The Haul

[snarp]

Originally published at SarahPin.com. You can comment here or there.

(I will finish responding to email and comments and stuff Very Soon Now.)

Intangibles:

- plane tickets
- Mom and thegeekgene driving to Chicago to pick me up because several of those plane tickets were for planes that were not ever actually real
- totally inappropriate email from elongated_tito informing me that I am actually having the time of my life in Chicago O’Hare (she also killed me and ate me in Facebook Oregon Trail)
- Parents’ friend’s boyfriend in Chicago buying me lunch and taking me to parents’ friend’s mom’s apartment to sleep until they got there (United wouldn’t pay for a hotel or anything), plus bonus cultural education regarding the awesomeness of Chicago (particularly the hot dogs) and Mexico (particularly the peppers and papayas)
- services of Lawyer in demanding United pay up *
- services of Aerospace Engineer in replacing my iPod battery **
- large quantities of meat
- tuition

* Dad. Though I technically had not retained him as counsel in this matter. It also might have been more impressive if Mom had done it, since we have different last names.

** Uncle Tall. The battery and toolkit were only $15, but given how much it costs to hire Uncle Tall to take your stuff apart for you, his involvement puts the gross cost of the whole operation a lot higher than my initial estimates suggested. (It took like forty-five minutes to get the thing open. The YouTube videos are terribly misleading about the capabilities of those little plastic pry-bars.)

Tangibles:

- Moomin: The Complete Comic Strip Book 1, by Tove Jansson
- Manga: The Complete Guide, by Jason Thompson
- Shakespeare Inside: The Bard Behind Bars, by Dr. Amy Scott-Douglass
- Brown Girl in the Ring, by Nalo Hopkinson
- Rica ‘tte Kanji, by Takashima Rica

- tiny plastic sabre-toothed lime
- Gameboy DS
- Kiss My Face conditioner, soap
- 2 gb SD card
- 1 pair horrible bright-blue pajamas with happy moons in hats (I am wearing them) (they are definitely from Dad)
- 1 shirt
- $25 Barnes and Noble gift card
- $50 check
- other stuff I’m forgetting because it’s not immediately where I can see it and I’m half-asleep

Comments

[thegeekgene.livejournal.com]

Wupkins works very hard in selecting those pajamas for us. You should be more appreciative of his efforts. He doesn't see very well, you know, and hasn't got opposable thumbs, so God knows the trouble he went to wrapping them.

[snarp]

He also bit me once when I was trying to get a dirty sponge he found. So you can see his taste and manners leave something to be desired.