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RIP: MY COMPUTER 2002-2007
It was time to lose the desktop anyway.
Lesson for all the kids: do not remove keyboard plug or power supply plug from motherboard without the software's permission to do so. Do not try and readjust RAM cards yourself, no matter how much fun playing with knives, screwdrivers, and the inside of the tower is.
My television has been unplugged for half a year, thus I am left with nothing to do at home but badly needed post-reno reorganization (and before my mother comes to start painting cupboards and changing kitchen colours), and studying. It's not all bad, being on top of the class reading and all.
I am concerned for my French class. My weak areas are starting to show. In high school, my spoken level was A++++++, according to my prof, and my written was a C. My grammar is much better now, but I still have the same technical/structural problems with written, and NOW, my spoken is with six years of rust. I hear all that she says...or at least 85% or it, but I need more confidence and ability to respond. I am trying to participate as much as possible, unless I am completely incapable at the task at hand. This is a participation course and we get graded out of four every single day. Five courses is a lot of work (DUH). I may literally have more days like yesterday in which I return home, do my homework, sleep, wake up, and do more homework. I needed 13 hours last night. The last two-three may have been over-sleep, but the fun thing about that is you remain in the level-two REM stage since you do not need to reach level 3 and 4 again. So it is mostly all dream sleep. I dreamed I was sleeping with Biggie, who I called "Wallace", but that name came from the black guy in Pulp Fiction (Uma's bf). Biggie was a well-hung horse who lasted not long at all, so he needed to sleep with lots of different girls one after the other. When he said to me "okay send the next one in" I was like "now now..that means you blow it with me" and then he mentioned he was going to make a big drug run, and I was like okay I'll stick around. How bizarre, and kind of sad. Oh, Biggie. At least I know in real life you had your Faith Evans to plug and plug again, and you needed not to destroy white girls who wanted ounce after ounce of weed.
um, anyway.
No home computing is a blessing and a curse. It really puts my CD collection to the test, to only listen to paid music. Fortunately, I am in a good way there, precisely for a circumstance like this. My hard drive is still okay, but my active RAM is not. Without accepting help or a laptop gift from my parents, this may come down to mon vacance a Montreal en Decembre, ou un nouveau ordinateur. Je doit choisir l'ordinateur pour faire mon devoir.
And I need my audio French lessons back in a bad way. My 'extra time' is not really available to do written exercises for fun, since there are many little bits of various work and reading now that I must accomplish.
I am sure to water my parents' plants every other day while they are gone, and feed the grandma every other day just because. She must be getting used to me saying "I love you" because she is more regularly saying "you love me?" or "yes, I love you" or "I love you, too" back. I was pushing her up the ramp to the wheelchair swing in the gardens, and she "tsked" like I had done something not precisely to her liking. I said to her "what? I am just bringing you outside because I love you!" and she kind of grumbled "love you, too" :DDDD What a prize that is for me.
Okay, I do not have to return until 6:30 tonight for Chemistry, so I suppose I will return home to clean some more. Oh, I am not nearly finished...but it is easier to get done without bedroom access to PEREZHILTON.COM-OMG. BTW, my chem prof is very insane in a most likable way. He dropped four white board markers into his drinking water to demonstrate water displacement. He spent several minutes trying to get them out of the narrow bottle mouth with both pinkies, mumbling funniness all the while. I teared with laughter. Big, rolling, joydrops. He is just what I needed to get me through and done this blasted course, and it helps that he does not speak old man gibbery Scottish, he speaks ENGLISH with references to "extra curricular chemical activities" ie, grow ops. HA. And he lived and surveyed geodes in the Arctic for ten years. Insane. Likable.
Now, what should I look for in a laptop if I need at least 100 gigs of space for watching movies, storing music, fast loading Firefox, word processing, and uTorrenting? Tell me about drivers, processors, what size screen is too big/too small....how friendly are they to plugging in my phone/ipod etc etc? AIDEZ-MOI S.V.P.!
