and now, the randomness of it all!

I've been having really bad chest and stomach pains for the last few days, and I'm pretty sure that it has to do with my eating habits as of late. There's nothing of any nutritional value in the whole damn house, and whatever there is to eat, there's not even much of. It's like Mom purposely puts off doing any sort of shopping until I have a day off of school, and then I'm usually at work, so there's no one to go with her to do any damn grocery shopping. To this I say....shit, Grandma Julie is over every stupid day when I'm not at home. Why can't she just go with Grandma?!!! Get off her ass and do something! If she can't move, then give me the fucking money and I'll get stuff that I know we'll eat for sure.

*related tangent* It doesn't matter. I'm all bloated and crampy and can barely fit into my clothes as it is without the pants absolutely hurting my waistline. I should just blow off my last class and go home, that's what I should do. But I don't want to miss anything crucial we might need to know for the final project.

*semi-related tangent* I should be studying for my political science midterm tomorrow, but I just don't feel like it. The bloaty-ness and pain keeps distracting me. Ugh.

*tangent* Near broke again, mainly due to cut hours at work and payments on my car.

*tangent* Work sucks anyways...like it always does.

*tangent* ................I wish I had a boyfriend.

I don't understand how stuff like this just goes by

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061018/ap_on_re_us/mixed_up_victims

MARION, Ind. - Relatives of a university student misidentified as a classmate who was killed in highway accident have told officials they plan to sue over handling of the crash.

The so-called tort claim on behalf of survivor Whitney Cerak, her parents and sister targets the actions of Grant County Coroner Ron Mowery in identifying four Taylor University students and one employee who were killed in the April 26 crash.

Grant County officials on Monday received the tort claim, a legal step required under state law before a government agency can be sued. The claim argues Mowery was "not properly trained and educated" as a coroner and that he "failed to exercise reasonable care" to avoid the misidentification.

The claim seeks unspecified damages for emotional trauma.

The crash drew national attention when it came to light that authorities had mixed up the identifications of 19-year-old Whitney Cerak of Gaylord, Mich., who was severely injured but survived, and 22-year-old Laura VanRyn of Caledonia, Mich., who died in the crash.

VanRyn and Cerak bore a striking resemblance to each other. They were in a van that was struck by a tractor-trailer rig on Interstate 69 about 10 miles north of the Taylor University campus where they were students in Upland, Ind.

Their families were told Cerak was dead and VanRyn was alive but seriously injured and in a coma.

VanRyn's family spent weeks at the injured woman's bedside, not realizing the mistaken identity until after Cerak regained consciousness. Cerak's face was swollen because of broken bones, cuts and scrapes.

Truck driver Robert T. Spencer, 37, of Canton Township, Mich., near Detroit, was arrested in September and charged with five counts of reckless homicide for the crash.

from the TelevisionWithoutPity Gilmore Girls boards:

Dear Santa,

I know I could use some new clothes for my professional wardrobe and a new computer and even a new car. I know there are tons of CDs and DVDs and books and stuff I'd love to wake up and find under my tree Christmas morning.

But Santa, what I really, really, want more than anything else this Christmas is to see Rory Gilmore deliver the Mother of all Smackdowns to her stupid, selfish parents when she finds out they've eloped without consulting her or her being there. I want to see tears. I want to see yelling. I want Rory to call her parents on all the ways their self-absorbed behavior has affected her life. I want to see a rift--a real rift, not the grade-school "I'm not talking to you! No, I'm not talking to you!" stuff we got last season--develop between Rory and Lorelai, and I want Lorelai to have to realize that she can't cute or quip or hair-flip her way out of this one.

If you could deliver this present early--say, sometime in November--that would be even better.

I've been a good girl this year, Santa. I really have. I make my bed every morning, I'm nice to animals and small children, and I say my prayers every night. Plus? You totally owe me--and all of us--after what we've had to put up with this past year.

Thanking you in advance,
NV

P.S.: If you could see your way clear to delivering some more Naked!(or at least Shirtless!)Luke at the same time, that'd be aces.