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March 21, 2005
Even the Spanish Inquisitors needed a day off once in a while
I still have several more people to interview, but I'm taking a break to talk about other stuff for a bit. The next round of questions will be up tomorrow.
When I was a kid I had gloriously long hair that was a completely wild and unmanageable mess (well, it's still unmanageable, but short now). I hated having it brushed, and one time when my mom was yanking great handfuls out of my skull in an attempt to torture the knots and curls into submission, I tearfully asked her why she had to be so rough and she told me that she couldn't help it, it was because she had been an Inquisitor in Spain in a former life.
I asked my dad if that was true (thinking for some reason that my dad was the definitive authority not only on reincarnation, but on whether it had happened to my mom) and he said "oh yeah, she mentioned that once before. It must be true".
Huh. Why was I talking about that? Oh yeah, the interviews. It's hard work to think up good questions for so many people at once.
My first RAOK
Look what came in the mail today, from Danielle:
40 packs of Kool Aid! Thanks, Danielle! She popped this in the mail for me after I bitched about not being able to find the varieties that other people were using. There are several kinds here that I haven't been able to find locally, including Wild Watermelon Kiwi, Raspberry Reaction and Jamaica. I'm mildly curious to find out what exactly Jamaica tastes like, but don't think I could actually bring myself to drink the stuff after seeing how well it dyes wool. I'm going to have fun with all this, though. I love that on the American Kool Aid packages, they list all the colours, so you can figure out what colour you will get before you try it. The Canadian packages don't have that.
My excitement at receiving a big package of Kool Aid was almost enough to offset my pissiness at the fuckers at the National Student Loans Centre, who have decided after a year and a half that when I was six days late in informing them that I was still in school (thus continuing my interest-free status on my outstanding student loan) that they should have charged me interest for the six month grace period. So they've added two hundred dollars to the amount I owe, in addition to requesting that I pay them a whopping six dollars right now. Fuckers. Do I look like I have six dollars?
Posted by jodi at March 21, 2005 01:35 PM | categories: self-absorbtion
Comments
Could be worse - I had someone mess up and ad an extra zero - then claimed I owed 400,000 dollars back. That was fun to fix!!!
Posted by: Kristy at March 21, 2005 01:58 PM
Buying Kool-Aid is on my to-do list for today. My first dying experience, woo-hoo! I recently ripped apart an ugly-ass past-the-knee off-white duster sweater and have Big Plans for its reincarnation. [p.s. Speaking of yarn reincarnation, have you seen the REkal site? There's a link on my sidebar.]
Posted by: sarah irene at March 21, 2005 03:14 PM
I bet you could get 6 bucks for that Kool Aid stash, seeing as you Canucks are so strung out and desperate for the stuff that you have to have it imported! :)
Posted by: Heide at March 21, 2005 03:20 PM
I've got six loonies!!! I've also got the yarn of an entire Cottage Craft sweater sitting at home. I hit Zellers on the weekend and was disappointed to see that they only had the big jars of Koolaid and only two colours, er, flavours. Here's hoping the grocery store has more variety. I may have to go to Maine when I go home for a visit!!!
Posted by: Stephanie VW at March 21, 2005 03:38 PM
Awww...c'mon. You gotta tell us what Jamaica tastes like. I'd find out myself except I'm not allowed because of the sugar so it's all on you! LOL! (I'm mostly dying to know since there is a Jamaica, Queens, NY and I'll be damned if I'm gonna try and taste that!)
Posted by: Jessica at March 21, 2005 06:03 PM
I tried very hard to find Mango...but no go. Have fun and enjoy. Let me know if you need more.
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Posted by: Danielle at March 21, 2005 07:32 PM
The Kool Aid looks lovely...wonder if I can find them in the stores here in Singapore?
Posted by: emy at March 22, 2005 02:22 PM
what a fun gift! i think you should write about kool aid dying for the next issue of take back the knit ( - i am a relentless requestor of submissions). on a note totally unrelated to today's post, you've written about yer tattoos recently, i've written about my tattoo recently... i think we both should submit pics to the yarn-a-go-go kniTattoo gallery - wanna?
Posted by: jae at March 22, 2005 07:59 PM
We don't get Kool Aid at all, but some very kind people have sent me packets to play with which I've not got around to using yet but after seeing your results I know how to keep them occupied this Easter! Sorry about the loan, I bet there's someone in a little office somewhere that takes great delight in doing this sort of thing. I hope the fleas of a thousand camels infest their .....How's the deadline by the way? Wasn't it March 20, I've failed BIGtime!
Posted by: Tracy at March 23, 2005 12:52 PM
Those people that manage the student loans centre should be strung out and shot. I swear they have a warning on my account for the number of times I've called because they screwed up, AGAIN. Student loans are the bane of my existance.
Posted by: Andrea at March 26, 2005 11:34 AM