five AM has been the average wake-up time for the past five days. The average sleep time was... well... a smaller number. I've never really considered sleep a necessity for me. I mean yeah, of course it's nice. Of course it's all i think about while i inhale my daily coffee intake. But lately this has been getting slightly out of hand. Also, I've been trying to cut back on caffiene, and I'm being very strict about it. So thus far, I've had no coffee since I woke up very early this morning. I'm really out of it.

I made a list, earlier today, of ten reasons why today is a really good day. but then today started heading downhill, and now I can't remember them. i could make up a good list of reasons why today is a really bad day though. Thus is the way my world works, I'm afraid.

I'm finding it so hard to post to this thing lately. I mean, I don't have a whole lot to say. Life is rather dull and uninteresting now, even with my packed schedule. I'm sending in my Salkehatchie forms today, which is a one-week summer camp where I'll help fix up a house for someone who can't afford to have it fixed up. Last year was a blast, I've never done something that fun and that cool before in my life. I'm looking forward to it immensely. Also for the summer are plans for a beach trip, and meetings with my service group, and trips to huddle house must be scheduled. It's gonna be a busy summer, which is rather how I like things.

I've run out of words.

this post has nothing to do with the RIAA, actually. i don't know that this post has much to do with anything, really, just a bunch of ramblings to update. but, for the record, i do hate the RIAA.

Today I took a trip almost an hour out to a music store. I love music stores. Sadly, the only one in greenwood charges unbelievably high prices, and the people follow you around everywhere, convinced you're going to steal something. Here, the lady was so nice, she gave me free posters and tshirts after my dad spent a wad of money on a new amp. i myself got a strap peg for my beautiful new guitar, and some picks courtesy of my sister. And of course posters and tshirts. I think it was a nice trip for the day, and I just love being in a room with so many pianos, keyboards, guitars, drums, everything. It's really nice.

Meanwhile, I finally gave up on the whole windows-98 keeps bluescreening on me. I couldn't do anything at all really without crashing the thing. It's not that i even use windows that much anymore, but i haven't set up a burning program in linux yet, plus i can't seem to find a linux file-sharing program that comes anywhere close to kazaa-lite. also a few other random things, like my lack of fonts (this is a MAJOR problem, anybody who knows anybody who knows where i would go to get anything that will let my have either true type fonts or where i can find cool fonts to install with suse 8.1 and use in the gimp, please please please let me know). i need windows as a backup to check my designs, because it would be stupid to design an entire website for a client, only to find out it wasn't compatible with internet explorer. heh. but anyway, i managed to install 2000 pro, and still get grub back up and running. i'm still a bit concerned about how my drive somehow partitioned off a small section at the front of the drive that remained FAT file system when i switched, so now my main files are on F: drive, and i'm too lazy to configure linux to recognize NTFS, so i just move all the files i want to switch over to the tiny C: FAT partition, then boot into windows and move them to F: i need a hobby.

i got a "how to do everything with flash mx" book in the mail the other day, one i ordered used online. the first paragraph caught me, it explained how i probably needed to learn flash pretty doggone quick, and didn't have time to wait around. which is soo true!! and then it spends ages explaining to me the history of flash? why i need flash? i know how cool flash is. i just need to know how to make things fall when you click on them.

well, i need sleep. its been nice, /. journal. nice indeed.

oi oi oi. a couple weeks ago, i discovered that eating the large amounts of greasy food that i was eating was actually making me sick. i couldn't eat anymore of it, it was really making me sick. so silly me, i decided okay. cut out the doritos and cheesy greasy omelettes, and all that other junk you eat every day, and cut out the caffeine (gasp!). instead, we're going to eat fruits and veggies and pita bread sandwiches. we'll drink lots of water and green tea and stuff, for a healthy little super amy! and it's been working. no, really, it's been working. well, i did slip up once and have a very caffeinated mountain dew at huddle house, but only because i'd ordered sprite and they brought me carbonated water. very nasty stuff. it was a sign. but its killing me. never before in my life have i been on a diet of any sort, i've pretty much been able to eat what i want when i want, provided my parents let me. and neither ever were health food nuts, so it pretty much went my way most of the time. what i would give for a bag of doritos right now. mm or a cheesy cheesy mushroom quesadilla. or a cup of hot cappucino. mmm. i would be so happy. but i'm off to go eat my healthy pita sandwich lunch. -sigh- when will this madness end?

i've found that living with a diet consisting of greasy foods, doritos, mountain dew and coffee will at some point make you rather sick. and so now i'm on a diet of salads, pita bread, bagels, and all those healthy foods that we forget about when we eat chocolate. of course, right this second, i'm eating a handful of m+ms. but then, everybody can falter a bit, yes? i ate breakfast. and orange juice. that must count for something! i've ignored my /. journal for too long. I forgot how much I love it! I should post more often, I guess, but what with my blog and my lj and all these other little things i must post to, it gets hard to pick sometimes. i'll have to move this up a notch or two on the list.. but now i'm done. goodbye.

coffee shops are fun
coffee shop girl is a good song
coffee is so caffeinated, it makes me happy
coffee is what i had today
coffee is what i need right now

-sigh-

<b><h1><ul>GAAAA!!! $#%@!</ul></h1></b> okay i'll stop. my software hates me. i'm being forced to use windows at the moment.<br><br>

and to top it all off, today i was stuck in a house with only one computer, running -- get this -- windows me. anything left to say? i think not.<br><br>

<i>~Super Amy!</i><br>

well my first impression is "why would a person use a live journal after they'd heard about the great /. journals??"<br><br>

i sit here typing my first /. journal entry on a dell dimension xps p166s. it's quite a depressingly sad computer, but it's running linux instead of windows, and that certainly speeds things along considerably. it only crashes if i have kmail, four or five opera windows, aim, xmms and five or six gimp windows open. and that is to be expected. i shouldn't overload the poor thing like that, but what am i to do? honestly. i'm trying to avoid the gaming addiction that plagues my brother and seems to have started in on my sister. i'd love to be a gamer but the plain and simple truth of the matter is that any game i would want to play is *drumroll please* windows only.<br><br>

but hey what about that tux racer? oh man i don't have that anymore, i had it back when i used redhat i do believe. i miss that little game. i have a minor tux obsession, its one of my favorite icons ever. him and rosie the riveter. hahaha fun times.<br><br>

on a rather depressing note (what isn't these days?) this room looks treacherous. i mean really. i never cleaned it before christmas. or after christmas. there are candy wrappers everywhere. this desk is packed, its barely big enough for the monitor and the keyboard, not to mention the tower i sqeezed in on the end there, plus a mouse and mousepad, speakers, an alarm clock (which is perched dangerously and threatens to fall into the junk-piled armchair at a moments notice). plus, candy wrappers, empty coffee mugs, index cards with css info and hex codes scribbled across them.<br><br>

i'm confused with my sister's methods. on top of the computer tower is a stick of deoderant, and in front of it are two bottles of nail polish.<br><br>

but i must close this up, i cant have a habit of nice long /.journal posts, because i'd wind up neglecting my blog, and then eventually this, because long isn't really my style. plus it's late, and i have to babysit all day tomorrow, which means getting up at four to fit in web design. so goodnight to all you /.geeks!<br><br>

one note... i think i'm going to publish this in xtrans, because its more fun and geekier that way.<br><br>
<b>super amy!</b><br>