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My laptop has died. I have to take it to a computer repair place to see if I can be fixed or not, as the on-campus tech support think it has more to do with the hardware. Luckily, I didn't have much on it that I can't recreate. I still have all the books so I can redo the bibligraphy, and all the notes I took only electronically are from only 40 pages of the same book. It'll be a bitch, but do-able.

Anyway, I have to get going now for a quick bite to eat and then head to the hospital for my testing.

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The MRI tests were a success. I'm just pretty damn happy I'm not claustrophobic, since I was in the machine for about three hours, maybe a little more. For the brain scans I could listen to music ( the Beatles ) but for my spine the headphones wouldn't fit in the headpeice, so there was just lots and lots of banging for a half hour.

Kinda like being at Essltate again. They even gave me the same kind of earplugs, but yellow instead of green or orange.

I had my scans, I had an IV where they pushed the contrasting juice in, so my right arm is a little bit of a pincushion between today's injection and yesterday's blood test.

I just get the results for my blood test tomorrow, and the results for the scans on Thursday. And my parents are indeed coming up on Saturday, so I can get the computer situation sorted out. Right now I'm on the 8th floor of the graduate collection, watching Rachel Maddow/Countdown and checking live journal and my email. And playing a little Kingdom of Loathing.

Anyway, I'm signing off and heading for home and my bed. This year I have a thermometer, so I can acutally tell how frigid/broiling it is in there. So I can say with authority that my room is a 80 degree sauna, because they decided to turn on the heat yesterday. Which was fair, as before the heat was on it was about 68 in there.

I'm watching some people's stuff as they get dinner!

Dear Merlin Ficwriters:

I was considering leaving feedback, but I decided that, no, it is not worth it to mutter things how "photography" and "chocolate" would not be in the time period Merlin is set. I know that Merlin just ran puree with a whole bunch of timeperiods, but I think "before the west was introduced to gun powder" should probably one of those hard and fast things.

And, no, I do not care that the countryside has dragons and cockatrices. You should at least aspire historical accuracy of that of a ten year old.

Love,
Twincityhacker

PS: Though if you put the magic in Old English? I would totally forgive you for the above stuff.