Ugh

I'd fogotten how absolutely terrible the windows installer is. It's blind, deaf, and dumb, and it looks like color screens were just invented.

It refuses to acknowledge that I might not want to put windows on the master drive. Stupid.

I will force it to.

Here Lay to Rest...

It's a little warm out. I've even gone so far as to put on a skirt-like thing. Two days in a row! Kind of makes me wish I had more summery clothes.

Yak has been relocated. Then I realized I need a power strip. Probably soonish, so that nathan can use photoshop if he needs to. Also need mouse. Might splurge and get a set of speakers too.

My summer plans involve working and random spontaneous evenings, except for the following:

Saturday the 1st, at about 10 AM, I will leave bellingham on the greyhound and head out to the tri-cities to visit my sister. Friday the 7th, I will return to seattle. Then I will somehow get back up to bellingham for furious partying. Either that or everyone who likes me will come down to seattle for furious partying. Either that or I will cry myself to sleep alone in a dark alley in seattle and try to catch the greyhound up to bellingham the next morning.

I haven't yet worked out the details on Friday evening. it is worth noting, however, that this is the day that the second pirates of the carribean movie comes out.

Pelicans?

Hell yes pelicans.

I started reading Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby today, which I have been meaning to read for a while and just never got around to it. It's hilariously entertaining and educational. Chunky bacon.

The curly braces give the appearance of crab pincers that have snatched the code and are holding it together. When you see these two pincers, remember that the code inside has been pressed into a single unit.

It’s like one of those little Hello Kitty boxes they sell at the mall that’s stuffed with tiny pencils and microscopic paper, all crammed into a glittery transparent case that can be concealed in your palm for covert stationary operations. Except that blocks don’t require so much squinting.

Shiny.

These computers use "about 44 watts while they’re sitting still and 75 watts with the pedal to the metal." Yay for the intel core duo. I wonder how energy efficient the mac desktops are.

Also, nanowire transistors... flippin' sweet. I really like nanotechnology. Nanotubes are also flippin sweet. Mmmmm, nano.

Woot!

Hmm... I made my sister this wonderful blog a billion years ago, but she never started using it. However, school is out for the summer and she's got all sorts of wonderful time available for prettiness and blogging to her heart's content. So I think she shall start using the thing, and right away at that :).

Animeeeeeee

My life has been flooded with anime. I've been watching crazy amounts for the past several months, but even more now that school is out. It's kind of scary.

I get yak! I'm so excited. Nathan has ordered a new computer and is selling me his old one. There is much rejoicing.

My mom has tumors in her brain again - status update after she gets a more detailed cat scan done. Should be done around the end of June.

My back feels much much better. It felt almost normal by saturday morning and has stayed at about that level all weekend.

And time for bed. I get to go back to the 8 am routine tomorrow. Yay.

I murdered my back

Not sure why, but when I woke up this morning I tried to move and my back exploded. I went to work for an hour and then came home because I couldn't actually do anything without wincing and my boss was concerned.

So instead I've been not moving. My back feels a lot better now, but it still hurts if I hit a bad position or if I walk.

I just ate a pint of ice cream for lunch... >_<

Someday I'm not going to be able to do that kind of thing and stay skinny. :(

It would be awesome

If this actually worked. Perhaps in 5 years it will. Perhaps in 5 years we won't need it.

I don't know enough about operating systems to know whether that's a fool's dream or not, but it would be cool.

Lunch break over. Woo.

Go me

A-, A-, B. Quarter GPA 3.46 or something. My dad said "I've never been so proud of you in all my life." I told him I was glad to know my worth was based solely off of my grades in school.

If I'd gotten those grades in middle school, I would have been heartily disappointed in myself. Yet I'm no longer in middle school, and I'm not at all disappointed in myself. I might even contend the B, because I did really ridiculously well in that class. I'm going to find out what grade I actually got on the final, and then calculate my grade myself, based on what his syllabus says.

I should take more classes that I enjoy. I think perhaps it helps.

Stuff n' stuff

4 years from now I want to be the one to combine this with this. Or somesuch.

I almost got run over by a train in the wee hours of the morning.

teehee. "wee" is such a funny word.

Harumph.

I have one final remaining, and I have no idea what to expect from it. Today's was fairly straightforward. I answered all 24 questions, and I was only mostly guessing on about 5 3-point questions. Also, there may be a curve, especially since there were about 5 problems with typos or mistakes...

This quarter has treated me decently. I expect to get two B's and a C, because of missed/late assignments. But such is life. Or mine, at least.

This morning at work I spent two hours looking for someone's taxes. Someone misfiled them. I was looking through the folders of every financial aid student whose last name starts with L. There are a lot of those. I found it though, and my boss was ecstatic. She bought me a latte. She doesn't like having to call people and say "hi... yeah, we're going to need you to resend those confidential documents... we sort of lost them."

Good day.

It Returns

This is what I have learned from taking a break from blogging.

1) I'm not addicted, I can quit any time I want
2) quitting doesn't actually make my life better in any way
3) in fact it constantly annoys me, because I think of things I want to blog, but don't.

So the result of this experience is that you've missed out on a myriad of wonderful epiphanies, musings, and idle observations that I'm sure would have enlightened you in unimaginable ways.

It's finals week. I just finished one, have two left (wednesday and thursday), and then I start full time summer work in the financial aid office at western.

Classes have gone well this quarter. I stayed almost entirely on top of things in two out of three, and in the third I stayed almost entirely not on top of it, but the professor gives a LOT of wiggle room... so we'll see what happens with that.

I stormed Wal-Mart with a bunch of pirates.