Long story short, I've got a new lappy and I'm back!! <3

YAY!!1!

Oof, it's been rough ... I went through nearly three weeks of pretty serious withdrawal, folks. On the positive side, though, I've broken in the Wii and I'm about halfway through the fourth season of The West Wing at this point. XD

It's so strange, trying to get used to this new lappy. His name is Harkness. I decided to name him after my favorite undying man because I think the last lappy's name tempted the fates too much. Or rather, tempted her namesake, Eris, too much. XD Either way, I think the Captain and I are getting along just fine so far. And MAN OH MAN is he gorgeous. He just ticks over, and I am so very in love with the processor speed and with Leopard ... Rawr. I can play Sims 2 with all the settings on hi-res and it doesn't matter how many of them are in the house, it just ticks over ...

Of course, it's a slow realization to just how much I lost. The hard drive died, and unless I want to pay large amounts of money, it's gonna stay that way. Luckily, the important stuff was backed up, but there are tons of things that weren't that I miss. Like a bunch of my background files ... the newest icons I made that I hadn't yet backed up. The newest DW episodes. All my newest macros. And of course, a bunch of programs that I collected over the years, mostly from friends, that were not so much purchased as given. >.> Argh.

Anyhoo, I'm back. It's gonna take me a couple days here to get my virtual feet back under me. If you need anything, please contact me, I'd love to hear from you. It's fantastic to be back, bbs. I missed you all. <3 <3 <3

Woooo, using a borrowed lappy! XD

So, the ongoing saga of the computer continues. Poor Eris is dead like a dead thing - her hard drive is pretty much gone, say the geniuses. Luckily I have it insured, and they will be hopefully giving me some money for it. I'm crossing my fingers that they give me enough to cover replacing the whole thing, not just the cost of repairs, but either way I think my mom and I agreed that I'm going to get a new one no matter what.

However, it's looking now like I won't have the funds and therefore won't be purchasing it until the middle of next week. So I will continue to be sparse on the ground for a bit longer. Sorry, my loves. <3

Anyhow, this is the last week of this show, and it's looking like I might have a couple things here and there for the next few weeks, but nothing solid and long-running yet, which makes me a little nervous. I just have to be frugal until July, I suppose.

Which leads me to this other thing ... Since quite a few people have been accidentally told or just found out, etc, I might as well talk about it now. I wanted to keep it on the down-low, since I may not get it and I didn't want more people than just me to get disappointed if it doesn't happen, but I think most of the damage has been done, so what the hell. XD This coming Monday, I'm flying to Denver for a few days. I do get to see my family briefly, which will be nice, but that's not why I'm going. It's a business trip.

( Long-winded details of this whole story that you probably don't want clogging up your LJ ... ;) )

So, Monday I fly out to tour the facility and meet with multiple people, and I'm really excited and just a tiny bit nervous. This could be really great, and I would love to live in my hometown and do what I really want to do. Of course, there's always a downside ... I would have to leave LA behind, at least for a while, and I'll be sad to do that. But although I'll miss my friends and connections, I think it'll be very good for me, and I'll just have to keep in touch.

That's the long and the short of it. Keep your fingers crossed for me, guys. I'm trying not to get my hopes up too high, but at this point, I don't think it's possible not to be hopeful. ;)

ARGH.

So, if everyone's wondering where the hell I am, the lappy has finally decided to spontaneously combust. Well, not in such a fiery way, but yesterday whilst using it, it froze. It's been making an ominous clicking for the last day or so ... probably due to me injuring it again or something less picky. But nevertheless, it froze, so I decided to hard reboot it.

Except, when I pressed the power button, the screen turned blue and it didn't boot any further.

... I turned it on and off again for the next two hours, alternately yelling and crying at it. Sufficed to say, it's had a final meltdown. I think this is may well be Eris' swan song. I'm going to take it to the Appledoctors today and have them tell me that I shouldn't have dropped it several thousand times and that it's probably unsaveable for the cost of just buying a new computer.

