Well, my english class is finally over. So far I’m getting a straight A, but lets see what happens after my final paper is graded. I wrote my proposal about geothermal furnaces and suggested that more people got them for their homes - then maybe they wouldn’t pay so much to heat their home. (I’ll post it sometime, once my grade isn’t hinging on it.) I put WAY too many quotes and citations in it, but I’m not sure how else I could put in ALL those government statistics. Of course, when dealing with government anything there’s no easy way to do it. The names of their various agencies have to contain — at minimum — 5 words? 10 words? 12 words? And the various statistics you’d think would be in just ONE place will be spread out across nearly every office in existence. >_>

So ah well, at least I didn’t try to save the world in a 7 page paper like some of my classmates. ^^;;

Tried to purchase my math book off from Amazon.com, but it looks like the bank decided our debit card didn’t exist anymore. Actually, we have no idea what’s wrong, only that we can’t check our balance or buy anything with it. So we get to call the bank tomorrow morning to figure out what’s going on. I’m really tempted to skip math this semester - I seriously didn’t want to take it anyway. The fact that it’s math aside, I really don’t want to burn $123 of my financial aid on a silly book. Not that I wanted to burn $45 on Amazon either. But damnit, just when we think we’ve finally found a bank that won’t screw with us too badly, BOOM. *shakes her head* Anyway, I’ll let mom take care of that - thank you much.

Dropping math wouldn’t be too bad either, so far I’m holding a perfect 4.0, so it’s not like I haven’t made satisfactory progress. I would be taking the exact number of credit hours I took this semester, so I wouldn’t be short there either. Besides, that would leave me with a little more time and money to concentrate on my other classes . . . and well, life in general. Seriously though — I’m dreading math. I can’t pass it to save my life and I’d REALLY like to keep that 4.0 for as long as I possibly can. But I’m running out of classes that don’t need it. All the real Web design and programming classes have it listed as a prereq, so I’m going to have to take it sometime in the next couple semesters. I really thought I’d get it taken care of right away, but the more crap I go through to get this damn book, the more I’m dreading it.

*sighs*

Found a kick ass program today, makes a wee calendar with a to-do list appear in the corner of my screen. It’s called Rainlendar - stupid name, very nice program. ^__^ Taken by a sudden urge to be fashionable, I’ve been hunting for skins sets for my other desktop programs. WinAMP is easy and so is Rainlendar, but Trillian is a bitch to find good skins for. Everything is either outdated or uses impossible-to-read fonts. Haven’t found anything I’ve really liked so far.

With finals, I haven’t had a chance to do much with eFiction other than read their forums on my breaks. I really need to edit my template so it uses HTML 4.0 Transitional instead of my usual XHTML Transitional and adhere more to their templates. I still haven’t gotten an answer back yet on how they want blocks done, so I’m going to assume they don’t want custom blocks and go from there.

I’m trying to be on chat more, but I can’t guarantee anything. I’m really not used to it anymore. Unless I’m talking with a very good friend, all I can think about is “Can’t I turn it off already?” Doesn’t help that people are just plain weird. How the hell should I know why I’m on your contact list? You’re the one who put me there. Yeah, I went and wiped out most of my contact list. Nearly killed me deleting my old Guide contacts, but I doubt I’ll probably hear from them. I rarely spoke to anyone outside EQ when I was participating, thanks to the old machine’s quirkiness. *sighs* But I miss everyone terribly. I don’t dare rejoin or even begin any new games until I’m done with school. I know myself and new games far too well.

Anyway, I think I’ve done more than enough rambling for tonight. Here’s hoping the bank didn’t just screw us over.