Feburary the 18th:.....Apparently I can't date, no idea which day I missed
Right, without classes as an excuse to write the day half a dozen times I get really thrown off apparently. Gah, no counterculture AGAIN today (I've been checking my damned email! Obsessively as a matter of fact!) and even all the cool TED talks on biometrics didn't make up for it. >.> Okay, they WERE super special amazing awesome, but I really want to talk about the counterculture too! And this stuff is actually really helping me in my history classes, plus apparently we have a paper soon and I'd like to know the details about it ASAP. Gah, bad enough that I've had THREE tests pushed back, got a photography quiz tomorrow that got pushed back as well. Not quite sure what I need to study there though, guess I'll just skim the textbook (better off than my technology & society course, I swear I've taken more notes than I have but the teacher gets off tangent so often that it's hard to tell what's an extra story and what's coursework).
Speaking of photography, I was trying to use my digital camera today ("WHAT DO YOU MEAN "PRESS"?!?? Does it LOOK like I have any room on my desk for pressing?!? GAH, let me get a photo...") and the lenses is refusing to fully open. It pops out, gets about halfway (so it's still in the blurry stage) and then makes a whirling/clicking noise and stops. I freaked out and tried everything I could. All my screwdrivers are too big for me to open up the camera (it sounds like a part got shift and if I could open it up I could probably move it back into place), moved the lenses myself (and I had some success but I can only focus between 2x and 4x, digital zoom still works fine of course), lightly tapped it and blew in case dust had gotten in (I am a 90s kid after all, this is how we solve all hardware problems), but I only got it to work a bit. I have to push it in a bit when I turn it off or it doesn't work and my camera goes into panic mode. So I can kinda get it to work but I'm going to ask my photography teacher before class tomorrow if she knows of any place in this teeny town to get a camera looked at. I'm worried about the cost (since I'm fairly sure it's a simple moving part problem, a 15 minute fix, you have no idea how much it bugs me that I can't get my camera open myself to fix this) though. It's true that I really want a SLR after working with a fully manual camera now (did I mention I nicknamed the film camera "Denno"? No points for figuring out that one) but I wasn't planning on it until at least Fall, more like another year and I don't have nearly enough funds for it. At this rate, I don't have a camera on my cell phone or ipod or such and, worst come to worst, I don't want to get another little camera again, I want a REAL camera. I feel snobbish now, but I just love all the manual control I get with Denno now, and applying aperture and such makes tons more sense on a manual camera than an automatic in manual settings.
So yeah, I had a few sewing issues today but nothing as big as the camera. Resisting the urge to mess with it now, I want to leave it alone for a bit and see if that resettles the parts at all. The thing is I can't see what messed it up. Sure it's been in my book bag for the past few days, but nothing has been on it or leaning up agaisnt it (aside from an apple or my water bottle, my camera can take those on) and it wasn't giving me trouble just a few days ago. It's a bit over three years old now so it's not ancient either, just middle aged from all the use. Gah, and I'm afraid that there isn't anywhere to take it in this small town, at least spring break is only two weeks away.
On an amusing note, I was posting on an authors LJ lately saying that I loved how the blog was written and I really need to check out the book to see if it was similar (curse you small town bookstores!). Well, I've had at least two authors (one the OP) and one or two other people who are suggesting all these ways for me to get the book which makes me simultaneously laugh (in the nervous "oh crap someone paid attention to that?!?" sort of way) and make me go "guys, you don't seem to understand what "isolated, small down whose population doubles with the local college in session" means. Seriously, our Waldenbooks isn't listed in some areas of the Boarders website, the next closest book store (not counting the college book store and tiny bookstores who sell coffee, local books, and crystals on the side, hey the town makes 85% of it's revenue from tourists, boy I hate that part of town) is 40 miles away in TN. Yup, in a state I've NEVER EVEN BEEN TO. And I don't have a car (hell, think I'm legally allowed to drive by myself in these parts with only a permit? Survey says, nope!), none of my friends have cars up here (it's a cross between never had one and got in a back wreck with it), and none of the buses go to TN. There *might* be a bookstore in Wilksborough, but that would be the same bus that takes me home. Yeah, not the bus with the werewolf killing hobos on it but the one that has actually reduced me to tears a few times (not that that's hard, but check out the September 1 or 2 entries, the one that starts with "Well, I'm sitting on a sidewalk at nine PM at night and somehow have wifi...").
So, the short of the long of it is I just can't get books around here normally. Even ordering online is tricky since I have two addresses based on which carrier people use (heck, I had my first TRSI shipment sent to my house partially so I could figure out which carrier they used). Clearly my life has gotten tons quirker since I went to college, didn't think that was even possible. And, tomorrow being Friday, Olivia and I have plans to look for the knitting store again and you know what that means? Yeah, adventure time. I've given up on planning for that, well, beside times anyway, gotta hit up the lab a bit for photography (wanna try split filter printing and see if that gives me the contrast I want without my print being too high and hard, did y'all know resin coated prints only last 20 to 30 years while archival prints last a hundred?!?)
