Nora! I can't believe that they did the job without consulting you!

Because I would so do w/o the AC - of course, I am a carless woman who lives in an apartment w/o AC.

Oh, it's the car A/C? I tak back some of my pollyannaness - for some reason I was thinking it was the house A/C and the car issue was separate. My bad.

I think car repair people should have to eat the cost when they don't call first to see if you want repairs done.

I believe this is actually THE LAW.

But you'd need that A/C fixed sometime, right? And nothing's gone wrong on the car, yet.

I don't know. We have a good chance of buying another car if something huge goes wrong on this one. Also, I really think of AC as a luxury. But Tom's the one who drives the car and deals with the mechanic so I really don't have much of a say in this.

It's just my same old impotent rage at feeling like I'm being screwed.

I believe this is actually THE LAW

Really? I'm owed a lot of back money then. Now I always say about twenty times, "You're going to call before you do anything, right?"

there's some sort of consumer protection I think. Maybe I'm on crack though.

Oh, yeah. There is TOTALLY consumer protection like that. You go after them, Nora! That's awful.

Happy, happy birthday, Empress! With extra cake and sparklies!

Ugh. Class I was REALLY looking forward to this fall has been canceled. Now I'm trying to figure out something else that will fit into my schedule, and it's not pretty. I've got two choices, basically: an entire class on Virginia Wolf or Language and Literacy. Here's the blurb about L&L:

A study of the theories of literacy, in its relation to human thinking and to social uses and contexts; and of the practice ofliteracy, in the teaching, learning, and use of literate behaviors in contemporary American society. The course links the active investigation of literacy issues with related readings, and draws implications for the teaching of reading and writing and for the study of literature.

I guess it could be interesting. Gonna have to call the English office and find out which requirements it fulfills.

Blech.

Oh, I would totally go for the Virginia Woolf class, vw. I mean, *I* would, but if she doesn't do it for you, it could certainly be boring.

great, now Tom's upset about me about being mad at the mechanics,and is blaming himself for sucking, so somehow now he thinks I'm mad at him.

GOD, I hate cars and mechanics.