Archive for January, 2007

Tech Support

Wednesday, January 31st, 2007

I love netflix, especially since we don’t have a single video store where I live. We have a magic dvd machine in the building, but it only has like 25 movies at a time.

So I goofed the other day and instead of sending my friends a movie note (they started, it’s their fault) I sent it in to Netflix as a review. So I wrote customer service and asked to have it removed from the queue, rather then have my not-so-brilliant insights slathered all over the netflix sphere.

 

Here’s the verbatim response I got. No words have been altered:

“Thanks for your inquiry. I am sorry that you submitted the note to your friend as a review. I have submitted this issue to the powers that be and they will take care of the issue for you. Please be advised that you will receive confirmation via email in regards to this issue. Please give us 3-5 days to process this request.

If you have any further questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us. ”

 

 

My favorite part? Tech support referring to some other branch of their company as “the powers that be.” This person either has to be 1) a huge Angel fan 2) Very sarcastic 3) experiencing a company re-org 4) clueless 5) scary in that kind of Christian right way

Whatever the case, definitely the best tech support email I have ever gotten.

Frakin awesome

Monday, January 29th, 2007

We just downloaded bsg, after a very sad evening last night when MTV through Sci Fi were out in my building.

What an incredible fracking episode…the visuals were insane, the story was rocking and the plot was deep. What they explored, how they explored, what they did with Apollo and Starbuck while not doing anything at all…..

Damn, this is up there with 35 and scar. What a brilliant show!

You’ve got a friend…

Saturday, January 27th, 2007

If you haven’t heard it, check out the OC songs at:

http://www.wbr.com/ocplayer/

My favorite ones are Something Pretty, and Orange Sky and of course, California..=)

I had the absolute pleasure today of randomly running into a friend of mine who was a good friend when I was in business school. I haven’t seen her in over 3 years, but it was awesome to see her again. Hopefully, we can rebuild the relationship we had.

Also recently, I was in touch with an old co-worker who I’ve kept in steady contact with. But he’s setting up a lunch with us and a whole bunch of people I used to work with. When he told me he was setting it up, I was unexpectedly happy. I felt that although I am not always good at maintaining it, I can forge friendships which I pick up years later. That means a lot to me, not to be alone. To have friends.

I hope that’s case with the friend I saw tonight. She’s really cool and she was always really nice. So I wonder how things have gone for her.

Also, I saw my oldest friend tonight for the first time in a year and a half. It’s insane, he looks exactly like he did when he was 25. And I got to meet his boyfriend for the first time in four years which was cool. I really missed my friend. I’ve known him since I was in high school, when we were both two kids in Queens, dying to get out. And now we both have, though on different paths and in different ways,

I am glad to have my friend back. Other then a lover, there is nothing like having a good friend.

It’s really, really cold right now

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Really cold….really, really, really cold.

And oh my god, if you haven’t seen Little Miss Sunshine, go now and get it…go, right now!!!!

That movie rocked. It was hysterical, from the first scene where the boy and uncle are sitting at the dinner table and everyone around them is screaming, to the dancing at the end…. If you grew up with a functional family, you might not like it, but if you didn’t, you have to check it out.

And I felt exactly like the son when I realized my eyesight was too bad to fly .

To breathe

Friday, January 26th, 2007

I’m in day 2 of my self-imposed R&R and I’m beggining to feel like a human again.

Even though yesterday was packed and this morning passed quicker then expected, I finally feel again like I am living my life, rather then having it live me.

Maybe it’s the sun coming through my window, suspended 30 stories above a Manhattan sidewalk, but it all seems okay again.