Taking my car in for service tomorrow, partly in re: roadtrip for Memorial Day Weekend. Obvs I want the whole car to be in good working order for a road trip, but is there anything in particular I should be asking the mechanic to look at?
Bought a netbook, named her Free Bit. Typing on her now. I can tell it's going to be the punctuation that does me in here, I keep hitting the slash when I am for the period/ (case in point). I guess I'll train myself eventually. I can find the backspace intuitively which is better than pretty much every other netbook keyboard I tried.
Anyway, this is the first time I have actually owned a windows system, ever, so: any recs for AIM and IRC clients? Trying to think what else I want--have already downloaded Firefox, need to get some add-ons for it, setting up AVG now, I figure I'll head to openoffice for my doc needs, and other than that, I can't think what else I'll be using little baby Bit for.
Got rear-ended in the parking lot of the electronics store, because pick-up truck drivers are asshats who can't see behind them and ignore honking horns. So I have a ding in my bumper. ( superstitious Juls is superstitious )
Anyway, this is the first time I have actually owned a windows system, ever, so: any recs for AIM and IRC clients? Trying to think what else I want--have already downloaded Firefox, need to get some add-ons for it, setting up AVG now, I figure I'll head to openoffice for my doc needs, and other than that, I can't think what else I'll be using little baby Bit for.
Got rear-ended in the parking lot of the electronics store, because pick-up truck drivers are asshats who can't see behind them and ignore honking horns. So I have a ding in my bumper. ( superstitious Juls is superstitious )
I mean, is it just me or is a bus stop a weird place to try to pick someone up?
People use my hair as an opening to talk to me, because it is interesting colors. Both men and women have done this, so I can say that my feelings about being hit on at the bus stop are not related to "I am a lesbian: go away, dude." I just don't really feel the bus stop pick-up at all.
The dude today was telling me how he'd had his hair done blue in the winter and it had gone to turquoise fairly fast, to his disappointment, which, you know, that is a bitch, and he thought the stylist had used cheap dye on him, and stuff. And then he segued into telling me how to attract the right person you just have to be completely yourself and I was clearly on that path with my red hair and then he leapt to body type. I have broad shoulders but he respects me. And I am not obese. I think he was incoherently trying to say I looked comfortable in my own skin, because to say that I am not obese is laughably non-factual. Still, I had a moment of DAMN YOUR FLATTERY, GOOD SIR, WHY MUST I RESPOND TO IT SO INSTINCTIVELY. Excellent grasp of which cultural triggers to deconstruct to flatter a fat girl, he had, just utter absurdity in execution.
Fortunately the bus came then, and he didn't get on it with me.
People use my hair as an opening to talk to me, because it is interesting colors. Both men and women have done this, so I can say that my feelings about being hit on at the bus stop are not related to "I am a lesbian: go away, dude." I just don't really feel the bus stop pick-up at all.
The dude today was telling me how he'd had his hair done blue in the winter and it had gone to turquoise fairly fast, to his disappointment, which, you know, that is a bitch, and he thought the stylist had used cheap dye on him, and stuff. And then he segued into telling me how to attract the right person you just have to be completely yourself and I was clearly on that path with my red hair and then he leapt to body type. I have broad shoulders but he respects me. And I am not obese. I think he was incoherently trying to say I looked comfortable in my own skin, because to say that I am not obese is laughably non-factual. Still, I had a moment of DAMN YOUR FLATTERY, GOOD SIR, WHY MUST I RESPOND TO IT SO INSTINCTIVELY. Excellent grasp of which cultural triggers to deconstruct to flatter a fat girl, he had, just utter absurdity in execution.
Fortunately the bus came then, and he didn't get on it with me.
I think I finished the White Collar fic that ate my brain! I sent it off to one of my betas who's helped me beat on it, and if certain other people who've been alphaing want to see it, they know where to find me, and then I'm going to get ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
dragonfly to have a look, she's not read it at all and doesn't know of my struggles with it, so her perspective should help, and then I might post it! Maybe even this weekend!
Word count's somewhere around 9400 words. At this point I amazed I got out under 10K. Seriously.
Now I'm going to get three hours sleep before I take the car in for service!
dragonfly to have a look, she's not read it at all and doesn't know of my struggles with it, so her perspective should help, and then I might post it! Maybe even this weekend!Word count's somewhere around 9400 words. At this point I amazed I got out under 10K. Seriously.
Now I'm going to get three hours sleep before I take the car in for service!
