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[rivendellrose]

Dear 88.5 KPLU:

Please stop tormenting me with advertisements for the Vancouver Jazz Festival. I am not going. Please stop reminding me about it and, thus, tempting me to once again consider going.

Thank you.

This message brought to you by the radio in our office, immediately upon my walking in the door.

Comments

[scearley.livejournal.com]

Thanks for reminding me.

Dear CompUSA:

Please stop running radio ads where you claim the odds of winning Lotto are one in 120 billion. With a B. You just sound moronic. Geeks know better, and I would only want to buy a computer from a geek.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Dear gods, I haven't heard that one. Maybe they're going for a clever hyperbole? We can hope, at least....

And I think this is swiftly turning into a new game.


Dear UW:

If you wouldn't waste your money on stupid shit, you wouldn't need tuition increases.

[scearley.livejournal.com]

Dear Governor Gregoire:

Stop listening to the people at UW, stop embodying the "tax them! tax them!" stereotype. Just because you paid for your daughter to go to harvard law school doesn't mean we can too.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Dear NPR:

I did not need one of your top stories today to be "Teens face tough summer job market." Thank you for stiffening my yearly panic about finding a summer job. How about letting us know when the job market is good, as that would actually be a change from the status quo.

[scearley.livejournal.com]

Dear City of Seattle:

Please stop "looking into" various solutions (e.g. the aqueduct, Safeco, more green space, banning Californians, shipping beef, seceding from the union, et al.) and freaking make a decision. That doesn't involve Paul Allen.

Another one

[scearley.livejournal.com]

I had to write this one just now.

Dear Coworkers:

Flush.

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[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's a scary one.

Dear UW:

Do you think you could possibly offer a few other jobs that aren't work study positions?

Also, Dear UW Library:

Would it be possible to put some of the interesting books on the first floor, so I wouldn't have to hurry up three flights of stairs to find good reading material? No, your new arrivals tables don't count - they suddenly have nothing interesting, now that I actually have the time to read books for fun.

[scearley.livejournal.com]

Dear Drivers in Seattle:

The diamond lanes are not passing lanes. Do not go in them to pass. More importantly, by being in the diamond lane I am not obliged to drive as if I were in the "fast" lane. And yes, I am the one calling 764-HERO on your single-occupant ass.

Additionally, when you merge, you use a turn signal to show you are trying to merge. Not the front end of your car.


Dear Mr. Diamond, or whatever your name is:

I don't care what you think, paying for parking is, as far as I'm concerned, unconstitutional.

[theladyfeylene.livejournal.com]

Why not go? I know your mom said she'd be interested, and Kari was, too. You'd have people to go with, and it's not that expensive. It'd be a bit of fun, definitely.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I'm kind of at that point where it's become a "do I really want to spend the money?" sort of thing. I'll have to look again at the prices, and also really study how the hell one gets from Seattle to Vancouver. And ask Kari and Terra if they're still interested. I'd forgotten all about it for a while, but now with these darned ads on NPR, it's all over my brain again.

[scearley.livejournal.com]

really study how the hell one gets from Seattle to Vancouver

Practice. *snort*

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

*Snickers* I have more practice getting from here to the other Vancouver, unfortunately. I'm sure the ferries make it possible, I'm just not sure exactly what I'd be doing.

[scearley.livejournal.com]

I just checked Amtrak for this weekend (leave friday night, return sunday night) and it's $62 round trip from Seattle to Vancouver.

Oops.

[scearley.livejournal.com]

It's $62 from Everett.

It's $50 r/t from Seattle.

Re: Oops.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Oops - I ought to be more specific. It's Vancouver BC that I would be going to. Thanks for checking, though! I'm off to check the ferry rates just now. ;)

I've done the Amtrak thing to Vancouver, WA, though, it's very nice!

Re: Oops.

[scearley.livejournal.com]

No, that's to Vancouver, BC. I know the difference. :D

Re: Oops.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I figured you did, but I had no idea Amtrak went over there! Huh - I'll have to keep that in mind, thank you!

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[scearley.livejournal.com]

it is weird that it's cheaper from seattle than from everett.

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[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

It really is. Maybe because Seattle's a bigger stop? I don't know...

[theladyfeylene.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine it's that hard, people go from one to the other all the time. I think. But it would be fun, and I don't remember it being very expensive. And you know you'd have fun.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it would definitely be fun. If I do go, as I promised before, I will attempt to get an autograph for you. *g*

[narsilion.livejournal.com]

Any news on the missing grade?