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Jun. 1st, 2006 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
htothehETA: Agh, long entry.
Brother is listening to Jimmy Eat World. This is somewhat surreal, considering how closely they're linked in my mind with a certain point in my life, being sophomore/junior/maybe beginning of senior year of high school, and a certain group of people. I would imagine that they know who they are.
Class is... fine. Kind of sorry that the unit on philosophy of religion ended, even though it was kind of giving me existential fits. I'm better now. I realized at some point that it can only improve my GPA--not hard, for one, and it only counts if I get a B or better, for another.
Also I am employed! I'm working at Ralph's Italian Ice, which sells ice cream and italian ice (made with 2% milk instead of butterfat in the case of the creme ice and water in the case of the water ice, on the same machines as ice cream so it's similarly textured but lighter and healthier, because it doesn't have the butterfat. I mean, sales pitch? Me? What?). Bossman is a pretty nice guy. He brings his laptop in so that he can listen to music while working. He had "Dragostea Din Tea" on repeat at one point this evening. Yeah.
He still hasn't given me a schedule for when I'm working this week, which is slightly inconvenient. I'll cope. I got a call around 5:30 this evening that was basically "we're swamped, can you come in," to which the answer was of course yes because I am broke, and would like to not be, and every little bit helps. Three more hours on the paycheck at $6 an hour, not doing so badly.
My laptop is slowly dying. Father blames this on overheating. I'm not sure if I buy it or not, but it's good incentive to get all my data off it so that I can reinstall Windows, because I blame it on the OS. Dad's probably right; I don't so much care. I'm not knowledgeable enough yet to be able to use Linux right, so this year has been one full of frustration for me computing-wise. I know there are lots of people around I can ask for help, but I would prefer to not have to do so. I can make Windows go by myself, more-or-less. Maybe in a couple of years I'll move back over, but for now, I think Windows will be easier. I get Rescue and Recovery disks from IBM sometime early next week. Am v. excited, because that means my wireless will work yay. Also that my iPod will finally be able to be updated. Also yay. I haven't used it in forever because it doesn't have the music I like, because I haven't been able to update it. This is Irritating. No such problem when I can use Windows.
I'm just tired of have to mess with everything to get it to work. I don't have the time or the motivation during the year. I know there will be some things that Windows won't do that Linux does, but it's worth it to me.
If I sound a little defensive, it's because I had many, many conversations in my head with my father about why I really want to switch over before having one out loud, and my frustration with Linux has gradually been building up over the course of about, oh, ten months. The conversation I actually had with him was really anticlimactic after all my rehearsal. So it goes.
Have appointment with therapist person tomorrow. One of the conditions that Dean Cave gave me for dropping Hum 2 was getting help with the enormous writing block that I have, so I'm trying to do that. That's sort of the last thing I need to check off my "big things to do this summer" list, along with learning Python, but I'm sort of waiting on the homework assignments to come out for that one. It helps me learn better when I have something to do.
I miss Mudd, still. I miss being able to see people by just walking down the hall. Parents don't count.
Brother is listening to Jimmy Eat World. This is somewhat surreal, considering how closely they're linked in my mind with a certain point in my life, being sophomore/junior/maybe beginning of senior year of high school, and a certain group of people. I would imagine that they know who they are.
Class is... fine. Kind of sorry that the unit on philosophy of religion ended, even though it was kind of giving me existential fits. I'm better now. I realized at some point that it can only improve my GPA--not hard, for one, and it only counts if I get a B or better, for another.
Also I am employed! I'm working at Ralph's Italian Ice, which sells ice cream and italian ice (made with 2% milk instead of butterfat in the case of the creme ice and water in the case of the water ice, on the same machines as ice cream so it's similarly textured but lighter and healthier, because it doesn't have the butterfat. I mean, sales pitch? Me? What?). Bossman is a pretty nice guy. He brings his laptop in so that he can listen to music while working. He had "Dragostea Din Tea" on repeat at one point this evening. Yeah.
He still hasn't given me a schedule for when I'm working this week, which is slightly inconvenient. I'll cope. I got a call around 5:30 this evening that was basically "we're swamped, can you come in," to which the answer was of course yes because I am broke, and would like to not be, and every little bit helps. Three more hours on the paycheck at $6 an hour, not doing so badly.
My laptop is slowly dying. Father blames this on overheating. I'm not sure if I buy it or not, but it's good incentive to get all my data off it so that I can reinstall Windows, because I blame it on the OS. Dad's probably right; I don't so much care. I'm not knowledgeable enough yet to be able to use Linux right, so this year has been one full of frustration for me computing-wise. I know there are lots of people around I can ask for help, but I would prefer to not have to do so. I can make Windows go by myself, more-or-less. Maybe in a couple of years I'll move back over, but for now, I think Windows will be easier. I get Rescue and Recovery disks from IBM sometime early next week. Am v. excited, because that means my wireless will work yay. Also that my iPod will finally be able to be updated. Also yay. I haven't used it in forever because it doesn't have the music I like, because I haven't been able to update it. This is Irritating. No such problem when I can use Windows.
I'm just tired of have to mess with everything to get it to work. I don't have the time or the motivation during the year. I know there will be some things that Windows won't do that Linux does, but it's worth it to me.
If I sound a little defensive, it's because I had many, many conversations in my head with my father about why I really want to switch over before having one out loud, and my frustration with Linux has gradually been building up over the course of about, oh, ten months. The conversation I actually had with him was really anticlimactic after all my rehearsal. So it goes.
Have appointment with therapist person tomorrow. One of the conditions that Dean Cave gave me for dropping Hum 2 was getting help with the enormous writing block that I have, so I'm trying to do that. That's sort of the last thing I need to check off my "big things to do this summer" list, along with learning Python, but I'm sort of waiting on the homework assignments to come out for that one. It helps me learn better when I have something to do.
I miss Mudd, still. I miss being able to see people by just walking down the hall. Parents don't count.
