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Thankfully I didn't have another fucking argument with Shelly today.
No, we were both relativley calm - did our usual act of not doing anything in Photography. Paul is such an arsehole.
We walked into town during our beasty break and Shelly persuaded me to buy a BLT sandwich from Greggs. I wanted to get one from college, but as per usual - when I want one, they don't have one.
They're pretty good though. I'm starting to think I actually do like mayo - just not Helmann's. I like the mayo from Greedy Joe's, I like the mayo from college and now I seem to like the mayo from Greggs. It clearly isn't Helmann's then. :)

Short blog yes - but everyone has days where there's fuck all to talk about.

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It's a good thing I didn't really have anything major that was bothering me this week. Well, there was the one thing that arose in Film Studies this morning.
Tuesdays are now assigned to be coursework lessons - so we were in the ICT suite on the 3rd floor, "doing coursework" - only I was attempting to do mine, but I had something stopping me.
I had all the clips I needed on my memory stick - they were all uploaded to the video editor fairly quickly - the same one I use at home - Windows Movie Maker, bog-standard, but it gets the job done. I had my script, I knew how I wanted it to look - I should have been all set to bung the clips together, save the project then edit all the sound at home with WavePad and dub it together.

But I think I'm scared of assembling it. I know there's some clips that haven't worked quite as well. I knew that there would be some jumpiness between certain clips - hence the reason I filmed some "filler clips" - just close-ups of objects and surroundings to break the flow and ease the jump from clip to clip - I did make some form of effort to sort it out. But I just know it's not going to turn out as I'd hoped. Fair enough, the trailer didn't, The Wheelchair didn't. When I wrote Regenbogen Strifen - that didn't.

And the problem is, I'm not even sure WHY I'm so scared of assembling it. :/

I would have told Dianne about this in our session - but it was cancelled.
I worked it out after sitting on the stairs by the room for 15 minutes - then giving up.
She'd actually sent me a text - but I only realised this when I got home and read it.

I told Sarah too - but she said I should just bite the bullet and assemble it.
I did tell her about my Plan B - if it went TOTALLY tits-up and wouldn't get anywhere near a decent grade - I'd take film stills and do the digital storyboard option. But that isn't the point - I shouldn't HAVE TO - I wanted to do the fucking FILM OPTION!

Mindsizzle!

Hey guys.

Today was nothing special, just another Wednesday.  In women & mass media, we discussed anime and the stereotypes there in.  I haven't watched anime myself, but it was still an interesting discussion.  It ended up evolving into a conversation about Western cartoons since most of us hadn't had much exposure to anime.  It's strange to look back on cartoons from my childhood and to realize that I was receiving all kinds of messages about gender roles that I wasn't aware of, but was still picking up on.  In Spanish I spoke Spanish, and in experimental methods I took notes about designing a survey.  It was all pretty obvious stuff, but I took notes using the new markers I recently got to make my collage for sexualities, so I had fun with it.  I'm busting my ass in stats trying to keep up with what's going on, and I'm doing well so far.  We had a quiz today that I basically aced, which is great.  It boosts my confidence. Right now I'm working on finishing up  my paper for sexualities.  It's been pretty easy because it's basically an inference and opinion paper.  There's really  no getting it wrong.

I talked to my mom  earlier this evening and she's really excited to see me, which is really nice.  I kind of like that I haven't see my family in like five months because it means they're really genuinely going to be happy to see me and they're going to be sure to spend time with me since they realize I'm not around often anymore. 

My brain is going crazy lately trying to finish up all the last minute assignments and tests before the end of the semester/getting ready to visit Carlsbad/preparing to move (we get our keys tomorrow!)/studying for finals/ectectect.  It never ends.  We haven't even started packing or anything, but I think we're going to bring some stuff over to the new apartment on Thursday . Then on Friday we're going to clean up this apartment. That way we'll have a start before we go to Carlsbad and we won't feel so totally overwhelmed when we get back. 

Paper time. OH BOY!

Well, this story is kind of odd. I have been house sitting the past couple of days and will be for the next couple of weeks. The people I am sitting for are librarians. He is in tech services for the library. He set me up with the password to his wireless so I can be online at his house. All was well for a day until the internet went out.

Yeesh.

 

Normally not that big of a deal but I am making a birthday gift for a friend whose 60th party is on Saturday and I need the internet to get the gift done and I am running out of time. One of the things I needed to do before using the internet was scan some photos into my computer. I headed home yesterday to use the scanner there (didn't work...long story) and while being frustrated by technology, I happened to hear an advertisement for Inside the Actors Studio. I LOVE that show! I hardly ever get to see it because it is on Monday nights and I always work Monday nights. Anyhoo, yesterday's episode was featuring....drumroll please....BON JOVI! I super duper heart Bon Jovi and am, in fact, going to see him in concert in April. (I just got tickets last week!) Okay, so Bon Jovi is going to be on that show with the kickass James Lipton and they hardly ever (if ever?) have musicians on there. I was psyched--until I realized that I wouldn't be able to see it. The people I am house sitting for have TiVo but no cable, so SOL for me. Flash forward to Tuesday.

