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napoleonherselfAs of today we have been moved in for a month.
SBC still has not sent us our DSL modem, and the only Internet we have continues to be that which mecha is wirelessly leeching from his sister's network across the parking lot -- spotty, sporadic, and prone to drop connections, and utterly useless to my own computer since we can't get the connection to share from mecha's for some reason.
Postmarked two days ago we got a bill from SBC. Including a $30something charge for a month's DSL. Y'know, the DSL that they haven't bothered to let us access.
We're pissed, naturally. Mecha's going to see if he can get them to give him a refund for the cost if he just goes out and BUYS a modem, and definitely there is going to be some chewing out of SBC people for daring to charge us for something that we don't even have.
If you're wondering what happens when an Internet geek almost completely loses her connectivity for a month straight (as well as having no TV save what's sitting around on DVD), the answer is: she gets very, very bored. And starts sleeping more just so she'll have something to do, after having tried sketching, playing Sims, playing GTA, watching movies (some of them twice running -- regular, then commentary), and reading book after book after book in the ceaseless drive to find something, anything, to do. I even gave in and read the second Harry Potter book, I was so bored. Found it just as not worth the hype as the first.
It's really not fun.
But anyway. As a nice jolting change of subject, behold the pitifulness in..... THE FIRST YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL MEME
What year was it?
1995.
What were your three favorite bands?
Hrm... at that point... Green Day, probably I'd gotten into the Beatles by that point, and... hrm. Let's pretend that two is the same as three.
What was your favorite outfit?
I don't think I had one. Didn't like clothes back then any more than I do now.
What was up with your hair?
What, do you have a problem with ponytails?
Who was/were your best friend(s)?
I didn't have any friends that year. No, seriously. Not one. Same as the two years before.
What did you do after school?
Do homework, read, be bored.
Where did you work?
Nowhere?
Did you take the bus?
Yep. The bus that only had about half as many seats as was needed. It's so fun having to ask people to move over to let you sit half on a seat and half in the air, every morning and every afternoon... especially when most of them would say no to me.
Who did you have a crush on?
This one guy. I actually had a dream with him in it last night, which is kind of weird.
Did you fight with your parents?
Nobody fights with my dad unless they want to DIE. Didn't fight with mom either 'cause, well, just didn't see the need.
Who did you have a CELEBRITY crush on?
Nobody?
Did you smoke cigarettes?
Eww, no.
Did you lug all of your books around in your backpack all day because you were too nervous to find your locker?
I lugged them all around near to the end of the day because you weren't allowed to leave anything in your locker overnight, and to go to my locker after my last class would be to miss the bus.
Did you have a 'clique'?
Don't you need friends for that?
Did you have a "Max" like Zach Kelly and Slater?
um, what?
Admit it, were you popular?
Don't you need friends for that?
Who did you want to be just like?
I dunno. Anyone who wasn't me.
What did you want to be when you grew up?
A teacher.
Where did you think you'd be at the age you are now?
For one thing, I was convinced that the moment I hit college I'd suddenly become outgoing and popular and be happy for once in my life. No idea why I would have such a ridiculous idea, but. So I guess I figured that now I'd be reaping the career-and-personal-life-related benefits of such a college existence.
SBC still has not sent us our DSL modem, and the only Internet we have continues to be that which mecha is wirelessly leeching from his sister's network across the parking lot -- spotty, sporadic, and prone to drop connections, and utterly useless to my own computer since we can't get the connection to share from mecha's for some reason.
Postmarked two days ago we got a bill from SBC. Including a $30something charge for a month's DSL. Y'know, the DSL that they haven't bothered to let us access.
We're pissed, naturally. Mecha's going to see if he can get them to give him a refund for the cost if he just goes out and BUYS a modem, and definitely there is going to be some chewing out of SBC people for daring to charge us for something that we don't even have.
