My laptop works again! You know the one my dad gave me? Yeah, it wasn't detecting any networks and it took over 2 hours for the Computer Center people to finally go, "I have no idea what's wrong, let's try this."

And it worked and I can has wireless and ethernet and stuff and \o My own computer once more!

And I totally have a gorgeous background and aaaaaah. Need to start playing around with it more~

So excited for having comp of my own! Even if the D key doesn't work 100%~
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So. It turns out that thus far, my laptop does not like finding networks and connections here at Tech. So I'll have to take it to the computing center tomorrow and see if they can't deal with it because I'm too frustrated to try anything else with it tonight.

This also means I won't be on tonight because I will be reading some French work that I need to read instead of ignoring that in favor of RPing. (Boo.)

So yeah. Uh...

Will be on when I can be on tomorrow! ... most likely!

Zomg, fast interwebs again. \o

Anyway, that's that for now~!


EDIT: Okay, I lied.
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So. It was decided last night that I would get my dad's old (and by old I mean a year and 4 months old) Compaq laptop to use until I can get myself a new comp.

Which means no more stays in the comp labs except for in-between classes! \o

Beyond that, have Christmas shopping done last-minute last night and hurhurhur. I realized belatedly I don't have the addy to a certain two individuals' place. (Sara, Andrea... one of you email me it or I may just have to pout at you for a long long time.)

And uh... I'm sort of braindead.

Oh! I watched Anastasia last night. Yeah, yeah. Not historically accurate, blah blah blah... it's still a cute movie and I enjoy it and it's got a couple of nice songs and baw.

So yeah. Watched that and went to bed happy.

EARLY CHRISTMAS HAS COME EARLY?

Hope everyone has a merry Christmas as well! Or... whatever they celebrate. HAPPY HOLIDAYS GUYS!


EDIT: Oh, and before I forget. Last night was also the first time I ate octopus.

... om nom nom nom.
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Am in the process of trying to buy my computer. This of course means I have to deal with the fact that living on campus means I have no physical addy available atm--well, I probably would but genius me forgot to talk with the housing office and stuff, but luckily Patrick says I can use his address. Dunno how that will go but meh.

Also, I'm having to apply for a credit thing in order to get the monthly installments. 90 days without paying any interest or something but yeah. I think I'll try paying this thing off ASAP, probably pestering my dad to help me out because seriously, I had to pay off one computer with all of my loan money before and it ended up dying on me a year later.

So yeah. Just needed to babble a little about this because I am, of course, nervous about all of this and meeeeeh. Hopefully everything will work out though.

And off I am again to try to get this done. Whee~


ETA: ... I really don't have the patience for this sort of thing. *sitting on the phone while being bounced back and forth in the sales department*

I miss dealing with actual people on the phone.


ETA 2: I WAS NOT APPROVED. Ahahaha. Which means I'll have to hold off buying the damn thing until December. Or, you know. Cry to my dad about how much I want this lap top and have him take whatever amount of money per month he needs until we can pay it off.

... in fact, I'll call and ask him now.


ETA the 3rd: ... oooookay. Looking online for store discounts now. Bleeeegh. You know it's actually a good thing I didn't get approved. It shows that banks really aren't playing around with credit anymore.
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My computer's screen light is dying on me. It's done it about three times now. I restarted it each time and it worked for a little bit before dying again. This time is the longest time it's NOT died on me since it started but...

Sob. I might have to declare a hiatus if it completely dies on me. Until the computer labs open... and then I'll be sporadic and such until I can afford a new laptop...

My liiiiiiiiiiiiife. ;o;
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I love Bryce and Reda, yes, I do~

GUESS WHAT GUYS? I TOTALLY CAN POST ON LJ AGAIN FROM MY LAPTOP!

That's right! Bryce was kind enough to wipe my harddrive! :DDDDDD!

VICTORY IS OURS!

And Nanashi is behaving itself for once--it was giving Bryce bunch of trouble before he finally wiped everything. ^_______________________________^;;;;;;;

And of course, thanks to Heather's external harddrive (which I need to name--I'll call it Chibi, maybe), I have all my files stored away until I'm ready to put everything on it!

So yeah.

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! :DDDDDDDDD!
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Which is one reason why I've been going nuts about not being able to get on LJ. I miss my icons, damn it.

And yes, Hei is a sexy beast and he knows it. XP

Anyway, besides all of that...

