{ I would rather be dry than held up by a golden gun. }

[delga]

To summarise, today I:
        /fought with my laptop again¹
        /read 3/4 of Donna Tartt's The Secret History²

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1) I nearly lost this battle once and for all but then the laptop found whatever the hell it was looking for. You know, oops, turns out I've been wearing my glasses all day! Sorry to have wasted your time by making you help me to look for them! In this scenario the glasses represent the System32 folder or something. I DON'T CARE ANY MORE. I don't dare try to update the laptop with anything for fear that it will freeze, blue screen and then never wake up again. I'm going to install Avast again because I need the virus/malware protection but after that, fuck no. I don't care.

As an addendum to the above: am still considering the switch to Linux. The only thing stopping me is that the problems are hardware, not software, related, and so I don't think changing OS is going to help me in the long run. The two pluses I see with Linux are that it uses much less memory, and its less likely to incur viral wrath. Opinions?

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2) This book is amazing and I love it. I've had it on my to read list for quite some time (although, heh, my preconceived notions of the plot - as taken from the aether via osmosis - were wildly incorrect) and I wish I'd gotten to it sooner. That said, it is fairly melancholic (to my literary ear, which bends that way anyway) and has me in the grip of a low, low mood. FANTASTIC.

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Managed to get my picfor1000 entry in before March 1st graced other shores. Was going to write CSI: NY; ended up writing NCIS (like always). Was going to write Ziva post-Corporal Punishment; ended up writing Ziva post-Dead Man Walking (but of course). For those that care: you are not your body; i am not your soul. Why yes, I did decide to continue my trend of using obnoxiously long titles. Marvellous, n'est-ce pas?

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I have to go to the centre tomorrow, and I'll be there until 3pm at the latest (reception duty this week). It's been a week since I went to see my GP and whilst my skin is now sporting large, dark patches (scars, basically) it is no longer dry or broken or infected. I am completely unable to express my relief. I can deal with the pigmentation issues because my vanity over such things has long since dissipated. I'm just glad that it doesn't hurt any more.

Comments

[belantana.livejournal.com]

i would rather be dry than held up by a golden gun

Oh is THAT what she says? Hmm. Makes very slightly more sense than what I've been singing all this time. *headdesk*

Laptop yay; skin yay. Glad things are going better for you.

[daygloparker.livejournal.com]

Seriously, isn't Secret History GREAT?!