If you're wondering what happens when an Internet geek almost completely loses her connectivity for a month straight (as well as having no TV save what's sitting around on DVD), the answer is: she gets very, very bored. And starts sleeping more just so she'll have something to do, after having tried sketching, playing Sims, playing GTA, watching movies (some of them twice running -- regular, then commentary), and reading book after book after book in the ceaseless drive to find something, anything, to do. I even gave in and read the second Harry Potter book, I was so bored. Found it just as not worth the hype as the first.
It's really not fun.
But anyway. As a nice jolting change of subject, behold the pitifulness in..... THE FIRST YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL MEME
What year was it?
1995.
What were your three favorite bands?
Hrm... at that point... Green Day, probably I'd gotten into the Beatles by that point, and... hrm. Let's pretend that two is the same as three.
What was your favorite outfit?
I don't think I had one. Didn't like clothes back then any more than I do now.
What was up with your hair?
What, do you have a problem with ponytails?
Who was/were your best friend(s)?
I didn't have any friends that year. No, seriously. Not one. Same as the two years before.
What did you do after school?
Do homework, read, be bored.
Where did you work?
Nowhere?
Did you take the bus?
Yep. The bus that only had about half as many seats as was needed. It's so fun having to ask people to move over to let you sit half on a seat and half in the air, every morning and every afternoon... especially when most of them would say no to me.
Who did you have a crush on?
This one guy. I actually had a dream with him in it last night, which is kind of weird.
Did you fight with your parents?
Nobody fights with my dad unless they want to DIE. Didn't fight with mom either 'cause, well, just didn't see the need.
Who did you have a CELEBRITY crush on?
Nobody?
Did you smoke cigarettes?
Eww, no.
Did you lug all of your books around in your backpack all day because you were too nervous to find your locker?
I lugged them all around near to the end of the day because you weren't allowed to leave anything in your locker overnight, and to go to my locker after my last class would be to miss the bus.
Did you have a 'clique'?
Don't you need friends for that?
Did you have a "Max" like Zach Kelly and Slater?
um, what?
Admit it, were you popular?
Don't you need friends for that?
Who did you want to be just like?
I dunno. Anyone who wasn't me.
What did you want to be when you grew up?
A teacher.
Where did you think you'd be at the age you are now?
For one thing, I was convinced that the moment I hit college I'd suddenly become outgoing and popular and be happy for once in my life. No idea why I would have such a ridiculous idea, but. So I guess I figured that now I'd be reaping the career-and-personal-life-related benefits of such a college existence.
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Date: 2005-01-26 05:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-27 03:51 am (UTC)This connection is better than dialup anyway. Faster certainly. It's just that Windows XP doesn't know how to handle wireless connections worth shit. If there's the slightest delay in a request it tries to pull up my old VPN connection to IU instead of waiting on the wireless. Sometimes, gasp, at the edge of a wireless network's range, packets drop! Oh no!
Idiots. They get resent. Honestly.
Basically it's a fast, but very narrow pipe. You can load one webpage at a time at broadband speed, but too much stuff at a time and the router at the other end gets flustered making sure everything gets where it's going across the parking lot of doom.
We're probably going to go with Comcast service now, unless SBC gets the modem here in a couple of days. This has been... well, outrageous really.
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Date: 2005-01-28 01:05 pm (UTC)oooh, anonymous
Date: 2005-01-26 07:07 am (UTC)I'm anonymous! And there's a slab of marble in my freezer that is meant for mixing ice creams on.
-The para-...anonymous?
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Date: 2005-01-26 07:51 am (UTC)Force John to learn how to burn KSVCDs properly, (or, hey, do it yourself, it's not really hard) and you could watch the things on your computers on TV as well.
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Date: 2005-01-26 08:37 pm (UTC)I've done the watch a movie (or series of TV shows) and then immediately watch it again with commentary. I mean, I pretty much have to, or else... I'm too busy paying attention to the movie to listen to the commentary. 'Cause I haven't seen it in awhile.