Last names = free money

Alright so I got into Graduate School which is awesome. Amazing. Fantastic. Thrilling.

So now I'm looking for money for the program. Because school isn't cheap. I did get a merit scholarship, which is great, but I may have to start selling my own kidneys to pay for the rest. I did a search on FastWeb to see what was avaliable that didn't require writing a short story about how I would save the world. And I'm filling out the profile and I'm trying to read all the options. The deal with most of these is that the more boxes you are able to check, the more possiblities there are for you to win free money. Now, My mom is a teacher and my dad is a graphic designer and there were no boxes for those options. I did check that I was a girl scout, and what not, and then I see this as an option:

And this my friends, is why I am not going to get any free money. What percentage of people with that last name are going to even use fastweb? And if they do, don't you think they already are rich, because they have such a cool last name? What's the story. I don't understand.

Dear Santa,
Please bring me a pony, money for graduate school, or the legal ability to change my last name to Van Valkenberg.
I have been very good this year.
Love,
Molzee

Meanwhile My mom says I have to marry someone whose last name begins with the letter "D" because she has engraved silver to pass on.

Ahhhh, Merry Christmas To all and To all a Good Night.

In the name of love...

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese man who repeatedly broke into the home of a neighbor he secretly loved, at one point sneaking out with a bra and some photos, has been let off the hook by a Chinese court, Xinhua news agency said Tuesday.

The man confessed to breaking into the woman's home five times, including once while she was sleeping, though he had fled as soon as she woke up, Xinhua said.

Police caught him red-handed in November walking out of the neighbor's apartment with a key to her door, a bra, two photographs and her MP3 player, the report on Xinhua's English Web site, www.chinaview.cn, said.

But the court in Harbin, capital of northeastern Heilongjiang province, dismissed harassment charges against the burglar. It heard that on the times he entered the woman's apartment while she was out, he had washed her dishes, done her laundry, left her snacks and even fixed her computer.

"(The man) said he loved her secretly, but couldn't muster up enough courage to speak to her. He placed a bet with his roommate that he would win her heart," Xinhua said, citing a report in the Shenzhen Daily. It did not say when the charges were dismissed.

He once planted a note in the apartment reading: "Don't panic. I hope you can understand my feelings for you."

He told the court he swiped the woman's MP3 player because it was in need of repair, but admitted he "took her bra and photos out of love for her."

Nauseated Laughter

I just sent in my application to graduate school. I needed something funny to cheer me up because I'm feeling totally nauseated. I need a snake cover. Badly.