March 25th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Lesli
I often complain that weekends are entirely too short but it’s occurred to me that the weeks proceeding them are scarily just as brief.
Even though I have no visitors, I feel that I should say…
March 25th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Lesli
It’s spring cleaning (updating) time. Things may be wonky on the site on and off today.
ETA: Seems like everything is back in working order. Enjoy!
It is a fuzzy blanket day.
January 5th, 2009 / No Comments » / by Lesli
Forever since I last posted, I am still the reigning Queen of Procrastination. The last couple of months have been… hmm, well I’m not entirely sure I can sum them up in a word. Dramatic? Stressful? Wonderful? Insane? Eye opening? Yeah, I’m not sure. A little bit of everything.
A disagreement with my roommate left me scattering for two months to find a new place to live. Unsuccessfully. When you have bad credit and every property within your price range is overseen by a property management company? HA! It’s a cardboard box for you! Or an unsuspecting relative. At any rate, with the realization that my credit is fail and that I’m still a much better candidate for a roommate than the alternatives appeared to be, I won’t be having to relocate after all. At least not immediately. There is a lot more melodrama attached to this but I think it’s probably best left untold.
The holidays were less than thrilling. Then again, they usually are. I survived (obviously) my flight to and from Mississippi. As well as survived the handful of relatives I had to see. More than anything, the trip really make me pretty sad. I miss my folks a lot, it’s really rough being two thousand miles away from them so it was great to spend a week hanging out with em. On the other hand, I realized while I was “home” that all of the things I find myself nostalgic about? All of the things and people that I miss so much while I’m here? None of it is the same anymore. Those things, those people, they just don’t exist in the way that I knew and loved. It makes the decision to stay here or move back there a lot easier, at least.
I’m rambling a bit. Wasting valuable time during my pseudo lunch break. It’s my first day back at work after a two week vacation and I’m finding it pretty hard to rip the cup of coffee from my death grip long enough to actually get any work done. But hey! I wasn’t really late for work this morning! That’s kinda starting the year off well 
“OMG”. What was I thinking?
October 29th, 2008 / 1 Comment » / by Lesli
Two more days till November 1st. Two more days till NaNoWriMo begins and I officially begin the descent into madness. Who wants to bet that by November 30th I’ll be a trembling puddle of a human slumped in a corner with bloody fingers frozen in a typing pose and a distant gleam in my eye. Actually, let’s not take bets on that, the odds are stacked too well against me.
It’s beginning to dawn on me that I have no idea what I’ll even be writing. I tried the outlining thing… I came up with a general idea of what I wanted the story to be about and attempted to flesh out the characters and put things into a time line… All of which has been a failure of epic proportions. Oh sure, I have all these wonderful, quirky, and lovable secondary characters, but I have no idea who the main character is. I decided the story would span roughly a year’s time.. I’ve managed to put down about a week on the outline. SO, I’ve decided to throw away my meager attempts at planning and just wing it.
The Scream by Edvard Munch
I’ve been in a rather strange place mentally lately. I suppose I’m always in some strange place. This painting, The Scream, keeps coming to mind. Maybe it’s the abundance of gore movies I’ve been watching, the stress from work, or even this killer toothache but I’ve felt for the past couple of weeks that I’m just about to let out a blood curdling scream. I can feel it in my bones, crawling under my skin, tensed at the back of my throat, it’s there, building up with great anticipation for the moment when I begin ripping the flesh from my skull as it splits in two from the cacophonous caterwaul.
Maybe I’m being a bit melodramatic, but how often do you get to use the word caterwaul seriously? I suppose it is most probably just stress. The arrival of fall always induces some odd sense of panic. Especially this one with its fast approaching quarter-century milestone and ever lingering job uncertainty. No matter the cause, I sure wish someone would shut up this wailing loon in my head, she’s really starting to become a distraction.
A Weekend Spent Geeking Out
October 19th, 2008 / No Comments » / by Lesli
New Debian install sexiness.
After a little wrestling around with Nvidia drivers and crappy integrated sound, I managed to get everything up and running. I still have a few things to finish configuring (by much banging of my head against the desk, I’m sure) but I’m excited that this was a mostly painless install.
And I must say I’m in love with this machine now. Is it blasphemous to say I almost prefer Compiz to Expose on my MacBook?
Now if only I can get WoW running worth a damn on here, I’ll have no reason to ever boot into that blasted Windows partition! All in all, I’m really impressed with how far Linux has come. I remember my first try at installing Mandrake years ago and the many utter failures that were to come after that. I think this is the first time I would actually consider a complete switch to Linux. 
I’m sad that it’s already Sunday. Weekends are so extremely short these days. I guess I can look forward to that two week “vacation” in December that’ll be here before I know it. It’s another beautiful day here in “Vacation Wonderland”. I should head down into town, maybe camp out at a cafe and people watch but no, I’m sitting here with my nose against the screen and my fingers glued to the keyboard.
Maybe I am addicted….
