I've been dreamin', floatin' downstream an' losing touch with all that is real

[primroseburrows]

My car is dead. Or at least mortally ill. I'm having it towed to the shop tonight or tomorrow night, and I hope that it's not too bad, but the crunching sound inside when it SUDDENLY STOPPED in the middle of Main street makes me think something is Very Wrong.

Does anyone have any info about how someone with wonky credit can get a decent car? Because I'm afraid that it's going to come to that. I have a ride to work on Monday and Tuesday, and hopefully something can be accomplished before I have to go back again on Thursday.

mijan, I didn't hear from you about today, which is just as well because if I'd been halfway to NH when my car bit the big one, I'd be up the infamous Shit Creek.


I am going to Boston by train tomorrow to meet up with mr_t00by. We'll see MirrorMask, as he hasn't seen it yet and I want to see it again.

Oh, and:

Hippie Kid 41% Tastefulness, 68% Originality, 35% Deliberateness, 13% Sexiness

[Flamboyant Original Random Prissy] The idea of "good taste" is alien to you because how can one style be judged better than the other? You are also not the one to follow what someone has currently decided is "fashionable." To you it's most important that you feel good in your clothes. You like it if people notice an interesting detail you're wearing and you have some taste for extravagance but you don't spend hours composing outfits. This laid-back attitude leaves you plenty of time for other things in life and still most people remember a few interesting outfits they saw on you. I don't know if you wear hippy clothes but perhaps they would match your philosophy? The opposite style from yours is Uptown Girl/Boy [Tasteful Conventional Deliberate Sexy]. All the categories: Fashion Enemy Bar Cruiser Kid Next Door Sex Bomb Hippie Kid Fashion Rebel Fashion Artist Catwalk God(ess) Librarian Sporty Hottie Office Master Uptown Girl/ Boy Brainy Student Movie Star Fashionista Glamorous Soul

My test tracked 4 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 0% on Tastefulness You scored higher than 99% on Originality You scored higher than 11% on Deliberateness You scored higher than 0% on Sexiness

Link: The Fashion Style Test written by mari-e on Ok Cupid, home of the 32-Type Dating Test

People who know me in RL will agree that this is pretty darned accurate. It's even my hair! And my dream Boyfriend!

Comments

[peacey.livejournal.com]

Having worked at a bank for ten long, terrible years, I can say that getting a cosigner is the best way. You avoid the outrageously high interest rates that way.

*yuckycar hugs* So sorry about the car. I've been there, done that and it stinks. I had a Sunbird for a while where the head gasket kept blowing. An expensive pain in the ass.

That sketch is *exactly* how I see you, incidently. Apparently, I'm "Tasteful." Here's me:

Your body is your pride but you are reasonable about showing it. It's just cheap to walk around half-naked only to draw attention, right? Your clothes are well-chosen and probably of good quality, most of them unique, but you don't spend too much time thinking about ways to combine them. Perhaps any way you choose matches well. You always remember that it's you who's most important and not your clothes and people also pay more attention to you than to your outfits. In fact, many would like to see you out of clothes. Ahem.

Tastefulness, 58% Originality, 44% Deliberateness, 59% Sexiness

Eh. Kindasorta on target. Don't know about all these folks wanting to see me out of my clothes though. I'd give 'em all a good laugh, no doubt.

By the by, up to page 193 and gunning for 200 and beyooooond.... Writing that key scene is proving difficult, but most likely because I'm piling on all this pressure to get it just so and am taking my sweet time (read procrastinating) writing it.