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Xrys has discovered one of my evil secrets... hee hee... do find out for yourself if you wonder about the origins of the term "verbminx"....

CD burner is working sporadically; I forgot to page L. He hasn't called or answered my email yet. I should page him tomorrow.

I've been making room for my newer computer next to his so I can move the peripherals between them as I transfer my stuff (fun, fun, fun). In the last two days, in the parts of the house I've been cleaning, I've thrown away two huge bags of trash.

My labret is infected again/still (it has been for a few days), and I am trying to think of something interesting I can do with my hair. Possibly getting the crown, etc braided. I should ask around school to see who knows how to do braided extensions.

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It's almost 8AM and I'm off to sleep actually a bit earlier than I have been recently... One or two nights of being unable to sleep for whatever reason (ill, anxious, etc) really messes me up. I have been running a fever tonight, too. :(

I've spent the last few hours trying to fix my file-transfer situation... hooked up all the peripherals to the NewPuter*** and went through my zip-100 disks dumping anything I could onto the hard drive, to free some space on the zips so that I can move ALL my stuff without having to upload it, burn a cd (which isn't working!), or buy more zips. I still can't get the Wacom Graphire tablet to work, and I need to get a USB hub, but other than that it's OK.

This is the first time I've had a computer of my own, that I didn't have to share, in almost 4 years... longer if you consider that I was sharing my old 486/33 with my mother before she got hers (which we shared). It's going to be great to be able to set things like "change expiration date to NEVER" on my lj logins and clog up the hard disk with mp3s if I want to. I have a new desk to set up and a new chair to order and a good scanner and cam and games to install and play. I'm in computer-hog heaven! I just wish I had it all together. It's really hard to muster the energy to get all this stuff set up properly.

Got mail back from L.; his laptop is fine, but he and his buddy want to try overclocking their desktop pcs. This poor computer. *sigh*. It looks like he's going to pick it up Thursday evening.

I'm still trying to figure out how to activate the Themes feature on the NewPuter... L. says that win98 has Themes as a feature (rather than them being part of Plus! as they were with 95), but I have yet to locate it.

This is such a rambly entry. I'm sleepy, achy, have been innundated with dust tonight. Yesterday I fell asleep without a blanket, and my mother covered me while I was asleep. Wasn't that nice?

OK, off to dreamland with me.

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Well, things got accomplished today...

We went to a home improvement store and ordered a new clothes dryer. Finally! My visits to the laundromat will be considerably diminished in frequency. It's going to be delivered Wednesday. We also got a new floor lamp for the livingroom (where it is dark because the old lamp broke) and a new iron, a Rowenta but not the most expensive one. Saw a lot of lovely things, such as a Fiestaware toaster and nice lamps. When the livingroom is in better shape, in a month or so, we are getting new furniture, and when the whole house is in shape, a dog. (

Then we went to Target, where I picked up a couple of tshirts to replace the one I need to return, as well as some summer pajamas (pale blue pointelle shorts and tank with lace trim) and some socks, and my mom bought a small stereo for her room (which she didn't need... we have like 3-4 other stereo systems in the house... but I guess she wanted something very small)... I know we picked up other things we needed, some of them mind-numbingly dull, but I can't remember what else we got there overall. I know that we went for lightbulbs for the new lamp.

Came home, ate chicken soup with rice.

That has pretty much been my day.

I don't feel well at all today... exhausted and achy. Fever seems to have gone down. I'm sleepy. Sometimes I wonder... how do other people, people who are well, feel in their skin? Am I really just normal and other people are braver or more perseverant (or have more stamina or motivation) than me?

I have no reference for this. I've never been anyone but me.

All I know is that everything hurts and I've spent the whole day wanting to curl up and go back to bed, and that in a more general sense I feel at least under the weather when I'm not just-plain-*sick* (with a cold or flu or stomach bug - that is, a recognizable illness on top of my general miasma of not-well-being). I have days when I feel really good, and I haven't been having many of them lately.

I was talking to Autumn a few minutes ago, now I'm talking to Ragdoll. I'm exhausted and my ears are popping a lot. I think I'm going to get into my pajamas and hit the sack.