Okay, so I lied. I guess I can’t take a break from blogging after all. I can however, take a break from trying to keep up and return everything of mine. I know, I feel bad, but after March, I should have a lot more free time.
Anyway, I was talking to my doctor today (which, by the way, is still Monday for me until I go to sleep) and he noticed that I have a lot of impulsive tendencies. So much, in fact, that it kind of takes over my life.
I had a… disappointing date on Friday night. For the most part, it was enjoyable up until we had to part ways. See, I went thinking that he was finally going to make that move, but when he didn’t, that’s what disappointed me. My doctor said that perhaps he felt weird because my behavior towards him may have been a bit bizarre and confusing. See, we hadn’t spoken to each other in about two months and he was under the pretense that I was angry at him. So out of the blue, I send him a nice “Hi, how are you doing” text message and then showing up looking absolutely awesome for a date, I suppose that would confuse anybody else, right?
Anyway, that’s just one instance, but I notice that even with my shopping habits, they’re pretty impulsive.
But that’s just one thing for now. Another update is that I found a perfect dress. I’ve been trying to find a nice dress to wear to my cousin’s wedding in May and I haven’t really found anything that “wowwed” me. Until… today. I put it on and the second I did, it was just… amazing. Sure, there is another dress what I wanted but since it didn’t come in the color and size I wanted, I wasn’t too happy with the alternative. But the moment I put this one on and looked in the mirror, I surprised myself.
I know, I should have pictures, but pictures will come later as soon as I find the perfect shoes to go with this perfect dress.
Alright, it’s 2:30 in the morning for me. I’ll head to bed now.
Okay, I know I said I was taking a break, but this, I gotta share with you.
My sister tells me to call Sprint to see if we can extend our nice promotion of 300 free text messages a month. I call and the first agent I get sounds rather incompetent and uninterested. I tell him that we’d like to extend it or see if it can be extended, and he lets me sit on the phone for a long time without saying a word or letting me know what’s going on. After a while, he says that he can’t do it, so I tell him goodbye just to call back again and get a much more informative agent. Obviously, that was a wrong assumption. The next agent said the same thing; she couldn’t get it back on for us. However, she noticed that our text plan changed from $5/mo with 300 texts to $4/mo with 500 texts and it must have been changed with the last agent I was with.
I guess he wasn’t so bad after all.
On top of all of that, for most of Sunday, I was unable to check my online account since they were working on all that stuff. I think that whenever a company needs to do some web maintenance or upgrading of their system, they should do it during the owl hours, not during the day. The online web manager was out for the entire day, which was very inconvenient.
When I tried to log on a few days later, I could see all of my plan and phone details, but I couldn’t see my current usage details. I tried to talk to a Sprint agent through an online chat, but she was useless as well. Completely useless. I don’t even know why they have the damned chat service if every time I use it, I always get referred to calling in. Anyway, so today, I finally have the time to call Sprint without using my anytime minutes to inquire about my current usage. Do you know what they said? Because we had a small change in our plan, they were unable to give us an accurate usage amount. We would have to wait until the next billing cycle to get our information.
This… is bullshit. We had a small change in our text plan, not our voice plan. I can understand if they can’t give us a number for our texts, but to say that we can’t know what our current usage in minutes are? That’s completely ridiculous. Utterly stupid and ridiculous. Just when I thought that I couldn’t hate Sprint even more… I found out that in fact, it is possible.
And can you believe that’s just the most recent story? My other “I hate Sprint service” story has to do with my activating my new phone. See, since Sprint doesn’t use a SIM card, you have to talk to an agent in order to get your phone service switched from phone to phone. I believe that’s a very inconvenient way to handle that, but oh well. Anyway, so I bought myself a new phone and I wanted it activated. They said that I could do it online, but really, it meant that I could talk to an agent online, which, of course, I did. The online agent… was useless… again. She said I would have to call into customer service to get it activated.
Now, this kind of pisses me off because I don’t really have access to another line. Sure, I could use my roommate’s phone, but I feel awkward if I do, so I refrain from doing so as much as I can. I have a landline, but I get charged for every outgoing call that I get. With all these things in mind, how else do you expect me to get this damned phone activated? It was complete and utter crap and just more evidence that the online agents are useless.
I really, really hate Sprint. I mean, the AT&T thing was bad, but this is much worse. There is a story about how Sprint, in response to receiving the award for the worst customer service, decided to fire their customers instead of improve their customer service. I know. It sounds horrible, doesn’t it?
Just another reason why I hate Sprint.
Alright, that’s it. I have never really taken a hiatus before, usually because I never had to post so frequently before, but now I am. I can’t find myself to post everyday and I’ve got so much work ahead of me that I really need to focus on that and spending time with the people I care about outside of my apartment.
I know, I’ve attracted some people in the last few weeks and I’m very grateful for you all, I am. I’ll try and post when I have the time, but this is my little “see you later” notice because I don’t know when that will be. Work at the store has got me working much more now since a lot of the girls are leaving for various reasons, so I’ve been given a lot more hours. Work at the paper is going to make me work more since we’ve agreed to roll out with a new layout by the end of the month and there are still a bunch of things I need to sort out.
However, I’ll give you this as a present/incentive/reward, whatever you want to call it: when I do return, fully that is, I’ll give y’all a nice new pretty layout, yeah? Plus, this time away will give me time to reply to all of my comments and read all 100 of Joana’s posts.
See you when I see you. Take care, keep warm, and don’t let any bed bugs bite. I hear (from my family) that they’re a bitch.
I’m really starting to hate having to call into customer service now. See, I want to downgrade my current DSL plan since we don’t really need the fastest connection. Since I didn’t get off work today until 9pm, I thought I’d try to do it online. I searched and searched until I finally found the support question, “Can I change or cancel my DSL service online?” The answer… is no. Anybody who wants to modify their current plan needs to call in. They listed two numbers, one for business and one for residential. I call the residential one, of course, only to find myself waiting over an hour on the phone. Then I call the business line and get the message that their offices are closed until tomorrow. Now, I would call tomorrow, but I’ve used quite a bit of minutes this month and well… I need to not use so many anymore.
Don’t even get me started on my rant about Sprint’s customer service either. Or the UPS’ service.
So my sister sent me a link to try and sign up for a tutoring service, to be a tutor that is. As I’m filling out the profile, they ask me which subjects I would feel comfortable tutoring in and below, I’m going to list the first two subjects: English and Math.
English
X English - Elem
X English - Middle
_ English - HS
_ English AP - HS
_ I have a degree in English
_ SAT 1 (Verbal Portion)
Math
X Math - Elem
X Basic Math - Middle
X Pre-Algebra - Middle
X Algebra - Middle
X Algebra II - Middle
X Algebra I - HS
X Algebra II - HS
X Geometry - HS
X Trig - HS
X Pre Calculus - HS
X Calculus - HS
X Statistics - HS
_ I have a degree in Math
X SAT 1 (Math Portion)
I know that I’m an Asian American, but geez, do I have to fit the stereotype that Asians are good at math this much? I can’t help it! I loved math during school and always cheated on my English portions (before high school anyway). Anyway, hopefully I’ll land a nice weekend job or something.
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