DELOR.ES.DEFACTO

Okay. Since it’s been long since I decided that I should update my blog with, yet another, random list of things, I will do so today. Again, there’s not a whole lot going on and this is the easiest way to make an entry. Here goes:

– I’m still pondering going out tonight for the Barbs Reunion.
– It sucks that it costs, at last visit to the gas station, $37 to fill up my tank.
– I have a couple of writing contests that I want to enter but, alas, that costs money as well. Didn’t someone say at one time, to not bother paying for such thing anyway?
– I’m still working my way through the wonderful world of Coetzee by keeping Diary of a Bad Year instead of returning it the the library. I’ve had it since March I think.
– I finished Out Stealing Horses this week though. It was one of those that, after reading the last line, I shut the book and muttered, “F&*$, that’s good.” My professor was adamant on this one and I didn’t want to be so easily swayed by opinion but, alas, he was right.
– I got caught up with Fran on The Tudors. Good Lord, those guys were some evil bastards. I had nightmares about the last episode we saw that showed the torture and beheading spree.
– I am prepared to tape all three hours of Lost this Thursday. We have extra footage, plus the two hour season finale to discuss later on. Right now I’m betting that the last episode will be about Claire. We also discussed that maybe the island brought Christian Shephard back to life and that the freighter will blow up because Sun and Aaron are the only ones of the Oceanic Six who aren’t in the room with the explosives. Now, as to who the other two people are supposedly survived the crash but later died, had better be freaking explaining because that’s driving me up a wall (as is everything else on this show.)
– I am not getting my tax refund bonus money until this month because apparently since I had the processing fees with TurboTax taken out before my refund was deposited. I don’t get why this extra cash can’t be sent electronically as well but, eh, at least they’re sending me something (although, I think I count as the poorest of the poor and will only get the minimum amount.)
– I need, and do not currently have money for: Frontline for the cat, my allergy pills, money for my insurance and going out cash. Seems though the insurance money will obviously have to come first and everything else will just have to wait.
– I found my Ophelia painting from my old office and I tacked it up in my bedroom, since my walls are so bare. But then I got all antsy about staring at the damn thing at night and worrying about if it was even (since I have no frame to put it in right now) so I got on a chair and tacked it up in the hallway instead. That poster has been through a hundred attempts at staying up on a wall. It has rips and folds and holes punched in it on all corners. I remember when one of my seniors first saw that hanging in my office he said, “Wow, Miss. That painting is…uh…pretty intense.” After I explained who she was, I think he was a little more at ease with my artistic tastes in office decor.
– I took this picture of my desk after I got done with my cleaning spree. I have a lamp that actually puts out some light (for only $5) and a small stack of papers and items listed to be dealt with in the near future. By the way, the little notepaper reads, “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Ralph Waldo Emerson. I found that when I was cleaning the desk up. Now I’m using it for my current work theme. I love Emerson.
– I was ready to throw said lamp out the window last week when IE 7 kept crashing. Sure, crash recovery is fine, but crashing all the time for no apparent reason is not. I did some Windows updates, ran a couple of free virus and spyware detectors, plus removed the Share This button on my toolbar. I didn’t have this problem before I added the button and my spyware mentioned a problem with my toolbar so…

And that’s about it. Nothing else going on really. I have my little routine around here that keeps my mind occupied as I keep trying to find work, write my stories, get some cash, get some new books, get back to getting back I guess you could say.

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