One Abnormal Girl

So I totally finished my yaoi-con post.  It’s here if you wanted to see it finished.  It’s all out of order and haphazard, though.

In recent news, we have a router for the second time, because the first one we bought was the wrong thing, har har.  And although this one is actually the router we needed, I’m not sure it’s very good at all.  It seems to like dropping the connection intermittently, which hardly affects something like Internet browsing, but makes WoW all but impossible.  Or maybe it’s not the router, maybe it’s the Internet itself, but I’ve never had external problems with the Internet actually result in a message on the computer saying the cable is unplugged.  It might be going back.  Apparently my old one must not have been so awful: it actually worked solidly and steadily up until its burnout.

Also I can’t stop listening to Dr. Horrible and Muse, and I’m amused that the combination of those two names/titles results in Dr. House, whom I’ve been catching up on by ninja-ing the eps onto my iPod.  Somehow the laptop just isn’t portable enough.  And I can finally also put videos onto my phone now that I have the creepily tiny 2GB card for it, but then it would just be too small.  But it’s pretty sweet that I can still do it if I want to.   I just wish the BlackBerry could decode the same files I put on the iPod, then I’d only have to encode the file once.

Job’s going well.  It lacks many of the perks that seem commonplace these days, and it’s still temp work (no benefits), but at least I don’t really notice the passage of time.  Besides, waterjets and lasers are cool, even if I don’t work with them directly.  Best of all, I get paid.

So I used a Walmart giftcard (courtsey of the team at my last temp job when I left!) to buy myself this.  Now I’m about to zoom off to the bank on it!

Pay no attention to the Xtreme Danger depicted on the Webpage for the item.  These are also used as non-fatal modes of urban transportation.

Now I just need to find a gate that isn’t locked so I can get out of here and back.  lulz no gate key.

It’s been a while since I’ve updated, amirite? Part of the reason was that I had to keep something a secret but most of the reason was that I’m easily overwhelmed by my to-do list.

I sent in my applications for 3/4 of the schools on my list, the last of which isn’t due until January 15th, and I should be sending all of that one in around the 1st. My GREs were pretty late in arriving to me, so I seriously doubt they reached Stanford in time. Even if they did, the address on the transcripts was insufficient for USPS (but not FedEx), so they were returned and had to be re-sent. Stanford feels like it was doomed for me.

Ohio State . . . well, I may not have sent the GRE scores to enough offices. Their instructions didn’t match at all the actual process of requesting GRE scores these days. I think UMich is still in good standing. Cornell is still not submitted.

I was just getting two of the apps done for good when edchii came up to visit for a few days starting on the 7th I think. We watched some stuff and she made me many pancakes. Come Tuesday, crazyloststar arrived in my city via our tiny but international airport as a Christmas gift from her parents and a birthday gift for sky_dark, whom we were heading down to visit on that Thursday the 13th.

On the way down (and for the month before), we’d been thinking up ways to reveal that crazyloststar had in fact come with us, but it was all for naught. Sky was asleep when we finally rolled in around midnight, so we had crazyloststar wake her up, and I think Sky screamed a little. Awesome. XD

Got to hang out with sky_dark, wiccat, heironymousb, hieadenna, psycholullaby, sami-chan and hakuyama for almost a week before we sadly had to leave on Wednesday morning! I should have pictures soon. Sky, wiccat, and crazyloststar took all the photos.

Got home with edchii, and then she had to leave on that Friday, and then I spend the weekend downloading World of Warcraft and working on my elricmas fic, which I finished in the nick of time. Then I went back to World of Warcraft.

Spent Christmas Eve at the aunt’s as usual, where I got a cute fleece cardigan from my parents. Then, on Christmas morning at my parent’s, I found a small pile of prezzies I hadn’t been expecting. I had wanted the iPod Classic, but didn’t think they’d actually get it . . . and then on top of that, they got me a laptop cooling pad, four seasons of the Mary Tyler Moore Show, an iFish, chocolates, and a small boombox that can dock iPods. That, though, is staying with mom because it doesn’t accommodate the Classic (wtf) and I’m giving her my old 1G Nano in return, so she can use it with that.

It’s been years since I got so much for Christmas . . . and so much I honestly didn’t expect. My parents spoil me so much. <3

It may be coming to a close here on the east coast, but Merry Christmas!