flammable money

this is the story of a bank error and much more money than i have. so...once upon a time i walked into my bank (i know, it's crazy!). i was going to deposit a paycheck but when i talked with the teller the first thing she said was "umm...do you know about your account?" ...apparently not...

she told me that i owed about $500 and i had another check for the same amount trying to come through. yeah, i've never, ever used checks. at this point i was slightly concerned.

it was time for an expert. i ended up talking to a woman who handles this sort of thing. she called several people and sent a fax and discovered that the bank had gotten confused. they had accidentally switched the bank accounts of me and someone else who, though we had completely different names and the rest of the numbers were different, had the same last four digits in their account number as me.

the problem was fixed pretty quickly with a fax and phone call but the banker woman told me that if i didn't ever use my checks and i wanted to get rid of them then it would be best to just burn them (as opposed to shredding them). lucky, i was going to a bonfire that night.

to do list...

hello to my readers. :-) i'm sorry that i haven't written in such a terribly long time but there's been lots of things happening (like that whole business of actually living the life that i've been given). soooooo, i've decided that it might be good to write several blogs in the next few days or weeks chronicling the last two or so months of life.

these blogs will include, but are not limited to, the discussion of how i lost $1000 ish (but not really) and burned my checkbook, the continuing saga of thomas the hemophiliac, the beginnings of a very peculiar courtship, something about caves, normal life, stuff about toothbrushing, lots of driving narratives, an old story about a certain necklace and the continuing of epic deeds performed by such gentlemen, and the near-death experiences of finals week.

this blog, then, is just a list of things to write about so that i remember them later when i come back to them...and it's a trailer so that the later blogs seem more exciting and interesting to those of you who haven't been told these stories yet.