Joie de vivre

YouTubers are KILLING THE INTERNET!

What shall we DO?!

I'll be without my laptop for "two to four days". *wailing, etc.* But it'll come back new and improved (and with a new hard drive at least three times larger), and in the meantime everything even mildly important is backed up to the desktop. So it's all good. I'm surprisingly untramatized, compared to the last time I had to leave it overnight. 

Okay, I love my electronics. So what. tttbbppt. 

My daddy said he'd bring me a kitten from the farm for my birthday. Awww. I've missed having a cat around. I'm thinking of naming it Jack.

(Not you...we named the monkey Jack.) 

A day of work awaits. Nine o'clock, I look forward to thee. (Never have decided if I love or hate the late night hours on Monday.)

Chainreading, a book-tracking site I find utterly indespensible, offers various codes you can put in your websites that will keep a constantly updated list of what you're currently reading.

I've been trying to put this into my user info, but it does nothing. When I view the page after pasting it in, you can see neither the source code nor what it's supposed to produce.

Does anyone know what might be the matter? Here's exactly what the site says:

This script displays the books you are currently reading in a little customizable box that can be displayed on your website or blog. To use this code, simply copy and paste the code below onto your website.

<script src="http://www.chainreading.com/scripts/reading/391?width=218px"> </script>

I am going to go home and make pasta with lemon cream sauce.

A very promising place will be opening up next week: The Coffee Bean, serving specialty coffees, salads, soups, pastries, and so on. I am hoping it will have the kind of comfortable atmosphere that I can go and sit for several hours and read or write (as if I have several hours in which to do that). I've been sorely missing my Electric Brew. (As if it were ever mine in the first place.)

I'm thinking about getting a wireless card for my laptop so I can sit in the gym's lobby and avail myself of their wi-fi--and here at the library, too, although I don't actually need it here because we're...connected anyway. Still: anybody know anything about wireless cards?

Something indescribable is happening. I would try to describe it, but it is not able to be described. That is what indescribable means.

I am afflicted, mind and spirit, with wanderlust. I want to see mountains again, mountains, Gandalf! I want time to sit in some remote place and enjoy a book and coffee. I want to finish writing my book. I want time to play an entire game of chess, and I want to learn Latin again and Italian for the first time and read all the books in the world and study more ancient history and philosophy and do something amazing with my life.

The wedding was lovely. I have now met violetvale who is beautiful (don't listen to anything she might say to the contrary!). And I got to see elveneyes38 again...very wonderful...CA seems to have agreed with her; she's even more glowing and beautiful than usual. =)

I got myself navigated around downtown Fayetteville, rescued the missing tie for the best man, and even got myself on the proper expressway to get home. So what if I did miss the turnpike exit and have to take the scenic way home. But don't tell anyone.

blackswans sent me the most amazing card/Christmas letter. You are so talented, Danielle!

Sandra surprised me with a tin of chocolate covered espresso beans this morning. Not only is she sweet (although possibily hinting that I've seemed tired lately?), but the timing was perfect. I am so exhausted today, and got up this morning twenty minutes before I had to leave, a Bad Thing. No breakfast, no packed lunch...gah. savetheolives, please don't worry, I'm not wasting away, I'm sure. The cheesecake last night surely had enough calories to last me a week. o_O

I got my new work computer today! It's a beauty...all black, flat panel monitor, sleek and wonderful. I love it. Unfortunantly the tech guys lots a few of my files in the transfer, but I'm pretty sure they are all replaceable. I hope. *cringes* I should have made my own backup on my flash drive just in case and I didn't take the time because it all happened so suddenly. =\

Lots of things are happening. I can't keep up. Too much to know and do and see and learn and think about. I need time. I can't think, or I think too much. Something!

I think there was more to say, but I can't remember enough to form words.

There's a certain kind of aura about summer. Something about the contrast between cool--almost cold--air conditioned interiors and the shock and contrast of the humid and hot outdoors. It creates this...this aura, okay? I can't describe it. It's like a sound, only it has no noise, or a taste or smell, only it's not that, either.

Anyway, it feels/sounds/smells like that now, even though it's not really summer yet.

The first two hours of work were spent completely on computer problems. I think I hate techology today. Or it hates me.