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Rachel's Daily Diary
3 55 pm pst [ at the car place ] I am sitting at the car place. My mom left a note that the check engine light came on, on the car we picked up from the car place yesterday, after seeing All About My Mother (I love Almodovar films!). I love Ray, the guy who works at the car place. He knows exactly how to make you feel like he is putting your car as his highest priority, regardless of if it is true. |
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The service here is rather lousy, but Ray's veneer of efficiency keeps the customers coming back. He has informed me that the servicers spilled oil on the catalytic converter, so now the engine is being washed. A white woman and a white male teen have just walked into the waiting room with three small black children. I am at a loss to guess their relationship. The children might be adopted, but the teen seems to have little experience with children. Kids need to be praised more. I bit my lip to not say something to the white teen, who managed to scold the children a half dozen times while the woman (presumably his mother) paid for her car. He didn't say one nice thing, not even a word of encouragement to the child who said he was going to work on his homework rather than watching television. Why people are not required to take classes in parenting is beyond me... |
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11 46 pm pst [ sensationalist story ] My mother and I watched The Mary Kay Letourneau Story, which my mother described as "must see". I don't think there is anything wrong with people of disparingly different ages being in love (and I do think it is possible), but the parties involved need to act on those feelings, in accordance with the laws in this country. If they don't like those laws, they should lobby to change them. [For those that don't know, this is a story of a married 35-year-old female who slept with her sixth grade student. They claim to be in love, and she is serving a seven year sentence for raping him. She is scheduled to be released in 2005, when her lover will be 21, and their daughters will be 7 and 8.] My mother and are quite a pair, and we like to make humorous comments on things when we are alone together (we were especially bad on our cross country trip). |
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Tonight I was on a roll [all quotes are taken from the movie or myself]: The student asked, "When do you think you are going to die?" I answered for his teacher, "Twenty years before you." The student asked, "What would happen if I came over there and kissed you right now?" His teacher answered, "A real warrier would just do it." My mom repeated the line and said she needed to remember it. We giggled at the thought of her saying it to her boyfriend. The teacher was describing having sex with her student to her lawyer. I added, in a dreamy voice, "And I saw him at recess the next day." A moment later in the film, the student said, "Recess is over." The flick was an all around good time with my mother and I adding our banter... |
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Intersting story: A man was among many who could not access their Hotmail accounts. He read on Shlashdot that the thirty-five dollar registration fee for a necessary domain name had not been paid. So he paid it. Microsoft sent him a five hundred dollar thank you check. This nice man is now auctioning the check on ebay for charity, and is willing to match up to two thousand five hundred dollars out of his own pocket. Amazing! The bidding has already rached five thousand. |
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Interesting story: The web has been documented with over one billion individual pages. The breakdown of servers and links is really fascinating. For example, cooking.com has 855 links inbound links (links to their site) and only 5 outbound links (links from their site to other sites). In addition, 86.55% of the pages are in English, 2.36% in French, and 0.54% in Dutch. * * * < yesterday | month | tomorrow > * * * ~ back to Rachel's Daily Diary ~ * * * = evolving entries = * * * + about me + |
