FLAMES! ON THE SIDE OF MY FACE!

Oh look, school's out and I haven't updated in what the fuck ever. My excuse is that I couldn't see the keyboard cause I'm blind myopic. (20/40, and probably that way for a lot longer than I realized.)


Two days hence, I'm spending a week in Missouri with dad and family, brought to you by KILL ME NOW PLZKTHX.

Phoning the confirmation number to activate a credit card, interacting with a recording of a guy with the thickest Indian accent evar, such that I can barely understand it, and having to say "no" at least 10-15 times to the recording to avoid signing up for the stupid "payment insurance" bullshit. God dammit, the first 5 times weren't good enough? Just to clarify, it's not that my pronunciation of "no" didn't get accepted by the speech recognition. Oh no, Recorded Indian Guy actually tried to pressure me into signing up. I hope you die, Recorded Indian Guy.

Also, your name is so not Alex.

Besides, wtf is up with having a dude who can barely pronounce the language do the recording? Trying to replicate the authentic experience of being connected to a real, live Indian wage slave? Huh?

 

In other news, judging by the tables and signs and such in the student union plaza, the majority of student activities at Berkeley consist of business frats and Asian Christian clubs.

In other words, it's Lowell.

At least I'm not getting robbed too hardcore on textbooks this time around, especially considering that I'm carrying 16 units.

Athlon 64 dual-core 3800+
Asus M2N-E motherboard
1 gig ram
GeForce 7600GS

Yeah, it's pretty much the sex.

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=54084

All shopping should be done this way.

P.S. for some reason, I can't see the userpic selector on the page to post a new entry, but it's there when I edit. It does appear in the HTML source though. Using the new beta navigation site scheme. Anybody else?

This January, for the last week of winter break, I'm going to be in Florida. With my dad. Seeing his mother.

And of course there's the whole flying part, what with the whole "you must drink your own urine to survive" deal they've got going on. Of course, at least they still have bathrooms, unlike riding the BART, where the station restrooms have been closed since 9/11. (If you have to pee, the terrorists win.)

Hour layover in Phoenix on the way back, too. Better than the 2 hours in Salt Lake City I had coming back from Chicago, I suppose.

Oh my god I'm going to Florida.

Of the crazy things college kids do to ensure financial stability, I think I'd have preferred horse porn.

1. The existence of evil and the existence of Dr Pepper are mutually exclusive.

2. I am, in fact, at this moment, having a glass of Dr Pepper.

3. Therefore, there is no evil. Iraq, North Korea, et. al. in truth form the Axis of Puppies.

Edit: fuck you, livejournal subject line html cleaner.

Berkeley transfer?

AC-FUCKING-CEPTED

That's all for today.

Yay for crashing tonight at aunt's house, which actually has this whole newfangled "Internet" thing. Maybe someone else has heard of it? It's really super cool, but apparently rare like a Black Lotus card.

Calc final thoroughly skullfucked me twice, though I'm still pretty sure I'll pull off a C in that class, if for no other reason than the teacher likes me, despite my poor concealment of my hatred for her. Grades officially don't get posted until the 10th, though, (wtf is that?) but that won't stop me from checking every half-hour now and then.

Pretty uneventful drive down to SLO, "uneventful" meaning "I slept a lot and Grandpa (who shouldn't drive as much as he does, but Grandma should drive less) didn't crash and kill us," although it was a pretty light sleep in the event that if the latter happened, I'd like to be awake to yell at him for a split second first.

After that, however, it's been one great big hectic string of absofuckinglutely nothing. Dear God nothing has been happening. TV sucks, though I did catch some of the Battlestar Galactica marathon the other day on SciFi, so I need to add *that* to my long list of TV series to download once I clear more of the anime, DS9, porn and Babylon 5 off my hard drives.

Or just buy a new hard drive. Which I realized the other week I could do without having to migrate anything over, since my board does SATA, meaning I can add two more physical drives without adding an IDE controler. If I had the money for a new drive, life would be perfect.

So sticking around at the grandparents' house is driving me ever so slightly nuts. Between my loudmouth self-centered bitch of a sister, and my grandmother who is understandably stressed but seems to have completely forgotten that I am the mature, helpful grandchild and is acting instead like I'm onerous and retarded, and somehow Elsa's whining and insulting everybody and me in particular when I've been leaving her alone doesn't faze her, but as soon as I say anything back, I'm picking fights with her and "we" get told "I don't want to hear any growling" (I've had a lifetime allotment of family catchphrases in the last 4 days alone) and Elsa does the whole whiney repeating of said order as if it were directed at me alone, and nothing gets said about that, and am I sounding resentful, and how the hell did I start this sentence anyway, and I don't think I can grammatically salvage it to save my life, so anyway, I need a break from over there.

