12 posts tagged “rambling”
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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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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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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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I am full of cold.
Bah.
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You know, it's funny. If you had mentioned the Q*Bee to me last year, I'd have told you I had no interest whatsoever in it. I thought the members were elitist, very 'cliquey' and generally unfriendly. I thought you had to be an expert pixeller and all that.
...how very wrong I was.
I got curious and started visiting people's quilts, and was admiring their patches and the activities that go on. I was seriously considering joining, but I didn't have a patch yet and didn't have time to make one, so I left it. Then, Jem became Queen Bee. Being as omgz i heartz jem!1!1! Jem was a friend and claims not to have any pixelling expertise, I thought I should probably start on making a trial patch to see how it went. I asked her what she thought of my efforts and she said it was good enough to join with :D Sooo, I applied, made my quilt and got accepted on May 24th. Since then, I've joined the BBS, traded patches with loads of people, won awards, participated in several activities and made a whole bunch of new friends. :)
If you've been putting off joining because of the same reasons I did, don't worry - no one is elitist, and you don't have to be able to pixel. You just have to be able to make a 40x40 patch. I started by filling up the square with a load of different coloured dots - then gradually started changing the colours and attempting to draw a bit more. This failed, but I ended up with a patch I'm actually quite proud of. I think that with a bit of practice, I could probably end up a better pixeller... And I'd have never discovered this 'talent' if it wasn't for the Q*Bee. :P
And no, I wasn't paid to write this - it's part of the Q*Bee blog day :)
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Work is leaving me rather less time to do stuff these days :( I have university classes on Mondays and Fridays, and I work all day Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, leaving me with just Sundays off to do assignments and things. Next week is the last week of uni before Christmas and every assignment under the sun is due in... Have I done any work on any of them? Of course not. When I get home from work, I'm exhausted and I pretty much go straight to bed. When I get home from uni, the last thing I want to do is study. Urgh. Although extra money is good (I haven't had a "proper" job in quite a while, uni and travelling to and fro kind of prevented me doing anything for a couple of years), I do miss my free time. If I didn't have uni work to do, this would all be great... But I do so it isn't. Meh.
Not that I'm not enjoying my new job though... I'm not doing anything exciting but I've done this sort of thing before and I really enjoyed it. This time round it's with a different company, but it's the same kind of job and I still enjoy it. That is, until people start telling me to go and put things in places when I don't know where said places are. Oh well, I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually. In the meantime, I should probably try and work on these essays. *Gloom*
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That's right, Amelie has a job. :D Nothing exciting, just a little bit of temporary work over Christmas to help with present funding. But yeah, I start tomorrow (it would have been today, but I have lectures on Mondays so I can't work then). ARGH TOMORROW. I have no idea what I'll be doing, who I should report to and where... This whole job was organised in a rush on Thursday and I had a very brief induction on Saturday. I'm in at the deep end tomorrow morning at 9am sharp. O_O EEP!
In other news, I met Jem, her partner Karl and Katy yesterday :D Decided at the last minute that while Katy was there admiring their new flat, I might as well go down and see what all the fuss was about (and meet everyone all at once, woo) as well. Dragged the boyfriend with me, since I can't drive and navigate at the same time, and he ended up driving. We then got lost because Jem lives in the middle of nowhere the directions we got off some travel site shoved us down a tiny narrow road that was closed instead of down the much easier (and more open) main road. Heh. Anyway, that was fun. :)
Now I can go back to fretting about jobliness tomorrow. ARGH I START IN 12 HOURS AND 20 MINUTES ARGH
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...you dream about your script getting its own LiveJournal community. >.<
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I need to change this layout... It's too square and boring. If I wasn't supposed to be doing an essay right now I'd probably work on something new, but I've been putting this off enough today already :( I also need to revamp this site completely. Several people have commented on the fact that I have no visitor content and generally nothing to keep people here, which I am very much aware of. When I moved to this domain from my old one, I did absolutely no clearing up in terms of content, and still have a lot of the unchanged pages from 2002, when I first opened the old site. That 'girl' thing in the sidebar there *points* hasn't changed in around two years (can you tell?). That whole "Name. Does stuff. Blah. etc." thing was never popular and I look kind of stupid to have gone through with it, heh. I only recently got rid of some popups as well, how embarrassing.
All in all, my site is still stuck in web 1.0 when everyone's moving towards 2.0 :\ I'm rubbish at following trends though... I always do stuff when everyone else gave up on it ages ago. :P
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As tempting as the idea is, I refuse to be paid to blog. My site is not a tool for anyone - least of all me - to make money; it serves as a creative outlet for me so that I can show off my super-1337 intarwebz sk1llz1!11 because I'm geeky and I simply must have an internet presence.
Do you see any advertising on this site (other than a couple of links to similar sites, but they are all non-profit and generally agree with me on this standpoint)? No (unless you're reading this on Vox, which has ads to support its free services). There will never be advertising on this site, and especially not spam disguised as a blog entry. I am not going to lie through my teeth and bore all 2 of my visitors to death by talking about how great it is now that my [begin obligatory link] mortgage debts [/end obligatory link] have been cleared by some scammy company or how I really should be [link!1!1] losing weight [/link] by taking some dodgy pill just to get $5 out of it. I could work a real job (*gasp!* Those actually still exist!1!) and get that in under an hour.
Want to lose all your visitors? Go ahead, sell your site. And your soul. To me, you just look greedy and like you can't be bothered to go out and get a real job.
