People are stealing from me, but it's legal

There are certain things I feel should not happen in an age of computers, and most of those involve long delays in communications during time periods that fall within the business week and which are the only duties of the people who conduct them. By that I mean: I recently consolidated all of my student loans. All of the loan holders know this. I have letters from them. I have verbal confirmations from them. I can even look on a federal website and see that it's true. However, none of the collections departments of these entities are aware of the changes, because none of the original loan holders thought it was important to tell them. Or, more exactly, they tell me to wait until 60 days have passed. In the meantime, the collections departments want to report me to credit agencies and can't believe that I would think they hadn't been told, more than 30 days in, because we live in an age of computers and it would have taken only a moment's thought for someone to let them know to stop collection.

I am totally sympathetic to the collections departments. I am also not interested in sending them money that they will have to take another few months to figure out they need to send back to me. I need that money for my actual loans which are accruing interest even now. It makes me furious that right now any credit agency who wanted to could find information that I'm delinquent in payments and that I owe twice as much money as I owe (because I owe it to the original lenders and the consolidators until the original lenders fully figure out I don't still owe them the money they've already been paid). It doesn't really cut it with me that "oh, it's just that it sometimes takes a few months for everything to process." That's not acceptable when you're not waiting several months to threaten legal action against me, and it's not acceptable in an age of computers, when all of the databases should automatically synchronize within three to five business days.

This is how the world ends.

My current cell phone (Samsung SGH-A777) is irritating for a number of reasons, several of which it optimistically lists as features. The main problem is that the battery life is nothing, which is pretty obnoxious in a cell phone. We're talking three hours of talk time. This means that about one in three times I get a phone call, I have to cut the person off in the middle of something they're saying that interests me to say, "I'm sorry, but my phone is nearly out of battery and I have to go." And since this happens so often, I'm starting to get paranoid that people are going to think I'm lying and just want to get off the phone. I am much more suave than that! I'm sure everyone in the world hates me.

Meatloaf is in the oven. It is the first time I've ever made meatloaf. I made the recipe up based on what I had in the house and what I remembered meatloaf tasting like. I'm in tremendous suspense for the next hour at least, because I couldn't taste the meatloaf to check it before it went in the oven, given that it includes raw beef. I am going to die. The only uncertainty now is whether it will be from terror or hunger. And in either case, it means I will never get to find out what the meatloaf tastes like.