Oh, good times. Way to die, Eris, two days before I need you for work and less than a week before the Denver interview. ARGH. I hope State Farm loves me, because I'm gonna show up there tomorrow and cry my eyes out if that's the case. ARGH. Wish me luck, children, and I hope to see you all soon.

Until then, public libraries and trying to type on my Wii. Such good times. >.< Kill me now.

... bleargh. Just ... yeah. Urgh.


PS - Wooo Obama. :D *crawls back to bed*

Urgh. I'm at work and I just got a headache. I was pretty insomniaic last night/this morning, so I haven't had much sleep ... Of course, it doesn't help that I just got the Wii I've been wanting for a while. That on top of being in the middle of the suspenseful end of the second book in an awesome series I haven't read in at least a decade and so I'm really into it ... it made for no sleep for me, pretty much.

Work is going well, so far. I don't yet have anything for after the run is over, even though that's several weeks in the future. I still haven't heard anything about the thing that I'm really hoping will work out for the fall (and for a few years after, if it happens). I'm trying not to tell a lot of people about it, though, in case we all get worked up about it and then more people get let down, so I'll tell you all about it if I hear anything, promise.

I'm kind of scattered. XD Oy. I ended up having to do car stuff when I finally got up, because she's acting not happy. I was hoping to go to my friend fionnegan's graduation party, but the other was a bit too pressing. Laaame. I hope it went well. It's strange, to think that I have several friends who've now graduated. It's the first CalArts graduation I haven't been to in the last four years. Wish I could've gone, but I had to work. Still, I'm sure it was crazy as it ever was. I hope all of the third years and fourth years that I know rocked it out, and I wish them all a hearty congratulations!

The only other thing I can think of to really chat about would be the election. I'm glad the primaries are basically winding up at this point. I found out today that The Decemberists are going to play at an Obama rally in OR. On a Sunday. ARGH. Even if I had decided to fly out and volunteer that week, I would've missed it because I have to work on Sundays! >.< Ah well. The fact that my favorite band is playing at a rally for my favorite presidential candidate? IS MADE OF AWESOME. :D

... Okay, I'm gonna go drink some more water. And maybe find some tylenol. <3

Yet another reason I love Obama. He's willing to go out there and knock on doors. And not in a part of town that's all for him. NE Philly is apparently Hillary country. He truly is rather amazing.

Things like this make me proud to be a grassroots liberal Democrat. I'm rather seriously disappointed that Mrs. Clinton spoke out against MoveOn.org and the grassroots movement in getting people out to vote, especially in the caucuses. It amazes me that, whether or not she's taken serious hits because of the caucus turnouts, she would actually be anything but pleased that people are out voting. In fact, it rather disgusts me. It just continues to convince me of how much of a moderate conservative she actually is.

I'm proud to make calls, walk blocks and rally for Obama. I'm actually seriously considering flying to Oregon to volunteer for a few days the week of their Primary. This is how politics should be - the many, not the few. And if the man himself wants to turn up and join me in handing out a few pamphlets and knocking on a few doors, I would be very happy for the company.

... Now to decide if I can afford the couple hundred dollars it'd take to get there.

I'm doing much better, thank everything. The show's becoming an actual show, which is nice, although it's 10 out of 12 today and it's gonna be looooooong. Yar. But I like the work, and the cast and crew, so far, rock my socks. Plus, the musical's pretty cool.

So, that whole tax issue that I emoed about the other day? Yeah. That was a combination of me being tired and reading email at 2 in the morning and my mother wording things in emails very badly. Basically, she wrote me an email that said "I hope you can pay your taxes when you get them; we have to find a way to pay $2000+ in the next week." I took that to mean we as in she and I because I owe a ton of money for some mysterious reason. She actually meant I have to find the $130 I owe, because she and my stepdad owe $2000+ in taxes this year.

I blame her. XD

Needless to say, I called her to panic at her the next day and she promptly started laughing at me ... After which I relievedly laughed at the entire situation. It turns out I do have to pay some (admittedly, it looks like a LOT less after living a day under the threat of somehow paying two grand), but I'm gonna get, like, 700 back, so I come out on top in the end. Which is sweet. So crisis very much averted.