Last night at work was a bunch of the usual crap, but luckily, no last-minute customers. I think it had to do with the fact that from 10:30PM to 11PM, a couple of police men came in and sat down (they got free meals, ftw--hey, me and Mahogany have been working nights by ourselves for the past three weeks--two female workers at night, with a ghetto behind the store, uh, yeah). Sight of the police cars in the parking lot definitely drove away all the crazies last night and I was able to get stuff done.

See, I worked 5PM to 12AM, and was told when I came in by Jason himself that we would be closing at 12AM every night indefinitely. Which is so much awsum, I can hardly stand it. I'll be able to work a LOT more days if that's the case. No more 2AM closing!

So yeah, it had been busy in the morning during lunch, so Jason had been rehiring this old coworker of mine Kanisha and asked if she could stay around and help me out 5PM to 8PM. She agreed and then--BAM! From 6PM to 7PM, we had 22 people come into the store. It was nuts. Then right after the rush, when Kanisha was getting the retarder done and I was finishing up whatever dishes I could, Jason calls and goes, "I see you're not busy, so take those bags in the chip room and stock them." Yey for stocking more chips~

So, yeah. Kanisha helped get the retarder filled and got the stocking of chips out of the way, so that by the time she left, I only had to worry about prep (because Jason told me to do it when I could) and closing duties.

Prep took about an hour and a half to do and uh... it's been a while since I've done prep and I might have over-done the cucumbers and the onions. Ahahaha. Ah well. At least I know the onions were prepped correctly. I'm not going to mention how many weird prep jobs I've seen in the past few months. No idea who's been prepping them, all I know is that they're doing it wrong.

But yeah. Stocked that fridge with enough prep so Jason or whoever opened today wouldn't dare complain about not having enough food at their disposal. Hell, they probably didn't even have to prep anything this morning. Kudos for me. Because I kick ass like that.

And it was around when I was getting to the steak (the last thing I had to prep) when the two police officers came in and yeah. Easy going from then on. Did my closing duties, shut down the store at midnight without much worry, swept and mopped the lobby, shut off the lights, and then went to do the garbage because I had wiped the counters before doing the lobby and then...

I discovered that even though I had written him a message telling him that the lobby tash cans didn't have garbage bags, but did Jason put new bags in them? Noooooooooooo. So of course I had to get three new bags to get all the garbage out. 1 bag to get the garbage out, 1 bag to put that first bag bag--disgusting and covered in the slime of old and spilt Coke--in, 1 bag to put in the trash can after I got all the garbage out and bagged. And of course, like I said. I had swept and mopped before I did this because my brain is stupid or something so, that spilt Coke? Had to mop it aaaaaaaaall up.

Disgusting stuff. Took about 20 minutes to do both lobby trash cans.

Then I finished off my closing duties and got the hell out of there.

Got home around 1:45AM and then pretty much just died. Like, my body would not move unless I forced it to. My left leg was extremely weak--to the point that I had to hobble to get from my bed to my sink--a distance of maybe two feet. Blech. Besides that, my lower back and hips were all out of whack and it hurt to sit up, so I basically just lay there on my bed after I changed into my PJs. Yeah. Pain. Hate working almost 9 hours. Haaaaaaaaate.

But yeah. I think I finally passed out around 4AM-ish? I dunno, might have been 5...

And was woken up by a phone call at noon from Sara, who was all happy and bubbly because zomg, her car is coming back from the body shop! :DDDDD! I was all just like, "Mrrrrrh... do I gotta get up wanna sleep moar por favor..." to which is she was all like, "Get up! Get up! I get car! I go pick you up! We get you glasses! :DDD!" So I was all, "Mrrrh... call me when you get the car," and we hung up and I nearly pass out until 12:15 when she calls again going, "IT'S PRETTY AND SHINY AND ZOMG PRETTY NEW BUMPER! :DDDDD!"

So yeah, I dragged my sorry ass out of bed, got dressed, and got downstairs after making Sara wait maybe 20 minutes for me to get ready. Slow moving, yes. Took me about an hour later to actually wake up but yeah.

So we went to Chase. I deposited $240. Then we went off to Walmart, chose a pair of glasses frames, and knowing that my dad's insurance was probably gone now. But doctor-dude told me to talk with him anyway and see if we had another insurance plan, which we do, luckily. Thus, I was able to get 10% off my frames and 10% off each lens because Walmart is cool and says that if you have insurance but that insurance doesn't carry over to them, they'll give you a nifty discount. So. Grand total of the glasses because I am a stupid little bugger who couldn't get her glasses before the new year was around $240. I was all D: because that's all I had in my bank and then Sara was all smart and awake and thinking and asked, "Is there any way to pay in installments?" and doctor-dude was all like, "Oh, yes. You can put half down right now and then have 30 days to pay the other half and get your glasses."

