Best dinner ever.

So tonight, there was just going to be my mom and I for dinner, and we decided to clean out the fridge. It ended up that we created a bowl of the best pasta I've ever had.

Ingredients:
1 1/2 cup rotini (the corkscrew pasta noodles)
1/2 jar queso sauce (we used Taco Bell brand)
1/4 serving sloppy joe meat
1 tomato, diced

Boil pasta, warm queso, dice tomatoes, reheat leftover sloppy joes, mix together, eat and enjoy.

I also got new glasses ordered today. They have metal frames around the eyes and plastic frames back towards the ears, and best of all - they have magnetic sunglasses clips! I don't get them for another week but I'm quite excited.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm watching Oklahoma! and this is very important.

- Jen -

Wow it's been a little while.

I got kind of busy. Sorry, everyone, my life has been weird.

Today I had an eye exam! How exciting. I hadn't had an eye exam since, like, December 2007 (I remember getting my current glasses, the red frames, before Spring 2008 semester). And you know how they say with exams like that, you can never fail? Well, I did.

My exam took twice as long as expected, because I have apparently developed astigmatism in my left eye (non-dominant eye) since my last exam (which, yeah, 2+ years ago, but still). Since we didn't know about the astigmatism, we had to check my left eye with three different contacts, and three times with the lenses. I think we have the prescription down by now, but it's still weird that it took so long to determine what was wrong with my eye.

Then, of course, he had to measure the curvature of my eyes, and do the juvenile glaucoma test, which... blah, my least favorite. I do not like having air puffed onto my eye. But it's important, that I won't deny. Our high school principal's son has juvenile glaucoma so I try to raise my own awareness about it through word of mouth.

The rest of my day was taken up by buying bridal shower gifts, going to Taco Bell, doing knitting, looking for frames that I might like (need new glasses now if not sooner), doing a transposition of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" for my brother, and watching Oklahoma! since my brother is Curly (the male lead) in the musical my high school is putting on this year. It's been a busy day, and I would go to sleep, but I'm still vaguely upset about things elsewhere on the Internet, so we'll see.

- Jen -

This post is a list because I said so.

1. I just got out of my Philosophy of Mind tutorial. This means that I only have three papers to write and three more tutorials for this term, woohoo! And I got out twenty minutes early. And I didn't metaphorically faceplant. This is a good day, folks.

2. It is also a good day because Kate and I went to the new candy shop that's around the corner from here, and I got red Italian liquorice. It was delicious. And the last few bites were the perfect after-tutorial treat.

3. I get to write an essay about Death of the Author tonight. I feel like I should get this particular credit-hour counted towards my English major back home, but enh, probably not gonna happen.

4. Apparently Jeph from Questionable Content has met the Rooster Teeth guys... apparently their booths were next to each other at ComicCon 2008. This is like dividing by zero, only successful. And more awesomer. Also, this only ups my desire for the 'Yaoi Zone' shirt from the QC store, should I go to ComicCon some year and see both the RT guys and Jeph. This is relevant to my interests, folks.

5. I will make it to London on Saturday. I will, I will. Because I deserve it, and also because I will go crazy with wanting to see the Tate Modern if I don't. Besides, I'm feeling much better and willing to take my academic work a little less seriously this next week. Because, hey, it's Eighth Week, and also because I said so. And because my life is better with less stress and less migraines.

6. YELLING BIRD IS IN MY HEAD. YOU HEAR THAT, YELLING BIRD? I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF YOU AND YOUR [redacted] ALLCAPS WOULD JUST GET OUT OF MY [redacted] HEAD, YOU [redacted] [double redacted].

7. I knew I forgot something! So I went to the computer lab to print today, and... it appears that they've installed either Windows Vista or Windows 7 into their machines... barring that, they've actually installed Office 2007. Whatever they did, they had like, 6 of their 20 computers in the lab working (a new record!), and they booted quickly. Like, super-quickly. And I was pleased.

- Jen -

This deserved its own post.

I have written almost 45k of fiction between when NaNo ended and now. I'm very proud of myself, because this time last year, the count was 0.

Back to your regularly scheduled content when I actually have some, uh, content.

- Jen -

This is my 100th post!

And I'm using it to complain about malware. Typical me.

It sucks. I've had about eleventy panic attacks this afternoon because a malware program called Antimalware Doctor has decided to rove my computer rong time. At least I have internet back now after a System Restore that shouldn't have happened, and now I know to thoroughly Google the problem before I decide I can tackle it myself.

Major props to AJ and Kate, and especially Justin, for being dearhearts and helping me out today. Especially Kate, who lent me her computer. I owe you chocolate. <3 So, for the rest of the night, I'ma try not to panic and also get some work done. That sounds good. Yup.

- Jen -

PS. If anyone *coughcoughGREGcough* has any tips about how to get rid of this... I would gladly accept them. :)

ETA: At 9:55 GMT, our beloved Antimalware Doctor breathed its last as first its registry keys were deleted, then the .exe itself was deleted after a reboot to save mode. A moment of silence for our fallen friend malware.

*silence*

Now that that's over, WOOHOO! I learned that with a little Google-Fu and a lot of handholding, I can get through pretty much anything computer related. Maybe I'm not too dumb to use a Mac after all... And I did get a pretty awesome antispyware program out of the deal.