krisomniac

So, tying out crossposting. Let me know how it goes!

Also, I have spent yesterday night and this morning deleting hacked twitter followings (it's fucking annoying, people. Just one more reason on the long list of reasons to hate Twitter), changing my account logins and passwords to a higher-securty algorhythm of password creation that a person (i.e. me) can remember pretty easily but a computer shouldn't be able to hack. Oh, and logging all password/account info in a handwritten journal in the event I should lose my memory or die or something. Oh, and once I get the new credit cards comes the fun of changing all my automatic bill-paying accounts. woohoo! /sarcasm

In the meantime, a meme!

Everyone should post your most ten CRUCIAL CRUCIAL - ASS movies, like the ten movies that explain everything about yourselves in your current incarnation etc...

Avatar
Sabrina (the remake)
Thomas Crowne Affair (also remake)
Lion King
Oceans Eleven
X-men
Lord of the Rings
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Pride and Prejudince (BBC version)
The Matrix

-- And almost made it:
Meet Joe Black
Star Wars
The Notebook
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Bourne Legacy
Avengers
Inception
The Last Unicorn
Casablanca
Stardust

Jkidding. I am not so much with the love of driving. However, after moving roomate into her new apt in NJ, our final destination is NYC and that makes me happy.

What's not on: snagging the bathroom to pee when you KNOW I have a mouth full of toothbrush. Last morning. It's the last morning of housemate-dom, and though I'll miss her, this is not entirely a bad thing. (Am I the only one who thinks it's VILE to spit in the kitchen sink?)

Was thinking a bit about the end of S4(  with just a few bullet points )

First: HOLY HELL, guys, life got busy and stressful and cold this week when it had absolutely no business being so. I demand it stop immediately. I do not want to think about disability insurance and term life, repayment schedule for taking loans to cover an extortionist's tuition, final papers, radiology schedules, or searching old medical records databases. Thank you.

Second: HOLY HEAVEN, guys, ( our show. )

I don't want to get on the plane. I don't want to get on the plane. This may have something to do with the prospect of spending 24 hours in the air and at airports for a 48 hour trip for the sole purposes of getting fingerprinted and taking a test.

I know, buck up and meet my licensing requirements like a man.

But I don't waaaaant to. :P *whiny*

And I haven't packed yet, and the thing takes off in 2.5 hours. (Luckily the airport has only two gates and is about ten minutes from my house.)

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This reluctance might also have a little to do with the fact my kitty (Phoebe) is in the hospital overnight for her dental tomorrow. She's going to have two teeth extracted. Poor darling. And I don't know who's more stressed about it, me or her. (Sometimes knowing too much is not a good thing. Especially because I know that three dogs they had in last week, including mine, ended up with wicked intestinal upset after their appointments...)

Guh. I'm sure it'll be okay. She's a street cat. She's tough.

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Oh! One last thing. I've taken up knit and crochet recently.

( my crafts, let me show you them )

So I was thinking. We learned a LOT in this ep, and the thing was, the writers did it with style.

( spoilers for 4x09 and next week's preview )

In sum? I need to watch this again, and I need for it to be next thursday. Like now.

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In other news, I have decided never to stick my neck out or give my time to help people out in a "leadership" capacity any more ever again.

Organizing the boards review lectures (a series of 32) for my class has been the most thankless and unrewarding work of my early professional career. I understand that the students around me are stressed out and busy-- but so am I. It's not even that I wanted thank you's for myself, only for the Thirty-Two professors who volunteered their time to help prepare us for boards. The class couldn't even muster that. And when I tried to guilt them into it by email, I got a lot of angry and offended replies. So I'm stuck writing thank you letters by myself all morning.

I never want to be a teacher, either-- equally thankless and it seems like they give their time to help people who act like they could pretty much care less.

Okay, that's enough of being cynical, disillusioned, and grumpy for today. You guys on my f-list who do this (teach and organise and lead) every day? I applaud you.

Almost done.

I left the practice in California at 5:45pm yesterday (although yesterday feels a whole hell of a lot like an earlier part of today) and took the red eye overnight to JFK, where I am still sitting, typing, waiting for the plane to a city about an hour's drive from home.

Can I just skip this next part and be there already? Traveling is fun, but selling yourself for two weeks in the hopes that one of these efforts will yield a job after graduation. That gets old.

( Quick trip recap, feel free to ignore. )

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In other news, I had another thought about 4x07 and the fact that I'm not nearly as good a Dean-girl as I thought I was. ( cut for spoilers )

Hi!

