baroqueMorales

Have you ever Googled yourself? It's disturbing to note how many "Jennifer Morales-es" there really are out there in cyberspace and beyond. I searched and searched the pages and eventually found a reference to myself from my old pal Clark Humphrey of www.miscmedia.com thanking me for helping him with some installation work circa 2001. In the meantime, there were just hundreds and hundreds of posts and listings about people more prominent than me with my name, and even same geographic location. Being a Jennifer born in the 70's, I've met probably hundreds of other Jennifers at parties, school functions, and we are always having to clarify, "no call me Jen" or "Hi, I'm Jen M., to differentiate yourself from other "Jens" in the office, school or whatever. For a while I thought of changing my name to something more "exotic" or going by my middle name. But I realized not only do I think Jennifer is a beautiful name, derived

I wrote the below letter to Capitol One, after obtaining a "no fee credit card" that I had never used or activated, but the card still resulted in numerous fees, frustration and wasted money, time, effort, etc. This letter actually resulted in my receiving most of my money back in the form of a check for $128.00, but without any enclosed letter. The account has since been cancelled. Read on, it's good and catharctic. January 20, 2005 Capital One Bank P.O. Box: 60024 City Industry CA 91716-0024 RE: Unfair Billing Practices Platinum Master Card Account #: xxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx This letter is a complaint of unfair billing practices by your company. Narrative of Capitol One Billing follows: I am a typical young working consumer trying to maintain good credit standing. I live on about $42K per year and without a mortgage or a car payment and I can actually afford to pay hard cash for most of the goods and services that I purchase. On a weekly basis I receive armloads of off

The repressed secretary has had a whirlwind of a week. Starting with last Thursday February 24th, I was invited by friend Clark Humphrey of www.miscmedia.com to a 60's cocktail culture party with a twist. All I knew ahead of time was to "Come dressed up." The shin-dig took place at "The Blue Flamingo, amateur bar and home of Russell Scheidelman , whom I later found out was ex-Combutible Edison and the creator of an amusing little magazine called Organs and Bongos, which he gave to me as a gift. The next morning, as I was trying to recover, I read the piece straight through, I loved the "fake ads" for products like the ads for various vinyl albums that presumably someone should make, but never has..Need examples. The party was staffed by a professional photographer named George Vernon, two cute DJ's who were sisters and a bartender, serving an incredible variety of drinks from behind a miniature bar. While there, I met Joseph the Irish carpenter, whose