and while we're on the animaniacs subject... i found a quiz to find out which animaniacs character you are most like... and i'm wakko! ROCK! he was always my favorite (esp b/c i watched it when i was in high school and completely obsessed with the beatles and wakko spoke like Ringo).

Which Animaniacs Character are You?

Did you ever think you were a little...off? Well, you are. You're silly and playful, often to point of wacky outbursts, and nonsensical rambling. You're the type who'd talk in an English accent just to be different. You like to be prepared, as well, even if the things you bring with you don't necessarily make sense. You're good at making stuff up on the spot, and tend to have to use the bathroom at lot.

so when beck and i trade emails back and forth during the day we always title the subject something different (usually song lines or quotes from movies or something) and this last email beck sent me was "Pinky, are you thinking what i'm thinking?" and i love pinky and the brain from animaniacs, but i couldn't remember any of pinky's ponderings so i searched in google and i found this. It's an almost complete list of all of the ponderings... and it's hysterical. i've been sitting here for the last fifteen minutes at work shaking with silent spasms of laughter...

The banana, possibly the world's most phallic fruit, hasn't had sex in years and is in danger of extinction. That's too weird...

Check out LSSU's list of banished words for 2003. My favorite entry on the list is "peel-and-eat-shrimp" because of the quote from Miguel McCormick from Orlando, Florida: “Do they think that, if the name did not contain instructions, we would peel-and-throw-on-floor?” That's too funny :)

so i called my bank today. this was a very irritating experience. the only number i could find for my bank was that 800 number. so i called it. it goes through its options. press 1 to check your balance. press 2 to blah blah blah press 3 to derp dee derp dee der... press 211 to get helpful hints about telephone banking... and so on. so i don't hear anything that says press blah to get a real live person so i go into the check your balance part. and i go through numerous more levels and i still can't find one that lets me talk to a person so i decide to just not press anything and i'll surely get sent to a person, right? wrong. it hangs up on me. so a very irritated ali calls back and waits at the first prompt. perhaps if you wait at that initial prompt you get a real person. so i listen to it again... press 1 to check your balance... blah blah blah. and then when it gets to the end of its spiel, it waits a few minutes then says, "press 0 at any time during this call to speak with a customer service rep" so i jab the 0. it connects me to a person... but she's talking and she's not talking to me. she's talking to the person next to her: "so i told her that there was nothing i could do... i know... i know... but she was so annoying..." and i'm sitting there saying: "hello? hello?" and finally i just get so frustrated i slam the phone down and pick it up again and dial the 800 number and press 0... and finally i get connected to a real live human being. her name is lyndzie and she was ready to help me. she told me that the teller i'd spoken with in the past was a moron, and of course you're supposed to cash payroll checks right away without floating them and i ask her if there's anything that can be done because i don't want to wait the five days or however long it'll take before it clears. and she looks in the computer and says, "it'll come off float tomorrow" and she totally made my day. so i told her thank you very much you've been a big help and i get off the phone happy because i can go to new york this weekend and i don't have to sit at home bored.

buy your own god damn fucking bagels.

so i need to pour out some frustration so here goes:

first of all, my company sucks. i sent them the crap they needed for direct deposit, but they couldn't get off their asses and get it working so i got another check this week. suck!

secondly, my bank sucks. a lot. I do all my banking online and through the atms. so when i got my check last time i was told by my boss to take it to the teller directly and explain that it was a payroll check so that they'd put it right through and i wouldn't have to wait for my money. so i took it to the teller and told her that i didn't have my account number because i usually use the atm. then she snottily said, "and why aren't we using the atm this time?" and i told her in my best polite little girl voice that this was a payroll check and that my boss told me to bring it to the teller and inform her of that and she said that she didn't know why because they don't cash payroll checks any differently than any other types of checks and that in fact i'd be better off just depositing it into the atm because the atm gives you a $100 credit automatically while the teller doesn't do that for you and you just have to wait for the check to go through. so i could see that she wasn't going to be any help so i deposited it into the atm and had to wait like five days for the check to clear because the bank that it's drawn from is a california bank. soyeah. so this time when i got my check i was already irritated that i was getting a check to begin with because didn't i send that direct deposit thing in like 2 weeks ago? annoying. soyeah. so i deposited my check in the atm and got the $100 credit but i have a bill due friday that that's going towards and now all i have is the $40 $35 in my pocket and that won't get me to NYC this weekend like i was supposed to to visit eric and his girlfriend sarah. so annoying. and after the bill goes through friday and another check gets cashed i'll have $5 in there until my stupid payroll check goes through and that took five days last time. i want to scream. so beck advises that i call the bank tomorrow and confirm their policy and see if there's anything they could do about getting it to go through faster, i mean, come on now, at least by friday. but i bet i'll call them and they'll tell me there's nothing they can do for me because i deposited the money through the atm but that's what they told me to do last time. and besides, i can't get the branch number because for some reason it's impossible to find a specific branch phone number in fact in the phone book it lists all the different branches in the are with the same 800 number next to it and that makes me want to scream! but i'll call. and that will probably stress me out again tomorrow.

so then yeah i'm very stressed about the company stupidity and the bank annoyingness and then both of those things cause me to be unable to go to the city this weekend and if i don't go that means i'll sit around and do absolutely nothing at all. and i really wanted to go. so now i'll have to call eric tomorrow and tell him that yet again i have to cancel my plans to visit them because i'm poor. i hate being poor. please god help me to spend less money and pay off my bills so that the money i make can be mine. and the depressing part about that is that'll probably never happen. just shoot me now.

and yeah i'm also stressed out because my dad has to go to saudi tomorrow and why does GE need to send him there and i don't want him to be there and i try to make myself feel better by thinking that they wouldn't send him if it wasn't safe, but you never know and anything could happen to him and i just want my dad to not have to leave the country because if something should happen to him i don't think i could take it.

there were many more things that were irritating me tonight and causing me general frustration and upset but i can't really remember them because i watched south park and it was so freaking funny and i laughed so hard it kind of made me forget.

oh, and also i think i hate my haircut and i hate that it takes this page forever to load.

had a very quiet weekend. which was nice, got a lot of sleep... watched some tv. but now i'm bored. theory: must have exciting/fun weekends so that i do not wish to kill myself during the week over the complete boringness of my life. perhaps i should take up a hobby of some sort. take a class... i should take a cooking class... then i could be single and fabulous with mad 1337 cooking skillz.