Well, Dell says the motherboard on my laptop is deader than Darth Vader's DED wife.  Naturally, this diagnosis was followed by a most unattractive proposition: it can be replaced for the low, low price of $499.00!  With an expired warranty and no desire to pay twice that to buy a new laptop, what choice did I have ( Read more... )

I need to stop forgetting to cross-post these things.  If you've come here from my blog on starwars.com, leave an anonymous comment.  If not, leave a comment anyways, if you wish.

Good news: I am not alone at university in my love for science fiction! Indeed, my school has a science fiction club! I'm off to the meeting! Farewell to my lonely nights ( Read more... )

As some of you probably know, I work at a running store during the summer.  Not only do I make money from this, but I also am able to buy shoes at employee discount.  Which is nice, because I go through a lot of shoes.

I've been lucky in the past few months.  New Balance held a contest for employees, where for every New Balance shoe you sold, you ( Read more... )

This entry was to advertise and celebrate Serenity Day, which tool place on the twenty-third day of June, to honour and support the great (yet short-lived) television series Firefly, and its continuation on the big screen in the form of the movie Serenity.  I posted it on my Star Wars blog as part of the Serenity Day effort to get the word out, but ( Read more... )

Seeing as I'm getting nowhere with my Firefly/Star Wars entry, I'll have to talk about the Less Than Jake CD, In With the Out CrowdTo put it quite simply, I love it ( Read more... )

Brace for the fangirl squee ( Read more... )

So today I turn nineteen. As of this day, I can legally get into bars or clubs to buy overpriced drinks and look like an idiot dancing! Hooray! I'm getting the feeling that everyone else in the world is a lot more excited about this than I am ( Read more... )

Well, the marks are all in ( Read more... )

Reading Star By Star is, I must say, highly enjoyable but wholly upsetting. Seriously, it's turning me into an emotional basketcase. Is it bad that I'm getting this depressed because I know that a certain character is going to die in this book? I was crying last night as I was reading, not because the character had already died, but because he ( Read more... )

My marks are slowly trickling in on the abomination that is Qcard ( Read more... )