From Shaune’s blog:

5 people you miss
3. Claire, who has fallen off the earth

I feel bad … another reason why me transferring to Mason would be a good idea (more time to see people). Then again, it’s probably just my fault

There’s an alarm clock plugin for Winamp. Cool. Who knew? Mine will be tested in precisely four minutes … and presto! I finally have something to replace the crappy radio here: “Wake Up” by Hanson (lol) … among other songs.

Forget the white iPod — I want Bono’s black one! Too bad the article doesn’t mention prices or features, but apparently the iPod will hit stores on November 23rd along with U2’s new album. Yay. Maybe my iPod mini refund will be done with by then. Speaking of which, the suspended seller — with email address temp_account@safe-mail.net — has gone MIA I filed a claim with PayPal, so if I don’t have my money back by Monday, they’re gonna investigate *sigh* Why do I keep getting myself into these stupid situations?

Even though I hated animation and dropped it, I figured I should at least post how my last project turned out — it’s supposed to be a room. I know the lighting sucks and the guy’s face is weird … but hey, there’s some stuff you’re just not cut out to do Everything except the guy and the chair (which were made in Lightwave) was made in Maya:

The new layout is pretty much finished now, so let me know what you think (really)!

Searching for a good calendar or clickable smilies plugin for WordPress? Well, look no further, because I found it! Check out Meyerweb.com for the calendar (featured to your right) and alexking.org for clickable smilies (or WP Grins, which you can see on any of my comments pages). They also work for creating and editing posts By the way, as far as I know, these sites aren’t listed on the WordPress Wiki.

Check out these two articles from the Washington Post that you definitely don’t see every day:

- Male Bass in Potomac Producing Eggs
- Up to 86 Vehicles Collide on I-95 in Md.

Tomorrow starts yet another week at JMU. Luckily I’m done with midterms, though I’m really not looking forward to finding out my grades. If I pass art history and get a B on human rights and statistics, I’ll be very surprised Have a labyrinth quiz in the morning on a 200-page book which he expected us to read half of over break. Yeah. He better curve it, as I read like five pages total. Oh yeah, and today I found out that my dad is 99% opposed to me taking a break from school (if I decide to do so). Joy.

I saw Simple Plan’s “Welcome To My Life” video on MTV2 this morning and suddenly realized how much I can relate to it:

Do you ever feel like breaking down
Do you ever feel out of place
Like somehow you just don’t belong
And no one understands you
Do you ever wanna run away
Do you lock yourself in your room
With the radio on turned up so loud
But no one hears you screaming

No you don’t know what it’s like
When nothing feels alright
You don’t know what it’s like
To be like me

To be hurt
To feel lost
To be left out in the dark
To be kicked when you’re down
To feel like you’ve been pushed around
To be on the edge of breaking down
But no one’s there to save you
No you don’t know what it’s like
Welcome to my life

Do you wanna be somebody else
Are you sick of feeling so left out
Are you desparate to find something more
Before your life is over
Are you stuck inside a world you hate
Are you sick of everyone around
With their big fake smiles and stupid lies
Well deep inside you’re bleeding …

Oh yeah, and it’s fall break. The workers are here, my fan still doesn’t work, and I’m in the basement putting endless songs on iTunes and fixing the PC. I’m randomly sneezing ’cause of the cats, but it’s not as bad as it could be. I dropped animation yesterday — online, which I didn’t know you could do — and it feels weird only taking four classes, but oh well, it should be worth it.

And for court? I didn’t think I got a break at first (my dad said the judge didn’t listen to me), but then my receipt said it wasn’t sent to DMV, which is good … so I guess in a few months I’ll have to ask for my record and see what’s up.

