Elaby's LiveJournal - 57 Academics

Well, as caitirin mentioned, our car's breaks went kaput and they're going to have to replace the whole break line from back to front, so it'll cost us just shy of $800 -_- We're going to see about getting a new car (new to us, at least) when we get our tax refunds.

But... we had the dishwasher repair guy over today, because THAT seems to have broken too (we thought it was the soap door neglecting to pop open and let the soap out)... and they've decided to just install a new one XD Since it's so ancient that if we were to move out, they'd replace it anyway. We'll be washing dishes by hand for about a week and then we'll have a brand spanking new dishwasher!

In the meantime, we've been using coastal_spirit's lovely shiny car, which rides so smooth. We went to LL Beans today and I got some shoes :3 My clogs were wearing out so that the fabric in the heels is pretty much gone, so I got some new ones in a different style. I got them from the men's department *giggles* I tried on a black pair in the women's department, and they felt great, but I asked for brown and the attendant brought out the wrong color. So when she brought out the brown, they felt too small O_o We went and exchanged Caitirin's boots and were going to go to lunch before deciding on whether I wanted shoes or not, and I saw they had the same ones in the men's department and I tried those and they fit great. For future reference, I am a 7 1/2 men's Beans shoe.

We're going to have baked tofu and apple-feta-walnut salads for dinner.

I started FFXII last night! It's preeetty. I'm kind of worried, though, because I just got to a part where they were all "This next part is long! You may want to create an additional save file!" and I was like "Er, whatever" and didn't. So I hope I'm not stuck forever in the palace at Rabanastre with no potions or something. *shrugs* Oh well, if I have to start the game over, I've only played a couple of hours.

Time to put away laundry. Woo.

Oh, and! You know how Freija is a total escape artist kitty and always tries to slip out the door at any chance she gets? Well, Caitirin bought a little kitty harness and leash thing the last time she was at the vet's so we could bring Freija out into the hallway like she wanted so badly. And yesterday, we let her get used to the harness a while and then tried to take her out into the hallway and she was like "For the love of all that's holy, LET ME BACK IN!!" *rolls eyes*

Well, I had an ENTIRE POST typed up continuing my talk about why I'm going to change some of my vampire characters to immortal and leave some of them as vampires, but while trying to find a link at the very very very end, I somehow opened a page over my LJ update window. When I went back, part of it was there, but when it asked me if I wanted to revert to the saved draft, I clicked "yes" and it reverted not to the whole thing, but the very first line in the post. Which was me bitching about the weather.

So now I'm tempted to just say fuck it all, because nobody was going to be interested anyway and now I've wasted an hour and a half that I should have been spending reading Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Because, you know, I'm never allowed to spend any time doing things I want to do when I'm in grad school. I should be using every waking hour reading assigned things, even if I won't be quick enough to ever say anything intelligent in class.

/bitterness

But instead, I think I'm going to retype it all in a Word file so that I can actually save it rather than having it disappear into the void of the internet. And you thought I'd learned my lesson all those years ago when I used to write posts for RPG groups actually IN the posting window, or in an e-mail, and had AOL crash on me countless times.

Of course, when you'll actually SEE what I get written in that Word file is another matter, considering how long I've been planning two new plot-driving characters for _melisande_'s RPG and haven't even gotten a half a page written about them.

caitirin gave me chocolate. She said it's point-free. Endorphin levels rising.

Off to stem my academic guilt by reading some Gawain. I'm going to keep the library-borrowed laptop I'm using, though, so I can maybe work on that file.