time and relative dimension in space

So I've kind of failed at LJ lately, haven't I? I'M SORRY. D: I blame work. Between being too tired to post, having no time to post, and having nothing but work to talk about in a post, I've sort of let journaling fall by the wayside. BECAUSE I SUCK.

Anyway, here's what's going on with teh Chica outside of work:

- Most notably, I just spent wayyy too much money ordering a Sony VAIO laptop + accessories. On the "well, this is a reasonable expense" side, it was all money I'd been setting aside all summer for the express purpose of eventually buying a nice computer, and while Sally is still good to me and I have no intention of permanently retiring her just yet, I do really want a new laptop. One that's actually portable; it is sort of a ridiculous production trying to take Sally anywhere.
On the other side, SHIT $1,600 ON ONE PURCHASE and I'm going to be unemployed two weeks from now and oh God I finalized the purchase less than twenty minutes ago and shopper's remorse is already setting in. Fail, self.

- Currently airing shows I am watching:

Merlin - technically caught up on; not actually paying terribly much attention to what's going on this season. IDK, it's not holding me anymore. This may be because of the hack job the writers did to ALL OF THEIR CHARACTERS (but especially Morgana dammit).

Psych - Woo, Psych is back! The heavy-handed Shawn/Juliet isn't making me enthuse but EVERYTHING ELSE IS. I can even excuse the awful polygraph "I love her" scene where everyone looks SHOCKED AND STUNNED BECAUSE OMG SHAWN LOVES JULES, because the whole plot was kicked off by Shawn and Gus trying to get a kid's Darth Vader action figure back. Oh yes.

Sarah Jane Adventures - I can't believe it's almost over. :/ I keep getting caught up in plots and character-glee and then all of a sudden Sarah will say something and my brain will stop dead and go "LIS :( :( :(". Yes, just like that.
In actual story-related reactions, I have no strong feelings about Sky except that her intro story is entirely too much like Luke's -- it's awkward and weird to do it that way. But CLYDE. Clyde, you are lovely and you should be the next Doctor Who Companion Doctor anything you want to be, Clyde my boy.

...is that all the currently-airing stuff I'm watching right now? That's kind of depressing.

- I have recently and unexpectedly fallen in love with the movie Ondine. There may be some form of pimp post in the future. Probably picspam because it is such a ridiculously pretty movie. So keep an eye out for that.

- NaNoWriMo is coming up! And because I have no willpower and teh Niki is an enabler, I'm evidently going to be trying to do two novels simultaneously this year. WHAT THE HELL, ME. One's a time-travel story about a guy who loses his memory, the other's a mythpunk story about a selkie and the half-evil sorcerer who steals her skin. Yeah. I don't know either.

What have I missed while I was away, LJ? I PROMISE TO LOVE YOU BETTER NOW.

You know what's kind of the opposite of awesome?

When your computer shuts down for no obvious reason.

Yeah.


(...I'm pretty sure it just overheated. I left it off for a while then turned it back on and have had no problems yet. But still. Annoying and not-awesome and also briefly-panic-inducing.)

So, uh. How's things?

Anyone have any experience with USB hubs?

Mine has glitched* three times so far today and I'm afraid this is a sign it's starting to fail for good. Recommendations for good (preferably cheap) replacements?

*In case the problem is not actually irredeemable failure of hardware: by 'glitched' I mean that without warning my computer will act like I just plugged in the hub and will reboot my EHDs (which are what I run off the thing). This doesn't seem to be affecting the drives in a negative way so far but it is still not a positive state of affairs.

...also, it has never done this before today.

Er, help?

You know what's annoying? When your computer stops working for no discernible reason.

WTF, Sally. WTF.

My Internet decided to spend most of the day on strike, it was terribly irritating. :(

(Okay, there was an outage somewhere in the area and it wasn't just my Internet. But still. Why would you take an addict's Internet away? Whyyy?)

Um. I'm sort of a loser, you may have noticed.

My dad's truck broke down on his way home from work, resulting in a rescue mission being embarked by my mother and myself. It involved precarious parking in the dark on the side of a highway with a steep ditch, idiotic drivers, complicated tow-truck maneuvers in an abandoned rest stop parking lot, and AAA massively overcharging for towing services. Yes. It was not as exciting as it sounds. It did however kill an hour of my life.

Guys, I need a job. *whines for a bit*



Meme!

Snagged from othercat
Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page.


I would do the 10-celebrities-you'd-shag meme that's going around if I could figure out how to reword the directions. Because...look, my list of celebrities I would have sex with without asking questions? That's Shane MacGowan and nobody else, and as much as I love my Shane, he wouldn't go on a hot-celebrities list. Not even for me. Won't someone think of the asexuals? They think of you. Reading.