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where to start. the world must be ending, for many reasons. 1: I don't think i'm going out this weekend. I just can't handle it right now. I'd rather spend the time doing homework, eating good food, drinking beer, watching cable (we got digital!), and playing GTA on PS2 (we bought a play station!). 2: All the "we's" in the previous paragraph. I'm still not changing my status, though. Not for any real reason, just general protest. 3: I'm trying to give up soda. slowly at first, but surely. 4: In addition to not going out this weekend, I think I'm going to sunday brunch and then househunting. Not for me (thank god), but still.... I might as well go to Hawthorne and buy overpriced yarn and start knitting on the bus. 5: My 'roomate' is rather good at yanking me out of bed when I try to puss out and skip school. I haven't missed a class yet (for the record I missed at least 10 classes of stats and still got a B-). On an unrelated note I just had to reinstall windows on my computer because I caught the "happy new year 2007" virus. I can usually get rid of my own viruses, but this one was INSANE!!! Towards the end, before I reinstalled, it was reporting my regular programs as infected so I would have to delete them. Admittedly it is probably my own fault for using black market copies of software. Still, this is the worst virus I have ever seen. After I reinstalled I did a thorough search of my storage drive (it's just files so usually the viruses which attack the OS don't affect them). By the time I was done it took almost a day and had found over 1000 infected files. My boyfriend was a bit shocked until I informed him why I was so calm. I will now also inform you, as it is the moral of my tragic computer tale. Backup your my documents folder. Most of you have a second hard drive, and if you don't, a zip drive will do, or any other storage medium. I'm pretty sure there's a way to write a virtual second drive onto your original that the windows installer will recognize and not delete, but I have a second drive so I didn't have to figure out how to do it. Any who, reinstalling used to be the biggest downer in the world, with all the loss of files it entails. Not anymore. I have all my music on the second storage drive and that all gets scanned right as it's downloading so it's safe. I have one of the MANY free backup programs (cobian backup, to be specific), which copies the contents of any folder you choose to any other place you choose at any regular interval you choose. I also have a folder in which I keep the installers of all the software I have acquired so that I can just reinstall from there. This time i deleted it all just to be safe, but who cares cause you can get it all off the web anyway. Reinstalling is much less painful now. In fact, the only thing I'm really annoyed about is that stupid virus beating me. Oh well, no virus survives a reinstall, so I guess I still win, sort-of.

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i was getting impatient so I called. everyone who interviewed in Nov or Dec is hearing back in late Jan. I'll keep holding my breath.