Otherwise, everything's sort of settling back to good. I hope everyone else is doing well, because things are starting to look up. Yesterday wasn't that great, but hey, it was better than owing $2500 to the feds.

Oh, and Obama's starting to look like he might just be pulling ahead in PA possibility. W00T.

Geez, I feel like lately all I've been doing is emoing to my poor FList. Sorry loves, I don't mean to be a downer. ( So I will LJ cut the whinging. )

Of course, all that's got me a bit distracted from the much less important if just as upsetting end of Torchwood ... ( Crying about other things to distract yourself can be cathartic, though ... But spoilery. )

So, ( here's a song that is spoilery for the Torchwood S2 finale ...  )

Torchwood. Oh, Torchwood.


All I can say is that I am very sad right now. It was so good, but ... Urrghhh.


I'm gonna go mope around at work.

... Yeah. I like Gaia. Whatcha gonna do about it? >.>

Keith says exactly what so many of us are THINKING. He was so emphatic, and so emotional. Thank you, Mr. Olbermann.



Perhaps, if she takes this seriously, her campaign might come back from the brink that's repulsed me and so many others, that we may at some point in the future be able to stomach the idea that she is the alternative to our first choice for President. But at the moment, I cannot, and his reaction here is largely what my reaction was to the whole situation.

For the love of gods, Hillary, get a grip on your people, on yourself, and come back from that pit of mud you've sunk yourself into. This primary should not be about racism and base prejudice that is however overtly coming from your camp, not the other way around, as much as you might want people to believe. It shouldn't be about you becoming more than almost a Republican yourself - although, truth be told, it's one of the reasons I decided to choose Obama ... but not to this extreme!

By saying that McCain is the only other real candidate in this race, you have set a foundation to destroy this party, and you are coming to exemplify everything that Obama is not - divisive, one-minded, closed and guilty of the worst kind of political mudslinging tactics. And I will have you notice that the Senator from Illinois has taken it all with cool aplomb and, beyond that, save for defending himself and focusing on the issues, has kept from slinging such mud in your own direction. When there is, let's face it, so much fodder to use if he wanted to.

Fine, you don't want to give in, you want to do all you can to keep in this race. Good. Give Obama a run for his money. Why don't you take your own advice, Senator? Stick to the topics. Reign in your people, refocus your campaign, denounce and muzzle Ferraro and get on with it. We've got a freaking month and some until Pennsylvania. We're already sick of one war, the American people and the Democrats don't need your Kitchen Sink tactics. Really, I'm scared of what will happen to us all if you don't clean it up. The Democrats are supposed to be due for this seat in November, Lady Senator. I'm now deeply concerned that you will well be to blame if we lose it.

I found out last night that my grandmother passed away.

She was 104, my father's mother, and was amazing in that she was very mobile, sharp and with it until, I am sure, the last. She had a long, full life, was one of the Greatest Generation, sat on Mark Twain's lap as a child, and although I only got to be around her a few times in my life, I am glad that I knew her - I never got to meet my grandfather, who died when I was 4. I can only hope to live even half as long and just as full of a life as her.

... I am almost more upset, though, at the fact that this comes nearly three weeks late, and through a cousin who finally found me on Facebook. I know my Aunt, who lived with her, and I had kind of lost touch, but I could swear she had my mom's number - she could've called, at least. I'm rather hurt by this. It was very surreal, to get this kind of information in such a strange and informal medium. I'm grateful that my cousin did get through to me but ... still. Upsetting.

Ah well.

It's official. I can't think about much other than the Primaries right now. XD This is one of the reasons I don't belong to one religion - when I really start believing in something, I want to be able to believe in it whole-heartedly and I get passionate about it.

I believe in Barack Obama. Heavens help me. I'm either going to be jubilant come August or completely crushed. Or really, really angry.