Then came the next, important question, "Is there any interest?"

"Nope!" said the doctor-dude. And thus I was going, "Sweeeeeeet~" the whole times and paid $118 up front. Luckily, I have a paycheck due around next Wednesday and it should be somewhere around $150 if not considerably more, so I'm not too worried in that aspect. In fact, I still have around $100 in my bank. And that's after shopping in Walmart, getting some Mountain Dew, some OJ, a petite king cake (BECAUSE IT'S THE FIRST ONE I'VE HAD IN TWO YEARS, DAMN IT--I'VE MISSED MY KING CAKE \o/), and some lunch stuff of chicken strips, potato wedges, a corn dog, and a meat pie that I shared with Sara.

So today's been grand~ I was planning on going to some technology store so I coud see about getting some RAM for my computer, but I am really very tired, really, and I have to work tonight from 8PM to 12AM, and thus do not feel like doing any more than I already have. So...

Yeah. Will be doing that later. Like, maybe tomorrow if Sara feels up to it. I know she doesn't have work until this weekend, but I dun wanna make her chauffeur me around everywhere. |D

I dunno, we'll see about it.

But yeah. Kudos for me. Getting things done. I feel accomplished! I think if I keep enough money from this pay check after getting RAM, I might have enough money next paycheck to get that contact perscription like that lady suggested. And thus Jeva will have both contacts and glasses for the first time ever and her eyes will be so very relieved. But first we'll see how things go with the glasses. All I know is that I look like a librarian or teacher whenever I put those frames on. Ahahaha~

And yeah. I dun feel like cutting this post. What? You've guys had a break from my long posts for too long--YOU KNOW YOU ENJOY THEM AND HAVE MISSED THEM!

But yeah. Today's been fun. I still have some king cake left over and I have OJ and Mountain Dew that I will stash away in my dorm before I go off to work. \o/ So much fun when you can actually get things done. Unlike last year when I spun my wheels so hard because there was nothing I could do myself.

Progression, here I am.
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... only because I'm in the computer lab.

I have decided that the reason for my computer being so slow is NOT because of the internet connection, but is because of the fact that I have like 54 megs of RAM or something like that.

SO.

I need more RAM. Because my computer IS NOT ROBUST.

But anyway, besides all of that--I'VE BEEN KEEPING TRACK OF AS MANY POSTS AS IS ALLOWED TO PUBLIC VIEWING BUT YOU GUYS LIKE TO FLOCK POSTS AND THEREFORE I KINDLY REQUEST THAT YOU LINK ME TO ANY AND ALL POSTS THAT YOU HAVE LOCKED THAT YOU THINK I MAY WANT TO READ. YES, THAT INCLUDES THE EMO RANTING POSTS YOU MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE.

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I AM SO DAMN HAPPY THAT I WAS ABLE TO LOG ON IN THE COMPUTER LAB! \o/ I told Sara that if it didn't work, I would scream. And I was SO ready to scream, yo. Ftw.

Anyway, more to update later. Need to somehow find a way to send myself some of these files that I have saved on my computer so I can post them here.

Le sigh...

Anyway, will be around for maybe 30 mins to an hour! Feel free to poke!


EDIT: And since everyone else was doing it...

LOOK SEE HOW MUCH I'VE WRITTEN THIS YEAR, YEAH.


I have written in 5 series.
I have worked on 20 fics + 5 plunnies.
They came out in 53 parts.
Overall, 7 fics were completed.

Rough word count: 82,257

( And now for the record of the fics. )

... that's WAY more than what I had thought. Huh. Might have to do with the fact that I haven't finished a lot of them |D
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Good news is that my computer finally allowed me to get back on the internet.

Yay!

Bad news is that I don't know if it'll go back to being stupid if I reboot the comp.

Boo...

Good news is that my dad and I were able to figure out that 1) it's the lack of having an AntiVirus on my comp (because the one that was on it originally somehow disappeared O_o;;;) that's causing it to be stupid and 2) I moved all of my files to the external harddrive Heather got me in case something goes wrong.

Yay!

Bad news is that my computer may have a virus and of course my harddrive needs to be wiped cleaned.

