It's been a while, but I guess I should finally write about my birthday gift from my parents, which I got earlier than I think I ever have. In mid-October my desktop got infected with a trojan and the keyboard on my laptop malfunctioned. In the same week. Hello December 2009, so nice to see you again, not. Anyway, that weekend I took my desktop ( Read more... )

It's been a while, but I should update. Spent this week planning my next trip to Tallahassee. My parents, Sara and I are going to the Clemson game next weekend, much like the trip to NOLA, more later. I had to buy tickets and get a hotel room for Saturday, as it's an 8pm game, fucking finally, but they're a lot more work when I don't live there ( Read more... )

It's been a while, but I'm still job/volunteer position hunting. Contacted Historic Pensacola and hopefully will go by there this week about volunteering to get museum experience and out of the house time. Finally finished my cover letter and have begun my community college job search, anywhere and everywhere. I need to get out of the South, but ( Read more... )

Being stuck on a bus for six hours with no pen to go with your notebook? Zero fun. Having a discussion from the night before swirling in your head because your dad decided 4am was a good time for an iTunes tutorial? Even less fun. And then there's the fact that the ID3 tags on his mp3s sucked, so explaining how to transfer stuff was tricky, had ( Read more... )

This has been a week of interesting among the guys I've encountered. Two of them involving the same song. Tuesday was a cabbie that turned down Bedrock when it came on the radio and then was surprised when I commented on a falsehood in the lyrics, "she's watching Oyygen/he's watching ESPN". This led to a conversation about us both being UNC fans ( Read more... )

I remember now why I buried myself in military and sports history as an undergrad. I've done subaltern history for the most of grad school and it's not fun, or easy. Minority history's a bitch, regardless of form, women, Haitian, Native American. If I ever apply for a PhD program, I need military history again, unless a sports history program ( Read more... )

I've been tasked with test-running another computer before I go back to Tallahassee, as Daddy tried to fix my desktop and failed, so this is a second attempt. As for my laptop, I'm in laptop hell, with the final straw on the old one coming Christmas morning. Apparently Santa thinks I don't deserve a laptop. Newsflash, that's not negotiable. A ( Read more... )

It's pouring rain and I woke early because my bedroom was too cold. I need to go to the library and the bookstore, but I'd rather not feel like crap when I do so. My sinuses have been horribly congested despite medication and fluids. Add to this being on my period and life kinda sucks right now. I'm not making much thesis progress either ( Read more... )

My laptop died tonight, I think. After it crashed twice with cursor-lock, the screen did something wacky and and now won't work at all. I used my desktop monitor to transfer data and am getting it looked at tomorrow, but I have a feeling another Ewing family laptop is about to become target practice. Apparently, this is what the one that Em and ( Read more... )

It's cold and rainy and I slept too late today to go to the library. And as mrsmaggiemae pointed out on Twitter, Strozier's not open all night yet. I have however started looking at the edited copy of my thesis Dr. Upchurch sent. *gasp* Actual help and an encouraging note as well. I did have to transcribe his notes though because his chicken scratch is the ( Read more... )