemployment ( 3-4 years ago) . Possible that I screwed up the math, but we are talking a bunch of money. so I started the dispute process. 5 months later ( meaning this week) I get the info I requested from them. followed by a letter saying here is what you owe, here is the fee and by the way we are docking your next round of unemplyment 14 weeks- if it happens in the next 3 years. I don't love giving them money, but whatever --- I may have failed the math part of life. However, I really hate the tone and assumption that I deliberately attemted to defraud unemployment - my first round of unemployment - which was supposed to last me 6 months - lasted me a year due to temp work. my second 6 month round ( which is all you get) lasted 9 months or so. I was a few weeks without it.

grr.

grr

can I collect back unemployment owed to me?

IOON, let's say (hypothetically speaking) that an interested party e-mailed a person on Friday and started quite a chain of e-mails (12). Then, all of a sudden, interested party stops e-mailing. At what point is it ok for person to e-mail and say, "Did I scare you away?"

I'm terribly afraid (still speaking hypothetically) that interested party went and found me on LJ and found unlocked posts where I talked about him. I don't think I said anything in e-mails that would have caused a complete stop. We were really having a good time with the e-mailing. And, his last e-mail said, "I hope I come home to an e-mail from you tonight" and made references to him cooking me dinner.

I think maybe I suck at this boy thing.

If I don’t hear tonight, she’s getting a SCATHING letter mailed to her tomorrow, registered mail.

Don't forget to cc the rent board and tenants' rights group and any lawyers you happen to know (whether or not they deal in tenant/landlord disputes, or even whether or not they're local or just a friendly Buffista with a law degree -- the landlord's highly unlikely to research, or to do anything but panic over seeing an Esq. in the cc list). I did that with my own deadbeat landlords after a month and a half of wrangling over the deposit, and I got a check for the full amount plus interest in three days.

It's also worth checking into all the state laws surrounding security deposits. My landlords turned out to have screwed themselves royally under CA law by dithering for a full 30 days: in this state, if the landlord not only fails to return the security deposit plus interest within 30 days, but also fails to send the ex-tenant an itemized list of damages for which the deposit is being withheld, s/he forfeits all rights to the deposit, even if it turns out that the ex-tenant has trashed the place. And you can bet I cited that little nugget of CA law (and enclosed a copy of it from the state govt. website) in my rent board, tenants' rights, Esq.-cc'd letter.

Go get 'em, tigress.

I think maybe I suck at this boy thing.

::Waits for SPP::