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Vodka for that guy is on me, then.

My semester exams dates are from 17 on. I have Friday the 21st off, and will have the day before off too because I'd spend all day at votech, which I will discuss with my votech teacher.

I'm supposed to find out soon if I'll be able to get a scholarship so I don't have to pay for the A+ Exams myself.

I knoz. I tried to be in it in 8th grade but, meh... the kids, to say the least, formed a their little clique there. The funny part is, half our team are chicks. I don't really care for the other chick members though, especially the one that seems to be bordering on being a psychopath, but that's a story for another time.

I got my housing and meal plan contract in the mail today. Whoohoo! One more step closer towards my freshman year of college.

...naturally, the Computer Science Special Interest Houses are in the MEN ONLY DORM. Not everyone who majors in CS has male parts...

Hahahahah ... truely spoken. SO, if you really pushed it for equality housing; maybe you'd get to live in a male only dorm, Zarr. And be a revolutionary freshman breaking a stupid tradition.

Ahah! Ibis!

*sneaks away*

It's not required for people to stay in the special housing for their major, but it's still pretty silly they put Computer Science Special Interest Housing in a men-only dorm. Basically sends a message that "you need male junk to major in CS."

Calling male reproductive organs 'junk' is really depressing. But beside that, situation is still hilarious as much as it's tragically prejudicial.

Back at my old Uni, there was this nearby building that served as dorm for out-of-town engineering students and the setup for genders was completely democratic - both males and females were crammed up in there, although there was more of males [because, ZOMFG, a female engineer is like a black sheep ].

Of course, there also weren't many male-female roommates, for obvious reasons...


Back to my crappy life & health. I'm better when it's day [at night I get fever] and I'm expecting this bug to go away in several days. meanwhile, I'm going to start working at the new job at the PC & hardware distributors Monday, Dec 10th. Hopes are up.

I can't exactly say the anatomically correct words for the male package without it being censored, now can I?

And speaking of males, my ex is being such a doodyhead (to put it as unobscenely and unprofanely as possible), a liar, and a killjoy. I told him I asked if I could see him the 21st and 22nd. He went "[Screw] that, that's less than a day." I told the git we had agreed on it a few days ago, that he said it was fine and I said it was better so I could buy his gifts before Christmas. Well, the shoddy liar he is tried to tell me he TOLD me he wanted to spend a few days with me, and he never did. My memory isn't that freaking crappy. Wish he would stop making crap up and stop trying to make me look like a stupid liar.

I hope that killjoy is really happy for doing two really crappy things to me in one week. He's really good at crushing my feelings.

Well, I guess I can see why he's your EX Zarr, if he acts like that alot.



And Milanius, I thought Zarr was referring to Mad Magazines and mismatched socks and grey underwear when she mentioned "man junk". I'm sure you misunderstood.

Meh, tired and not entirely happy.

No, my ex is an ex because of the distance issue. Nothing to due with him being grumpy. Hell, I don't know if any of you have noticed but I'm quite grumpy myself.

One moment he's okay, the next he's mad, the next he's fine... good grief.

Nope, grumpy? Nothing rings a bell.
From that story, I have only gathered he wants to spend more time with you, and that's a good thing. The kill-joy, lying part, eh, not so good. Reconciliate?


Sounds like me, or my father... damn the gene pool.


This morning is decent. A bit cold and no snow, but it's also dry on the ground - all in all, good weather. And the coffee's good.
My nose is the last remaining thing that bugs me, but that is trivial. At this Monday [confirmed], I'm starting to work for this PC and hardware distributing firm. 5-day working week, from 9 to 5, pay is great. All I have to do now is be a dedicated employee.

I really don't care for "The Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad. It's like The Scarlet Letter all over again, except it's in Africa.

Man, my mom just spent 150 dollars on me for the advance payment for my housing and meal plan stuff for university. I would have prefered if my stingy father would have paid, but alas, it is not so. He should have, considering he spends all his #$%^!@# money on himself. Selfish prat.

I slept too much for my day to be bad, but it wasn't good either. We're supposed to get an ice storm tomorrow, and I'm not particularly looking forward to that.

