These Boots Are Made For Walking

Because it's funny, and I wanna keep the video, that's why.

A pox! A pox on you, I say!

I'm gonna kill it! I'm gonna take it and hang it in a tree by its feet and pour honey on it and sic a bear on it! It's evil, and it's on my list alongside Hilary Duff, Natalie Maines, and Mark Stern! SecuROM is the EVIL of all EVILS I tell you! *grumbles*

So, my laptop is like WAY nicer than my PC, right? It plays games flawlessly, just beautifully. So I decide 'Hey, I haven't played Knights of the Old Republic in a while. I want to play!'. Simple enough, yeah? Well, first thing I did was run a search on it to see if it would run on Vista. Turns out that no one has gotten it to work yet (or so people claim), but I did come across one message board post that said someone had gotten it to work. So I figure, why not try? If it doesn't work, I just uninstall it. Simple.

Well, happy Rio, it works! I install the program, and it lets me play! Everything works fine, it doesn't jump around, I can play on high graphics and enable the movies and have no issues with it!

Up until I turn off the computer for the night and then try again in the morning. Hey, let's play some more KotOR! Nope. Not gonna happen. This stupid dialogue box pops up and yells at me to stop using an illegal disc! It's like "please insert the original disc". I mean... HELLO? That IS the original disc! I didn't copy it, I haven't copied it, I'm using the original disc that *I* bought with *my* money, spent *50 bucks* on, and you tell me to stop using an illegal disc? What's wrong with you!! You're evil! That is the original disc! GAH. I'm only a pirate on September 19th, man, this disc is FULLY LEGAL.

I spit on you, SecuROM! I spit on you! Patooie!

*sigh* As happy as I can get, all things considered

Yeah, I'm quite happy, or as 'quite happy' as I can get with a horrible cold. I was feeling awful, so I decided to have a bath instead of a shower, and I stayed there for an hour and a half, reading my Karen Traviss book, breathing the steam... with a box of tissues handy, of course XD But yeah! Cleared out my nose very nicely. I gotta remember that for next time I get a cold, even though I totally vow never to get another one again.... I mean seriously, want to know how much sleep I've had in the past 36 hours? 2. Yeah. Two hours of sleep total, if even that. I can't lay down 'cause then my nose plugs up and I can't breathe, but I can't sleep sitting up, 'cause... I just can't. Sitting only helps for a little while, then I gotta stand up, and I can breathe for about two minutes, but then I'm stuffed up again. *sigh*

What I wouldn't give for some chicken soup right now...

Except maybe chickenless.... 'cause typing out "Chicken soup" made me think about the actual living chicken.... okay that's odd. *shiver* I blame the monologue. Drama Teacher gave me a monologue to memorize, and it's about dead birds (from the play The Woolgatherer by William something or other... Type it in at Ask.com, it's smart, it knows his name.). So, like, now I'm thinking about these birds all squawking and dying and.... okay, that's not pleasant! Lets think of something happier. Like baths with steam and tissues and a KT book. That's happy.

I still gotta edit that monologue down to a minute, AND memorize it by next Wednesday. Gee! I don't even have the last one memorized!! *sigh* Plus I'm going to have to play an insane candy counter girl that saw a species become extinct when she was young. Huh... so, a little Maddie Fitzpatrick, a little Gollum... but then she's kinda... Southern-ish, so add a touch of Clarice Starling, and there it is!

On another note, I positively ADORE the auto-save function of this blog. I was browsing IMDB (to make sure Clarice's last name really is Starling XD) and Firefox crashed, and my blog was gone.... but when I came back, hit CTRL+D, it opens up my drafts, and there it is!! Right where I left it :D Blogger rules the world. Now, maybe it can come up with a cure for the common cold...

Whoa

Multi-tasking. Get this: I'm moving all my music files to iTunes instead of Windows Media Player, but WMP rips files MUCH faster than iTunes, so I'm trying to sync both programs, plus I'm shopping for Stargate merch, reading my new Star Wars book, blogging, drinking a soda, and checking to see if my buddies are on instant messenger yet.

And the scary thing is that all tasks are being done at 100% efficiency. I mean, I haven't royally screwed iTunes or WMP yet, I know exactly what's going on in my book, and I haven't sprayed soda out my nose yet...

You know, I think it's a girl thing. My dad absolutely can't understand how we can do so many things at the same time, and still do them well. He can't sit in front of the TV without wanting to get on the computer or his palm pilot, but once he gets on one of those, he stops paying attention to the TV. If I were in the TV room though, I'd be watching that, too.... and comprehending.

So, here's my question. Is it just a girl thing, or is it just a me thing? How many tasks can you do before you start to get swamped?

I just don't get it.

Honestly, I don't get High School Musical. I really don't.