ok how stupid am i? i just got this new car right and like 2 weeks after getting it or something it dies on me. in a really sucky situation--i was about to take some friends to the airport. they ended up having to call a cab and it was gonna cost them a bunch of money and i just felt like shit about it. so they left and stuff and the next day i'm thinking to myself--you know, maybe i just ran out of gas. it wouldn't be out of the question since this is my first car, the gas guage doesn't work, and i really have no idea on how often you are supposed to put gas in it. so i get out the gas can and go to the gas station around the corner and i put like a gallon into my car and it still won't start. so i just can't handle it for a few days and eventually i decide that i'm gonna try pouring some gas into the carborator (i think that's what it is---i'm not really sure but i saw some other people do it once). so i do that and it starts. and i'm all like, ok so the problem must be that the gas isn't getting to where it needs to be. and i tell my friend jake who's good at fixing cars and has been helping me out with mine. and then the car just sits there in front of my house for like 2 or 3 weeks while i'm waiting for jake to fix it. well, he finally is able to go over there today and i get a call from him and he's all like, your car was just really out of gas. and i was all but i put like a whole can in it. and he's all i know but it still wasn't enough. so he had put some more in it and primed it or something, whatever that means. and now it runs fine. i feel so stupid. so i'm starting to understand a lil about like stocks and investing and stuff and once i really get it down, i'll put something on "investing for slackers" up on my site cuz it's really not half as hard as i thought it would be and it's good for everyone to know. can i just say that i really hate yuppies? not really as individual people, cuz i'm sure that most of them have kind hearts on the inside and blah blah blah. but i just really hate going to trendy bars where the trendy people are and see them talking about all their blah blah. and shopping and shit. whatever, get over yourselves cuz you're not that important. so i'm really obsessed with buffy the vampire slayer these days and i just got the new buffy boxset of videos--the buffy and angel chronicles. and i spent all weekend watching them and then reading my buffy watcher's guide to read up on the episodes that i haven't seen since i just started watching this season so i've only seen those episodes, plus the first 6 in the boxset plus the other 6 in the buffy and angel chronicles. ok so here comes the obsessive part. sunday night, i dreamed i was the slayer. and in my dream it wasn't really a vampire i was hunting, but a demon. but he looked like a real dude. but that was cuz he was wearing this necklace and if i took the necklace off, then it would kill him. so i took the necklace off and he turned into this really scary-looking demon and he had this look on his face like "oh shit. she just killed me." before he died. and then in my dream i was talking with this friend who, in my dream, had just bought a yellow new beetle but she still had this old junky car of hers and i was lecturing her on how it was wasteful to have two cars and she was all "but the old car has character" and i was all "but a yellow new beetle has character too. i mean who buys a *yellow* new beetle" and then i woke up all scared about how scary looking the demon was when he died. isn't that weird? mail|past entries|headtrip