The tale of the wounded laptop continues.

I've had it back a couple times, but long story short: It's been over a month since it was first taken in to be repaired, but it's still not fixed. New graphics card, new USB/airport card (whatever board thingy that's on the left side of the computer), new heat sensor, new battery, and it's still turning off randomly. But, at least this time it was fudged when I was in the shop talking to the guy. Besides the fact that my laptop would stop recognizing the fact that it did indeed have a battery installed, it wouldn't even turn on when I was at the shop. Repair guy (John, if you prefer) is throughly confused. After Mommy ran off to get her nails done, my good friend said "What the FUCK, this should not be doing this." Emphasis given as much as the word Fuck can be emphasized by a professional who is whispering at work with other customers milling around. John's a great guy, even if he is Horde. So Mr. Lappy is on his second trip to Apple, hopefully they actually fix it this time. All of my dealing with Apple is going through CTG (repair shop) because they know everything that's wrong with my computer and they know the technical terms for what they've done to it. For some reason I'm thinking "The board thingy on the left and whatever the graphics card is on" wouldn't really get the idea across quite as well as they could do it.

All I want is a laptop that works by Saturday when I am moving back to campus. I would very much like to have a computer available when I start classes. Very much.

Bah. Still don't have my laptop, but if all goes well I'll get it back tonight.

Turns out I needed a new battery as well, as the old one was bulging and on it's way to 'sploding. I actually had my laptop back for about twelve hours Friday evening to Saturday morning, but the airport card had died as well. It was saying that there was no airport card installed, which is kinda bullshit since they come standard with MacBook Pros. So I'm getting a new video card, new battery, and new airport card. All sorts of new shinies inside the Monster when I get it back.

I was told I would have gotten it back last night, but never got a call, so if I don't hear anything within the next hour or so, I'm going to call. But I will be nice, I swear. I will not be bitchy, I will not be snide, I will not be sarcastic. I will be a nice little girl who is going insane from being without her precious laptop for two weeks.

In other news, I really want to roleplay, or write more of Ancara's backstory. Or both. Right now what I really need to do is poke and prod at Eric to DM, then maybe Logar and Kevin to join in. Who knows, maybe we can convince Brooke and Rachel to join in (though I highly doubt it). They both play WoW, maybe I can convert them to total geekdom by bringing them into the wonderful world of D&D.

So I finally discovered what's wrong with my computer. The screen has been randomly freezing, either with the picture or going completely black while still being back-lit. This was annoying enough when I was messing around online or chatting, but it really pissed me off when I was messing around in Photoshop or on World of Warcraft. But, I finally took it in to the little computer shop in the mall here in town, since it is authorized for all the Apple fixin's. The guy there seemed really nice, and really loved telling his daughter that sweeping the floor did indeed mean moving boxes and stuff and sweeping behind them. I love the middle school interpretation of "clean". I used to get away with that too!

Anyway, turns out the vRAM is borked. So my computer is sitting at the repair shop, silently awaiting for Tuesday or Wednesday when the part will come in and be replaced. There's good news and bad news. Okay, good and slightly less good. The good news is that it's still completely covered under the Apple Care Plan. (Huzzah) The slightly less good news, is that he has to check and see whether the video card is separate or if it's attached to the motherboard. If it's attached, then the entire motherboard has to be replaced. This is only slightly less good news because, while I'll have to reset and reload everything, I get shiny new innards and all of the leftovers from when the laptop was my brother's will finally be completely gone. So here's hoping my poor Monster runs better when I get him back.

The guy at the repair shop was kind of funny though. He was looking on my dock to see what kind of programs I used (he was loading up a few to see if he could get it to freeze), and he giggled a bit (chuckled I guess, since he was a rather manly man) when he noticed World of Warcraft sitting right next to Warcraft III. Before I left he asked if I would be able to survive until Wednesday without going insane. Little does he know I still have two other desktops and another laptop at home with which to mooch intarwebs time.

Heh, I watched almost all of Sailor Moon in two days. I need serious mental help.

In other news, I'm watching Star Wars, so all is well with the world.