Lovely, appears I have to fill out additional forms that "will be checked along with your parents forms against the FAFSA forms," they had better not take my money away. Seriously, apparently there is not enough money in my family for lots of things these days (and by "these days" I mean, ever since they split, seriously, I even went to the cheapest college I could without raising suspicion!). Grr, clearly I need a shower now, signing off, why is it so late already....
EDIT: Holy crud, I think I actually came across someone more liberal than me on FB! This is actually scary, I'm used to other people balancing out my ideas....
Speaking of photography, I was trying to use my digital camera today ("WHAT DO YOU MEAN "PRESS"?!?? Does it LOOK like I have any room on my desk for pressing?!? GAH, let me get a photo...") and the lenses is refusing to fully open. It pops out, gets about halfway (so it's still in the blurry stage) and then makes a whirling/clicking noise and stops. I freaked out and tried everything I could. All my screwdrivers are too big for me to open up the camera (it sounds like a part got shift and if I could open it up I could probably move it back into place), moved the lenses myself (and I had some success but I can only focus between 2x and 4x, digital zoom still works fine of course), lightly tapped it and blew in case dust had gotten in (I am a 90s kid after all, this is how we solve all hardware problems), but I only got it to work a bit. I have to push it in a bit when I turn it off or it doesn't work and my camera goes into panic mode. So I can kinda get it to work but I'm going to ask my photography teacher before class tomorrow if she knows of any place in this teeny town to get a camera looked at. I'm worried about the cost (since I'm fairly sure it's a simple moving part problem, a 15 minute fix, you have no idea how much it bugs me that I can't get my camera open myself to fix this) though. It's true that I really want a SLR after working with a fully manual camera now (did I mention I nicknamed the film camera "Denno"? No points for figuring out that one) but I wasn't planning on it until at least Fall, more like another year and I don't have nearly enough funds for it. At this rate, I don't have a camera on my cell phone or ipod or such and, worst come to worst, I don't want to get another little camera again, I want a REAL camera. I feel snobbish now, but I just love all the manual control I get with Denno now, and applying aperture and such makes tons more sense on a manual camera than an automatic in manual settings.
So yeah, I had a few sewing issues today but nothing as big as the camera. Resisting the urge to mess with it now, I want to leave it alone for a bit and see if that resettles the parts at all. The thing is I can't see what messed it up. Sure it's been in my book bag for the past few days, but nothing has been on it or leaning up agaisnt it (aside from an apple or my water bottle, my camera can take those on) and it wasn't giving me trouble just a few days ago. It's a bit over three years old now so it's not ancient either, just middle aged from all the use. Gah, and I'm afraid that there isn't anywhere to take it in this small town, at least spring break is only two weeks away.
On an amusing note, I was posting on an authors LJ lately saying that I loved how the blog was written and I really need to check out the book to see if it was similar (curse you small town bookstores!). Well, I've had at least two authors (one the OP) and one or two other people who are suggesting all these ways for me to get the book which makes me simultaneously laugh (in the nervous "oh crap someone paid attention to that?!?" sort of way) and make me go "guys, you don't seem to understand what "isolated, small down whose population doubles with the local college in session" means. Seriously, our Waldenbooks isn't listed in some areas of the Boarders website, the next closest book store (not counting the college book store and tiny bookstores who sell coffee, local books, and crystals on the side, hey the town makes 85% of it's revenue from tourists, boy I hate that part of town) is 40 miles away in TN. Yup, in a state I've NEVER EVEN BEEN TO. And I don't have a car (hell, think I'm legally allowed to drive by myself in these parts with only a permit? Survey says, nope!), none of my friends have cars up here (it's a cross between never had one and got in a back wreck with it), and none of the buses go to TN. There *might* be a bookstore in Wilksborough, but that would be the same bus that takes me home. Yeah, not the bus with the werewolf killing hobos on it but the one that has actually reduced me to tears a few times (not that that's hard, but check out the September 1 or 2 entries, the one that starts with "Well, I'm sitting on a sidewalk at nine PM at night and somehow have wifi...").
So, the short of the long of it is I just can't get books around here normally. Even ordering online is tricky since I have two addresses based on which carrier people use (heck, I had my first TRSI shipment sent to my house partially so I could figure out which carrier they used). Clearly my life has gotten tons quirker since I went to college, didn't think that was even possible. And, tomorrow being Friday, Olivia and I have plans to look for the knitting store again and you know what that means? Yeah, adventure time. I've given up on planning for that, well, beside times anyway, gotta hit up the lab a bit for photography (wanna try split filter printing and see if that gives me the contrast I want without my print being too high and hard, did y'all know resin coated prints only last 20 to 30 years while archival prints last a hundred?!?)
Lovely, appears I have to fill out additional forms that "will be checked along with your parents forms against the FAFSA forms," they had better not take my money away. Seriously, apparently there is not enough money in my family for lots of things these days (and by "these days" I mean, ever since they split, seriously, I even went to the cheapest college I could without raising suspicion!). Grr, clearly I need a shower now, signing off, why is it so late already....
EDIT: Holy crud, I think I actually came across someone more liberal than me on FB! This is actually scary, I'm used to other people balancing out my ideas....