Laughter Through Tears

I was meant to print out this month's scripts last night, and then this morning. I came to print them now and the printer gives an alert that it's low on ink. Cyan ink. Come on, printer, you don't need specifically cyan ink to print a prescription. Fuck whoever decided that this thing will force me to buy ink I don't need instead of giving me the option to print in B&W.

( And life stuff. )

In good news, I've been writing fic and it's fun and happy-making. Still in the total obsession (if not quite honeymoon) phase of Shiny New Fandom. Whenever I'm not playing or reading or writing... I'm thinking about playing or writing. My AO3 page is starting to gradually show the signs.

It took three days and several reinstalls, but it appears I finally have a working printer. No more trundling off to my parents' house to print prescriptions. No more waiting on line at the post office to send faxes. Granted, the frequency with which I need these services is still baffling to me, but at least now I have them readily available.

Now, if only I can get all my scripts synchronized so I can fetch them only once a month, instead of, oh, twelve different trips.

We've been sorting through years (in my brother's case decades) of comics to figure out what we keep and what we try to sell. All the keepers go in my spacious new cabinets, sorted into shoeboxes for convenience (we are out of boxes and need more). I've taken this opportunity to try and catch up with monthlies I haven't been keeping up with. During school time, it was hard to keep in mind things like "when the monthly comics package comes in the mail" and "what happened last month" and "how far along am I" and besides, I was finding it generally harder to read.

Looking at the current subscription, there's a bunch of stuff I'm not sure I want to keep up with. Why did we subscribe to JLA, again? It seemed like a good idea at the time. And now that X-Factor is wrapping up (seven years of my life, right there) I don't know if we'll find enough monthlies we want to make shipping worthwhile. Legit, if I could get Saga digitally, I might just drop everything else. I just need to talk to my brother about it.

Then today I went to the pharmacy and sat for the make-up lady for about an hour. And made a hole in my budget. Good news, though, everyone says I look fantastic. I don't know if I'll ever get used to mascara, though.

Otherwise I'm just drowning myself in fandom and fanfic projects, trying to brush up on professional topics that I haven't touched in ages, and generally keeping busy to keep anxiety at bay. Trope bingo is going better than I had been concerned. For a while it looked like I'd have all ideas and no follow-through, a disease I'm intimately familiar with. However, things are looking up and that helps me generally feel good about myself. Well, the Wellbutrin gets some credit, too.

One month from today I'm turning twenty nine.

( Medical stuff )

today has been a shitty day
so i'm making a blood test reference

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I have successfully gotten my electricity cut off due to non-payment.

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Now I have to get back to studying. I still have a test Sunday morning.

What do you get when you cross a dragon and a unicorn? According to my organic chemistry lecturer Dr. A, a rhinoceros. As an explanation of resonance forms, it makes an odd sort of sense: the two progenitors are just descriptors that don't exist empirically (nooooo!!) but they help describe the cross-breed, which is real. Did I mention that science is awesome lately?

Also, I think it would make great fanart. A rhinoceroid dragon/unicorn hybrid, I mean. Woo!

Also worth noting: I cannot spell "rhinoceros". I had to rely on Firefox's spellcheck to get it right. Sometimes even I forget that English is my second language... and then I remember again.

In other news: I woke up at 8:10 today when I had class at 9, but ended up only being a tiny bit late. I also managed to sneak in some breakfast just before chemistry, so no quinine-induced stomach-turning for me today. Saturday I start my rigorous study sessions. I have a metric assload per Newton squared of mechanics to catch up on. On the other hand, my chemistry folder is super crowded, which makes me feel good about the state of my notes.

Oh! When I returned the not-so-good physics book I found out that the good one is cheaper, and I used the difference to buy... *drumroll* an Israeli fantasy book. I still don't know whether it's any good or not, but hey, don't look a gift unicorn in the teeth.