Which is really, really annoying, but something I have to keep reminding myself of.

Knowing may be half the battle, but it's the really fucking comparatively easy half.

Knowing may be half the battle, but it's the really fucking comparatively easy half.

So true!

Knowing may be half the battle, but it's the really fucking comparatively easy half.

Dude, your wisdom, it is wise.

Jilli, is this a relative of Clovis?

And the exclamation at the beginning of this made me laugh.

Jilli, is this a relative of Clovis?

Quite possibly, yes.

I thought a freecycle guy flaked out on me, but I just checked my email and saw that I had an email from him saying that I'd given him the wrong phone number. I had -- I typed 2 instead of 3. I've learned that my cell phone number is just one digit off from the phone number of a congressional office, though.

And the exclamation at the beginning of this made me laugh.

Oh, Taylor Momsen. Why?

Also, I have a "service heart."

I'm very service-oriented; my problem is that I am in no way selfless, so I really need validation of my service. Nothing huge, but I do need to know that my service is recognized, and its use is recognized (as in, wow, what you did makes things run so much more smoothly around here, thanks!).

So I don't know if I can call myself service-oriented if I'm also all about getting recognition for it.

Crap. The landlord is here to do yard maintenance. I had really hoped the checks I was waiting for would be in the mail today, which they weren't, so I could just call him and tell him I had the rest of rent. But instead, I can't tell him that, and he's here, which means he's almost definitely going to stop by and ask for it. The best I can do is say tomorrow, and hope the mail doesn't make a liar out of me. He's already served me a three day notice, and accepted half the rent to keep from taking further action. I've been late a lot this year, and last month I couldn't pay rent until the 15th. I worry I've pushed his patience to the limit, and I'm going to get kicked out of here. I'm also a little worried that my car is going to get repoed, because I'm so behind. All the money I had when I got back from the trip (rent money and car payment money) went to getting my phone turned back on and my car legal and running (though I'm still driving on a donut spare). Oh, yeah... Thanks to a mixup getting paid by a gig before I left, a handful of five and ten dollar charges, and ridiculous bank fees, I'm almost five hundred dollars overdrawn. That's more than two car payments. And my best hope for help is still out of the country.

Yeah. Obstacles, not problems. But I sure have a lot of obstacles right now.

But you know, I was in Italy a few weeks ago. I think I'll go look at my pictures again.

{{{Sean}}} I'm sorry. On the occasion when I have had to pay a landlord a little late, I found it was best to be home as little as possible, but I hate confrontation of any kind.