"just called to say that it's good to be alive ... I'm all curled up with a book to read"
I've been feeling very meh lately. Don't exactly know what's up with that. I mean, in a general sense, I've been feeling like this since Grandpa died, Liz noticed that during winter break. But I dunno what's up, really. I went through a similar phase around this time last year, and I don't think it's the winter blues. I don't know what it is.
Completely off topic, I finally printed out my NaNoWriMo today. 100+ pages of printed 11-pt font and it feels really cool to have a hefty stack of words that actually means something. BUT WHILE I WAS DOWN THERE (in the Print Lab) let me tell you. We tend to have problems with our printer; as in, whenver I need it, it's fucked up beyond all reason. Like, we have a whole new one right now because before Christmas break, some dumbass broke the pull out feed tray for paper. I mean mangled the shit out of that thing. Anyway. I go down there and I can't log on for a few minutes (figure out it was the wrong server I was trying, so my password didn't work) but while I'm struggling to get on, another girl comes in (it had previously been only me). I'm like, "Aw, damn it, I just have to do this one thing and then I'll be done," but she's one of those sorority types (I don't care if I'm being stereotypical, I live in a building full of them, I'm tired of their shit) who wouldn't agree if I politely asked to print my stuff real quick.
So I'm trying to kill time and let her print whatever she's printing and I'm facing the back wall away from her and she's behind me on the comp next to the printer. Now, before I go on, I'll admit that in that quiet room, messing with the printer at all makes loud noises, and it's on those plastic fold out tables, which seem to magnify noise tenfold. But I swear to god... the slamming and yanking I could hear going on behind me was making me cringe. I don't even treat the TPP printer like that, and I curse that POS to Hell and back. She very well could have been the reason the previous printer was fucked up in the first place. I was painfully aware of my nerdiness showing through because my love and respect for technology was SCREAMING at me. I was literally wincing and biting my lip so I wouldn't say, "Be nice to the printer," because THAT certainly would've earned me a WTF look from her and who the hell am I to care about a free printer downstairs? *sigh* Then she takes forever, and continually opens and shuts the thing because she doesn't have enough paper in the damn thing like three times. PUT YOUR WHOLE STACK IN AND THEN TAKE BACK THE EXCESS, IT'S NOT THAT HARD AND IT'S LESS STRESS ON THE PAPER TRAY (WHICH ALREADY GETS A TOUGH ENOUGH WORKOUT AS IT IS). Sorry. It's just that the printer tray is slightly off kilter, so you have to lift it a little so the tray'll slide in. Apparently, the preferred method of niggling the tray into position is to SLAM the fucking thing as hard as you can repeatedly until you shove it into place.
As you can tell, I was quite irked and petted the new thing a little once she was gone. Sorry about that. Anyway.
Watched the Bones and House (last fifteen minutes) that I missed this week, and OMFG BONES JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER AND BETTER. The end of House was kinda nice too, I LOVE YOU JAMES WILSON. GO CONSOLE YOURSELF WITH CUDDY AND/OR HOUSE. IT'LL BE OKAY. THEY LOVE YOU IN THEIR OWN, TWISTED, MESSED UP KIND OF WAYS.
But yeah, that was after class, which went fine. Except OH MY GAWD my Theatre class gets on my nerves, and I mean the students. There was a presentation that took most of class, and the prof had like 15 minutes left and the class literally whines at her, "But it's Friday, can we go?" until she relents, and she relented mostly because none of them have actually read King Lear and could give her the info she wanted/they wouldn't shut up/there were only a dozen or so of us. *sighs* I thought I came to school to become an adult.
Speaking of becoming an adult, I have to do that responsible thing and write a paper this weekend/get caught up with all my reading, preferably tomorrow so I don't have to do much on Sunday. I'm sleeping in both days, but I mean I hope to God I can find the resolve to actually do something homework oriented tomorrow. So I'm gonna see if I can get through some of Madame Bovary tonight, instead of the fun novel Gods Behaving Badly which I'll get to eventually once I finish it.
To finish this post, a couple of quiz results. One of which I got from chozen_rogue, and another from the same site that I couldn't resist.
What Be Your Nerd Type?
Your Result: Social Nerd
You're interested in things such as politics, psychology, child care, and peace. I wouldn't go so far as to call you a hippie, but some of you may be tree-huggers. You're the type of people who are interested in bettering the world. You're possible the least nerdy of them all; unless you participate in other activies that paled your nerdiness compared to your involvement in social activities. Whatever the case, we could still use more of you around. ^_^
Drama Nerd
Literature Nerd
Gamer/Computer Nerd
Artistic Nerd
Anime Nerd
Musician
Science/Math Nerd
What Be Your Nerd Type?
Quiz Created on GoToQuiz
What type of partier are you?
Your Result: The Lurker
You like to go out and party, go to bars, concerts, etc - but stay more on the sidelines. You and part of the action, but people have to approach you more than you jumping into the middle of the action. You typically don't get 'hammered', just buzzed enough to come out of your shell and talk to a few people, usually other 'lurkers'. Large groups of people talking at once intimidate you and you tend to drift away from the pack often.
