One of the lightbulbs in my kitchen just EXPLODED! Like, POP and then a crash and now there's glass everywhere.

What the heck just happened? Have any of you guys ever seen something like that before??

AUGH! I've been having an issue over the last few days of seeing things flitting around in the corner of my vision... Imaginary birds and spiders and whatnot... And OF COURSE the one time that I go "Pssh, imaginary spider, I shall ignore it", IT TURNS OUT TO BE A REAL ONE ( Read more... )

So you know last summer when I was absolutely desperate for work and applied EVERYWHERE, including as a dishwasher at an old folks' home? Yeah. They just got back to me now offering me the job. Perhaps a more efficient processing system is what they really need...

Excerpt from my case readings that made me chuckle: An argument developed over ( Read more... )

I have been to the mall just to get a little break from the apartment. I didn't realize what an impressive accidental Mikeyway cosplay I was pulling off until I got there, right down to the 'a toque shall fix it!' school of hairstyling and very likely a passable Way!funk. (Exam season is not pretty around here, guys.) With no makeup and grungy ( Read more... )

Q: "Hey, Megan! Normal people often dream about having to sit an exam naked when they're feeling a bit stressed. How about yourself?"

A: "Oh, my brain finds that situation far too over-used. Personally, I dream about hosting a banquet at a seniors' home with all the characters from Gossip Girl right before the zombie apocalypse kicks in and we ( Read more... )

Got an email from my mom yesterday. She figures she's just located "the source of all her mental disturbances". It is... Bill and Ben the Flower Pot Men! (Don't watch that without bracing yourself if you've got puppet-fear, okay? *dies ( Read more... )

Um. When I try to open iTunes, I'm getting a barrage of lovely "OH SHIT OH SHIT EVERYTHING IS INFECTED BY A TROJAN HORSE!" warnings from my virus-shield thingie.

If I have to reinstall iTunes from scratch, have I lost all my music?

(She says, calmly, despite being literally queasy with panic here...)

Oh man. Oh manSo the editor for our little newspaper mentioned that we might be running short for articles in the next edition. And I may have made some stupid off-handed remark along the lines of "Let me know if you are! I'll throw something together for you all speedy-like ( Read more... )

Ladies and gentlemen, we have -41 weather.

What's that you say? "Stop adding in the windchill to make it impressive," you say?

Oh no. That's without windchill. With windchill it's -50.

I am strategizing my outfit so that I don't actually die out there...

Following in the annoyingly cryptic footsteps of Merlin's dragon, the Face of Boe, and the Powers That Be, I give you... the university library website. For full effect, please picture the following as the only line of text on an otherwise ominously blank page.

Attempt to authenticate to non-existent session.O_o ( Read more... )