Made it back from vacation in one piece (twenty hours of air and airports and ferries and thunderstorm-driving at three in the morning was not quite as fun as the rest of the week) and now I'm on two weeks of large animal emergency and critical care. It's awesome but really long hours. I'd post pictures if I had them, or if I had a computer to post them from, which brings me to--

My computer died on Monday. This is not of the good; it's a 20month old machine that I don't even move around on a regular basis. It's never been dropped or spilled on, though it's seen more than it's fair share of pet hair. Mostly it just lives on my bedside table, yet it's been no end of trouble -- first the screen casing split now the screen/hard drive/mother board kicked it. It's out of warrantee, too, which has made it really fun to deal with Hewlett Packard. Seriously, don't buy HP or if you do, make sure it's covered for the entire time you plan to own the machine.

After talking to four service reps who had only a passing grasp of the English language, I finally learned that to talk to someone who knows anything, I had to pay $100. I told them I just wanted the hardware warantee extension, not the phone support. Turns out you can't buy one without the other. Coughed up the money and the technical support guy ended up telling me to take the machine to Best Buy (or pay a further $500 plus parts to have HP fix it). That was $100 well spent -- NOT.

I took it to Best Buy where they initially told me it was the power to the screen, as I suspected all along (when I can get the screen to turn on, the computer works just fine). The following day, after I started shopping for new laptop screens, they call to tell me the hard drive is shot. I don't know what happened between day one and two, and no one would tell me what the "PC test" which killed my hard drive was. They won't tell my whether it's a hardware or OS/software/driver issue. They just told me to get a new drive and OS, and then they'll know whether the mother board is shot, too.

I already had the drive and brought it in. They have nothing to recover my operating system. HP no longer sends recovery disks with new laptops -- they keep that information on a hard drive partition that you can't get to if you loose the drive and operating system. Furthermore, if you didn't have the presence of mind to burn your own disks when you got the machine, they CHARGE you to replace them. WHAT THE FUCK, HP?!

Needless to say I am NOT a happy camper, and on 12 hours sleep in the last four days, I migh've been cursing a blue streak and in tears on the phone with various people in India who didn't even appreciate my pathetic attempts at sarcasm.

So, yeah. I apologise for not commenting lately. Hopefully all will be back to normal over the next week. :) *fingers crossed*

No Supernatural for me tonight. *single emo tear* I fear I shall have to wait until the episode is posted to cwtv.

To pass the time, I have decided to watch from way back in season one. Remember that? When Sammy was a fresh-faced college student? I'd forgotten how hard he's grown over the past few years, and how much Jared has grown up. Remember when they didn't know what had killed their mom? Remember "saving people, hunting things"? Remember when Dean didn't have that massive weight on his completely perfect shoulders and he stuck spoons in Sam's mouth while he was sleeping?

In the spirit of reminiscing, what's your favorite episode or quote from past seasons? What are your favorite ways the series and boys have changed?

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In other news ( real life, real life, blah blah blah. )

I just want to say that I love the class I'm taking this week. It's... a little controvercial and I'm not going to get into it more that that, but it's also--

I don't think I've had trouble sleeping the night before school because I was so excited (although I have when nervous or stressed) since I was about five years old.

There's no exam at the end, but I'm putting in extra hours to do extra reading outside the assignments. That hasn't happened in... well, a while.

It's just nice. Nice to remember why I'm doing this. It's nice to wake up giddy and get there early just because I want to. You know?

EEEeeeK!

So, the Longest Week is about to begin at work. (At least that's what I've dubbed it.) I go into the hospital tomorrow at three. Work for 8.5 hours, home for 8, work for 24.5 hours, home for 8, work 16.5 hours, home for 9, and then just a 4 hour shift that afternoon (whatever afternoon it happens to be. I've lost track.)

But then let the REAL vacation begin, because I don't have to be back in school until Jan 7th! My only plan for those days is to go to the city to meet my dog, and to catch up on the rest of SGA.

(Which, by the way-- SO addictive! I spent most of Thursday watching S2 with stillane and I'm almost sad that I'll only have 1 1/2 more seasons to last me through the rest of break and the ideas are BUZZING.)

So, as I don't expect to be around much the next few days, I have two orders of business:

1. MERRY CHRISTMAS!

and

2. My parents sent some presents up, but since I won't be home the 24th or 25th... ( a quick poll )