Eviola

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We have an infestation of mould mites. These insects seem to love any sort of electrical item in the house and have taken up residence in my laptop. Niiiice. They are apparently extremely resilient to insecticides (as I know - I've tried most household sprays and stuff. Can't really do anything else since they're in electrical items) and can't be hoovered up either. URGH.

Turns out they love humidity and since our house is always cold (yay for condensation everywhere) they've made their home here. No wonder I have unexplained eczema all over my hands and I itch all over. Stupid bugs.

We either need a dehumidifier (can't afford one though) or for pest control to fumigate the house (can't afford that either). Joyous joy.

Really didn't need this, what with all the work I need to do right now (and most of it is to be done on my laptop as well). Grrr.

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I have so much work to do :( I have 3 jobs on the go at the moment (why do they all come in at once?!) and I have no time to do anything. My university dissertation is due in in two weeks and I haven't even started it. Arrrrgh. There are loads of other things I need to do too but since they're not as important they'll have to wait.

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Ra, my uni term is over. Work will be over on Saturday and then I'm off to my parents' for two weeks.

...then uni will start again, and I will have two weeks to get my dissertation done :(

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You know the whole fanlisting world is collapsing when someone makes a fanlisting about you...

(Only joking Jem. :P Thank you very much :D )

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Further to my last entry where I mentioned not being able to get my wireless adapter working in Kubuntu, I have now successfully managed to do it :D YAY ME! *Bounces around*

/geeky excitement

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Woo, it's 2007 here in the so here are some new year greetings.

In other news, I have finally succumbed to geek pressure and installed Kubuntu Linux (as opposed to the popular Ubuntu, because the former has a prettier look to it :P ). I am so rubbish with it though, I am getting errors all over the place and can't get my wireless working at all :\ Never mind :P

Oh yeah, and I have conjunctivitis again. Grrr.

Um, that will be all. Happy new year when your timezone gets round to it. :)

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The boyfriend bought a new computer today (sales ftw!) and I am jealous :(

His laptop (3 years old, like mine) started playing up ages ago and he really wanted to play graphic-intensive games and as any hardcore gamer (i.e. not me) knows, you need the latest graphics card for that. Something that a three-year-old laptop will not have. Anyway, we ordered it yesterday and picked it up today... And it is drool-worthy. It's a Packard Bell (we didn't go based on brands. As long as it works, we're happy) that comes with the following goodies:

• 19 inch widescreen flat panel monitor
• 2.8GHz processor (same as the old laptop’s…) with 800 MHz Front Side Bus and 2MB cache
• 1GB RAM
• 512MB nVidia GeForce 7300LE graphics
• DVD writer, 200GB hard drive, build in 8-in-1 media card reader, etc. etc. etc.

So much better than my poor old laptop… 14.1″ monitor (not widescreen), 64MB Intel something-or-other graphics, 30GB hard drive, blah blah blah. The old laptop has now become our print server, though we’re hoping to do away with having a computer as a print server soon enough. That laptop can’t stay on all the time (it’s noisy, it overheats like mad [and yes, we did clean it and the fans were working properly], etc.) so another solution will be needed.

All this comes after I got a DVD writer for Christmas… Now we have two of them, heh.

I want that computer. Hmph.

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Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it. And season's greetings to those who don't. :) Hope your festivities (if any) go well.

Have you ever secretly unwrapped a gift before the big day?

I don't think so. I hate doing that because it ruins the surprise, and it's also a bit dishonest to those around you... They've spent ages (I hope...) finding me a gift and there I am pretending I'm surprised at getting it, when I've secretly known about it for weeks or something. So yeah, I tend not to open presents before I'm allowed to.

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I am full of cold.

Bah.