I got all my shit together before 2 AM!
NEAT!!! :D

i guess that bluescreen a couple weeks ago was legit. Maybe I dropped my computer, maybe I didn't, but reinstalls of all the programs aren't working, so, I mean, everyone knows I get to do my favorite thing. REINSTALL, YAAAAAY!!! I never trust that damn reinstall partition, newfangled user-friendly crap like that belongs in a Mac.

I DON'T CARE IF YOU'VE NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WITH YOUR MAC.

I heart PCs like nobody's business. The fact that I can dictate whatever I want to Dell is pretty cool, too. Tweaking and running everything on the planet and upmodding, man... and then when something goes wrong, I get to fix it. omfg seriously, it's so fun. No sarcasm. As long as I don't lose actual data (re: that one time I ignored a blue screen error for like 5 months and lost all my music, and I had a year-old backup of the collection), I'm actually more than happy to reinstall. I'd compare the feeling to buying a brand new spiral-bound notebook. No pages wrinkled, ripped out, smudged -- 100% clean slate, and you know for a fact, cause you did it yourself. Plus this always inspires me to clean up my "Sarah is Disorganized" folder. I really do have a folder with that exact name because it's true.

Also, it is a weekend -- so while I'm catching up on all my reading, I can blissfully comply with installation prompts.

I got 99 problems but a tech support issue's not one.

"The lights are red, but I'm gonna keep dancing..."

Sooooo the class average on that huge term paper for that poli sci grad class I just finished was a 62.71.

93 UP IN THIS HO, MUTHA TRUCKAS

Seriously, I feel so good about myself right now (in spite of the whole i-have-a-horrible-cold thing).

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT

i just came up with a good title for a term paper for the first time ever

I have found the best human being, living or dead, on the face of the planet. Anyone looking to argue with me is looking to throw down.

This includes Helen Keller.




also my bottom left jaw had an abortion this morning. my doctor told me it is not a dry socket but i think he was on a golf course.

Everything is going to be okay.

For real.


I've been given a chance to find myself and live my life in a way I've never been able to do before -- and I cannot put into words how fortunate I am.

Here we go.

I was looking back at other entries I made in September of previous years.

I don't really know how to describe it. I'm proud of who I was. I was messed up and I made huge mistakes, but christ, I was in living. I was living with every single ounce of my soul.

And now I'm scared that every year I grow older is going to take that away from me.

edit: and just for everyone's benefit (first of all, ECK TURNS 21 ON MONDAY HOLY CRAP), I found this post about her surpise party in 2003.

So I sent Dell an e-mail where I basically threatened them with a loss of about $100,000 worth of business.

They're sending me a new computer.

yeeeep.

IT IS FRIEDAY
I IS ARE DONE WITH HOEMWORK
EXCEPT I THINK I MAY HAEV SUMTHIN DOO ON MONDAY
WHO CARES
WEEKEND AHOY
HURRICANE PARTIES

who am i kidding. i'm probably going to write a script that runs latin flashcards on my iphone.
also i forgot to bring my wallet today, and now i have to pay chapel hill like $10 for parking. que ridículo.

UGH.

I LIED! While something/one fucked with my Facebook account (general Facebook security?), it's MY HEATSINK! I think. Maybe.
I wrote a really long e-mail to Dell about it, because actually explaining technical problems to technical support in technical terms IN REAL TIME is just -- oh my god it's horrible. So I basically wrote what might as well have been a manifesto based on my complete lack of faith in ear-to-ear or IM-to-IM conversation with an actual person with issues as important as my fucked up gfx.

ANYWAY. This is absolutely essential, and if for some absurd reason you don't want to listen to 4 minutes and 42 seconds of pure gold, here are my favorite parts:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=183521&title=john-mccain-chooses-a-running

0:46 - 1:06 -- Why Sarah Palin?
1:39 - 2:27 -- I want to ruin the punchline so bad but basically this is one of my favorite Daily Show moments EVER.
2:27 - 2:52 -- What is are to be VP?
Samantha Bee has the last part of the segment -- and if you have a vagina and love your vagina, I suggest you watch this.

I had an idea. (UH OH)

Drinking age. It's my general understanding that college leaders are getting into the mix primarily because of their concern with binge drinking among their students. And it has been my experience -- you know, just stuff I've heard -- that most college kids drink, whether or not they're 21.

So... WHAT IF: The legal drinking age would drop to 18 -- ONLY for those either serving in the military or attending college (4-year?). Otherwise, kids are stuck until they're 21. I'd toy with the idea that more kids would consider higher education and work towards that as a goal. This could also impact the cost of a college education (positively?). And, an increase in volunteers for the military would effect the impact of war upon more families, i.e., constituents -- and thus, politicians. As it stands, a lot of 18-year-old kids joining up are those with few other options. The kids who HAVE options and CHOOSE not to take advantage of them would also be CHOOSING to forego their privilege to buy alcohol for an extra three years. The freshmen who jump into college and get TOTALLY WASTED to the point of alcohol poisoning as part of a social scene would suddenly be much less interesting.

The tentative idea of it makes me feel a little better. Less drunken rednecks and silver spoons drivin' around my highways.

Also, tornadoes are attacking Durham again. Thanks Fay.

And, instead of posting to my CCO forum at 11:59, I posted at 5:07. K THX I R AHEAD.