It was time to lose the desktop anyway.
Lesson for all the kids: do not remove keyboard plug or power supply plug from motherboard without the software's permission to do so. Do not try and readjust RAM cards yourself, no matter how much fun playing with knives, screwdrivers, and the inside of the tower is.
My television has been unplugged for half a year, thus I am left with nothing to do at home but badly needed post-reno reorganization (and before my mother comes to start painting cupboards and changing kitchen colours), and studying. It's not all bad, being on top of the class reading and all.
I am concerned for my French class. My weak areas are starting to show. In high school, my spoken level was A++++++, according to my prof, and my written was a C. My grammar is much better now, but I still have the same technical/structural problems with written, and NOW, my spoken is with six years of rust. I hear all that she says...or at least 85% or it, but I need more confidence and ability to respond. I am trying to participate as much as possible, unless I am completely incapable at the task at hand. This is a participation course and we get graded out of four every single day. Five courses is a lot of work (DUH). I may literally have more days like yesterday in which I return home, do my homework, sleep, wake up, and do more homework. I needed 13 hours last night. The last two-three may have been over-sleep, but the fun thing about that is you remain in the level-two REM stage since you do not need to reach level 3 and 4 again. So it is mostly all dream sleep. I dreamed I was sleeping with Biggie, who I called "Wallace", but that name came from the black guy in Pulp Fiction (Uma's bf). Biggie was a well-hung horse who lasted not long at all, so he needed to sleep with lots of different girls one after the other. When he said to me "okay send the next one in" I was like "now now..that means you blow it with me" and then he mentioned he was going to make a big drug run, and I was like okay I'll stick around. How bizarre, and kind of sad. Oh, Biggie. At least I know in real life you had your Faith Evans to plug and plug again, and you needed not to destroy white girls who wanted ounce after ounce of weed.
um, anyway.
No home computing is a blessing and a curse. It really puts my CD collection to the test, to only listen to paid music. Fortunately, I am in a good way there, precisely for a circumstance like this. My hard drive is still okay, but my active RAM is not. Without accepting help or a laptop gift from my parents, this may come down to mon vacance a Montreal en Decembre, ou un nouveau ordinateur. Je doit choisir l'ordinateur pour faire mon devoir.
And I need my audio French lessons back in a bad way. My 'extra time' is not really available to do written exercises for fun, since there are many little bits of various work and reading now that I must accomplish.
I am sure to water my parents' plants every other day while they are gone, and feed the grandma every other day just because. She must be getting used to me saying "I love you" because she is more regularly saying "you love me?" or "yes, I love you" or "I love you, too" back. I was pushing her up the ramp to the wheelchair swing in the gardens, and she "tsked" like I had done something not precisely to her liking. I said to her "what? I am just bringing you outside because I love you!" and she kind of grumbled "love you, too" :DDDD What a prize that is for me.
Okay, I do not have to return until 6:30 tonight for Chemistry, so I suppose I will return home to clean some more. Oh, I am not nearly finished...but it is easier to get done without bedroom access to PEREZHILTON.COM-OMG. BTW, my chem prof is very insane in a most likable way. He dropped four white board markers into his drinking water to demonstrate water displacement. He spent several minutes trying to get them out of the narrow bottle mouth with both pinkies, mumbling funniness all the while. I teared with laughter. Big, rolling, joydrops. He is just what I needed to get me through and done this blasted course, and it helps that he does not speak old man gibbery Scottish, he speaks ENGLISH with references to "extra curricular chemical activities" ie, grow ops. HA. And he lived and surveyed geodes in the Arctic for ten years. Insane. Likable.
Now, what should I look for in a laptop if I need at least 100 gigs of space for watching movies, storing music, fast loading Firefox, word processing, and uTorrenting? Tell me about drivers, processors, what size screen is too big/too small....how friendly are they to plugging in my phone/ipod etc etc? AIDEZ-MOI S.V.P.!