{ and now it chills me to the bone. }

This post is a pictorial collection of things from my desk in which my tax return forms weren't hiding.

( +not dial-up friendly )

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The above most gorgeous of icons is by zeitheist. Things I need to do: stop staring at it. So pretty!

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Up next: a real post? Oh em gee, guys.

{ til now I always got by on my own. }

So, in case it wasn't clear, I spent the majority of the day ripping my room apart trying to find my tax return forms. I was unsuccessful in locating them. This is frustrating because the deadline for the paper forms is the end of this month and I tried to do them back in April when I actually got them and The Dad verbally flipped me off. And now I can't find them, and I probably through them away because I am a MORON, and frankly I am a bit stressed. An example of my stress levels - I woke at six today because I was thinking about it in my sleep and then had to get up and get dressed so that I could do something about it.

In between bouts of searching I managed to get some filing done, have a driving lesson, and watch the latest episode of Defying Gravity. The latter continues to be tres enjoyable and I am SORELY disappointed that this has been shit-canned. I also watched Fringe and then spammed Tumblr with other people's picspams because that's pretty much what I use Tumblr for.

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I'm working at the subsidiary office tomorrow because there's a team meeting. This means I can make up some hours which is double plus. I am sort of EXHAUSTED by the prospect of another week of work but also sort of resigned to it? I don't know. I've only been there six months.

I forgot, though, that I'd set up a direct debit to my savings account and so now I am probably massively overdrawn, so I should make a trip to the bank already and sort that shit out. I am still an anxious/compulsive shopper but I do tend to return things to the shelf before I reach the tills these days.

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On Friday I took the afternoon off and sat in a restaurant eating pasta and writing Ziva meta, as you do. Then I sat in the ~new~ library, watched Australia on my nano, and researched the Garden of Gethsemane. I need to go back to school, but only for the not-stressful parts, obvs.

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I have c.60 poems to bookmark. I'd go ahead and sort that out but my netbook is being a bitch. Dell installed extra shit when they took it to be repaired, but then didn't install the pre-existing software. So now I have a netbook which is running a lot of crap in the background (that I'm apparently unable to switch off) which further prevents me from running the stuff that I actually want to use. This is Very Annoying, guys.

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Quick fandom round-up: I am two weeks behind on Bones because I am a moron, and I am probably going to dump CSI: NY because I am finding it awkward to watch! Glee's musical numbers continue to be endearing; Stargate: Universe was fairly compelling viewing; Criminal Minds was boring; NCIS was gut wrenching; Californication is a disappointment thus far (I skipped most of the second episode, though I still fucking adore Marcie); Supernatural was terribly, terribly watchable; I forgot to watch Merlin; NCIS: LA has two excellent female characters and LL Cool J which is all that can be said in its favour; Mad Men hurrrrrrts; Dollhouse is terrible; Private Practice had an excellent season premiere; I hate everything about Grey's Anatomy and am going back to dumping it.

Anything else? No? Okay then.

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