This is me, wanting to get back into fandom of some sort. I haven't decided what yet, but I really want to. And the sad thing is, the event that sparked this conclusion from me was watching Sailor Moon will Robin and her cousin this week. We got into talking about it, and I remembered just how much I loved that show, and I realized that I really, really miss being into something that much again. Well, okay, maybe not that much. I wasn't even borderline obsessed when I got back into Sailor Moon in 6th grade. Oh no, I was full blown into making my own information site about all of the Scouts, their histories and their futures. Not even gonna get into the fan character I made. We watched Spirited Away, too, and now I want to get back into anime/manga.

Long story short, I need a new obsession. WoW is fun and awesome, but since I've grown so attached to the members of my guild, it's become more like life and less like an escape from it.

WTF am I doing, I should be drawing. I get moneys for that.

Totally excited now. I've got my first commission! I'll be drawing Glytch (Enhancement Shaman) and Unholymajic (Death Kinght of some spec..>.>) for a couple of my guildies. Wooooo. Just waiting on the last couple details from Glytch before I get started, and then waiting for Sparkie to wake up so I can get the info on her Death Knight. Happy! I've been wanting to draw a DK for quite a while, but I don't know if I'm capable of drawing one of Sparkie's characters being all creepy, heh. She's always so cheerful and upbeat. Ah well, I'll just wait and see what she wants.

I think it's becoming a trend with me to come here and decide to update, what, once every six months or so?

I say I will update here more often, and then I don't. No promises here, but I'm bored out of my freaking mind this summer, so who knows. I've finally started up commissions, so maybe the impossible truly is possible. (Check out my dA account if you want info on the pictors).

I really need to do something...more. All of my time is taken up by class, homework, and pretending to sleep. There's some World of Warcraft thrown in there randomly now, not nearly as much as I used to play, but it's there. I need to start doing something creative. All this work for my graphic design classes is taking a lot out of me, but isn't nearly the creative outlet I need. I need to get back into role playing and I need to draw more. Mostly I've just been writing little snippets in my notebook that I keep near/under my bed for when inspiration strikes, but it's not nearly close to anything like the stories I've been planning on writing for so long. I just need to get my inspiration back, and it's not really happening.

wahwahcry emotime. HAPPYTEIMYAYZ.

Guess who never updates her LJ. THAT'S RIGHT. ME.

bah.

There are things I should really be doing right now. None of which I am currently doing. Although I am now a little irritated that my mom decided she had to walk all the way across the room to see what I was typing because I was "typing so fast and furious." Glad that you still feel the need to see what your 18 (almost 19) year old daughter is *gasp* typing about. Meh.

Blarglefa. I'm bored. And I need to get back into a fandom that's not Warcraft related. I love it to death, but I feel the need to branch out a bit. And I'm trying to avoid WoW while I'm home because my mom asks me the same stupid questions over and over, even though I've told her the answers fifty million times before. I'm just really irritated right now, and I need to do something else to get rid of said irritation.

...I feel the need to play my flute. *wanders off*

My school comes up with the stupidest scheduling ever. We had spring break last week, and now three days of class this week, with thursday and friday off for "Mid Semester Break." Yeeeaaaah. That, and they can't seem to decide when classes stop. The official campus calendar had said Wednesday at noon, and then yesterday they post this tiny little announcement saying "Oops, we lied. Classes all day Wednesday. Take that, bitches." Seriously, if this university didn't have the best graphic design program in the state, I would totally not be going here. At all. Irritates me that much.

Hokaaaaay. I was looking through some of my old journal entries on deviantART. One is from November 8, 2003. It goes as follows:

There is a HOLE in your SOCK...
Actually, there is a HOLE in MY SOCK. But that doesn't matter.

Have you ever had one of those days where you just wanna rip someone's spleen out through their ears? Welcome to my world....

