Current mood:	tired
Current music:	anything synth-pop

moving to fiji
So finals really suck. Here's a funny story - on tuesday me and Xanadu were pulling an all nighter for a presentation that we had to give on a project we hadn't started yet. the first step involved digitising a LOT of dvd's - and as anyone whose ever tried to do this before you need a lot of space. so we went over to circuit city and she bought me an external hard disk - 120 GB of clean digital slate - it takes firewire (which i have) and USB 2.0 (which i don't have). so we're all excited, we get home to plug it in and then we find out that there's no firewire cable. now we desperately needed this thing for tomorrow's presentation, so we were calling around like maniacs - but no store was open at 11pm on tuesday - only the virgin megastore and they didn't have it. so xanadu started going through the yellow pages looking up emergency 24 hr tech support companies, the kind that would charge $100 to get the cable here. she finds one that calls us and it turns out he is greek - so they start chatting in greek and lo and behold it turns out you can use the USB 2.0 devices with USB 1.0 ports, so we didn't need any new cable since we had the USB 1.0 cable from her printer... and since xanadu was greek he didn't charge her for his advice... but while i was looking through the box for the instructions, what did i find? a firewire cable. now that's all well and good, except it didn't fit my laptop because it was 6-pin to 6-pin, and my computer only takes 4-pin firewire. but we were able to use the USB 1.0 cable like the guy said - and it worked!

i really can't wait for this thing to be over - i'm starting to feel really strained... my grandmother (my mom's mom) is not going to make it much longer, and i may have to ditch finals and go right up to montreal. i don't know if i'm going to be able to handle this one too.... but its really about looking after my mom at this point.