potentialities

Good lord, time flies when you're busy refreshing your flist. Today marks my three-year Ljversary, and, by extension, three years of actually being in fandom as opposed to lurking and stuff.

Three years ago, I: had a LiveJournal!

Two years ago, I: learned that my rabbit had died and you all comforted me.

One year ago, I: fancied Sark from Alias madly.

Today, I: am working on my story for short_takes.

You guys have made me laugh and made me cry. You have recommended me great books and music and even made me buy a TV (and thereby kept me from being that guy from the Onion) and learn how to read graphic novels (apparently it helps if you look at the pictures, too) and learn all kinds of not-particularly-useful Japanese vocabulary (when I go to Japan, I can talk about ... alchemy! And tennis!). You have been there when I'm down.

You make my life shiny. Thank you.

LJ ate all my S2 customizations whilst I wasn't looking. Thanks a lot, LJ!

I am now happily ensconced in the bosom of my family, where pizza magically appears whenever I say hmm, pizza sounds good, I have already read five books, watched The Office, and won a game of poker, and generally things are good.

Sadly, my beloved laptop is presently having his optical drive replaced -- under warranty, thank goodness. I honestly don't know whose fault it is, but I stuck a CD-R in to burn some CDs to inflict upon play for my family and it made some funny noises and then went in and didn't mount, or come back out, or anything. I haven't done anything particularly abusive to it lately, and I burned three CDs before I left, so I'm happy to go with the assumption that it was somehow Apple's fault.

Anyway, the point being that I am laptopless, and thus even less available for the time present than I was already counting on, until my beloved is returned to me once more. You will have to take it as read that I love you all.

EDIT: Also! I had a bunch of my hair hacked off, which is supposed to give it a coherent style and make me look older! I do not believe that it makes me look older, but then there's not really much hope for that! Pictures maybe soon if someone takes a decent one of me.

*cuddles you all*

I missed you so.

Well, since LiveJournal was down, I have failed to make any long whiny posts about my move back to New York. See, something good came of it, after all! Look at the silver lining!

I suppose I'll just hit the highlights:

• My mom and I traded phones. This means I have the shiny new phone that the phone insurance people gave her after trying unsuccessfully to foist several non-refurbished, non-working phones off on her. Of course, it also means I have a new phone number.
• I convinced the guy at my dorm to let me into my room in spite of having neither a university ID or my housing assignment letter on me. (I actually hadn't even considered that they would want my housing assignment letter. Don't they know where they assigned me?)
• I got my new university ID for free. They said that they were going to charge me $15, sure, but they didn't actually ask for my money or anything. I took the ID and left. :D
• I don't know what happened to all of my stuff. Like, I used to have plates, and dishtowels, and stuff. I don't know what I did with them when I moved out. Oh well. Have been buying new stuff.
• I wore my rain boots with a pair of socks that had a hole in the heel accidentally, and ended up with an enormous blister on said heel. Now I have an enormous oozing wound, and I have been reduced to limping around.
• I have a new TV! I hug it and squeeze it and call it George! ... Of course, I actually can hug it, because it is tiny and cute and it sits on my desk next to my laptop, which has a much larger screen.
• Best of all, this room is mine, mine, all mine! No one else can have it! Muahahahahahahahaha! Not that I've, you know. Had had experiences with roommates before. Or suitemates.
• Finally, classes start on Tuesday. OMGWTF?