Yet another paper due. Perfect opportunity for another list of Things That Make Me Happy. Whee!

( Happy Happy Happy )

As I was leaving the apartment on Tuesday, I discovered that my landlord had very kindly left me a note informing me that someone would be by on Wednesday to spray for bugs and I must therefore remove everything from my cabinets. Or else I'd be charged for return service. Because there's absolutely nothing I'd been planning to do Tuesday night other than empty the contents of my kitchen into boxes and move them into the dining room. In fact, I often do that anyway, just for fun. I really appreciate how they were kind of enough to give me so much notice, too, in case I was out of town or had to write a paper or something. Except not. So I spent about half an hour Tuesday night stomping around and carting stuff into the kitchen, then about another half hour taking out the trash and straightening up, because I can't stand the thought that the bug-spraying guy might think I'm a slob (God, I'm pathetic). Okay, so he was supposed to come at 3 on Wednesday:

3:00 - No bug-spraying guy.

3:15 - Still no bug-spraying guy.

3:30 - I go downstairs to check my mail and notice the bug-spraying guy knocking on someone else's door.

3:45 - I decide to go return a video. No sign of the bug-spraying guy.

4:15 - I get back to find a note telling me someone has been in my apartment.

All that, and it sounds like it took all of 10 minutes for him to spray the cabinets. And the contents of my kitchen are still in the dining room, because I've so far been too lazy to put them back. (Because it appears I am, in fact, a slob, even if I did manage to fool the bug-spraying guy.)

I have a couple assignments due by midnight tonight, so naturally I'm updating LJ. :-D I don't think they'll be that big a deal, actually. I've already started both of them. (I know, go me! Can you believe it?) I was at the laundromat this afternoon, so I did as much of both of them as I could do without a computer.

As soon as I get these assignments turned in, it'll essentially be spring break! My folks are visiting this weekend, so I need to do a little more cleaning (dusting and the bathroom are all I can think of). Plus I need to put my clean clothes away. Sara is planning to visit later in the week, and Erin is going to come sometime this week too, as soon as she figures out when she can take off work. So it's going to be a busy week. Yay!

I went to see the doctor earlier this week, and she said I shouldn't stop seeing the counselor right before spring break (since I got to feeling so much worse over Christmas, the last major break we had). So I went to see the counselor yesterday. She still annoys the hell out of me, but I chickened out and didn't say anything about the problems I'm having with counseling. A minor annoyance: she's another one of those people that I have to explain the Internet to. She's never heard of blogs, so she thinks it's somehow unique that so many people I know have one. Who knows, maybe she's at this moment working on a theory about how all my problems stem from lack of personal communication because everyone I know has a blog and therefore exists only as words on a screen. *rolls eyes*

Ooh, check out my new icon. *points* It's by Kielle. I put her name in the icon info, but it's not showing up. I don't know what's up with that. Grr.

No, really. I balanced my checkbook! For the first time since July! And I did all my filing!!!!! Whoo, I rock so hard! I've had this stuff piling up since I moved here, and it was, seriously, a pile of stuff to file that was about a foot high. And now it's totally not! Because I filed it! Ahem. Anyway.

I don't know what it is, but I feel good lately. Like, the last five days or so. I hate my counselor, but I'm thinking I probably won't go to her anymore. That way I don't have to spend two hours a day worrying as my homework, even though I don't feel like worrying much at all right now. I also dropped one of my classes, and did I mention I did all my filing?!

So, I've been doing slightly more complicated things with makeup recently. Like, I bought lipliner and decided I like it--it makes my lipstick look more finished. And I bought some mascara and wear it occasionally. Not all the time, because it's kind of hard to put on so it looks good. And speaking of hard to put on, I bought an eyeliner pencil. Gah. How does one put on eyeliner? Seriously, I have no idea now anyone makes it look good. Because I think eyeliner would totally make my eyes show up better and not be so hidden behind glasses, but whenever I try to put it on it just looks...awful. Oh well. I guess I don't have to wear it. That's a problem with makeup, though. It's kind of expensive (relatively), and if you buy something and then don't like it, you can't take it back. Makeup sucks. Wish we didn't have any. ;)

Hey, Guy, is Pieces the Sum 41 song you were telling me you like (awhile ago)? Because I heard it on the radio the other day and kind of fell in love.

Which is kind of depressing me, actually. I think it's because the one left is the hardest one, and I'd kind of set it up in my mind where I wouldn't think about that one until the other two were done. And now they are. So I have to get started on the last one. Plus I've got to do laundry before Thursday, and I've got about 137 loads of laundry to do. Fun fun fun.

My shower is broken, sort of. The handle broke off, so I can't adjust the temperature, and it's stuck at too hot. I left a message with the landlord Sunday, and they haven't come by to fix it yet. So today I had to fill the bathtub with water, then go off and do something else for a couple hours till it was cool enough to actually use. Yeah, I'm definitely having fun over here.

So, in honor of it being 4:30 in the morning, and me not being tired, and also having nothing else to do, I give you: Depressing Quotes!

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I'm at the top of page three on my Internet filters paper! I went to Panera Bread for dinner and worked on my paper, then I went to Barnes & Noble for coffee and worked on the paper some more. I was actually there till they closed, at which point I had written, like, a lot! The entire bit about technical approaches to Internet filtering. The next part is on the Children's Internet Protection Act, then I get into the actual opposing viewpoints. The opposing viewpoints sections will be the hardest, particularly the anti-filtering side (because I have so many sources on that). Then I have to put the Powerpoint together. I'm excited because I thought of a great example I can use for how URL blocking can also be keyword blocking. If you put a URL on the blacklist because it has "bad" words in it, it's really keyword blocking. So, for example, http://www.threewayaction.com. Which is not, you know, actually about three-ways. Anyway, yay me!

I cleaned up even more. The kitchen is nearly clean, and the living room is totally clean. I took out the trash. I put up the two posters that have been spread out on the floor in the front room for three months. (That was while I was waiting for all my research to print.) I feel much better now that things are neater.

Or whatever. So, I didn't go to sleep at all last night. Mainly because I slept till freakin' six pm Friday. Then I stayed up till, like, 5 squeeing over Due South fic with Erin and speculating on whether James Dobson is a closet homosexual. (I know. But he's really weirdly obsessed with gay people. YOU tell ME why.) So, since I was up, and since I hadn't done laundry for a MONTH (ruining my rep as Neat Organized Person here), I went to the laundromat at 8:30 and did laundry. And it was totally cool, because there's practically no one there at 8:30 on Saturday morning. So I used five washers at once and got all my laundry done in an hour. It was, like, quiet, because the TV wasn't on and there weren't small children running around. So I got some reading done for Technical Services. And the lady who works there gave me a pastry. Yay, all my clothes are clean! *does a happy dance*

I talked to Erin a couple hours ago, and we were wondering about the Daily Show episode that aired right after September 11th. So I looked for it, and Comedy Central has clips up on their site. Wow. Jon talked for about 8 minutes, just about how he felt about the whole thing, and how he found hope. And he cried. On camera. Have I mentioned that I love him? Woobie!Jon.

Of course, then I needed something happy, so I pulled up the other Daily Show clips they have. My favorite? A really young-looking Jon flirting with Miss Piggy. She was stumbling over saying something, and he ACTUALLY asked her if she had a frog in her throat. Like, dude. I can't even tell if he meant to say that. Jon Stewart is totally my boyfriend.