Things to do... done!

I scheduled my dentist appointment; that happens next Thursday. Go me!
I scheduled my classes for next tri. I have four classes (Votania's horoscopes bitched me out for attempting five this tri... as it is, I'm failing one due to not enough room to process it in my brain...ooops. And not taking the prerequisite...) and though I have both morning and afternoon classes, I get Monday off!

Naturally, I'm a little stoked about that.

Paper for Ashford's class

( This had damn well better be the final draft, as it's due in at nine )

Schedule Yumminess (not)

Well.

Got my schedule for next tri done; that'll be interesting to work with. I'll get it put up at some point.

Unfortunately, Monday's finals are going to be interesting.

0900-1100: Database final
1100-1300: UML final (group A)
1200-1400: English final
1300-1500: UML final (group P)

Does anyone besides me see a problem with this?

I'm going to have a talk with Benes today, and see what I can do. As I test quickly, I'm thinking that I should be able to go through the English final in a small breeze, then scamper off to the second session of UML, though I'm technically classed with the A group.

Friday Five: TV

1. How many TVs do you have in your home?
Used frequently, one: marxdarx's rather large one, which is hooked up to VCR & PS2 as well as antenna. It's mostly used for movies and game play. Functional, three: marxdarx's, the one votania brought with her, which doesn't take broadcast, only VCR input, and gets used when I want to watch a movie in my room (rarely, that is), and then my mini TV, which gets used even less frequently. Nonfunctional, one: very large, wooden case, very broken. Used as a table until we get something better to store Marx's TV on.

2. On average, how much TV do you watch in a week?
Zero? When someone else turns it on, I will watch it, if I'm interested, but it's a house trueism that the way to get me to leave the room is to turn on a TV.

3. Do you feel that television is bad for young children?
Not as strongly as I used to, but I am still an active opponent of the idea that letting a child watch a LOT of TV, especially without supervision and comments from parents about what's going on, is a very bad thing. Votania and I have no problem with letting Nephew watch, say, The Crow, with us -- while we're pointing out who the bad guys are, and who the good guys are, and why this guy is doing that, and that when this other guy does that thing, it's a Really Bad thing, and why it's kind of OK for Eric Draven to do that, but it's not advisable, really. I disapprove of shows for children that have their bad points with no redeeming moral, cultural, or educational value. I disapprove of children watching shows that have more than 25% of their content requiring disclaimers and "Don't ever do like that guy just did" from me.

4. What TV shows do you absolutely HAVE to watch, and if you miss them, you're heartbroken?
Used to be, Dark Angel. *happysigh* Max just kicked ass. And then Original Cindy!!! Whee! Ooh, and Logan...

5. If you had the power to create your own television network, what would your line-up look like?
Daytime shows would be all the fun science, informational, teaching, and how-to shows I could run across. Construction, animals, plants, cooking, physics, math, you name it, it's on there. I'd alternate "class" type shows requiring intense brain work if you're following along with them with informative but sit-back-and-relax type shows, such as documentaries. Morning and noon would have news: an early-bird hour of global news, then an hour of local, a half-hour each of national and the highlights of the global, then daytime programming until lunchtime, a half-hour each of national and global news, a weather spot, then more daytime programming.

Two hours of news in the evening, then fun shows.

I'd dig up good classic SF, most likely: Star Trek, B5, Red Dwarf, and run heavy on the British comedies as well. I have a weakness for Seinfeld, Frasier, and Malcolm In The Middle (any show with a theme song by TMBG gets extra points). Some wide-appeal anime.

A late-evening in-depth dissection of some of the most interesting news stories.

Nights would alternate blocks of anime and music videos.

Weekends? Cartoons and movies. Anime, Warner, just goofy, silly, cartoon fun. Slayers! Whee!

The Olympics would get coverage; they'd probably wind up in the daytime shows. I'm toying with the idea of a half-hour spot in evening programming for "Interesting Thing of the Day", to make room for coverage of major things, and to provide a forum for the random thing that the station crews have dug up out of the archives this time.

I dig chlaal's idea about ten-minute blocks for breaking news. I'd probably shrink it to five, and give details that couldn't be given there in a scrolling text bar at the bottom of the screen while continuing with the regularly scheduled programming. Only the direst of breaking news would pre-empt anything.

Wrestling with Doom

...in other words, trying to get my schedule info into my scheduler. Oy fuckin' vey.

My computer is psycho.

First, it says it can't find the file. Then it says the link is bad. Then -- it opens the file.

Microsoft Word. Gotta love it.

Book

Transformed the ketchup scene from something clunky and horrendously freshman into something much shorter, much less introspective, and far more indicative of Rose's mental state at the time.

Fall, winter. (from a comment)

Your garden-variety full-spectrum lights were too sissy for my father, so he went to Sam's Club and bought himself a nice sturdy construction lamp, and set it up facing the couch. For an hour each morning while eating breakfast, drinking coffee, and lounging on the couch before work, and all morning on Sundays, he'd sit on the couch in front of the light, soaking up rays. It was delightful and warm and a great place to curl up with a book.

There's also a list of delightful fruits and vegetables to eat to help combat SAD, but regretfully, bananas and walnuts, which head the list, are impossible for me to eat and maintain the lining of my mouth.

My favorite part of fall back home was wasp-stomping. Around about the time of year when the birch trees were turning, the wasps would be sluggish, lying in the road as I walked home, trying to absorb heat. Narcissa and I used to compete to see who could stomp on the most wasps.

Poll

[Poll #68872]

People Person

Darkside is very much not a people person.

Future

Well, we've made it formal. votania and I are together for approximately the next 5-6 years.

relationships

Sometimes, when I get through talking with Darkside, I feel as though I've been thoroughly kissed. Today was one of those days. When I walked him to his car, we smiled and stuck our tongues out at each other after his mind went somewhere it shouldn't have, joking...

Magic Pills

( I <i>need</i> these things. )

Mood swings

Crashed out around 3/4 with a very greenscumboiling mood; Votania had been giving me telehugs, and they were keeping me out of the boiling green scum, but I was still dangling over top of it. At one point I ducked an energy ball of healing, I was feeling so bad.

I went and laid down in my room, whimpering softly, knowing that I needed to take a nap. Hyperventilated a bit until I felt not-panicked, and eventually did go to sleep.

Feeling much better now. Sleep heals many things, among them me. Many breadsticks and almost two slices of pizza later (evealone ordered too much pizza for one thin guy to put away, so came over to share) I'm doing quite all right.

Answers:

lugh: I haven't talked with you enough to even formulate a beginning answer to that question, and I suspect that it's one that you'll have to answer for yourself, and at that point that you do find the answer, you will likely also find that which you've been seeking.

sithjawa: Zinc oxide.

22's caught for fun and profit

I need to uninstall my Norton Internet Security because it fails to open.

In order to uninstall it, it must be open and running on an account with Admin privelages.

Answers:

azurelunatic: Damn if I know.

Nicknames

Darkside seems to be inheriting nicknames from other guys of the same name I'd known. "Riccochet" is one of them which fits well.

There's one unique one that I call him, one I haven't yet told him I call him. That's a name to be reserved for a very late-night deep conversation, though... I will likely tell no one other than him that this is a name I call him.

User Manual

When there's noise in the other room, and I go to my room and shut the door, that doesn't mean "stay away, stay out", it means "feel free to come in if the door's unlocked, just close it behind you."

Random...

digitalambience dropped by to cheer me up. I wound up teasing him. Will probably be asleep by the time he attempts to drop by very early tomorrow morning.

for tomorrow...

going with clover to get stuff. hot dogs, ice cream. customer appreciation day at grass roots.