Boo...

Good news is that my dad and I are prepared to wipe harddrive clean and files are safe on external harddrive.

Yay!

So yeah.

I have internet for a little while, am currently downloading the AntiVirus my dad told me to get, you know, in case we don't need to completely go through the mess of wiping the harddrive clean.

So yeah. Fun stuff.

Am also tired and want to take a nap but if I take a nap I might not be able to get to sleep tonight. *sighs*

Luckily, I have no work and an anime club meeting at 8PM. Also, no work tomorrow even if I have three classes in a row. Blech.

Yeah. I think that's all for now >.>;;;
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If you haven't listened to the phonepost, that's okay! Because I will basically put what I had said on it here in words!

Essentially, this is the case:

Some of you know how Sara's Mac laptop stopped working because... ah... her cats spilled water on it and thus made the keyboard useless and unable to log on? Yeah...

Well, within the same week, her Dell laptop's harddrive decided to call it quits and... um... yeah.

I am without interweb access unless I come here to Wyly Tower. S-so much pain...

But it's all right! I will survive! Yosh!

Besides that.

Heather, I won't be able to send any money your way until I get paid on the 11th. And even then, it will only be $20. But come the 25th, I will get a nice big and fat paycheck, and I will send you around $40 or more. I-I hope that's okay? Because I srsly have NO money. Look:

Chase: $4.65
La Capitol: $1.23
Pocket: $0.09

... y-yeah... um. That's supposed to get me through until the 11th and then my poor paycheck will be split all those ways... I owe Sara and Andrea $30 for electricity, and $20 will be going your way. S-so... only like $15 or less will be heading toward each of my bank accounts and I won't be able to go my bi-weekly amount of 2 books this time either--s-so sad...

I really am sorry! I'll try to pay you back for all your help and kindness and all the fun stuff we did up there but I just seriously don't have the money right now! S-so, I hope this helps at least a little?

Anyway. Yeah. That's all I have to say for now. So yeah, the reason I've been so dead is because I have no internet access, but that should be remedied by daily visits to Wyly Tower.

Oh, and I'm going to start being trained for night-shift at work starting tomorrow! In fact, I'm going to be a closer! Y-yey! So, if you want to know my hours, tomorrow I'll be at work from 5:30PM CST till 8:30PM CST. Then after that anywhere between 7PM and 12AM will be me... at work.

... ahaha. More hours~ So lovely~ Bigger paychecks~

I am such a horrible penny-pincher. *hangs head*

Anyway, that's all for now! Txt me or call me if you really need me for something or just want to mock and tease me (s-somean)~!

Ja, minna-san!
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So. In addition to my getting a job (only one more day of training--wh00twhoot@), I finally got all my grades in for the Spring Quarter of '07.

Band - A
Spanish - B
History - B
French - C

FREAKIN' PASSED IT, YO!

Yeah, I shouldn't celebrate the fact that I got a C. I'm celebrating more of the fact that I PASSED THAT FUCKING CLASS, OMG KEEL ME NOW.

*falls over*

Waaaah!

So in other news, about my job. Yesterday I worked from 11AM until 3PM-ish. Today it was 9AM till about 1PM-ish. So... I've earned somewhere around 30 bucks in just two days. Go, go, me!

And tomorrow, I'm most likely working the same shift as I did today, so... yeah. In fact, my manager Tiffany (Andrea's Assistant Manager because someone else got the job on Tech Dr. Boo.) says that I'll be working the day shift all summer. Scary shnit, the lunch rush is--yesterday I worked the Bain, today I worked the drive-thru (yes, Subway on Cali has a Drive-Thru. We're speshial, yo). Both days I've been told that I've reacted way better than most first-timers and didn't panic as much. I just stared at them and went, "How was I not panicking?"

XD Sara even came over to help me out because I was going nuts trying to organize 5 orders--1 for one person, 3 for one person, and 1 for another--but kept messing up the computer system because I was going nuts trying to find the right little button to push and whatnot and was shaking like mad. Sara was all like, "Dude... calm down. Stop shaking. You're doing fine," and all I could do was do that little distressed noise I make that maybe sounds like a whimpering puppy. I dunno.

IT WAS NUTS.

But I get a free meal every day that I work O: Free meal! Socool, yo!