Ah well. In that spirit, I wanted to share this article, which spells out so much of why I believe in and appreciate this man and his campaign: Barack Obama: The Machinery of Hope. When Rolling Stone endorses him, you know the man's a rock star. XD

Even though she voted for Hillary, I hope my mom knows that it's her fault (and my dad and the rest of my family's) that I'm so solidly for Obama. She (they) brought me up to be grass roots - knocking on doors, making me do phone banking even though I get miserable doing it, stuffing thousands of envelopes. Well, now I want to do that. I want to be one of those people who creates change. And I want to do it with Barack Obama as my candidate.

WY has gone to Obama, even with the last minute fly-out town halls and radio/tv ad campaigns Hillary pulled in the last week. Obama's been organizing there for months, of course, but she wanted to 'break the caucus streak.' Now that Wyoming's gone to Barack, how much you want to bet it becomes like Utah and Delaware, and 'doesn't matter' to her?

About a month and a half ago, I would've told you I supported Obama but I wasn't really certain why. Now I know. And I'm ready to talk to anyone that wants to about who's more suited to the Presidency and why I am slowly losing a great deal of respect for Lady Clinton. More than that, I actually am really starting to believe in a candidate. And for someone who's lived a great deal of their life as a politician's daughter/goddaughter, and has been somewhat jaded if always hopeful very early on ... That's saying something.

I've been saying it for months, but now I really mean it. Yes, We Can.

Because I was tagged by foofighter0234 ... ( Fandom Sexy Times Meme ... )

In other news, here's a really great site that was pointed out to me: Why Obama, Not Clinton?

I understand that the larger portion of people who have recently become interested in politics due to Obama are somewhat discouraged by yesterday. I really wish that they would all understand a little faster that all that happened yesterday is overall, Clinton gained somewhere between 9 to 12 delegates. SHE IS STILL OVER 100 DELEGATES DOWN, PEOPLE. And furthermore, new Superdelegates continue to announce for Obama EVERY DAY.

Let's get positive again, everyone. We can keep this going. Ohio was almost certainly going to be a huge Clinton win about a month ago, and by yesterday, Obama practically split the vote. THAT IS AMAZING. Same with Texas, where he's practically split the vote and won the caucuses by a thin margin. Also, looking at the maps of who 'won' what area for each state, I find it both interesting and encouraging that the metropolitan areas were the places that really seemed to go for Obama the most.

Bottom line is, let's keep this momentum up. I see Wyoming going to Obama, and I doubt the next two will go to HRC. Let's be positive and hope! Solidarity, mah friends.


In other news, I made a new macro comm - lolobama. EVERYONE SHOULD JOIN AND LOL.

Because I apparently am in a 'rut', topicwise. XD Thanks to takhisis for pointing this one out, one of my favorite Sandman exchanges in a totally new format ...





... In other news, I accidentally forgot to give Thomas my rent check today and got a couple of very irate text messages from him. I am such an idiot sometimes. >.< FEBRUARY HAS 28 DAYS, MCCAULEY. AND YOU EVEN GOT AN EXTRA ONE THIS YEAR. WTF? *kicks self ... a lot*

An interesting examination of the faces Hillary's putting up lately:


(Click on the video to go to YouTube and see the two others ... )


And a very eloquent reply to Hillary's mocking of we, the younger voters who support Obama:



I need to talk about something other than politics one of these days. XD XD XD


Ummmm ....


I LOVE TORCHWOOD, DID I MENTION? I have a new ringtone. XD

I couldn't stop laughing!!! XD

So someone made this website, Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle, to poke gentle fun at how enthusiastic some of us are about Obama. It's very amusing, I laughed.

What killed me was the response website, Hillary Clinton is Your New Bicycle. OMGHILARIOUS. XD

I need a new rib. Maybe two. Ow. My spleen. My spleeeeen! Ahaha! XD

Edit: Two more Hillary ones - HERE and HERE, and then a McCain one that made me CACKLE, and finally a very scarily accurate Ron Paul one.


P.S. - This icon just makes me hum Katamari Damacy over and over in my head. XD

( Because the pic was unexpectedly huge ...  )

The LOLAnimals are coming out for Obama. XD