i. So yesterday my computer crashed about 6 times in succession, and now it won't start up. I lost my final paper for Science Fiction Writing among who knows what else, so you can imagine how pleased I am about that. I'm pretty well fed up with Dell, overall, and I'm thinking about buying myself a MacBook for Christmas. Turns out I can afford one, seeing as I never spent any of the money I made this summer (I knew that government job had to be good for something; aside from the mark on my resume, of course).

ii. I have managed to find the only computer lab on campus open 24 hours. This means I'm mildly less pissed off about my computer but doesn't bode well at all for my sleep schedule. Bed? What bed? I think I'll just stay up all night! I can play more Runescape that way!

iii. I'm twitching at my own use of exclamation marks. I really dislike them an unreasonable amount. And, as for the link up there? I started playing that game because of my 13 year old brother. Sometimes, when we're both up playing at ridiculous hours of the night, we'll message each other to say things like "Guess what level my smithing is now?" or "You'll never guess what I just got from this noob PK." We are both enormous dweebs, but at least we've got each other. (We just confuse the rest of our family, really.)

iv. This is the same 13 year old who tries to coerce last_radio into playing Halo every time she comes over to our house, because he thinks it's funny that her big not-getting-shot strategy is to leap around the screen like a gazelle. He thinks it's even funnier to run her over with a tank when she's tries it. He's a bit of a nut, but at least his sense of irony is intact.

v. I want some apple juice. Like mad. There's a guy sitting across the lab from me who has an entire carton, and he's drinking straight out of it. That's pretty gross, actually, but I'm still jealous. Bugger it, I'm just going to have to find someplace that's open and buy myself some.

vi. I've been rereading the Half-Blood Prince and JKR doesn't half abuse ellipses does she? I guess if you're going to do a thing, do it excessively well. (I'm thinking of counting them, only there's enough of them in there that I think it'd take ages to do. And probably be more annoying than funny.)

vii. Guess I'll just make a habit of posting at 5 a.m. Seems to be the only time I think of it. Also, I'm going to be bored when I wake up (some time this afternoon) so in the spirit of using out-of-use memes (which is the only way I ever seem to do them):

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