Anyway, so yeah. That's what I've been up to lately! Still have to bum interweb off of Sara's laptop whenever I can because mine sucks (waaaaaaaaah... does anyone know why my computer completely fails at stealing other people's wireless while others' computers don't? Doesn't mine have a sense of morality or something? FOR THE FAIL, YO). So uh... don't think I hate you guys or anything, I've just been busy and tired and waaaah, so much fun!

... only I would be excited at having sore feet and an aching back, I swear. XD;;;

In the meantime, I feel like tormenting some of you people by saying that I maybe sorta thought of a nifty small twist in my Vampy fic :X Nothing big or anything but >.>;;; Also, Candy, I love you for sending me that Jekyll and Hyde soundtrack--for probably the 5th time--'cause this time I actually kept it on my computer and made a CD of it just in case, so I've been listening to it every chance I get and :< SO MUCH LOVE FOR TEH CANDY--CHAN!

Uh... I think I'll let Andrea play on the interweb now >.>;;;

Ja na, minna-san!
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I feel like ranting about a lot of things, but first, an attempt to cheer me up:

( Get to know Jeva summore )

... well, that kind of helped.

Anyway. I'm having a major Inferiority Complex fit right now and I'm not having fun with it. I love to learn new things. And I love learning languages and new cultures and all that goes with being a foreign language major. But sometimes... I just feel so utterly inept and stupid and maybe even a bit slow and retarded (not in the Carlos Mencia "Du-du-duh!" retarded way). I'm constantly floundering for words to speak whenever I'm called on, I'm constantly having to stop the teacher when they're talking and ask them "Quoi?" or "¿Cómo?" which throws off the entire class, I'm always struggling to learn and relearn all the grammar and the vocabulary and meanwhile I'm sitting behind one person who speaks the language so well, while another person across the room has lived in Belgium and is apparently very good at French herself and I...

I just feel pathetically out of place. My professors (Dr. Halliburton, Mr. DeMattos, Dr. De Feo, Dr. Dolly) have always encouraged me, saying that I'm actually doing very well and that this is what's actually expected of a person in my level of learning and yet I can't seem to believe them because of the fact that I'm don't feel like I'm doing well at all. Even though I've been actually trying more than last year, I'm still struggling and it's only getting harder and harder and why the hell can't I remember vocabulary that I learned in the 102 course?!

But I want this. I want to learn and I want to be able to be on par with any other person in the world--maybe moreso, I don't know. I want to be able to look a foreign person in the eye and speak with them directly. I don't want them to mock me, saying that just because I'm an American I expect everyone to speak English for me. It's bullshit. I don't want to hear that sort of thing, and yet, I hear from others who have travelled outside of the US that there have been people who are that discriminant, who sneer at our nationality and say, "The States aren't the center of the world, you know." I know! Which is why I want to learn your fucking languages and I'm sure a lot of foreign people (not those of you on my f-list, I'm sure... I think...) would probably laugh at me if they hear me stuttering and tripping over all these stupid words that can't seem to stay in my head long enough for me to speak them...

I mean, it's bad enough that I stutter and stammer and mix up words in my own native language when I speak. How much of an idiot and a fool would I look to those people who don't even know me if they heard me speak?

Why is it that the one thing I want is the one thing that makes me feel the worst? I love these classes and I love learning these things and yet after each class or during each class, I find myself wishing I could hide myself in a hole so I don't have to deal with the world at all because then it wouldn't matter if I'm good with conjugating my verbs or pronouncing the R's gutterally or with a trill of the tongue. It just... wouldn't matter then.

... but maybe it not mattering would be even worse. I don't know.


EDIT: And what a thing to cheer me up! I went back to my dorm on the off chance that the internet was working again. First couple of times met with no success and I figured that I should just quit and just listen my music and relax for like 40 minutes until I had to go back out into the cold to get to Chemistry. Well, 5 minutes after thinking that, something pops up on my computer and I'm like "Buh?" so I closed that and then automatically went to try to get online again--AND IT WORKED.

INTERWEB, I MISSED YOU~

... so I'm guessing it was my dorm and not my computer hating me. *pats her laptop*
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Anyway...will be gone all day today. Gonna go over to Shorty's place and help her with Little Gnat and stuff. :D

But good news is that Dad keeps insisting that he'll at least get me a computer (not the moniter of keyboard or mouse--because we already have those) sometime around the 1st of August, when he gets his retirement check. Wish I could believe him, but...eh...my hopes are starting to rise again--dun wanna have them crushed again ;_;

Besides that...

I want a puppy. D: *has too many cats--wants a puppy, damn it!*
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