Let me start off by saying that I am going crazy without my computer.

Now you're all wondering what happened to make me say that, and more likely how I'm online if I don't have my computer. I'll break it down for you.

Over March my computer started to have more problems than usual, and one of the drives (video - the one with all my movies, most of my photos, and all my misc documents) stopped reading. A few days later, my second drive (audio - the one with my music and some of my photos) stopped reading too. Great, well at least I still had my main drive, right? A week or so later... my computer wouldn't turn on at all. Official diagnosis according to Dr Bunny and a certain raccoon is that the mobo's dead.

Dad’s all about the temporary fixes (which turn into long-term fixes when he gets lazy/forgets), so I’ve been borrowing his girlfriend’s old computer for just over a month. It has net access (though now I’m on wireless because she’s missing a jack in the back of her PC for the modem), Photoshop/Illustrator/ImageReady CS, and M$ PowerPoint (which doesn’t seem that great, but my Biology teacher loves e-mailing .ppt notes and I didn’t have it on my computer). Unfortunately I can’t update to SP2, meaning I can’t install Limewire, MSN (using an opensource version), iTunes (haven’t been able to edit iPod playlist in forever), or any other stuff I need.

By itself, things could be… well no, things are pretty bad. At least I still have my data, even though I can’t currently access it. Dad said I’m getting a laptop for my birthday (because of my tower being dead though I’m now trying to get a new one instead of a laptop, the laptop can wait till graduation), but I really need my data now. My IRP photos - IRP is being presented next week - are on there, all my files, and I’m going crazy not being able to edit all those photos I need to submit when I actually find time away from school to be able to do it.

Which brings us to the second reason I haven’t written a journal entry since Nov 14, 2007 – Wait, what? It’s really been that long? Holy.

School.

((Oh, and as a side note, I got on honour roll last semester. Huzzah! I’ll post my report card if anyone’s curious, but otherwise am not going to bother as I don’t know where I’ve placed it at the moment.))

For those of you who don’t know what courses I have this semester I am currently drowning in Biology, Functions & Relations (that’s fancy for 11 uni-level Math), Chemistry, and English. If you’re still confused as to how that explains/excuses my lack of activity… you’ve clearly forgotten high school and/or are a genius that never has a problem with any courses. If you are part of the latter group… get off my page.

Biology is getting better as the semester progresses. Oddly enough, Math is my best subject this semester. I considered not taking Chemistry next year after having a bad start to the stoichiometry unit, but now I’m reconsidering (after all, there’s going to be a new Chem lab). My atrocious writing is thanks to English (after the last essay I said an informal “fuck you” to the language and now outside of the course I really barely give a shit about how awkward my commas are, or how my sentences end, or if anything makes any bloody sense at all).



I’m trying to go through all (or most) of the deviations in my message center today, they’ve been piling up and I’m now up to (or down to, since I already checked a few before starting this journal) 407. I deleted all of the journals that had accumulated and only read a few, so if there was something you wanted me to read either send me the link on MSN, e-mail it to me, or send me a note on here. I’ll try commenting on work, but unless you’re one of my friends or it’s something I really want to analyze please don’t be disappointed when I don’t.

As always, I’m also trying to find a job. I finally found the time to hand out resumes last Thursday and out of the five places I tried dropping off a resume, two flat out turned me down (one wasn’t looking, the other had just filled a position) and the other three accepted it. I’m going to hand out more again when I find time this week, but here’s to hoping it’s one of the three (one in particular, though she said she wasn’t sure if they were hiring).

And I’ve started drawing a bit again, not sure how long that’s going to last. Thank a cute little panda for that. Of course for anyone to see my stuff I need to get a hold of a scanner, which shouldn’t be ridiculously hard once I find the time to ask around.

God I can’t wait till exams are done with and I can sleep for a week and then get started on photos and reading for fun. Remember that, reading for fun? Sigh.

Clearly this journal is not an indication of my being more active from now on, I just wanted to let everyone know what was happening.

To Love and Be Loved In Return.

`Sophie.