Flourishing Verdantly

It seems lately that every establishment we go to is playing The Best of The 1980's on its music station. Which led to this lovely interaction:

Brother: Man, all this 80's music makes me want to go out and run people over.
Dad: .............................................................................
Me: Haha, yeah.
Dad: ...................................................................................... [looks at me]
Me: Vice City.
Dad: Oh, gotcha.

:|b

Also, I had a Percy Jackson and the Olympians dream last night. I... have neither read nor seen Percy Jackson and the Olympians. I wonder what my subconscious is trying to tell me.

Oh, St. Augustine. You would, in fact, be my favorite city in all of Florida if it weren't for things like your Catholic churches having large fake grave markers that litter your entire front and back lawns with a sign that says, "CEMETERY OF INNOCENTS: in memory of every child that dies from abortion" along with multiple billboards condemning women's rights surrounding your otherwise beautiful town.

As it stands, Key Largo is beating you out by just a smidgen. Have more of those spicy tea shops and Spanish bakeries and we'll talk.

This journal has been officially exported to perrito on DW. I might still pop in to do random bitching every so often, but for the most part what used to go here will now go there.

Good things that happened today:
-- had really good falafel, grilled chicken pita and spicy fries at a place in downtown called The Pita Bar. Very good, inexpensive, and not far from my house. Definitely going back there sometime.
-- made some more progress in Tales of Symphonia. I'm digging this game!

Bad things that happened today:
-- I was late for my Anthropology class because I froze up while driving and ended up costing myself an extra 10 minutes to my drive because I was going too slow. (I am a terrible driver, btw)
-- last week, I contacted by bank to get a new debit card because my old one had been used for like three years and was all scratched up. They sent me a new one, and I got it today; but when I went to the ATM to activate it, I made a tiny mistake and it cost me a huge headache. See, I'd forgotten that when you withdraw from an ATM, the minimum is $20. Since I don't need $20 right now, I figured I'd enter the 'Other Amount' option on the screen and choose $10 instead. The screen declined my request, so I clicked 'Cancel' to start over. What happened when I tried to scan my card again? UNABLE TO READ CARD, PLEASE CONTACT FINANCIAL PROVIDER FOR ASSISTANCE. Fuck. I went to the ATM across town to try it there! UNABLE TO READ CARD, PLEASE CONTACT FINANCIAL PROVIDER FOR ASSISTANCE. So! This means my brand new card will not work despite the fact that my bank told me there was nothing wrong with my account-- I was just using an old sucky card and that was the reason I couldn't use the ATM. My account is now inaccessible, which means I can't use my money to pay for anything, not even online purchases. Which means it's very likely that, unless the bank responds to my email by tomorrow and fixes everything, I will be unable to go to the Renaissance Festival this weekend or with my mom to St. Augustine next week for spring break. Which I have been planning for weeks!
-- I broke my shoes today and had to take my dad with me to buy a new pair at Easy Spirit since I kind of need, you know, shoes. Which means I've had to borrow money from him again, which I hate doing.
-- LJ taking four hours to process kiwi and pie buying paid account+icons for Raph's journal was the icing on the cake of fuck-me, seriously.
-- this is stupid, but in my attempts to solve Zazzle's crypto puzzle tonight, I made myself cry in frustration. I hate codes. They remind me of my difficulties in processing simple mathematical equations, which is a problem I've had since I was like five. And so I'm thinking to myself that it's a bad idea to sign up for that game (I probably won't) if I'm going to feel this way, but it sucks because not only would playing a cfuzazzle game during spring break be perfect timing, but I would really like to. I just don't think it'll be a good idea.
-- I have not been able to study properly at all tonight from how my mind is tangled in everything else that's bothering me.
-- Every muscle from the waist down has been so tense that it hurts to even sit. It's not a back problem, but it's still very painful.
-- It's past 4 am, I can't sleep from how emotionally drained I feel, and I have a math test later this morning.

yyyyyeah.

TODAY SUCKED SO HARD I DON'T EVEN.

Except for lunch, I had an awesome lunch at this new pita bar downtown with really nice falafel and grilled chicken pitas mmmmmmmm.

BUT THAT WAS IT, MY DAY HAS OTHERWISE BEEN FULL OF SUCK. :'(