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xfirefly9xHey guys. I haven't been around in awhile. Don't know if anyone would have noticed, but in any case, my disappearance was not by choice. See under cut for details.
The computer was playing up (kept shutting itself off) so mum sent it to some guy to be "fixed". That was Wednesday last week. It took until tonight - barely 6 hours ago now - to get it back. Aaaand, of course, all but my uni and writing folders (fic and such) have been deleted. Music was saved but in different folders so I have to load everything into iTunes again and redo playlists and so on. I'm extremely pissed about that because I specifically said to the guy that I wanted everything in this one particular folder to be saved and most of it is missing. Lucky I have that much saved, I guess..
What I've lost: hundreds of userpics for LJ, 20+ folders for TV series with pics, fic (not mine - stuff I've saved in word docs to read later), transcripts and such that took me forever to collect, msn convo's I had saved, TAFE stuff I wanted to keep, wicca documents for an online course I signed up for awhile back...the list goes on. Firefox and Opera have also been removed. Apparently they're more likely to be hacked into and so we shouldn't use it. Nevermind that I use those all the time and have grown to dislike IE so damn much. I'm stuck with the damn thing. (At least until I can download Firefox once again which'll take forever on this computer!)
Moving on, in the time that the computer has been getting fixed, I haven't been feeling too well. On the Thursday I had severe abdominal pain and ended up going to the doctors and from there, the hospital in case it was my appendix. Had a blood test, urine test, all that fun stuff. Apart from having an elevated white blood cell count (and PAIN!!), everything was "normal". 2 panadol and a nurofen later, the pain was more or less gone, but in the meantime, I hadn't been drinking or eating anything as the doctor had told me not to. Ended up dehydrated: I had to get a stupid fluid drip in my arm for an hour or two (closer to two) and my arm is now bruised. The bruise measures 11cm x 5cm approx. (Put simply, it's freakin' HUGE!!) Went home rather sick of the hospital. Every day since, I've had a slight pain in my lower stomach area - though nothing as bad as on the Thursday. I just want it over already!
Other random news:
+ Much flailing is going on with uni. With no access to the internet (having had no computer for the past week or so and being 'sick' so I haven't been able to go out anywhere), I'm rather behind on my assignments. My Joss Whedon one is due on Friday. 3 or 4 others next week. *cries*
+ Stargate: The Ark Of Truth = awesomeness!! I finally saw it yesterday.
+ The final list for the Firefly Prompt-A-Thon will be up late. Keep linking fic if you have it. I probably won't be able to get it done for another week or two.
+ I met Jewel Staite and Teryl Rothery at the Brisbane Supanova. Much with the shiny! I gave them each a short fic I wrote. Teryl said (hers) was 'fantastic' and Jewel SHOOK MY HAND!!! *dies of happy*
+ Lots to catch up on. Give me time. I'll get there.
The computer was playing up (kept shutting itself off) so mum sent it to some guy to be "fixed". That was Wednesday last week. It took until tonight - barely 6 hours ago now - to get it back. Aaaand, of course, all but my uni and writing folders (fic and such) have been deleted. Music was saved but in different folders so I have to load everything into iTunes again and redo playlists and so on. I'm extremely pissed about that because I specifically said to the guy that I wanted everything in this one particular folder to be saved and most of it is missing. Lucky I have that much saved, I guess..
What I've lost: hundreds of userpics for LJ, 20+ folders for TV series with pics, fic (not mine - stuff I've saved in word docs to read later), transcripts and such that took me forever to collect, msn convo's I had saved, TAFE stuff I wanted to keep, wicca documents for an online course I signed up for awhile back...the list goes on. Firefox and Opera have also been removed. Apparently they're more likely to be hacked into and so we shouldn't use it. Nevermind that I use those all the time and have grown to dislike IE so damn much. I'm stuck with the damn thing. (At least until I can download Firefox once again which'll take forever on this computer!)