I've just update my new fan-fic, I edited my last post it won't say so, but I did. In other news, I've been given an early Xmas present by my parents: Mass Effect Soundtrack. It's been great so far, I've been told it will be available through iTunes shortly.
I'll be out of state from the 21st to the 26th (my mom wants to go to Arizona for Xmas ), and my eldest cousin will fly down from Oklahoma and spend some time with us until Sunday.

Who plans to see some of the new movies coming out by Christmas? AVP 2? Sweeney Todd? Others?

Ok, so my project's at it's final stage ...for now! I'll be returning home in a couple of days, will be nice to see my cat again...oh yeah and to see the family of course, but I'm so used to be away from home so....ehh nevermind. Project's been a sheer success, so far, part two will be in january so I'm gonna return here again.

I have bought something extremely nice, a dock with loudspeakers to my ipod! Geez what a wonderful invention, good clear sound, a perfect music device for travel! It's standing here right beside me and I;m enjoying it's sound immensely!

Oh and my daughter will be back from US....probably today, with a brand new ipod classic she bought for me! yayyyyy,,

(the US dollar rate is very favourable just now so... )

10 hours lie between me & my new job. I probably won't be able to get sleep due to all this hype, but morning coffee will fix everything wish me luck, guys.

Being physically and emotionally miserable = teh suckage

@Minque- I've also asked my parents for a soundsystem for my iPod. I'll be getting a lot of milage out of it.

Good luck Mil!

I'm sorry Zarr, hopefully there won't be too much stress to add to that equation.

PS: hasn't anyone looked at my fan-fiction? The only new view was my own.

2nd PS: I've gotten an account on Photobucket, and I've gotten an image, formated it for avatar, but no matter which link/code I try, the forum will give me an error about something. I'm about ready to bang my head against the keyboard I'm so annoyed.

I have my semester exams next week.

So much for no stress.

I've got a brutal next three days. First off, I got an annoying cold leaving my throat and my nose clogged. Secondly, I got an exam Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. Fourthly, I also have a 10 page essay due Wednesday that I have yet to start . Fifthly, I work Monday and Tuesday from 5 to 12ish each night so that takes a big chunk of time I could use for studying/writing.

Oh how wonderful these next three days will be...

*Steals Zarrexaij's stress and eats it along with his breakfast*

Because, let's face it, my stomach can't be more agitated by anything right now 35 minutes left.

I must have been a very good person in a past life, because while most of you seem to have exams and such coming up..... I finished college for christmas break on friday with no exams. Huzzah!
That's kinda mean, but since this post will most likely fly straight under the radar anyway.... meh

That's odd, Revan. Did you try the one marked as Direct Link? That's all I can think of honestly.

Anyway, my exams start at wednesday, so I'll slowly work up the stress now.

Well, that was a textbook example of unnecessary nervousness. Everyone at the new job is OK, the atmosphere is loose and light, and the guys have decent taste in music, too. Job is not hard at all. Our main boss there [my ex-neighbor, friend of family] is just as cool as everyone. I'm going to enjoy this. <3

The only bad thing today was working in the vicinity of too many great AMD processors and GF8xxx cards... I nearly drooled a few times on them. Oh well, in several months, one of each will be mine, MUAHAHA.


Another thing - here's a little ray of sunshine for Zarrexaij and everyone else that's feeling the stress:
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A what a beautiful ray of sunshine, Milanius and I am so happy that your story ended well. I think I feel that you are finally where you should be doing what you love most ... drooling .. I mean, working with computer hardware. How often have you mentioned the same here at the forums? Often that I remember and I forsee you messaging us from gargantuan supercomputers that you've built for yourself in the future. All good, Mil, very very good.



To Metal Mallet and all the others with final exams and not enough time for study .. my heart goes out to you. I remember those days. Do your best, try to make your essay as interesting as possible .. both for your sake and that of the professor's .. think of the tedium of how many he/she's got to read .. and maybe they'll overlook it being a little shorter than prescribed. I once turned a series of Q & A on an exam into a short story form just because I was bored with so much studying and the prof gave me a A+++ and a comment of "wow, this was refreshing after all the papers I've been reading". Not recommended with all profs of course.



Glad you will soon be home to see your cat & family Minuqe. You sound like you've enjoyed yuor trip but it is getting nearer to Christmas and I'm sure you'll want to be home then.

