Blech
My original dinner plans for tonight had included cooking a boneless butterball turkey thing with potatoes and broccoli and it was going to be very exciting and fabulous. Somehow (due to me underestimating thaw time) I'm eating pirogies and okra instead. And a Sparks, that's the best part.
My computer is still noisy. Turns out I'm very uneducated about power supplies. Part of the problem, I suppose, is that when we were in Williamsburg the other weekend, Doug said that I just needed to get was a 300 watt power supply. The dangly bits do not match up. There are three different things that want to be plugged into my motherboard, the smallest of the 3 has holes for 3 pins, and neither the power supply I bought, the power supply I pulled out of my old computer, or Drew's spare power supply have this. So I need to figure this out. Or wait until our next trip to Williamsburg (soon, hopefully, as we had a good Civ game going down there) and get Doug to take a look at it. If nothing else though, I feel like I know a lot more about putting together a computer then I used to. I always feel that, regarding many aspects of computers, I'm in that weird area I appear knowledgeable to a layman, but clueless to someone who's good at computers in that way. I'm always trying to find ways to push me in that 2nd direction.
By the way, I really hate this time of year and my current situation. I'm lethargic and don't want to do anything. Yet, I'm stressed out by all of the things I have to do. I feel like I'm making various people dislike me due to my lack of socialness and lack of desire to do some things. However, I feel very crushed for time and overwhelmed by pretty much everything right now. Part of it is just me wanting to do more then I have time for, part of it is how the cold just gets to me, makes me not want to do anything, part of it is my desire for change and my frustration at feeling so stagnant in my current situation.
In other news, I've been reading some good books. Been listening to The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins at work, reading The Mind-Body Problem by Rebecca Goldstein. Lecturewise, it's been a mix. I recently downloaded, and had to reject, a course on Animal Behaviour that was just too elementary. I'm near the end of the Euro History course I've been listening to for the past few months, and am greatly enjoying a course on the future of the internet.
Oh yeah, and we still don't have an apartment. The last one, turned out, had no dishwasher, which is a dealbreaker. So we're still looking. This is another source of great stress for me, one that I hope to resolve soon.