home again!

Had a lovely little holiday visiting Cora and seeing Battle Ground, Washington. It's actually a cute little town. Watched movies, hung out in hot-tub, saw the assisted care place where she works, scanned a bunch of my fan-art, went swimming, and generally had a lovely time with one of my favorite people.

Wednesday the Housing people from school called Cora's house to let her know that a spot had opened up for our group in Stevens Court apartments. We were thrilled beyond belief. We ran about callling parents, trying to get hold of the rest of the group, and checking rates on the website, and then decided that YES we would do it. Then, after accepting and getting off the phone (again) with the lady, we realized that the number she'd quoted us for the rent was $20 a month more than the website had said, along with some other potential problems. Panic ensued. Eventually, we decided that we'd rather stay in our nice happy little dorm room where we wouldn't potentially be stuck with 2 people we don't know and where the rent is cheaper and we can eat on campus for lunch and stuff. A bit anti-climactic and slightly disappointing, but better than the nerve-jangling half-panic I was in before we made that decision.

Today, I must go to check in at the office, and then buy groceries. I had chocolate cake for breakfast, because I remembered only this morning that I'd finished off the bread and yogurt before leaving on tuesday. Am not complaining--chocolate cake and milk = very nice breakfast.

urgh

AIM hates me all of a sudden--every time I try to sign on it gets angry and says The AIM service can't be reached. Obviously this is not an internet problem. I thought I'd just wait 1/2 an hour or so, but that didn't seem to help.

At least I'm having a yummy lunch--frozen mango and some plums from our back yard. And I found good books at the library (four of them!) and played darts in the office with two of the schedulers. Gods, those guys are crazy. Great fellas.

AIM sucks.

After a year or more of perfectly reliable service, AIM has totally crapped out on me. I am extraordinarily displeased with AOHell right now.

It apparently ate my SN, so I got a new SN. Each time I attempted to use said new SN at the same time as running another program, my normally-well-behaved computer crashed, complaining that the system was dangerously low on resources. Even though I might only be running 2 programs.

On Gin's advice, I uninstalled AIM and went to download.com to reinstall. It claimed to have downloaded the program. Now I can't FIND the stupid install program, and am totally stuck, as I would normally be getting help from Gin.... who I was talking to on AIM!!!

[Edit:] Problem solved! I found the install program just after posting this, but LJ was being stupid and wouldn't let me edit the entry so soon. So yay! All is better now.