For the love of fuck am I sick of titles
Reasons today has completely sucked:
1) I went to USF with the permit paperwork. Then I had to sneak over to the chemistry department and beg an advisor to say I had taken the equivilent pre-requisite course. I can’t get the permit until May 12th.
2) Emails between me and SPC resulted in saying I had to go down to the campus in person. Which now the earliest I can do that is May 12th.
3) The thing is, there have been very few times in my life when my education has not wowed people. I don’t think it should, but it has. Now that I actually want it to count for something, no one cares. It has been a slap in the face to have such a struggle to take a damn intro bio class.
3) My dryer broke. I’m pretty sure it’s the belt. If not, there’s a whole nother level of suck involving my bank account right there.
4) Not to be the kind of woman who lets a broken dryer get her down, I found a slide show on how to take apart a dryer. But I am stuck on #1 - remove screws under the top panel. The screws holding the top panel are alien screws. Star shaped. No flat head, phillips head or allen wrench can budge them.
(ST, it’s entirely possible I’ve figured out what we’re doing tomorrow. Um, if you bring quarters I’ll supply the fabric softener?)
5) D & P are moving to Portland at the end of the month. I am trying to put together a farewell party. Fort de Soto won’t let me reserve a picnic shelter without fifty people (want to come say bon voyage?) and the back-up house is having patio renovations. That leaves my place, which is fine except it’s not very big and not very child-friendly. And for some reason I just feel like a failure for not finding something better/more creative.
6) I cannot for the life of me get the automatic cat feeders to synchronize. I think they are on pacific time.
7) Now I’m just reaching for crap because I’m in a foul mood and want to bitch.
8) There are millions of baby spiders all over my rose bush. The rose bush that I have managed to keep alive for over a year which is the longest I have ever kept any plant alive.
9) I am not a) in Ireland or b) drunk.
I am off to solve one of those and try to salvage something of the day…
Try a computer screwdriver kit on the dryer screws. I had the same problem a few years ago (star shaped screw), and it turned out that the same screwdriver bit that worked on Compaq hard drives worked on the washer panel.
Unfortunately I do not have a computer screwdriver kit. But thanks for the tip.
Fortunately, I do have a stereotypical good-at-fixin’-things fella with the appropriate tools. So our afternoon will consist of 1) doing laundry 2) fixing my dryer (if possible) and 3) Mexican food. Am I a hot date or what?
It’s the belt. It’s gotta be the belt. Or the pulley. It could be the pulley. But I’m betting on the belt. I bet there are lots of extra parts in there, too.
Take-out Mexican food and a couple bottles of Tequila at the laundromat. Feck the dryer.
Love,