Today's victim is...... oh, I dunno... how 'bout the cheerleading squad? That sounds fun. Or I could just crawl back under my rock and do something productive, but what's the fun in that? My day's gonna revolve around the hole in my sock, anyway, so what does it matter? I ask too many questions and I usually end up picking at this little hole in the keyboard that's intrancing me right now. This is all because of the little faerie man that lives in the corner of the room and frequently torments my magnetic fish. Then there's always that weird girl that came out of my TV last week. Turns out she didn't know what videogames were, so I introduced her to MEGAMAN!!! So, as she was engaged in combat with evil robots, I snuck into my drawer and took out.... no, not a knife you lunatics... my SOCK. When this psycho chick saw the sock of doom in my hand, she was quick to burn through a portion of it with her lazer beamy eyes. And that is how my cows inflitrated the SGC in Colorado, New York.

Glad to see the continuity of my brain has not improved any. >.> Or apparently my spelling.

YAY. I'm finally going hoooome this weekend. I WANT TO SEE MY PUPPY. Poor Booda. Apparently he's been mopey and sleeping in front of the door to my room for the past two weeks. =( I'M COMING MY BOOBOO. YOU WILL BE ANNOYING THE HELL OUT OF ME SOON, AND IT WILL BE GLORIOUS. Sorry. Done with capslock now.

Oh yeah, and that cat too. Meh.

This time of the morning may be filled with homework in the near future, so I guess.... I dunno what I guess. I was going somewhere with that, but I don't remember where.

How It's Made is a very distracting show. It's half what's going on on-screen, and half that crazy disembodied voice. Kind of hypnotic.

Meh. My roommate's boyfriend is coming up this weekend. He's a great guy, but I hope he's not planning on watching movies all weekend. He's one of those who likes to watch movies in the dark, and I have to get a linocut done. Grarg. It's always bugged me that a sound like "grarg" is a palindrome. it should not be balanced. how about grrarg.

I think out of all of my classes, the only one I'm not going to like is Design Survey. It's over the history of design, which I don't mind, but the teacher is going to drive me insane. All she did during the first day of class is brag about all of the work she's done, and what different books and magazines she's been recognized in. She's very eliteist about a class that doesn't need to be. I could understand it if it were actually a Design class (that one is crazy precise in everything), but it's just history. If you look "tired or zoned out" it counts as an absence. How the hell does she know whether or not I'm paying attention? And it's at 5pm after I've been wandering about campus all day, of course I'm going to be bored by then, if not tired.

Wow, this was an ADD post.

I swear, some day, I will actually... most likely... possibly... update this thing on a regular basis. Maybe.

>.>

This is about as motivated as I've been in a while... I finally got around to scanning some of the sketches in my notes.

( Under a cut because they are somewhat biggish. )

Hokay, so i've been doing things like playing World of Warcraft and working on an RP board instead of updating DA or my website, or... here. BUT, I did make an image for Tahle, which I hope she likes. I'm rather proud of it:

( Cut because its somewhat biggish )

I've been thinking of joining an online studio for doing these, but I don't know if I should. My time can magically disappear because of a frickenormous project that needs to be done, and I don't want to leave people hanging. =/

And damnit, I need a new chair. This crappy plastic one is killer on my back.

Last night, Robin and I talked waaaay to late over AIM. It really reminded me of sitting up late, doing really horrible Rockman RPs over AIM. I really miss those times.

( Cut for sappiness and length )

That being said, I want to start updating everything like I once did. I need to loosen up, and start thinking "Hey, it's the internet. They don't care. And if they do, they, too, are taking life waaay too seriously," again. It's only been two months, and I already miss all my friends like they've been gone for years. *sigh* College sucks. I want my freaking middle school back. And DAMIT. I can have 15 userpics, and I have 4. THIS NEEDS FIXED.

I feel really bad about not updating here or on my website in forever. It's really weird. I feel like I've been ignoring my friends.


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>< I'm taking a break. Curled over magazines with an X-acto knife for 3 hours kinda puts some pain in the spine. I need to bend the other way for a little while. I still need to get more stuff cut out so I can make 5 collages using design principles in the style that we made a bunch of exercises in. I want to get these done by tonight, or at least early-ish tomorrow, because I have to mount them on card stock and take em over to Staples or OfficeMax to have them bound. /sigh. I still have a lot of work to do. I should really go work on it again. And I have to remember to watch my left hand, so I don't cut off any more than a bit of fingernail next time. =P

Why did I have to pick the major where a typical homework assignment can take 15 hours to get done? Bah.