i feel stupid, and contagious

+ gwenmorganabbc is having a Merlin femslash kink meme, running all weekend. :D :D :D It's for for the International Day of Femslash, which is (*checks watch*) today! Go and leave prompts! It doesn't matter whether you're a member of the comm or not, I don't think. Any girl/girl pairing, any rating, any prompt, and you can do it anonymously if you wish. I plan to do some drabbling tonight. Whoever answers the most prompts gets a pretty banner.

+ The collision shop is finished with my car, so I've got to go pick that up/turn in my rental car. It'll be nice being in my own car again and not being paranoid about scratching it and having to spend loads more money.

+ Has anyone ever had this blue screen thing with Windows Vista, wherein the screen goes blue with an error message, saying that something's wrong and Windows is shutting down to prevent damage? Any idea how to fix it?

My new desktop PC keeps crashing that way. I can't tell for sure, but it might have started happening around the same time I installed The Sims 3, which I have since uninstalled. I'm attempting to disable different drivers one by one to pinpoint which one might be causing it, but it's going to take ages that way, and I don't have the money to take it to Best Buy or something, and I'm afraid I'm going to have to re-install the OS or something dire like that. Which means losing all my files and re-installing all my stuff. For fuck's sake, it's times like this I wish I could afford a Mac.

+ Is anyone even AROUND this weekend? :P LJ is so slow. You guys are having too much fun at Azkatraz, aren't you? I will try not to be too jealous. But even Trek fandom is slow. Not that I've helped -- at all. I've been in RL hell for most of this week, surfacing only once to see HBP.

** So I got a new car yesterday. My brother needed one kind of immediately and so I sold him my Echo that I've had for seven years. Then I went out yesterday to find a new one; my folks came with me. I settled on a Dodge Caliber; it was cost effective and it has more room than my Echo did. We'll see how it goes; I'm not good at making quick decisions, but I like the car, I think it's cute. I was gone for like twelve hours, though. The chick at the first dealership we went to was a such a twat that we left and drove across town to another place, where we got helped by a really nice guy whom I was much happier doing business with.

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It rides really nice even though my Echo was a bit better with mileage. :D

** TV this season is making me happy. Too many new and returning shows to talk about, but suffice it to say I've been giving my DVR a workout. I'm enjoying the new season of Smallville more than I thought I would after Michael left because Tom is looking freaking amazing and there's a lot of cute canon/Clois stuff being slipped in that makes me bounce a little. Also some really interesting Chlark subtext in the last episode that I like just as much even though I know it's not going anywhere. I'm a little iffy about Supernatural so far -- the boys are still amazing and I've really enjoyed the first two eps, but I don't know what I think about these two new story arcs yet. We'll see.

I'm catching up on Grey's Anatomy and Heroes for this week, and Dexter starts tonight. *bounces around*

** brief PSA, sorry: Any of you who Americans who're old enough; are you all registered to vote? If not, you should be; deadlines are coming up. I don't care who you'd vote for but the fact that only about half of eligible people vote in any given election in this country is frankly astounding. It's a right that anyone who wasn't a white male landowner in this country had to fight for at some point or other. You can go here (no matter your affiliation) to check and make sure your registration and address are valid in the records, or to register if you're not already. /obligatory psa

That's it for now I guess. ♥♥♥