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July 31, 2007
Younger Every Year
I love Ames. It's a scenic, smallish heartland town. Surrounded with corn fields and criss-crossed with train tracks, yet filled with every fast food option in existence, it's a classic specimen of the Midwest.
Too bad it's a college town.
Tomorrow is move-in day for everybody in Ames. Seriously -- everybody. Leases all across town expire on July 31, and new ones become effective August 1.
Yet some evidence of flexibility can be found, because truck-fulls of belongings have filled the streets since this past weekend. It's just that the chaos has reached it's pinnacle.
My air conditioning has been dripping on my kitchen floor for over a month. My property management company got around to fixing it today. In doing so, however, they left a pile of dirt spread across my kitchen floor along with a box of food from my freezer. Ridiculous. Unless you live in a college town. Then, apparently, it's acceptable.
This just might be enough to push me over the edge from campus dweller to suburbanite.
Posted by Megan at 05:29 PM | Comments (0)
July 23, 2007
The Sweetest Thing
Just got off the phone with a grandfatherly agent. He struggled to navigate the sites and remember his user IDs and passwords. He apologized for taking my time, and I told him that I didn't mind waiting one bit. Before hanging up, I told him to call back if he ran into any more problems. He asked me where I was located. When I told him we're in Des Moines, he told me it was all most time for me to go home. That reminder brightened my day.
Then he said softly, "Have a good evening, dear."
Posted by Megan at 03:39 PM | Comments (0)
July 13, 2007
Overheard at Work
"...tell them to go to www dot whatever the heck it is..."
Posted by Megan at 12:52 PM | Comments (1)
July 05, 2007
Toothpaste
I just know that whoever decided to invent the 427th variety of toothpaste did so with the intent of rubbing my indecisiveness in my face. It should not require 20 minutes and the reconsideration of Socialism as a legitimate form of government in order to purchase a tube of Crest... or Colgate... or whatever.
Posted by Megan at 09:33 PM | Comments (1)