Moving on, in the time that the computer has been getting fixed, I haven't been feeling too well. On the Thursday I had severe abdominal pain and ended up going to the doctors and from there, the hospital in case it was my appendix. Had a blood test, urine test, all that fun stuff. Apart from having an elevated white blood cell count (and PAIN!!), everything was "normal". 2 panadol and a nurofen later, the pain was more or less gone, but in the meantime, I hadn't been drinking or eating anything as the doctor had told me not to. Ended up dehydrated: I had to get a stupid fluid drip in my arm for an hour or two (closer to two) and my arm is now bruised. The bruise measures 11cm x 5cm approx. (Put simply, it's freakin' HUGE!!) Went home rather sick of the hospital. Every day since, I've had a slight pain in my lower stomach area - though nothing as bad as on the Thursday. I just want it over already!
Other random news:
+ Much flailing is going on with uni. With no access to the internet (having had no computer for the past week or so and being 'sick' so I haven't been able to go out anywhere), I'm rather behind on my assignments. My Joss Whedon one is due on Friday. 3 or 4 others next week. *cries*
+ Stargate: The Ark Of Truth = awesomeness!! I finally saw it yesterday.
+ The final list for the Firefly Prompt-A-Thon will be up late. Keep linking fic if you have it. I probably won't be able to get it done for another week or two.
+ I met Jewel Staite and Teryl Rothery at the Brisbane Supanova. Much with the shiny! I gave them each a short fic I wrote. Teryl said (hers) was 'fantastic' and Jewel SHOOK MY HAND!!! *dies of happy*
+ Lots to catch up on. Give me time. I'll get there.
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Date: 2008-04-09 12:30 pm (UTC)Don't suppose you saw me there? I was wearing a Serenity black T shirt with a red Spiderman collared shirt unbuttoned over the top. Black shorts and shoes... not cosplay LOL
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Date: 2008-04-09 12:37 pm (UTC)Nope. I don't think I did. Might have, but I didn't know what to look for, so... *shrugs*
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Date: 2008-04-09 01:40 pm (UTC)I know!! Jewel is so warm and funny and adorable and OMG! *goes all melty* I love her soooo much!! *dopey grin* (And I sooo need to get a Keller icon!! I had several saved that I was going to upload, but they're deleted! *pouts*)
And she's pretty. Really really pretty. Can't forget that. ;)
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Date: 2008-04-09 03:41 pm (UTC)Computer woes = sadness! You've been missed my dear!
OMT!! Jewel Staite?! LUCKY!! And isn't Teryl just the most awesome? I meet her back in 2005 (i think) and she isn't much taller than me... so it gives you an idea how short I am if you saw how tall she is!! She was nice enough to take pics with me as the con guys were giving use evil!eye! LOL
*huggles more*
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Date: 2008-04-09 03:46 pm (UTC)Hospitals tend to suck like that.
Yeeeaah. I've missed you guys too!
:D Totally awesome! Both of them. Jewel has the warmest, prettiest smile. And handshake. ;)
Teryl was really nice as well, yeah. We talked for about 5 mins! :P (And yay! Pics!)
*tackle hugs*
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Date: 2008-04-09 03:57 pm (UTC)*hugs* for losing all your stuff...I'd volunteer to help gather it back up but we really don't have the same tastes..(why are we friends again? *g*)...hope you can find it all again.
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Date: 2008-04-10 09:56 pm (UTC)Thanks. *hugs back* Am trying to convince myself that it'll be fun gathering up the shiny again. (Not yet convinced I'll admit, but you know...worth a shot.) I'm not so pissed about it anymore nonetheless. I've got all my Firefly, SG-1 and XF pics on my iPod still, so that's something. (You wouldn't happen to know of any free iPod to computer software, would you? Or cheaper of the same?)
(why are we friends again? *g*)...hope you can find it all again.
Heh. Funny. :P ...hmmm...actually, why is that?...;)
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Date: 2008-04-10 10:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-04-10 10:35 pm (UTC)Great shows definitely. Our shows are teh best! ;P
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Date: 2008-04-09 06:04 pm (UTC)I hope everything works out with your computer and everything, and OMG JEWEL STAITE!! Exciting!!!
