by Diane Tate

For REALS?


From: My Student Loan Servicer

Dear DIANE BISGEIER,
Congratulations! We are pleased to inform you that you have qualified for the NextStudent program by making on-time payments on your CONSOLIDATION LOAN. Beginning with your next installment, we will lower the interest rate on your eligible loans by 1 percentage point for the remaining term.

Sincerely….

My life-motto has been:
“If it’s too good to be true, it probably is.” Could it be that none of my loans are “eligible”? Or that my “remaining term” just expired? Or…?

No, it’s a new season. Here’s to suspending disbelief!

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by Diane Tate

Pet Peeves




Peeves. Annoyances. Rant-inducing behaviors. Facial-tick-causing things of life. Because these are really what this blog is all about.

A few top-of-mind ones of late:

1) When the driver I’m with approaches an intersection with a green light and feels the need to ….slow?? …..down…….

2) When the person at the gym uses the common equipment as a nest. And, after I efficiently use all other equipment in the hopes of the offender eventually moving on, I finally ask to work in and s/he suddenly claims to have “just one more set.”

3) When someone interrupts me. It’s effectively being lied to: the “listener” doesn’t really listen despite asking you a question.

And anyone reading this far knows that I am not keen on being stifled.

Addendum:
AT&T. If you really need elaboration…:

AT&T Inc. said Thursday it will start selling iPhones without requiring a two-year contract, but they will cost $400 more …The new phones will still be “locked” to AT&T and won’t work with any other cellular carrier unless they’re modified. AT&T will only activate them on the regular iPhone plans, which include a $30 monthly charge for data access. Prepaid service will not be available.

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by Diane Tate

It’s ba-ack…


Actually, attempts to pull me into the ponzi-scheme-o’-the-day haven’t really subsided; I just chose to refrain from posting all of them that have poured in since I first posted on this lamentable practice in June ’07…

But today’s email forced my hand; I must vent…

To: (impersonal dist list here)

Hey there!
I would be remiss if I didn’t let ya’ll know about the special MonaVie has going through the end of March. They are waiving the normal $39 start up enrollment fee, so now you can buy MonaVie at wholesale prices. The beauty of this promo is that there is no purchase commitment, no hidden fees, just access to the lowest possible price on the product for one year! It has certainly kept me busier than usual. Good thing I’m drinking it to keep my energy levels up! Rock on acai berry!

So if you are interested, let me know and I can give you further info…just wanted to be sure I let everyone in on a good deal! No pressure….
Here’s to your health!
Blessings,

My burning ontological question: does the fact that something is wholesale make it intrinsically better?

The rhetorical question is: will MonaVie’s salesforce, in its need to stay amped to promote the beverage, be sufficient as a consumer base for the product? Let’s lift a glass to derivative, self-referential economics!

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