I’m a mess. I’m starting to feel how I did at Yorktown, and I don’t need to take yet another year over *sigh* Brian said I should take a year off and work and figure stuff out, ’cause right now I’m hating my major — I’m frickin’ failing my two art classes and doing okay in the rest — and I’m pretty much miserable here. I’m fine at home, but for the past three weeks I’ve been crying every couple days, and I don’t know what to do. Trying to explain everything to my dad (since he’s paying for JMU) would be interesting, since everyone else in my family, to my knowledge, has finished college in four years and gotten some kind of job right after. Withdrawing and taking time off never occurred to me since no one else did. And we all know Ross won’t … what will that say about me, being the only person to have issues bad enough to screw up her education? I just wanna sleep it all away.

In other news, by some stroke of luck the person who did the auction for the iPod mini on eBay got suspended, so I get a refund and my sanity temporarily restored. Also canceled the stupid DVD thing, but still have to pay for the five movies. Oh well, it’s only $10.

I wouldn’t normally listen to Mary Chapin Carpenter, but she reminds me of my mom and has this strange soothing effect. At least “He Thinks He’ll Keep Her” probably won’t happen.

I saw like a hundred geese flying north in V’s on my way to labyrinth. They were talking, too.

In The Breeze today there was a pat to this guy who ran into Mrs. Greens with a bouquet of flowers and proposed to his girlfriend in front of everyone. I was like aww.

I entered an eFollett contest where you can win a free 20GB iPod. I know they won’t pick me, but oh well, it never hurts to try.

Now it’s time to get ready to go home again. Necesito caffeine.

Really tired, dunno why. My back hurts. Somehow finished all my homework for tomorrow. Except animation, but that’s due Tuesday. Can’t believe I’m driving home again tomorrow night, and then back after court the next morning. Blah. And Shaune’s here tonight, but no way I’m going out, I wouldn’t be any fun, and can’t miss class. I’m kinda nervous about court, I’m so gonna freeze up when the judge addresses me — pretty much how I did when I got pulled over *sigh* Next time I’m paying the fine. Passed by a speed trap tonight going 80, but nothing happened … my speedometer isn’t always right, so maybe it’s lower than what it says. My dad says the county decal for my car should be coming in the mail soon, and they don’t enforce it ’til November 5th. Yay I guess.

I did something stupid last night. I clicked on a free 40GB iPod ad, thinking it was something legitimate like the freeipods.com 20GB deal, especially ’cause it was sponsored by AOL and eBay and other companies. Boy was I wrong. A page came up saying I had to complete 2 of the following options, so I chose to make a new account on eBay and bid on something and sign up for the Columbia House 5 DVD’s for $0.49 each thing. It totaled to about $10 after shipping and handling.

On eBay I bid on an iPod mini, ’cause usually things like that go fast and someone almost always bids in the last 10 seconds of the auction. Since I’d bid with 4 hours left, I figured I’d be fine. Bad decision. Apparently no one bid after me, so in the morning when I check my computer and see my name as the winning bidder, I’m speechless. Like fuck, no you didn’t. So now I’m stuck with paying $322 for a mini I don’t want. I know, yell at me. All you want. I deserve it. Maybe I’ll sell it back on eBay, ’cause I have way more than 4GB of music on my computer. Then again, it comes with everything, including a case, remote control, and dock, which is good … but then I’ll have no money once my purchases from the weekend go through: $55 at Wal-Mart, $15 for gas, $3 for McDonald’s, $10 for Columbia House, and $322 for the mini equals $405, leaving me with a measly $37 in the bank. I hate being stupid Maybe my dad will give me a check? *sigh*

Oh yeah, and after I’d done those 2 things, I clicked on the link to advance, thinking I was done. But no. It said I had to do 2 more options, at which point I wanted to scream. Just how many pages were there? By the time I’d finished all the stupid pages, I’d have already paid what the stupid thing was worth. Of all the scams in the world, I had to fall victim to yet another one.

Why the fuck is the internet so slow? If a page has to redirect, Firefox won’t let it, and there isn’t anywhere in the options that lets me turn it off. Aren’t Firefox upgrades supposed to fix problems, not start them? Now I can’t get to Gmail. Turning the firewall off didn’t help either.

I don’t like duckies anymore …