bloodofareptile

Remind me to keep my big, fat mouth shut on international plane flights.

With my luck, I could see something like that happening to me...

I'm so mad I could spit.

I took my laptop into Best Buy because the wireless card isn't working. I was sure it was the card, as I put new windows on and it didn't work.

Well, I get it back yesterday and they tell me it's software and I should reinstall Windows. OK, fine. I'll try it again.

I also asked them to give me a new battery and replace the touchpad (one of the buttons was loose).

Well, they did both of those... and also replaced my LCD screen and my optical drive (apparently there was something wrong with both).

Well, great.

EXCEPT THE MOUSE AND THE OPTICAL DRIVE DON'T FUCKING WORK.

The mouse is "sticky" and is driving me so insane I've hooked up an actual mouse to the laptop.

The optical drive won't read /anything/ I put into it... and also isn't flush with the PC. I think they've massively fucked that up.

And when I go in there I get treated like an idiot. I don't know if it's because I'm a girl or if these minimum wage morons think /everyone/ are idiots, but it's not fun.

Grrrrr...

I'm getting married in:

1 month
1 week
1 day

:)

And that explains how, 3 hours later, I have learned that Rogue from The Cruxshadows is a freaking /Du Pont/ heir. (Virgil Roger Du Pont III to be exact. I'd call myself Rogue too...)

I think I have a wiki problem.

Thank you, I'll be going to bed now.

So, when I was in high school I was heavily involved in Speech and Debate (forensics). One of the people who was on my team in my graduating year was a guy named Ethan Ax. We were in both Speech and a lot of theatre activities together, and he was a very nice and decent guy.

The local Fox news station in Indianapolis, where he lives is running a contest to choose their next traffic reporter. He auditioned and was chosen for the Top 10. A public vote was held, and it's now down to the Top 5. The vote happening now is to choose the actual person that will get the job.

The problem is, you can only vote once per e-mail address (well, it says per person, but I can't see how they'd know). I've voted with every address I have.

I voted in the first round, and I haven't gotten anything back, so the chances of spam are low.

If anyone feels so inclined, could you please go to the Fox 59 website and vote for Ethan. He's the candidate on the top of the page.

Thanks to anyone that votes! :)

My mother, the queen of specificity, sent me this email this morning:

The fish tank is messed up. I'm off to my meeting.

mom

I don't get it at /all/. The tank /looks/ fine. All the fish are alive and accounted for...

Reading Festival

Do I love NIN enough to go camping for them a second time? ...

... I think I do.

Plus, the Smashing Pumpkins, who I have never seen live.

I WANNA GO!

So, in case you didn't know, I'm a bug phobic. Big time. I turn and run to a safe distance, then point and shout "bug" until someone rescues me. My first year at university, I made Branden drive 35 minutes from his house to my dorm to squish a moth. I kid you not.

I have grown up a bit, and can, usually, now manage to vacuum up bugs if I'm by myself and there is no alternative. Unless it's a spider, in which case I have to move out.

So, my other trauma of the week:

My mom and I are very wimpy when it comes to heat, so when we moved into this house (which had no air), we installed 3 window air conditioners - 1 each in her room, my room, and the living room.

Now, 13 years later, mine has given out mostly. It makes horrific noise when you turn it on, which I could stand, but no one else could.

It was also a revolving door for bugs to enter the room through. I started to get a steady stream of these small, winged bugs that I now know are box elder bugs.

Since the air conditioner wasn't working and I was driving my mom crazy yelling "bug bug bug" all the time, she called the maintenance men over and had them take the air conditioner out. It was /infested/. The maintenance moronsmen carried it out /through/ the house, thus dropping bugs off everywhere. I managed to sweep them up before they got too far.

Since the removal of the air conditioner, I've been finding about 20 bugs a day in my room. My mother's been having me sleep in there as they were confined to the window area (I moved my bed to the other side of the room) and usually are only active during the day. I haven't really slept for two days.

My mother had me order some "natural" bug killer.

Then today she goes outside and comes back in and looks kind of shaken. She said I'd better call the bug spray place and have them rush the order, whatever it costs. She doesn't want to tell me, but I finally pry out of her that the brick wall outside is /covered/ with them, and she thinks they're nesting in the window well below my window. It has a hard plastic cover on it, but it's chipped and broken from the guys that mow our lawn.

I flip my lid and say that I'm not waiting for the natural stuff, I'm going out there with a can of heavy duty Raid and killing the suckers off. She doesn't want me to do it, but finally gives in and she sprays all around outside.

Now my room smells of bug spray. Super-deadly-horrible bug spray that I am allergic to. To be fair, everything is probably allergic to it.

She calls an exterminator because I guess there are just tons and tons of bugs. They said that if there are only 20 getting in the house a day, they don't consider us to have a problem (fuckers). They said that the bugs can get into the wood, and that we don't want them to die there because then other things get in and use their corpses for food.

I'm disgusted just typing this.

So far, there are fewer bugs than before, but not zero, which is the only number that I consider to be acceptable.

I'm sleeping on the couch.

I think I've somehow died and gone to hell where all my worst nightmares are coming true.

I have arrived safely back in the US.

The wedding is attacking.

I have my first dress fitting tomorrow.

I miss Tristan.

The London Borough of Hounslow sucks.