I found myself.

The anti-Valentine's Day party hosted by violetbloom was a success. I will endeavor to get the video of the pinata's death spliced together later this week. (Lara got all the quotes, as evidenced by the use the notebook got.)

Also, I wanted to go on the trip to Northern Italy that jennies mentioned, but the accounting department was winning that argument - especially since my taxes will require the Annoying Reporting Form that we need to get Mom's financial advisor to help figure out (to cover half a year of the investment account that was emptied when I bought the house).

However, I have discovered this weekend that the money should not be an issue now and Dr. Sandona said there were still slots open. Eeee! Two weeks in Italy! (Now all I have to do is figure out how to keep from totally running out of leave, or I may have to bail out of G2006.)

Anyway, got home late, must attempt to crash soon so I get up on time. Need to get in early enough to start building up credit hours...

We just got the first homework assignment for class this evening, and I've gotten about 75% of it done tonight. It's due in a week.

How cool is that?

(And, you know, e-mailing the prof for clarification on it now might make me look better seeing as my group was the absolute LAST group to contact him about the presentation schedule... ah, heh, heh... *sweatdrop*)

So podcasts have been available through iTunes for quite some time now, but I've never really downloaded any.

Why? Well, for starters, there are TOO MANY out there to choose from.

Can anyone suggest a podcast? What are you listening to now, and why?

1) For those going, "Why don't you update?" my computer is spending 13 hours a day having its memory hogged for a DVD authoring project.

2) When you answer the phone with "There is no Mandi, there is only Zuul," you know it's been one of those weeks.

*facecouch*

Not dead. But for the purposes of playing catch-up, I am briefly violating my policy of keeping all Real-Life-related posts friends-locked. So here comes the slew of randomness...

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First off, I said this to you five or six times during the wedding reception and you heard it another fifty, but congratulations blue_soulfire! I actually got some good pictures from the chapel and reception if you want yet more to sift through - okay, mostly the ones with Jim and Brian and company dancing to YMCA with props. And some pictures of you looking beautiful. *hugs*

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If anyone's wondered why I haven't replied to e-mails this weekend... for the brief time that I had the chance to sit down and check my mail, Yahoo! Mail decided it hated being opened by any browser on a Mac. The problem's been remedied, but excuse my delayed reaction time.

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I now have a garbage disposal. And a new trap in the first-floor bathroom sink. Whee! Thanks, Mike!

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I saw the latest news on silly Internet related laws and had to laugh. If this law is intended that way, there's no way they're going to be able to enforce it.

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Does anyone know of a good way to reliably clean soot off of a concrete floor? While Quality Climate Control was very professional when it came to installing the new heater, their clean-up skills left a LOT to be desired. I've got plastic bags covering the laundry room floor now so I don't track soot back into the tiled part of the basement whenever I go in there. The main passageway has drains, if that helps. I can't just keep trash bags on the floor there permanently, and I can't keep tracking soot out of there if I ever want to get the tile floor clean. Ugh.

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Reason #567 the website hasn't been updated: I am currently driving my home computer crazy making slideshow vids for friends and putting them on iDVD. It works, and I have a system, but it pretty much eats up a huge chunk of memory. And I'm using the free time while it sits there and renders and/or burns to clean and pick up. The office will look like a part of a human habitation again!

...til 2006.

Off to congregate at jennies' place as most of the SisterHood descends upon Annapolis for New Year's Eve.

Happy New Year, all - see you in '06!

Survived the holidays, am now home and trying to clean and organize as the guys from Quality Climate Control work on replacing my boiler and burner downstairs. Thank goodness for space heaters and next-door neighbors who let me use their bathroom. :)

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, and a happy holiday regardless of what you celebrate. :)

I haven't been ignoring e-mails, I've been with my family all weekend, and am now working on the house. Heat takes priority.

And to a certain hint site visitor: my blog is NOT a place to post desperate screaming hold-my-hand help requests - especially when you do it while I'm gone for four days. If you're that nuts, go to the Geek Forums.

Dear Universal:

Guh?

I know you wanted to rush Serenity onto DVD to get it out before Christmas. Since the Firefly movie is boosting sales of the series, hey, I get that.

But FOUR DAYS before Christmas? Tomorrow?

Don't get me wrong, I am thrilled to see it and will pounce on it gleefully, but after parents asking me what I want and me having no clue and only just now discovering this... well, I'm not going to make any of my friends or family go out shopping THIS WEEK of all weeks.

(All the Firefly fans whacking me for not knowing about this til now: Hello! House! Grad school! No organizational skills whatsoever!)

Final exam is 75% done. And at 8 pages. Wow.

(Edit: Fixed the addressee. In my defense, I've been trying to churn out coherent BS about outsourcing and open-source and ERP and something else for the past half hour. :) )

I seem to have gotten so behind on LJ that I've totally missed important news from the friends list that would ordinarily make me shriek/squeal. I've been going back individually through friends' livejournals and seen THREE-MONTH OLD posts that have made me go, "How did I miss that?"

I'd list the LJ people who I especially neglected, but some of the posts in question were locked and personal and frankly, I think this apology can be extended to everyone on the list. I am really sorry. If you get two-month (or older) comments on messages that are old news, please understand why.

Paper's done! Presentation's done! They both sucked, but I wash my hands of them!

Yes, this is breaking my own rule and I still have the take-home final, but I don't have to go to that class anymore!

off to find more tea... whee...