Current Musical Selection: Dio - The Last In Line

well ive been home for yet another xmas. didnt get much. didnt ask for anything really. the most nifty thing i think i got, was a new recordplayer. yes, recordplayer. ive wanted one for quite some time; much more so than the handmedown one of my parents childhood... which... legitimately is 40 years old. it just didnt play much very well; and the needle is broken on it; and damn near impossible to find. so i got that. its quite nice looking. very handsome wood detail in the cabinet. also has a cd player and radio built into the side. but all i really wanted it for was just the turn table. just something to play my small collection of vinyl on.

oh and i got socks. several pairs of heavy wieght wool ones. again, something i did ask for. most people dont ask for socks. i do.

but thats about it. everyone in the family complained how i didnt want anything and how hard it was to buy something for me. i told them just not to get anything. its cheaper. sitting around a home and eating good food was more than enough for me. besides, once pressed, i reminded them the few things i really wanted this year, they cant buy me.

1. instant dept eradication. school loans and others.
2. instant acceptance into next years class at public law school.
3. a woman.

none of which are purchaseable. nor are they guarantees. and i guess thats why ive stopped asking for things any more. ive gotten 2 rejections from law schools so far. i just am not going to make a cut based on my gpa. seems like all the schools are just jammed with applicants, and mine is just going to get tossed in favor of some chinese kid with a 4.24 gpa. regardless if the kid cant speak english, couldnt find kentucky on a map, or have ever thought about practicing law; that kid is going to beat me, and get a shitload of money to go to law school this fall. and im going to be somewhere. not here. not there either.

now why is it so difficult for a rental company to plow? i mean jesus fucking shit. they havent plowed shit out in the lot. [the city has plowed everything to the curb quite nicely] {{iowa city didnt bother to plow any streets, nor clear any walks}}; and now this company is just throwing salt on it. no plow blade. no shovels. just throw salt on it. i swear to god these people are just daft. just throw salt on it. the walks are slick and shitty. snow is everywhere. but they just throw salt on it.

atleast i cleaned up around here. nothing on the floor. 3 bags of trash i chucked. vacuumed. dishes done. tomorrow ill do the bathroom. and laundry. ill sleep in some too. bout time this vacation shit pays off for me. no work all week for me. staples is paying me to stay away. isnt it nice? it only took 45 weeks for me to use my 1 week of vacation, since i got it in like march. sigh. and now its so shitty on the secondary roads i dont dare drive anywhere. so im stuck around the house. cleaning things. how boring. doesnt seem like anyone is in town. for that matter, iowa city seems to have emptied out entirely. no barf puddles in the snow out and around town this morning when i drove through. thats got to be a first. although, im sure someone; somewhere, puked on some stretch of grass in this town. it just wouldnt be a holiday without kids vomitting 5 dollar cups of cheep beer across a sidewalk without it.

dammit. they are just throwing salt everywhere! some of it is bouncing off the metal awning below my window. and why. the salt is just going to get ground to dust by cars. it wont melt shit; and tomorrow when it warms up and the sun is out, all the important shit will melt. REGARDLESS of piles of salt everywhere.


stupid fucking salt.