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fangirl, geek, i like lists, life

Scattered polaroids and sprinkled words around your collar in the long run
Oh, I'm still here. It's holiday time for me, so I'm enjoying my Easter break with gusto and much chocolate. I've been a bit busy doing some webby stuff I might talk about later when it's finished, and completing much of my very important lying-around-watching-TV which I have been slacking off with so appallingly recently, due to the fact I don't have a TV.

My lovely laptop Cecil, who decided wilfully to break at some point during last term - leaving me with my brother's laptop and a sense of angry futility - has now been restored to my loving arms, much chastened, with new outsides, and is just as wonderful as I remembered. All my programs! My rainbow background! Donkey Kong Country! Since this happened, on a recommendation from Etsy for Everyone, I've installed Mozyhome Free, which I so far am cautiously happy with. It's a backup utility, free for up to 2gb, which runs automatically and has a nice sort of integrated thing going on, where it comes up as an extra drive in "My Computer". Like I said, like it so far. While I'm here recommending programs (and, let's be honest, making a record of them so I'll remember them the next time I do something egregious to my computer), I might as well make a list of all the things I missed while I was Cecil-less.

• Rainlendar, a cute little desktop calendar (mine's see-through!)
• Snes9x, a SNES emulator, for which you can find Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario World and many other ridiculously awesome roms.
• Feedreader, an RSS reader which lets you read feeds offline.

And a couple of online things that saved me during this time: del.icio.us and Google Docs. Although I'm sure you already knew that.

As for the rest of my holiday, I've mainly been enjoying the chance to have a break without feeling I have to be working or activisting. Don't get me wrong, I love my course and my causes but sometimes one just has to lie back and think of England spend time on other things. Like climbing on giant trees that have for some reason fallen over in East Court (yes, that was my morning), doing web design and reading.

Also: a bit of writing. I've missed fanfic. I finally got around to writing chapter three of my Cutler Beckett/Jack Sparrow piratefic, The Price, and I'm reasonably happy with how this little story is going so far - if anyone can read it for me and give some concrit (Smithy, I'm lookin' at you, all pretty in your fancy dress) Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 3 - Rating G, PG-13 and R respectively. And yes, I do plan to make Chapter 4 NC-17 if I'm not too embarrassed.

I was intending to take some photos to embellish this particular entry in my life's chronicles, but sadly my phone (and thus my camera) is running low on batteries and my charger, alas, is in Sheffield (of all places). But there you go.