not a perfect metaphor

*Since I naturally forgot to mention on Sunday: Holy crap, this thing is six years old now. WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN.
*Did the visitation-and-funeral-Mass thing last night and today; a former teacher of mine died over the weekend. It wasn't a terrible shock, but it still sucks. (And I'm still Not Pleased with the last two times I did this particular bit, since they were bigger shocks to the system.) On the bright side, I talked to some people I haven't seen in years.
*Note to mother: I cannot magically 'find a job' in one day, though I can certainly look for one. (And I did that, I've been doing that, I hope I can get one in this bloody stupid economy.)
*On a lighter note: Writer types who haven't already seen? hogswatchfic! It's like Yuletide, but with a later deadline and no fandom limits and less stress and... not terribly like Yuletide at all, really, except for the 'fic for the holidays' part.

So those Genius Bar people are pretty smart. Hex has been given cheese, so one hopes all is back to normal. (Certainly the fact that it's actually running is a cheering sign.)
Mom and I might go vote in the next couple of days, since Ohio's early-voting thing seems to be 'I live here and I want to vote now rather than later.'
I have writing things to type up, and perhaps more to write. I... like having ideas. It's a good thing. (Speaking of, mapsarecheating's profile has more links on it now.)

Tried Hex again last night. There was no beeping this time, but... well, I finally got a shutdown request through about 9:30 last night, and GUESS WHAT HASN'T HAPPENED YET. So I have a Genius Bar appointment for Monday afternoon; hopefully, that'll give me some idea of what to do next.

Okay so, uh, beeping noises after you boot up are bad, right?
As is taking nearly an hour to get through two and a half pages on Safari?
This... may be problematic. Suggestions welcome, if anyone knows something other than 'pray your data's still fine.'

So I ran software updates for Hex last night... and Hex proceeded to pitch a massive fit. (Example: I think it's finally shut down, an hour after I started the request to shut down.) Consensus so far is that it's just the software playing catch-up; not sure how long letting it sit is going to last.
(Am on parents' computer at present. Hopefully this will enforce that the left shift key on this stupid keyboard doesn't work.)
In brighter news, Iron Man might actually get here today if the tracking's right in saying it's in town, and I wrote stuff last night. I might post it later, if I have a complete scene. Suffice to say Valspar the fabulous adventurer is Quite Fun to write about. XD

Power buggered off again five hours after my last post; it returned yesterday afternoon, and seems to be sticking around. Dad and I were cleaning up the yard some today. The one huge branch that fell... apparently had termites and carpenter ants anyway!
(The two smaller trees that took major damage are kind of a bummer, though.)
Cable has been gone since the first power flicker on Sunday.
Upgraded to Firefox 3 (I know, I know, finally), which is shiny; however, it's one step ahead of PMOG, which is making me sadface.
In any case, I'm back around, which means the job search can plod slowly but surely onward. (Trina was right; after the first resume, they get easier to send out.)
I also need to figure out where the hell my writing ability got to.

So, that was ten hours without power, courtesy of Ike remnants. NOT MY IDEA OF A GOOD TIME, ACTUALLY.
Still, it's back now (pretty much at the stroke of midnight), and I found a cool-sounding job before the power gave out that I think I have a good shot at. Hopefully, that's going to turn out well, and then I can get to where I'm going.

Paper!journal is no longer two weeks and a bit behind. (It's still one week and a bit behind, but I'm working on that.) Note to self: Next time, don't leave it in your backpack after vacation.
The job-search thing is still mildly terrifying. This does not mean Mom prodding me to do it is encouraging me to move faster, for all I know I should, but at least I've got feelers out there.
And now, some entertaining images:
( further Adventures in Spam )
( ...a macro. blame Quin; I do. )

( and now, a concert review. )
We missed metaphor and madbonnycaptain through flukes of timing. Oh well; perhaps next time.
Re: latest LJ fuss - minus several million for initial execution, but ten out of ten for owning up to their mistake in a timely manner.
Re: classes - you know what sucks? Two midterms the same afternoon. Sucks more? The first, which is timed because it's art slides, starting late, resulting in no time for last-minute prep before the second.
But they're both over now, and I think I did all right on them. So now (well, tomorrow), I disappear to Philly for a week. There will be less Internets than usual. Suspect I will survive by writing a lot.

I'm having one of those moments where I feel like I haven't been productive, academically speaking, even though I've probably written enough to finish off my assignment for the noveling class for Monday. (That will probably end up on mapsarecheating, once I have it all typed.) It's the fact that I'm not writing a paper or reading from textbooks, I think.
Speaking of writing journals... I feel like sto_helit_lace has long since outgrown its name. Especially now that I'm only writing Disc stuff occasionally. But I don't want to get a rename token without a good alternative in mind, so - suggestions?
( listy time )
Also speaking of journals I write in, I think the paper!journal thing is serving me well.