Breaking The Curse

When I went home last weekend I dropped my laptop off at Acer head office to get it fixed. Until now I had kept my screen background as the green bamboo sticks that comes with Windows Vista. I think that picture cursed my computer. I was so freaked out by that idea that I thought, when I get my laptop back from getting repaired I would not keep using it. Well, it took me forever to pick a new one. I don't like to have personal pictures up, or pictures of people because I would get bored of them and want to change them all the time. (I'm a fan of consistency.) I like to think of my screen as a table or kind of surface and the windows and icons sitting on top of it. It seems strange to have things floating in space in front of a nature scene or picture of a beach. There weren't a lot of options but I ended up picking the blue stones. I needed something bright. It is pretty, but I miss the green.

Great Link

A girl in class showed me this link and I quite enjoy it. (It can also be found by searching 'Cute and Cuter.') It is basically cute guys posed with cute things. Every now and then they are with a baby, which I'm really not that big a fan of, but I will deal with it for the pictures of boys with kittens.

Good And Bad

For the first few years of elementary school we said The Lord's Prayer every day:

The Lord's Prayer

Our Father, who art in heaven,
Hallowed be thy Name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done,
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation,
But deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom,
The power, and the glory,
For ever and ever.
--Amen

I can remember them saying every morning; "Please stand for O'Canada and remain standing for The Lord's Prayer." For kindergarten I went in the afternoon, so never heard the morning announcements. On the first day of Grade One I remember being so upset at not knowing the words. I barely knew the national anthem and definitely not the prayer. Half the class had it down pat, they obviously went to kindergarten in the morning the previous year. The teacher assured us that we would learn it quickly, and we did. Soon, I had it memorised and can recite it to this day, thanks to having to say it every day in school until maybe about Grade 3 or 4, I can't remember when we stopped. The strange thing, I went to a public school! While I have nothing against prayer, or this prayer in general. (Actually I find parts of it really beautiful.) However, it has absolutely no place in a public school!! I can't believe they did that, I can't believe they were allowed to do that. That was not that long ago either.

Set In A Plan

I went for a tour of Ryerson University in Toronto on Friday morning. The campus is tiny, even smaller than Carleton. It is right downtown, next to the Eaton Center. I had been before as I went to a camp there once and have had friends go to school there. I'm really excited about the MA program there and the idea of living in Toronto, I love the feel of that city. I'm pretty happy about my plan to go in September 2010, if I can get in.

Vodka Salad

This is one awesome cocktail, and really unique too.
A guy at a party in Vancouver had it and I have since tried it at home.
-Vodka
-Water
-Ice
-Cucumber slices
My friends tried it and they all said the same thing:
"Well, it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be."
Trust me it is good, I really like it.

Love Seduces Innocence

"Love Seducing Innocence, Pleasure Leading Her On, Remorse Following"

An engraving by Barthélemy Joseph Fuleran Roger (1767/80 - 1841).

Heartbroken

I spent all Saturday reformatting my laptop to try to fix this problem I have been having with the screen. I have been having issues with the screen since I got it in November, and the manufacturer (Acer) said that reformatting was pretty much my final hope before sending it in to be repaired. It took a long long time to do and I had to pull all my files onto our subleter's external hard drive to back them up. I then put them back on afterwards, as well as, started to load back on the programs I needed, mainly Microsoft Office. Yesterday, Steph helped me with a bunch of Photoshop stuff, which was complicated and way over my head. Things looked good. Everything was working smoothly, I kept getting a strange error message every time I turned it on but I could live with that. Then late last night, right as I was deciding it was probably time to go to bed, the screen dyed. Proving - that the reformat didn't work and now I need to send it in to them for sure. I'm so heartbroken at this. I have put so much time into trying to fix this, my friends have worked on it to help me through it, and it is pretty much brand new. This company does not have a good reputation in general, and even worse for its repair centres. I am not looking forward to this last last last ditch effort to get my laptop working properly.

Wow!

Today on the aforementioned diet, along with the soup, I get to drink milk and eat bananas. I can't believe how sweet bananas taste after three days of soup, fruit, and vegetables. I am actually almost sickened by how sweet they are. I'm also not really having cravings for anything anymore. I'm hungry sometimes but never looking to eat something specific. Don't really want carbs or sugar or something salty. This diet rocks! Bananas are too sweet for me now, how crazy is that?