Lord Revan - the image has to be small & within so many pixels or measurments horizontally & vertically. If it doesn't fit - I generally keep reducing an avatar with Paint program until it is accepted. Some sites resize naturally.

Evewn with the direct link it will give me an error about "that is not a valid file extension." If I use any others it will give a "No avatar was selected."

Ahhh, my sound-device for ipod is a wonderful invention...I'm enjoying it immensely!

@Revie! I will go to the fanfic section right after this post....I'm sorry to say I've not been there so much lately, not reading or writing...shame on me!

@Ibis! Yup it will be sorta nice to get home...if I'll be able to load my things into the car that is....gah I've really been on a big fat shopping-spree!

@Mil! I'm soo happy for you and your new job! I wish you all luck you can get...and what a lovely sunray..mmmm

Oh and I'll keep my fingers crossed for all you who have exams coming up....you'll all do just fine, I can feel it, you're all so clever and intelligent so....

Yes this trip has been just great, I will miss the solitude the fact that I can do whatever I want to, without having to ask someone or adjust my doings to others..but ok...it will be nice to see my folks again...

Heh..but in january I will be back here again for the second part of this great project..YAYYY

I swear, the school board administration is a bunch of avaricious homicidal bastards that deserve to be disemboweled and castrated/splayed.

We had school today, despite the ice storm that hit us last night and despite the fact they knew another would hit us today. Everyone around us who was not part of our district was out. Anadarko was out. They're fifteen minutes from us. Amber-Pocasset was out, they're less than ten minutes away from us. Did Chickasha Public Schools get out? Nope. That's not even the entire cake. Less than half the teachers showed up, and less than tenth of the student body (out of slightly less than 900) showed up, too. BETTER YET, the power went out. And stayed out. For two hours. Not just ours, every single school in Chicksha. Did they let us out then? Hell no. They wanted their bloody funding. So I went through the entire school day bored. By the end, most classes had less than three kids in it. Pathetic. And guess what? We don't have school tomorrow.

I don't cat juggling know how that's supposed to make up for the cat juggling time those people wasted. The time we were in the cold.

Revan, the only last thing I can think of is that it is an invalid file extension. The board accepts gif, png, jpg and jpeg. I use jpg.

That's all I can think off. I'm going to make myself a christmas avatar and sees if it accepts it later today. If it doesn't, there might be something wrong with the board rather than your pic.

...must your school/town/people/state resemble so much my own, when I was young?

As for the time in cold... they probably wanted kids to get sick. SO that doctors would have something to do and pharmaceutic industry would profit. Yep.

I should hire you to go on business trips for me. I've just come back from Munich, and while I love the city, I just detest having to sleep in a tiny uncomfortable hotel bed and drive five hours there and five hours back.

We didn't have school yet again.

I was bored.

I should be sleeping, damnit. But tomorrow is supposed to be a slow day, although the season is nearing and that means lots of crazed rednecks who want lots of PeeSee's for their brats

Thank goodness my colleagues are such oddballs and loose crew. <3

Going to take my A+ Exams next Thursday. I have a slight problem. I only have a driver's permit, and it's required that you have two forms of identification, two with signatures, one with picture.

I'll ask the teacher about it.

Am I worried? Well, sorta, but not really.

I think I know why I can't post my pics........ (Dramatic pause) .......... The links are too long, by the time it starts adding the file extenion it only gets to "J." Is there a way to change the link to be shorter?

What image hosting service are you using?

I know photobucket allows you to rename images on site.

I'm using photobucket actually, but I can change the direct links code?

I believe you can, but right now I don't feel like looking it up to give you specific directions.

Revan: did you try tinyurl? It might help you: www.tinyurl.com

Zarrexaij: health card, perhaps? [I have no idea how it's called or if you even have those in US, but I'm talking about a small card that we use for ID at public hospitals]

If that doesn't work, there is probably something else you could use with your signature you could use with driver's license - which, I presume, has both your signature and picture.



It's snowing outside, nice & slow. It's cold, but at least the snow will last a bit. I have to remind myself to drive more carefully.

Threw a new graphics card into my PC, so now I'm running Oblivion, finally. Barely running it, but still.