 

Since I didn't work until 6pm tonight I figured I'd use today to work on the present. Alas, no internet. So I tried to figure out a solution and what I came up with was this:

 

I would go home and use the free internet there. 'Cept, home is more than 20 minutes away. I figured that'd be pretty out of the way and I could find something closer. Then it hit me. I was staying mere blocks from Grand Avenue (a major shopping area) and they simply MUST have a Starbucks in that area. I thought I heard that S'bucks has free wifi--so I figured this would be cool. A nice hot chocolate (did I mention I don't drink coffee and am therefore unfamiliar with the counterculture that is Starbucks?) and some work on the gift then home for lunch. Turns out there is a S'bucks only moments from their house and I bought my Hocho and settled in. GRR. Guess I had heard wrong. They do have free wifi, but only if you are a member of some stupid buying program and would I like to sign up? Hell no.

 

Thinking quickly, I decided to travese the three miles to Hamline (by car, I wasn't that ambitious). I got here. Logged in and found that I couldn't download what I needed bc of Hamline's firewall. F$#%!

 

But then, aha!, there is always the public library. I know there is one only blocks away from Hamline. So I head there, go inside and log in. Everything was ticking along nicely when it suddenly booted me out of the system. I logged back in and tried again...seemed okay then I got booted again! WTF? The guy working there was 110 if he was a day and he couldn't help. So I configured my card to work at the St. Paul Public Library system (making five systems it is now active in-awesome!) and headed back to the car.

 

I don't use wifi very often in public and I was out of places to go. After all this time avoiding driving 25 minutes there and back I was now left with that as my only option. And realize that I had spent 90 minutes thus far running around town getting jack shit done. Homeward bound, I was.

 

I got home and let myself in at 12:59pm. I set my computer on the counter and grabbed the tv remote. I figured while it was downloading I could watch some mindless tv. I flicked on the tv and switched it to Bravo (they usually have reruns of Project Runway or Top Chef on during the day) and literally, at that second, a new program was starting. It was--no kidding--the Bon Jovi edition of Inside the Actors Studio! Holy shit!

 

I had spent the morning thinking what a waste it all was and how annoying my day was turning out to be. But, if I had come at 11 when I first started I would have been done and gone by 1pm and missed that episode. So, my powers of aligning the universe were alive and working subliminally the whole time and this turned out to be a great day. Synchronicity at its best.

 

Sometimes it totally pays to be the Mistress of the Universe.

 

In other news, I received an email from my buddy Jan and in it she told me that the coach of the Buffalo Bills was just fired. She was being funny--as she was the only person to defend the moron featured in this story. She claimed she was only playing devil's advocate, but since she is actually FROM Buffalo (or Bflo as Buffalonians say it) I have to wonder......

 

Man do I hope that this kid has enough sense not to buy another billboard to thank the powers that be for firing this guy. Can you imagine the rant I'd have to go on?

 

Thanks for the heads up Janny-Jan-Jan. (See people, that's how you get your name in lights!)

 

Plus, Jan has sworn fealty to the Mistress of the Universe, so she knows it is her duty to send interesting information my way....

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Lmao, how awkward is it trying to play Leisuire Suit Larry when your nana and grandad are wandering around?
I've had to play the game with the fucking remote within reach - even so I could just flick onto a different channel during the naughty loading screens with the real-life models exposing their breasts. :D

I've completed it today - though I'm stuck at about 98%, now needing to proper hoarde secret tokens so I can buy the last two secrets, one from the Porn Fairy and one from Uncle Larry - but in effect, I need about 300 tokens and I only have around 35 - that means re-doing the majority of the story sequences with perfects. Wonderful. Button sequences and chat lines all over again. I doubt I'll be able to perfect some of the dodgy trampoline mini-games. Gahhh... If only I hadn't wasted so many of them.
I can mark the game down as BEATEN, but I'd rather have the shiny gold COMPLETE.

...Hmmm... To print a secret token checklist... To restart the game?
Dixie is wondering... I love it - so would it hurt to replay? It's only an 8-hour game, after all.
But saying that, I do have the mountain of un-played games.

Ian and Lisa came to nana's after they'd been to a car boot sale - they'd been selling off some of their stuff. Ian was pleased with himself, having sold a stack of wrestling magazines for £4.
They'd looked for a music box for me - and once more, to no avail - eBay is calling me... :/

Nana provided me with peanuts and Rolos and she sat and played Solitaire. When she was in the room, I couldn't really play Leisuire Suit Larry, so I gave Evil Dead another chance.

Note to self: ALWAYS USE YOUR GODDAMNED BRAIN WHEN PLAYING VIDEO GAMES.
If the FIRST level of Evil Dead has a stupid puzzle, imagine what the later ones will have.