Ramblings

So I was totally ready to confront my roommate, work out the boyfriend issue and all that nonsense. I was ready to do it. And so she came into my room, we got through the awkward greetings between two people who really could care less if they ever see each other again, but have to pretend to be glad to see each other for politeness' sake...

And she informed me that she was moving into a recently vacated space in her friend's room, so I now have a single.

I'm like, floored right now. It was pretty much the most amazing thing ever. Except possibly seeing the Oscar Myer Weiner mobile driving down the highway that one time. Mmmm... even that.

So yeah. I've pretty much been enjoying the solitude. Not that I haven't been chillin' by myself for the last week, but this is different because I HAVE A SINGLE NOW.

Also, on a separate note, all three Christmas cards I received at school from my friends made me sad. Kathy's because it had been ripped up by some kind of evil mail demon, Allison's because I'm a sappy, overly sentimental dork, and YC's because she drew it in GOD DAMN CRAYON. WHAT THE HELL GROW UP IT'S NOT CUTE ANYMORE. And she says things like "I don't want to be seen as 'cute'" and then does things like THAT. Maybe the reason she's so difficult to deal with is because she's FIVE YEARS OLD *seethes*

... That's about it though. I'll be watching anime in the dark for the next three hours.

So I've been using a few new features to the intarweb lately. I've got a Yahoo email account, so my handy little Yahoo tool bar tells me when I've got new mail. Also, to keep better track of my LiveJournal, I've got a little function at the bottom of my browser that tells me when my flist updates. All in all, it's pretty spiffy. It lets me see what's up with my friends and what's going in in my inbox RIGHT AWAY OMG. However... it's left me somewhat lacking. Now in that down time when I've finished doing something I can't just go check my email and then have a look at my flist. Well I mean, I CAN, but I'd have to be a moron to do it since I'm automatically alerted when that kind of thing changes. Seriously, I don't think I even have to have a window open for the internet. My computer dings at me and a little alert box comes up with a link to my flist and everything.

It's not that I'm complaining. These features are really cool. It's just disrupted my internet habits somewhat, and I'm having a bit of trouble adjusting.

So Setsucon is this weekend, which promises to be a lot of fun. I get to do an art panel, which is super cool. I signed up for security, but they've given us less than no information about that, so we'll see if I actually end up doing it.

Other than that, research seems like it's going to be awesome, or at least very interesting even though I'm going to have to drag myself over to the IST building Wednesday mornings to meet with Dr. Clark T_T. Oh well. Walking's good for me. I could try to explain what I'll be researching, but I'd rather just let Wikipedia do it for me.

Um... also arts I guess.

This picture is awesome and I love it to death