Maybe I shouldn't have convinced Jaime it'd be a stupid idea for him to try to drive up here from LA. I mean, it still would have been a stupid idea, but it'd have been very nice for me in a self-centered sort of way. And the week he spent at my place before we came down here didn't really take because of finals and both of us getting bad colds and me consequently being a general bitch. I'll try to make it up to him for his birthday, though. It'd be nice if his birthday were a week later, because then I'd have some advance financial aid money to help out, but obviously the gods of financial aid are homophobes out to ruin us.

At least the whole jury duty thing gives me a built-in excuse to get out of here Monday/Tuesday. Because seriously, San Luis has gotten severely old meme.

P.S. Happy fucking Holidays, Bill O'Reilly.

Yay lack of Internet for Christmas until I get back.

So I had two English papers due at 10am this morning. One was actually due then, the other was on a 3-week or so extension I got due to dead-uncle-age. The extended one was about landmarks, and I did it on trees and how Chris Daly is a super douche. The other was on a social trend, and I decided to do Craigslist. Since it was soooo late I went all-out batshit insane on that one. I probably let some internet humor the teacher will never understand in there, and I said "fuck" (in the proper sense of the word, pertaining to the "personals" i.e. "find some random desperate person to get laid with today" section) at least three times.

Both were a bit under the minimum, but I got them done, and I've gotten As on too-short papers before. My citations were mostly a joke, because I hate citations. But they were done.

So after turning everything in, I had to bum around here for a few hours until my Geography Lab final, and nurse a Monster drink to keep from collapsing. (I sustained myself through the night with Mountain Dew [tongue is probably still a little yellow-green] and in the morning with coffee, which I never drink.) Then I finished the lab final in like half an hour, so now I've got to kill time until my Computer final at 3:30, which I'll probably also finish in half an hour, then I have to get downtown and have dinner and get to German by 6:30 for *that* final.

THEN I have to get my ass to school by 8am tomorrow for my Geography (lecture) final. Which I also need to study for. Follwed by relaxation for the rest of the day, then a Calculus-filled weekend as I strive desperately not to fail the teacher's ill-constructed test Monday mornining. Also at 8. But it DOESN'T STOP THERE BOYS AND GIRLS. Very soon after I return home from THAT adventure, we're off down south to San Luis Obispo again so we can be all mourny and depressed over the holidays together. (Note: I'm not actually resentful about spending Christmas down there, I just want to skip the traveling part.)

SUPER EXTRA BONUS: I have to be back in SF by the 27th because that's when my postponed jury duty date is. Even though there are pretty much zero trials that particular time of year, I still have to be available. Fuck you, civic responsibility.

I think that counts as enough un-hermiting for the month.

I just cited this Craigslist post for a paper I'm about to go turn in as soon as I can get out the door. Oh my god my writing is cracked when I'm tired. More on that later.

Where's my pony, asswipes?

Also, Firefox 1.5 came out forever ago.

Also, Google is my god forever and ever and ever and ever. At least when they add SF in, which will be complicated no doubt, but it's got to be high on their list. But when they do, it *must* be better than transit.511.org.

So my uncle died a week ago. How was your thanksgiving?

Who the fuck invented a calculator that could do integration but not summation? Especially since integration is just summation with a really, really tiny interval.

Grr. It was simple enough to write a program to do it; 75% of the code is input/output to set up the parameters. Well, simple enough once I was able to recall the syntax for TI's pitiful excuse for a for-loop. But that makes it even stupider that it's not a built-in function.

Fuck you Texas (Instruments).

P.S. oh noes I broke my Internet hermitage

P.P.S. I also burnt my tongue on my Pasta Roni. I'd like to redeem my Internet Pity coupon right now.

"If I was gay, I'd be goatse man times 10"

You are a champion, Jon Peng.

Santa Cruz weekend yay. Well, as soon as the ride arrives.

Dear Internet,

Oh. My. Gawd.

http://www.rent-a-dildo.com/

It's like Netflix, only for rubber cocks and the like.

Why must you hurt my brain so?

Love, Raymond

Dear Sun,

Your constant presence here is officially old meme. Please go away.

Love, Raymond


Seriously, it hasn't been non—unbearably-hot for more than a handful of days in the last two months. Yeah, I know, Indian summer and all, but for fuck's sake, show me the fog.

DSL signal started fully working yesterday, and we were able to complete registration and get both computers online.

There's so many Internets out there to catch up on, and so little time. Any recommendations for particularly good stuff I missed? (I kept up with Homestarrunner along the way already.)

My last.fm page is getting close to being caught up with my submit cache backlog. It'll be interesting to see how the charts change next time they're recalculated. I know they'll still be topped by good old Stephin Merritt, but everything else might shift a bit.