Revan, you could always shorten the pic's name on your harddisk and then reupload it. That's my preferred method in this case. Though then again, my names tend to be utterly short anyway.

I never used a hearddisk, I just uploaded stuff from websites......

*Sorry for Double Posting* Hellejujah! I finally realized I could just change the file names for the pictures in my pictures. Now I was able to download it, BOOYAH!!! *Imaginary cheering in the background* (I can't believe I just used that icon)

Anyway, just ingnore the fact I wasn't patient enough to wait for someone else to post.

I got the identification thing all sorted out, so there's no worries.

Right now I'd like some Arbys or Taco Bell. Yeah, I'm hungry, and there's not much to fix. I guess I could cook some rice and put some beef boulion (however you spell it) in its water. Put a little butter on it.

Yeah, the spaghetti wasn't saved last night.

He's looking groovy, Revan. Mass effect/Halo?

While we're on the subject of avatars...Santa Centurion has returned! MUHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! *cough, cough, wheeze*

Mass Effect, he's a turian named Nihlus. Zarr's avatar is Wrex, a krogan battlemaster. And I remember that old thing, here's to it not rusting this cold season.

Tenek and I are going to a Xmas party tonight for the church, should be fun.

@Zarr- I hope your not as much of a picky eater as I am, there are somethings I just refuse to touch, probably won't serve me well when I'm going to academy in a few years.......

Ahhh yes...I just love travelling! I could volunteer doing business-trips for ya Stargie...no problems!

Oh today I managed to change curtains, install some electric chandeliers in addition to extensive laundry-washing! Gah....nobody washed during my absence...I haven´t even started doing my own yet...had to fix for my son first he had barely anything to wear..poor lad! And hubby! He even had to buy some shirts...hehe

Well, I just treated myself to a new guitar, though I don't actually have it in my possession. The store only had one banged-up one, and I wanted one without all the scratches and dents, so they had to order me one.

While I wait for it's arrival, I find myself just looking at it here.

We had lovely winter weather last 2 days, if not too cold at times, with real snow. Yes, it actually snowed!

Me & mates at work are on good terms, although I irritate them at times, because I'm slow right now. Duh I just started to work, I want to be slow at first. Besides, running around while there are 150$ processors near your feet on floor [literally] waiting to be packed shouldn't be done with haste.

Bar-code readers, now that's another kind of Breton Witch... at times, when I'm archiving the new parts or preparing ones that are in store for package and transport, it's hard to aim the barcode reader at the proper barcode [one with the serial number of product], when there are 4 or 5 of'em densely packed near each other... but, practice makes perfect.

Other than that, great company and rap music at work [HAH] and cold weather, there ain't much new stuff.

Hey guys, WASSUP?

Went to the grocery store with my mom. Ended up with 50 dollars extra, so we bought some stuff we wanted (frozen goods, other stuff). Came out to 133 something. That's really good for everything we got, especially these days where milk can be five bucks and two pounds of ground beef 11 bucks.

Some pizza is in the oven. Mmm.

Tomorrow I'm making my mom's birthday cake. It's pineapple meringue pie, and Im doing it two days ahead of time so I actually have time for it.

I'm in a pretty good mood, and hopefully nothing will ruin that. Now all I need is for my ex to be at my side.

Stupid distance issue.

I'm in a very happy tonight as my luck with women has finally turned onto the good side of things for once. I can't get too excited yet though, it was just the first night and I was somehow amazing tonight. It'll be interesting to see whether I can keep things going when I decide to call her.

*literally slams on wood, instead of knocking* good luck Mallet!

I am in a good mood too. Funny thing is, it only takes a bit more of snow yesterday, while I was sleeping, loads of it fell and covered everything. Now, today was a bit less frosty than yesterday, so I cleaned both our cars [the Bug and Golf] and afterwards, I made a few snowballs, just for target practice.

Weapons of snow destruction

I love it when both sky and earth turn white. It certainly looks much prettier than mud, combined with rotting leaves.


p.s.: I looked at the recipes for pineapple meringue pie and it looks interesting, not too complicated. Canned pineapple isn't too expensive nowadays; I might try it sometime.

In the meantime, best of luck with your culinary project, dear Zarr and a happy birthday to your mom without her, we wouldn't have you