That's true! That's how I do it. But I need a check right now so I can join the Philadelphia library. But I don't think I have any non-business checks. So I'm going to have to go to a place and talk to a person and get a money order. This is interfering with my no people, plan, people! But I guess if it gets me free library ebooks I am okay with that.

ION, Bangable Dudes in History, Rated in Pie Charts

The actual site: [link] (subtitled "Dead man porn for your still-beating heart.")

I have one bill a month that I have to pay by mail with a check and it is a hassle remembering where the stamps are. Oh, hey, keeping them in the checkbook would be super sensible, wouldn't it?

And now I have accomplished something of lasting value today.

I looked up my alma mater and it's pretty lame, but I'm reasonably sure most Americans would at least recognize the tune of our fight song: "On, Wisconsin."

My high school used On Wisconsin. I played in the marching band and could possible still play that song.

My college, which everyone learned at orientation and we actually sang at chapel with some frequency:

OBU all hail thy name! Sons and daughters honor thee;
May thy standard green and gold Lead eternally.
Proudly stand on Bison Hill 'Neath the wind-swept sky;
Alma Mater we will praise thee As the years go by.

When the shades of evening fall,
Through the hush of fading day,
Silent voices praise thy name, Hearts look up to pray.
May thy spirit guide thy sons, Keep thy daughters true,
Loyal to our Alma Mater, God bless OBU.

My favorite thing from undergrad was this weird chant that we did at games:

Ka-rip Ka-rap Ka-riplo typlo tap
Oh! Oh! Rincto lincto hio-totimus
Hopula scipula copula gotimus
Chink-to-lack Chink-to-lee
Ka-willa, Ka-walla, Ka Victory
Oh! Oh! Hoogula choogula choogula can.
Ragula tagula melican man
Let'er go rip, let'er go ruse
Tingula Tangula, turn'em a-loose
Zip! Bang! OBU!

ION, it's Friday!!!!!!! And I only have one more class to teach!!

The first leg of my flight's delayed, and now I have a 12 minute layover at JFK.

I don't think this can end well.

No one ever taught me to write cheques (just like no one ever told you how to spell them, heathens), so this is all new to me.

No one ever taught me to write cheques (just like no one ever told you how to spell them, heathens), so this is all new to me.

I've had travelers cheques! Otherwise, I just use checks.

My sister's boyfriend, who talks about virtually nothing but sports and goes to every one of his school's games, spent one lunchtime (in public) singing his school's fight song or whatever at us. I was mortified. He would not shut up. The song included a lot of nonsense syllables, which he said was the point. I guess they're usually drunk when they sing it.

Lunch today was tom yum soup and yummy basil chicken at the Thai place downstairs from me.

as well as making the store names possessive.

I blame the McDonald's conglomerate for that, actually. And Starbucks, I guess, even though it isn't possessive. Because it seems like more people call the grocery store "Kroger's" even though it's "Kroger."

And in high school when I was a cashier at K-Mart, when people would write checks (see how I just tied two topics together?) (it was 1989 -- people wrote checks a lot), the majority of them wrote the check to "K-Marts."

Which wasn't as weird as the woman who, after I totalled up her stuff and she pulled out her checkbook, looked at me and then asked, "Where am I?" I must have given her the "Buh?" look, because she said, "What STORE? What store is this?!?"

Seriously, you go shopping and don't know what STORE you drove youself to and walked into? Not to mention the fact that the big fucking "K" is EVERYWHERE.