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A laptop free zone

Sunday, July 23rd, 2006

I’d just like to say oops.

Not only am I now temporarily laptop free, but I did it in a really stupid way. Wait, maybe I should back up a bit. Or a lot.

So there I was, last tuesday, the second day of the semester, getting ready for class and all, when I grabbed this bottle of hair oil stuff I had next to my bed (to make my hair shiny and nice smelling) and lifted it over the floor which happened to be, in a sort of roundabout way, under the screen of my laptop. When it slipped.

Ouch? yes, ouch. Untill my stupid loan gets here, I have only the comforting words of a chick in my hall who’s been waiting for her laptop to come back from the shop for 4 months now. I’m not sending mine there, I promise. As soon as my money gets here, I am sooooo calling the fujitsu authorized service center, which should be able to get me a new monitor in less than a year (oh please, oh please) and get it back to me, all without mishap. I hope.

Oh, do I ever hope.

note to self- heavy object over breakable expensive thing = bad. Always.

off to whimper to myself about it again for a while. A long long while.

j.

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Plotting

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

So… It’s july. It’s winter. The spring semester starts, Oh, tomorrow. What am I doing? I be plotting what to do this summer.

Welcome to bad ideas for dummies part 10.

So, with very careful manouvering of my funds, and budget, and whatnot, and buying a bike second hand, my most fun, least expensive option this summer is (oddly enough) to put most of my stuff in storage, pack up some panniers, and take off on a bicycle for the summer. Saves me rent, I get out and about, I can go crazy and see all sorts of stuff, lose this damned weight I’m putting on from drinking so much soda/ eating so much salty food, and I can get out of this dratted town! But only if I can make a budget for the school year and (this is the tricky part) actually stick to it.

Through a bit of.. well, I’ll be positive about it and say serendipity, I didn’t get into the et program this year, which means that instead of taking about 85gazillion hours of classes every week, I’ve only got about 18. Not all that bad. And i should get permission to work this semester, which with my less than 400 hours a week of classes should fit nicely. So I can (theoretically) earn some money for buying stupid stuff (like very high heeled shoes) or extra splurgy stuff over summer.

I should be able to do this on less than NZ$700 a month, right? I mean, sure, I’ll have to buy food. And I might want to sleep inside sometimes. And I’ll probably need to fix some stuff at least twice. But I should still stay under 700 a month, right? Since I won’t be paying for busses, or trains, or goats, or planes, or car rental, or hotels, or heck, hostels most nights.

Sure, I could stay in palmy and work. I could even go work down in Wellington. But why the heck would I do that (yeah yeah yeah, other than money). If I wanted to come out behind, I could go home, but I’d have to find a place to live, and a job, and… yeah, not my idea of fun. Heck, my budgeted money would *all* go toward the flight home. There would be, like, *none* left over for living, or first last and deposit, or.. well, any of that fun stuff.

So yeah, bicycling it looks like it will be. Wonder if I still know how.

It occurs to me that many, many of my most fun/ most expensive/ worst ideas start out  just like this.  Scaaaaa-aaaarrrryyyyyyyyyy.

So, people? What do you think? Bike around NZ for my summer break (in… oh, 4 months or so…)? Or be all silly and work the whole time. Note please that I refuse, Yes Refuse to spend who knows how many years here and never see anything. Plus it’d give me a great new challenge- Staying Pale while spending all day outside, in the sun. See!

Now All I have to do is all the planning, plus get A’s in all my classes, and I’m set! Oh, yeah, and buy all the stuff I don’t have. Like a bike.
j.

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