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Date: 2008-04-10 10:09 pm (UTC)"Honestly. There could be tears." - that was pretty much my reaction when I heard. Firefly quotes take over my brain every chance they have. *shrugs* But anyway. Yeah, it really sucks! Though I'd be a lot more torn up about it if my uni and writing stuff - and all I have saved on my iPod atm were deleted as well. I'm just glad I have all of that still. And the hospital? Yeah..*hugs*
I hope everything works out with your computer and everything,
Thanks!!
...and OMG JEWEL STAITE!! Exciting!!!
Heeee! Every time I think about meeting her, talking to her, shaking her hand, I start grinning.. Gotta be some of the best 5 mins of my life! XD *goes off in search of Keller icons*
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Date: 2008-04-09 09:26 pm (UTC)Glad you're back :D You feeling any better?
And I'm way jealous that you got to meet Teryl and Jewel.
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Date: 2008-04-10 10:15 pm (UTC)Likewise! I'm...a little better, yeah. Hasn't been as much pain since the Thursday.. Still sore-ish though..
Heee! Yeah.. That's the popular theory. (Ack! River!thoughts again! :P) Teryl and Jewel are sooooo nice!! I need to do a more in-depth post or something... XD
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Date: 2008-04-10 11:02 pm (UTC)You've got a highly jealous f-list right now I imagine xD
Yup, you definitely do. If for nothing else than to give us all one more thing to squee about ;D
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Date: 2008-04-10 11:09 pm (UTC)I imagine so, yeah.. Will have to make up for it with a fic update. (I wrote Kaylee and Janet fic for Jewel and Teryl. Will have to type up those.) :)
I will. There's so much shiny to post about! *grin* Later though. MUST work on my uni stuff first.
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Date: 2008-04-10 11:54 pm (UTC)And yep, I'm sure there must be quite a bit to post about.
Aww, who needs uni?
Oh wait...
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Date: 2008-04-11 12:46 am (UTC)There is. Lots.
I've asked myself the same question. *rolls eyes*
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Date: 2008-04-11 12:59 am (UTC)Life, why must you be so annoying?
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Date: 2008-04-11 01:06 am (UTC)Cuz it's evil?
(Torri/Joe = so much cute!! XD)
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Date: 2008-04-15 07:27 am (UTC)(I know! Seriously they're far cuter than they have any right to be, hehe)
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Date: 2008-04-16 02:19 am (UTC)(Soooooooooooo much cuter than they have any right to be. *nods* Definitely agreed on that. :D)
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Date: 2008-04-16 05:47 am (UTC)I love that icon of yours, btw..
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Date: 2008-04-09 09:54 pm (UTC)err, did the doc check for ovarian cysts? had that years ago and its beep beep beep remarkable how they don't seem to look at that. and it can be a really bad thing....
but if your all better, then (huug) welcome back!
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Date: 2008-04-10 10:47 pm (UTC)Thanks! I've been needing one of those. ;)
I'll let you decide whether I mean the punching bag or Ronon.
err, did the doc check for ovarian cysts? had that years ago and its beep beep beep remarkable how they don't seem to look at that. and it can be a really bad thing....
They mentioned that as a possibility, but since the pain went away within an hour or so of taking some panadol and nurofen, they said not to worry too much about it and to come back if it got bad again. It hasn't gotten too bad again (a little sore, but nothing serious) so I haven't had to go back. But yeah...they did say about that.
but if your all better, then (huug) welcome back!
Thaaanks! *tackle hugs* :)
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Date: 2008-04-10 10:34 pm (UTC)Awww, I hope there are conventions your way sometime soon! Stargate-y ones. *hugs* Jewel and Teryl are so nice. Meeting them was one of the best things that has happened to me in quite a while. *huggles them both*
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Date: 2008-04-10 10:44 pm (UTC)*tackle hugs*
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Date: 2008-04-10 10:37 pm (UTC)Yeah..computer/health? I'm not liking them so much right now. But it's all good. ...or will be. :)
Noooo, Jewel really isn't that nice and sweet in RL. She's even more so! *luvs her* ;)