vanillafluffy: (Naked cellist)
vanillafluffy ([personal profile] vanillafluffy) wrote2009-11-10 02:50 pm

Just a song before I go....

I'm at the library, getting my 'net fix. They've changed their system within the last few weeks---now one inputs their library card number to log in, and it responds by launching a little timer to count down one's remaining time (from one hour).

There's nothing I can do about the internet situation until I get this week's check. (Which is already gone, if I'm not mistaken. Half of it is toward the cable bill, another chunk to FPL, the water bill and I *have* to get gas, it's down to the sputter point. (My car has idiocyncrasies, including the fact that when the gas gauge gets below half a tank, it starts sputtering and trying to stall when braking.)

I just got a warning saying I have ten minutes remaining. I feel like Castiel, standing by the side of the road, saying, "The voice says I only have a few minutes left!"

Oh look! It gave me a 20 minute extension! Wasn't that nice of it? Carpe carp! Seize the fish! I'll take it if I can get it, that's for sure.

Okay, so, I'm *trying* to work on my crossover exchange fic. It's due December 4th, which is approaching with frightening rapidity. Barely three weeks away! Meaning I need to really buckle down, as I have a fairly complex idea in mind.

I'm going to be haunting the mailbox Friday morning, so I can snatch up my check and run to pay the cable bill. Not having internet capability is like losing a sense, almost. My instinctive reaction to something is, okay, I'll look that up---and I can't. No mail, no LJ, no Pit of Voles, no Wikipedia, no IMDb, no YouTube...no fun.

Okay, I'll be back when I can. Don't be strangers!

(Or at least not any stranger than you already are.)

[identity profile] ang5fam.livejournal.com 2009-11-10 07:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds like my life- I don't ever see my check- it is direct deposited and then the powers that I owe suck out their share and pronto, I am broke again!

I am even willing to sell my laptop at a discounted price just to put a few dollars in my account.

[identity profile] socialhermit.livejournal.com 2009-11-10 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
As someone who just spent the last 2+ weeks without cable TV or internet, you have my utmost sympathy. I felt so disconnected - literally - it was driving me crazy!

[identity profile] starhawk2005.livejournal.com 2009-11-10 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
(Or at least not any stranger than you already are.)

LOL, no comment! ;)

[identity profile] karaokegal.livejournal.com 2009-11-10 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Is there a way to buy you some on-line time...like a gift-card or something?