The designated driver
The Socialite
Bar Slut
The rock-star party animal
Hardcore drunk
Bar Social Butterfly
What type of partier are you?
Quiz Created on GoToQuiz
Good night, and good luck.
Handlebars, The Flobots
Completely off topic, I finally printed out my NaNoWriMo today. 100+ pages of printed 11-pt font and it feels really cool to have a hefty stack of words that actually means something. BUT WHILE I WAS DOWN THERE (in the Print Lab) let me tell you. We tend to have problems with our printer; as in, whenver I need it, it's fucked up beyond all reason. Like, we have a whole new one right now because before Christmas break, some dumbass broke the pull out feed tray for paper. I mean mangled the shit out of that thing. Anyway. I go down there and I can't log on for a few minutes (figure out it was the wrong server I was trying, so my password didn't work) but while I'm struggling to get on, another girl comes in (it had previously been only me). I'm like, "Aw, damn it, I just have to do this one thing and then I'll be done," but she's one of those sorority types (I don't care if I'm being stereotypical, I live in a building full of them, I'm tired of their shit) who wouldn't agree if I politely asked to print my stuff real quick.
So I'm trying to kill time and let her print whatever she's printing and I'm facing the back wall away from her and she's behind me on the comp next to the printer. Now, before I go on, I'll admit that in that quiet room, messing with the printer at all makes loud noises, and it's on those plastic fold out tables, which seem to magnify noise tenfold. But I swear to god... the slamming and yanking I could hear going on behind me was making me cringe. I don't even treat the TPP printer like that, and I curse that POS to Hell and back. She very well could have been the reason the previous printer was fucked up in the first place. I was painfully aware of my nerdiness showing through because my love and respect for technology was SCREAMING at me. I was literally wincing and biting my lip so I wouldn't say, "Be nice to the printer," because THAT certainly would've earned me a WTF look from her and who the hell am I to care about a free printer downstairs? *sigh* Then she takes forever, and continually opens and shuts the thing because she doesn't have enough paper in the damn thing like three times. PUT YOUR WHOLE STACK IN AND THEN TAKE BACK THE EXCESS, IT'S NOT THAT HARD AND IT'S LESS STRESS ON THE PAPER TRAY (WHICH ALREADY GETS A TOUGH ENOUGH WORKOUT AS IT IS). Sorry. It's just that the printer tray is slightly off kilter, so you have to lift it a little so the tray'll slide in. Apparently, the preferred method of niggling the tray into position is to SLAM the fucking thing as hard as you can repeatedly until you shove it into place.
As you can tell, I was quite irked and petted the new thing a little once she was gone. Sorry about that. Anyway.
Watched the Bones and House (last fifteen minutes) that I missed this week, and OMFG BONES JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER AND BETTER. The end of House was kinda nice too, I LOVE YOU JAMES WILSON. GO CONSOLE YOURSELF WITH CUDDY AND/OR HOUSE. IT'LL BE OKAY. THEY LOVE YOU IN THEIR OWN, TWISTED, MESSED UP KIND OF WAYS.
But yeah, that was after class, which went fine. Except OH MY GAWD my Theatre class gets on my nerves, and I mean the students. There was a presentation that took most of class, and the prof had like 15 minutes left and the class literally whines at her, "But it's Friday, can we go?" until she relents, and she relented mostly because none of them have actually read King Lear and could give her the info she wanted/they wouldn't shut up/there were only a dozen or so of us. *sighs* I thought I came to school to become an adult.
Speaking of becoming an adult, I have to do that responsible thing and write a paper this weekend/get caught up with all my reading, preferably tomorrow so I don't have to do much on Sunday. I'm sleeping in both days, but I mean I hope to God I can find the resolve to actually do something homework oriented tomorrow. So I'm gonna see if I can get through some of Madame Bovary tonight, instead of the fun novel Gods Behaving Badly which I'll get to eventually once I finish it.
To finish this post, a couple of quiz results. One of which I got from chozen_rogue, and another from the same site that I couldn't resist.
What Be Your Nerd Type?
Your Result: Social Nerd
You're interested in things such as politics, psychology, child care, and peace. I wouldn't go so far as to call you a hippie, but some of you may be tree-huggers. You're the type of people who are interested in bettering the world. You're possible the least nerdy of them all; unless you participate in other activies that paled your nerdiness compared to your involvement in social activities. Whatever the case, we could still use more of you around. ^_^
Drama Nerd
Literature Nerd
Gamer/Computer Nerd
Artistic Nerd
Anime Nerd
Musician
Science/Math Nerd
What Be Your Nerd Type?
Quiz Created on GoToQuiz
What type of partier are you?
Your Result: The Lurker
You like to go out and party, go to bars, concerts, etc - but stay more on the sidelines. You and part of the action, but people have to approach you more than you jumping into the middle of the action. You typically don't get 'hammered', just buzzed enough to come out of your shell and talk to a few people, usually other 'lurkers'. Large groups of people talking at once intimidate you and you tend to drift away from the pack often.
The designated driver
The Socialite
Bar Slut
The rock-star party animal
Hardcore drunk
Bar Social Butterfly
What type of partier are you?
Quiz Created on GoToQuiz
Good night, and good luck.
Handlebars, The Flobots