by Matt | Sep 26, 2001 | Imported Entry
Wee! I just helped Jason put together his very first home-made PC. We haven’t powered it up yet, it’s break time first. Lets hope it doesn’t explode. We’re both idiots so there’s a very good chance of that happening (jk). Anyway, we’ve been ordering the parts all month and today the final piece came. Now comes the o’ so fun job of installing every piece of software on the planet. Joy. He’s opted to run Win98 instead of 2k and so I can’t make him a boot disk. This’ll be interesting.
In other randomness, I was able to get out and shoot some pictures today, but I need to shoot a lot more by Saturday. Ok, dinner and software time. Later.
Current Music: Deep Dish – Yoshiesque – CD2
Current Mood: Techie 
by Matt | Sep 26, 2001 | Imported Entry
Woot, my photo paper wasn’t a complete loss after all. I was able to salvage a good 75% of the box. Yah! That solves a minor problem for the time being. I still need a source of income, and quick. At this point I’m no longer picky. A job, a shitty job, a good job, a loan, winning the lotto, anything, just something at this point. Arg. I hate not having money. Ok, well, Color Class is over and I’m in the lab upstairs, a few minutes away from finding out what I missed and will have to make up. Hopefully not much. Actually, that reminds me, I’ve got to run back downstairs and get another assignment out of my locker. Later.
Current Mood: Better 
by Matt | Sep 25, 2001 | Imported Entry
Ok, sorry, last thing… I want one of these. Anyone want to load me a few bucks?
by Matt | Sep 25, 2001 | Imported Entry
Great, I’ve got a whopping $30 in my bank account and no credit card to get supplies with. Shit. Talk about lousy timing having my credit card stolen. Can’t criminals have better timing, damn them. Well, tomorrow I’m going to have to wing it with supplies I don’t have. This will be interesting. I’ve also got to shoot 3 rolls of slide film and develope them by Monday… also with the money I don’t have. Yah! Ok, I’m sick of being tired in the mornings for my 9am, so I’m going to go to bed now. Hopefully I won’t fuck up and ruin another box of paper. But, before I go:
Quote of the Day:
“YAH! Suck it bitch… no, not you Pete!” – Jason
Current Music: Beth Orton – Central Reservation
Current Mood: shitty 
by Matt | Sep 25, 2001 | Imported Entry
Talk about a random, crappy day yesterday. Things seemed to be resolved though, at least for the moment. I got the tire patched, the car is running fine, Lauren came over with chicken salad and cake to make me feel better (I love her!) and I might be a Canadian citizen. That’s right, you heard me. After a reminder from my father as to my actual rights when it comes to nationality, it seems that I can legally be both a citizen of the US, with all rights and privileges, as well as a Canadian citizen.
It works like this. Since you (and I) were born in the US, we’re automatically a citizen. You’re also considered a US citizen if you were born to American parents over-seas (people on military bases for instance). Same goes for Canada. I was born in the US, making me a US citizen, but my mother is Canadian, hence I was born to Canadian parents on “foreign soil”. All I have to do is some paper work, and I become a Canadian citizen as well. And, quite frankly, now seems like a perfect time to do so. I know what you’re thinking, “wouldn’t I loose all my American rights/privileges?” Nope. Since I was still born here, I’m a US citizen for life, even retaining all the right and so forth if I leave and don’t come back until I’m 80, I’d still get things like Medicare for example. It’s called Duel Citizenship. Basically, my paranoid brain, with the help of my paranoid father, figures that if the proverbial “shit hits the fan”, I could make a dash to the boarder and just say that I’m a Canadian citizen, then I’m in, no questions asked.
Ok, enough talk of “shit hitting fans”, and on to lighter topics. Thanks to a conversation over on Tess’ page, I went looking for the Dunkin’ Donuts website. Not that it was hard to find. I do want those “diner mugs” they’ve got for sale. That would be awesome. And they’re only $5.99. Neat! At any rate, I was just using the “store locator” to see if there was any around here (besides the one I already knew about) and of course there isn’t. There is that one, but it’s really really sketchy and I don’t think I’d go there after sundown.
Ok, since I didn’t exactly get much sleep last night, I’m going to go to bed early. Night.
by Matt | Sep 24, 2001 | Imported Entry
Ok, to elaborate on my shitty day. After putting on the spare tire last night, I came in, took a shower and went to bed. Approximatly around 3am. At 7am, my alarm went off. Doing the math, that’s about 4 hours of sleep. By 8am I was driving into town and going to class. I was so tired that merely keeping my eyes open required two KMXs (mmm, tasty). Around 11am, after working in the darkroom all morning, I almost feel asleep standing there, and as I snapped out of it, I turned on the light to re-orient myself, not realizing in my sleep induced stupor that my box of photo paper was still out and opened. Now, it doesn’t take a chemist to figure out that once the light comes on, that box of “light sensitive” paper is ruined. So, after throwing $50 into the trash can I nearly burst into sobbing girlish tears as I realized it was time for Digital class. I was in no shape to go but I went anyways and turned in my work. I left early though so I could get the car taken car of. I went to Savannah Tire and they said they could “patch” it for about $15, which made me feel a little better. Hopefully they’ll be able to patch it and I won’t have to buy a whole new one, which is around $45. So, add this to the fact that my credit card was ripped off (did I tell you guys that) and that means that Matt is very much out of money. I’m home now, and I think that a nap is the best possible thing for me to be doing. So, I will.
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