June 9th, 2005
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On hold and homesick
I’m currently enjoying the wonderful American phenomenon of being on hold for customer service. If they’re not going to have staff to take calls at 7:30am PST they should say so, but in any case I’m paying for a toll free number (net2phone), and forced to listen to an AM quality stream of mellow US hits, and it’s making me so homesick I could die. I’m also chatting with my friend Sandra, who after a year of school at Syracuse is transferring to UW. The icing on the cake is that she’s planning a drive across America, and the mental images are just about to crush me.
Imagine has just ended and now I get to hear a lo-fi version of With or Without You. I’m not paying for this anymore (though you won’t be reading this until I do because I haven’t gotten web hosting set up thanks to my overly protective credit card supplier).
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Ok, after fifteen minutes of being on hold, I got to talk to the guy with the greatest damn attitude in the whole world. I really mean it, the he was a goodamn Robert Urich. Anyway, things should be back up soon.
