Saturday waits

[muckefuck]

This was decent day for one that didn't go remotely as planned.

I left Donnie Darko in the DVD player last night since monshu said he would be interested in watching it while I was still sleeping in. But every time I got up, I would find him at the kitchen table reading a fantasy novel. He warned me that I could play on the computer until he got up from his nap, then he would need it to do his taxes. But when he got up, he went back to reading. It's now nearly suppertime (food is on the way from Reza's, presumabling the amateur order-taker didn't screw up too badly) and he's still at the table, with only a few dozenhundred some pages left to go.

So instead of spending my afternoon reading, I logged a couple hours on Quizlet inputting irregular verbs. (One of them has 82 separate conjugated forms--and that's without the subjunctive or any non-second-person imperatives!) I'm still having trouble with "give" and "get" in particular, and I even confuse forms of "go" and "come" (something that bedevils me in several of the languages I've studied, I don't know why).

We'll pay for it tomorrow, when he'll have to do his taxes on top of all the ordinary weekend chores and I'll be at my place doing laundry and trying to complete the housework I had all week to do during my last totally open weekend for a while.

Edit: Well, it probably wasn't phone guy's fault, but someone at the restaurant forget to put our maust khiar in the delivery bag. When I called, he was like "Do you want us to send it?" Um, yeah, considering like I already paid for it and all, you know? I mean, did you seriously just ask me if I'd consent to being ripped off? The second driver arrived a half-hour later, so it'll make a nice appetiser for tomorrow's dinner, I guess. Also, they've cut back on the condiments--the nice pieces of radish, cheese, and parsley that used to come with each order--and instead we got what are essentially Middle Eastern donuts, soaked in honey water. So much for making this healthy choice night!

Comments

[bwillsouth.livejournal.com]

Were these Irish verbs, judging from your recent posts?

And fantasy novels are basically the same as taxes, right?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Do bhíodar. (I use the same alias there as on the ZBB if you want to admire my handiwork.)

As far as fantasy novels vs. taxes, I've noticed a strong trend among the past few administrations to arrest you for failure to complete the latter, but not the former. I think our legislators are working at changing that, however.

[bwillsouth.livejournal.com]

Fortunately, as a comfortably unemployed student who hardly independently reads fiction anyway, I seem to be sitting pretty.

On a similarly linguistic note, I have come to the conclusion that Chechen is really cool.

[puxill.livejournal.com]

What book was he reading? (and fwiw, that sounds like perfectly ordinary behaviour to me!)

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Servant of the Empire by Raymond Feist.

[oh-meow.livejournal.com]

US tax returns, and having to work out your own taxes in the first place seem a complete and utter pain in the arse. If you let the IRS take the money throughout the year, don't they tend to take far too much, and then send you a big rebate at the end of the year?

[his-regard.livejournal.com]

If you let the IRS take the money throughout the year, don't they tend to take far too much, and then send you a big rebate at the end of the year?

That depends. When someone starts employment at a new company (or chooses to amend their previous answer), they are required to fill out a tax form which includes a line for "number of dependents". The higher the number, the less taken out in taxes during the automatic payroll deduction. A person claiming zero dependents (that is, not even themselves) will tend to overpay, and thus get a return. A person claiming ten dependents, but who is actually responsible for only one, will owe the government a big sum.

[oh-meow.livejournal.com]

Ah they do it totally differently here - You have a tax-free allowance of £5,000 or so on your first job, and they make it slightly higher if you've got kids etc. The government also automatically pay you child benefit money each month whether you're working or not.