False Alarm!
Feb. 26th, 2009 11:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
highlyeccentricI'm not back, the computer is dead of a new death now. Motherboard replaced, but now the computer doesn't recognise the power source. Frustrating: may not be fixed until monday. HOWEVER, these things happen, and Dell have been positively angelic the whole way through the process. Dad paid for their extra insurance package on top of the warranty, so that helps (gets me bits replaced even if the problem had been my fault, means I'm entitled to evening service work, and so on). But on top of that, their service centre have been unfailingly polite, helpful, and willing to work with me and believe my report of the problem even though I've been ringing from work and haven't got the computer with me. All these corporate blogging books the bosses have given me keep telling me that some years ago Dell's corporate image took a nosedive thanks to a couple of vocal disgruntled bloggers. Let it hereby be stated that this particular blogger is very pleased with Dell's service.
NOW, a few points:
* I have my suitcase back. Yay for gloves and winter clothes and far more pairs of footless tights than I remember owning...
* I'm wearing makeup. For the third day in a row. For some reason I'm enjoying the whole colour-matching, mascara applying, lipstick sticking thing right now. It's... I dunno, quiet and soothing and the end result is pretty. Expect this phase to last less than a week, though.
* I booked my ticket up to Sydney. K, I'll be seeing you between 9 and 10pm on Friday the 6th. You're next door to where you were last year, yes? Shall I bang on your window?
* My phone is MOSTLY working, but it seems that if I don't turn it off every three days we have problems. Still: you can contact me by mobillyphone at the moment. I think.
* Lucy: WANT TO SEE YOU. You still want to see Rachel Getting Married? Except you're excused in the name of studying if necessary ;).
* I'm now reading books on change management. They're rather interesting, actually.
* On my own time, I'm reading Henry James' Portrait of a Lady. I'm not sure if this is the same Henry James who wrote The Turn of the Screw: I keep expecting Portrait to turn all gothic, and so far, it hasn't. But I'm in love with Isabel Archer. I may have found a fictional woman to rival Emily of New Moon in my affections ;). I am of the opinion that Isabel should give up wondering if suitors are or are not an affront to her independance of spirit, and take up with me, whereupon we should be scatterbrained, highly imaginative, over-self-analytical, slightly self-centred oddities together.
* I went to French Conversation Group on tuesday. The people seemed very nice, the pub/club/thing doubly so: comfy couches! jazz music! A candelabra! Also, there were people I knew there, because you can't escape the Uniting Church and/or your housemate's friends. Gave up after an hour because my brain hurt and I had nauseus period pain, but will definitely do again.
* Friday I'm going to be pretentious and go to a spoken word poetry evening, instead of going out to dinner / pubs with my workmates. Its at The Front Cafe and Gallery in Lyneham, so I have to figure out how to get there... but it should be entertaining. Anyone happen to want to join me? (ED: that is of course providing that I'm not getting my computer fixed. But even if I am I think I should be able to make it over there, even if I miss the 7.30 start. OR I COULD STAY HOME AND INTERNET. Decisions?)
ETA: LJ rejected my post with the complaint that I have an entry dated 2009-03-25 19:42 and I'm trying to post before that. I'm, er, not. Have back dated the old entry, hopefully that'll help.
ETA2: WAIT. It's still february. Why'd LJ decide it was march last night, I wonder?
NOW, a few points:
* I have my suitcase back. Yay for gloves and winter clothes and far more pairs of footless tights than I remember owning...
* I'm wearing makeup. For the third day in a row. For some reason I'm enjoying the whole colour-matching, mascara applying, lipstick sticking thing right now. It's... I dunno, quiet and soothing and the end result is pretty. Expect this phase to last less than a week, though.
* I booked my ticket up to Sydney. K, I'll be seeing you between 9 and 10pm on Friday the 6th. You're next door to where you were last year, yes? Shall I bang on your window?
* My phone is MOSTLY working, but it seems that if I don't turn it off every three days we have problems. Still: you can contact me by mobillyphone at the moment. I think.
* Lucy: WANT TO SEE YOU. You still want to see Rachel Getting Married? Except you're excused in the name of studying if necessary ;).
* I'm now reading books on change management. They're rather interesting, actually.
* On my own time, I'm reading Henry James' Portrait of a Lady. I'm not sure if this is the same Henry James who wrote The Turn of the Screw: I keep expecting Portrait to turn all gothic, and so far, it hasn't. But I'm in love with Isabel Archer. I may have found a fictional woman to rival Emily of New Moon in my affections ;). I am of the opinion that Isabel should give up wondering if suitors are or are not an affront to her independance of spirit, and take up with me, whereupon we should be scatterbrained, highly imaginative, over-self-analytical, slightly self-centred oddities together.
* I went to French Conversation Group on tuesday. The people seemed very nice, the pub/club/thing doubly so: comfy couches! jazz music! A candelabra! Also, there were people I knew there, because you can't escape the Uniting Church and/or your housemate's friends. Gave up after an hour because my brain hurt and I had nauseus period pain, but will definitely do again.
* Friday I'm going to be pretentious and go to a spoken word poetry evening, instead of going out to dinner / pubs with my workmates. Its at The Front Cafe and Gallery in Lyneham, so I have to figure out how to get there... but it should be entertaining. Anyone happen to want to join me? (ED: that is of course providing that I'm not getting my computer fixed. But even if I am I think I should be able to make it over there, even if I miss the 7.30 start. OR I COULD STAY HOME AND INTERNET. Decisions?)
ETA: LJ rejected my post with the complaint that I have an entry dated 2009-03-25 19:42 and I'm trying to post before that. I'm, er, not. Have back dated the old entry, hopefully that'll help.
ETA2: WAIT. It's still february. Why'd LJ decide it was march last night, I wonder?
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Date: 2009-02-26 08:40 am (UTC)Seriously, if I wasn't going back to the mothership on Friday I would so be there. How come you are finding all the cool things to do in Canberra and I sit at home with my dvds all the time?
As for getting there - and I'm assuming you're bussing - if you can't get a bus into Lyneham proper it's a dead easy walk from Northbourne Ave.
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Date: 2009-02-26 12:14 pm (UTC)ETA2: WAIT. It's still february. Why'd LJ decide it was march last night, I wonder?
Answer: Google. Ask Agent K for further details.
I was never here.
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Date: 2009-02-26 09:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-27 08:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-02-27 09:46 am (UTC)The name of studying is a name I no longer need to utter! Well, er, not as much. I'm so on top of my workload that it's starting to sound outrageously kinky whenever I try to talk about it to anyone.
You busy tomorrow? I get off work at three o'clock if you're free. :)
Also, is your phone really working? Have you texted me recently? Because I've gotten two texts from you and I wasn't sure if they were recent or back-dated from when your phone was playing up...that happened to my sister once, except the other way around. She didn't receive any texts for a couple of days and then they started pouring in overdue.
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Date: 2009-02-27 01:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-01 10:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-01 10:20 am (UTC)It's on the last friday in March. ;)