The one good thing about a bout of insomnia is that you feel like a million bucks after you do get some sleep. Anyone who doubts how sleep affects the entire human body should be woken every hour for several nights in a row, then let sleep. Really, it's amazing ( Read more... )

I've been busy lately, emotionally stretched and stressed. I am reading posts, trying to read fic, sometimes responding, sometimes not. It may be this way a little while, or maybe all the posts I've written in my head will pour on out. Prepare the life rafts in that case.

Thanks to all who've responded to my last few OMG!OMG! posts. They help me ( Read more... )

We're in the last days of the year. And I have such a list....

( let me show you it )

Work is going to kill me. Between being so tired I drive home in a stupor, forgetting where I am along the trek, one time touring along on the wrong side of the road, and then also sticking a needle through my finger in the lab, which necessitated a tetanus shot as well as tests for HIV and Hepatitis B and C...it is truly going to do me in.

Tetanus ( Read more... )

Experiments are all over the place, good and bad mixed together. Very busy. Having trouble carving out time to grade exams, and I only have two questions to cover. But they wanted us to write a brief explanation of lost points, and I do not know the meaning of 'brief'. Due *gulp* Thursday. I'm doing a presentation and vendor show Thursday afternoon ( Read more... )

Again, I have jumped the gun on Zhalenn's death. She is up and running after a few fits and starts this am. I think it's Windows. It hates me and wants me to panic and emo all over the internet. At least all is well for now. I am going to start a small pot of money, saving up for the new travel computer.In the meantime I will occasionally run my ( Read more... )

Not actually my hard drive. I suspect it's just fine. But Windows is playing peek-a-boo on my netbook again. I really don't need another expense and probably should forego a new one but *whimper*. The thing won't start up, although after a night of charging it's getting further along the path (all the way to the password screen) but then just shuts ( Read more... )

My little Acer netbook seems to be dying. R is going to pull on his white hat, and try to yank the hard drive and copy it today. Last night I cajoled it in to booting up on AC so I could pull off the few WIPs I had going. They are safely ensconced on a key. Most of the other stuff is duplicated on the big boy  although there are a few things I ( Read more... )

Another silly school closing today. Only a half day was originally scheduled for all the schools except the high school which has exams so not much missed. They are changing next week's Monday&Tuesday closing to a Tuesday&Wednesday closing....for some reason. This January closing is, as far as I can tell, is grading days for the high school ( Read more... )

Just a jotted note to say that computers do not love me. I can't even get my phone to post, either internet-wise or LJ Mobile-wise. My big boy is stuck downstairs, tethered to ethernet, and digesting its new Linux-ness. It is awfully fast now, though. I could get used to that. My netbook is more useful for writing than posting. And forget working ( Read more... )