The appropriate follow-up might be, "well, I've never seen it ... should I open him up and look?"

"if I have to shank him myself."

Pix--somehow BofA owning Countrywide doesn't seem like a rehab job, more an inhalation of evil.

Aw Pix & ND, sorry to hear. I really hate BoA. They are assholes. I know you want to wait until after Halloween, but I'd say at least open an account now, while you are off for the summer. Then deal with the transfer of stuff after the Halloween stuff has calmed down. And look into getting the loan through them too. The sooner you clear out of BoA the better. It's really easy to open a bank account. And most credit unions require only $250 to open. (I think mine was $50!!) I'm pretty sure I passed a Wescom CU while visiting y'all in Pasadena. Or if you are eligible for one through your school? We have one on campus, and they have a savings account designed for teachers. Pay into it during school year, it gets a much higher interest rate than regular savings (which is still crappy, but, hey, better!), then withdraw it in the summer time. My Bank Of Disney credit union doesn't do that! Anyhow, I know how deflated, and pissed you are at banks right now. But, once the school year gets rolling, time is a luxury. Might be easier now with one of you on haitus.

Either way, tons of (((hugs))). Fuck Banks (cuz in some ways, they are a cancer, so they should get the same sentiment).

We will open the new account in November. Things are tight until the last HHN payment, enough so that I don't have an extra $250 to let lie. I will find the time then. I start back to school the day after tomorrow, so time is already an issue. Thanks for the sympathy. I'm pretty depressed about the whole thing, to tell you the truth, but I'll give myself today to wallow and then focus on better things tomorrow.

ETA: We can't get a refi through the credit union because of the whole out of state non-resident thing. If we try again, we'll use US Bank, which gets good reviews from friends and online.

I was able to open a credit union account last year with $10 in checking, fwiw.

Sorry I have no advice on bank stuff (since the most complicated banking I've done so far has been a student loan), but I'm sorry you're going through all that.

Unrelated, I thought this might be a good place to ask: anybody willing to get a photo of two people of the same sex kissing while holding a sign saying "GISHWHES supports the LGBT Community in Russia!"? (That's what the scavenger hunt item was changed to after people pointed out that the original item, two people of the same sex kissing in front of a Red Square landmark, would probably violate the "don't get arrested" rule of the contest.)

Or, photos of two people hugging each other, while holding up signs with a "message to the world". The sign can be anything you want. These ones, we're going for quantity -- trying to get 100 as a team.

So it turns out due to impatience and fuck-up on my part and misinformation on my school's part, I'm probably dropping out of school for the foreseeable future.

I have candy and pizza.

oh no!

*shrug* Oh well. Not in the plans for me, I guess.

But hey! I've gone from disproving that paper to proving it really quite a lot. So I've got that going for me.

That sucks, Aims. I'm sorry.

It seems to be a That Kinda News day.

I did not get the big job in Beverly Hills. Didn't even make the callback round.

Damn.