I am not here

Hi, you guys, this is the first time I have been on the internet since my computer burst on Friday. (It did not literally burst. It is just that I have had the laptop for a year and a half, and it is the very cheapest model of dell, and after having problems for months, it seems to have given up the ghost.)

Of course, this is not very convenient at all! Basically, I am mostly pissed that this happened AFTER I had already bought my plane ticket and registered for Muskrat Jamboree, because as much as I love you guys and am way looking forward to seeing you all, a new computer would be a way more useful and important use of that 300 dollars.

The other inconvience is that it happened the way that I have a big project worth a third of my grade due in one class, and all a career fair, and various other school related things where I could really use all the information and files I have saved away there. Sigh!

The library has a thing where you can check out laptops for either four hours or overnight, but you can only do it once a week, so I am saving that for the night I have to work really hard on my project that is due.

...That was all really boring, sorry! I am boring. And also bored; it is amazing how many of my activities require a computer to entertain me these days. fox1013 and hobbledehoy both entertained me on the PHONE (gasp!) on Saturday, and Sunday I didn't even let poor speshope have a moment to rest from her drive back to Eugene before she had to drive me around and play games and watch movies with me for five hours. I am getting a lot of reading done! But it's hard to appreciate when I know there is homework I could be doing.

ALSO ALSO ALSO. Saturday -- as I had Fox reported in a semi-garbled fashion -- was my FIFTH ANNIVERSARY in both fandom and livejournal! This is hard for me to believe, because, uh, five years is a really freaking significant portion of my life, you guys. I don't know how that happened! Five years! Seriously, what the fuck!

...Which is to say, I love you all and am glad I found such a strange and rewarding hobby to guide me through life.

Since I am in a public computer lab, I am not going to be able to catch up on my flist at all until my computer situation firms up somewhat. But I should be able to check my email on a regular basis, so you should email me because I am so sad and lonely!!! Reach out to me! *sniffle*

Computer update

My parents decided this afternoon that they would lend me several hundred dollars, allowing me to buy a new computer, which I will pay back to them after I graduate. This evening speshope and I went out to Best Buy and picked out a notebook which fit my budget. It is the same price I paid for the falling-apart Dell a year and a half ago, but is pretty much amazingly superior-seeming in every way. (Not least of which is the change from 25gb to 120!) It is large, and it is shiny, and I am sort of scared to touch anything because it is so pristine at the moment. Someone could come and change their minds and take it away! These things happen! You don't know!

I still have to figure out both how and when I'm going to be able to transfer all my music, pictures and documents from the Dell, but hopefully we'll be abe to take care of that this weekend or early next week.

So that this entry is not totally boring, I will give you guys a cool link from my favorite linguistics blogs: last weekend marked a neat event for Canadian native languages.

Also: how about that Heroes? Pretty awesome, man.