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*Cling* We have been without internet for about the last 36 hours. I don't know how I went through an entire week without internet when I went to Disney. I suppose I just came home too exhausted.

I realize that I missed most of the planning for the truth or dare thread, but does anyone want Kon to ask them? I...have absolutely no idea what to ask, but I'd be willing to give it a shot.

So, first of all, I wake up and it's REALLY hot in here. Apparently our AC isn't working properly. It should be 70-something and it's 80-something instead. Normally, this wouldn't be too bad, but it's monsoon season, which means humid heat.

Second, and this is the doozy, I got my mail this morning and found that I had a notice from the fraud protection service I've been using. It came through my bank and I got it for the credit report and decided to keep it in case any old debts came back to haunt me. This actually ended up happening, which makes me glad I got it. What makes me doubly glad is that when I opened the letter today, it said I have a past due account from Citi Cards. I've only ever had four credit cards and none of them were Citi.

Trying to get through their phone system was annoying. First they needed an account number and wouldn't do a 'dial 0 and get the operator'. I kept trying to track down another number and got zip. The 800 number for the fraud protection service was down because of the holidays, which meant that I couldn't get an account number from them.

Finally, I tried a few other tricks that I learned from my telemarketing days. Double 0 or # usually work. A single # brought me to touch-only service and a second # brought me to a customer service rep. I go through the 'I don't have an account here' and she goes 'yes, you do' and I give her my SSN and sure enough, she brings up an account. Then she asks for confirmation with my mother's maiden name. And here we get to the snag: it wasn't my mom's name. V-something. They wouldn't give me the complete name.

So I get sent through to the fraud department, only the transfer gets screwed up and I get disconnected and have to call back. Another hassle. This time, they tell me that while there is an account, it's not under my name.

Cue HUGE sigh of relief.

It means that I can dispute with the credit agencies just fine and all it'll take is time.

A C for my midterm. I can live with that. Not happily, but I can live.

In three and a half days (88 hours and 7 minutes, to be exact) I have a 7-page analytical essay to turn in for a class that I haven't done the reading on. Why haven't I done the reading? Because there's been tons of reading for everything else and I've wanted to keep up where I had things like quizzes or midterms. It's only analytical theory, right? Hah. Right. I'm going to be doing tons of internet research over the next day.

Consider this my 'I'm going to be stressed the next few days' notice.

I'm still going to be around and chatting and RPing, but I refuse to do the entire essay on Monday night. So, because of that, I'm going to remind myself just how much I have left to write.

0 / 1,800 (0.0%)

Wish me luck.

I can't sleep. And this isn't to say that I spend three days awake like frogmajick, because I don't. But I'm trying to adjust my schedule earlier so that I can get up by 7am or earlier next week and it's just not working.

I go to bed early, I just stay awake. I go for a walk and it exhausts me, but I still can't sleep. I am trying not to take a sleeping pill because I hate pills, but that might be my only other option unless someone out there has suggestions for getting me to go to sleep earlier.

The ways this day sucks:

1. I got maybe five hours of sleep, all told. Maybe less. I'd have to ask Christina.
2. I woke up and another small piece of my tooth - which has been slowly falling apart and which I'm unable to fix due to lack of insurance - is gone. I don't want to know how much fixing it is going to cost.
3. I brought my lit book to school with me. And then promptly left it at the bus stop. Of course, when I realized this and went back to grab it, it was nowhere to be found.
4. I had a nagging feeling when I got to school. You know the above mentioned lit book? I have a paper due in class today. Which I completely forgot about.

And I haven't even been awake three hours, yet. Dear god, kill me.

ETA: I'm an idiot and I can't tell the dates. It wasn't due until Thursday. And today she knocked it back even further. I'm going to take the later bus back, get food, and buy the book. If I don't hear back in two days, then I'll have bought the book for real. Oh well. And I think I might have a lead on dental insurance until I go through the school.

So. hikaru and pirate_duck, I swear to god you were just in my dream. That's not as fun as it sounds.

What most of you don't know is that the last time I was in school, I was getting A's and D's and F's. Nothing really in between. And much more of the latter than the former. So I decided to take a semester off. In the middle of the year. I moved off campus and apparently never checked out of the dorm. Of course, I ended up screwing that up again, but that's not the point.

The dream I just had was at a dorm (and I swear that the entrance to the dorm was a roller coaster). My roommate was pirate_duck and my next door neighbor was hikaru. Things were fine for a little while, but I ended up moving without notice or taking my things out of the dorm. Eventually I needed to come back to pick up a textbook (Physics, I think, or some science).

I met up with some evil person who had turned an entire floor into some kind of hell-ish place. I got her support and her henchman followed up upstairs. They took pirate_duck to talk and I stuck my head in to hikaru's room, but she shunned me. The door literally closed in my face even though she wasn't near it. Once pirate_duck came back, she was mostly fine and reminded me that I had to remember to check out of the dorms first. That was the point where I sat down, head in hands, and started crying.

Fuck, I hate dreams like that.

I just have to say that I hate, hate, HATE oral reports. I get nervous, my tongue trips over itself, and I forget half of what I wanted to say, even if it's right in front of me. But it's done. Gone. I don't have to do it anymore today. *Whimper*

Okay. So. I'm here in the computer lab at school because I have a lab to finish for Physics. I've been playing my iPod all morning (not at all different from normal). I looked at it before Physics class and notice that the charge is down dramatically from what I'm used to. That's the first clue that something's wrong.

Then, I get to the computer lab and plug my headphones in and play for a little while. Everything's fine. For about ten minutes. Then the sound dies. I think great. The thing's dead and I bring it out to check the charge. It's all the way down. Except for one small problem. The light won't go off.

ETA: And now there's an error message whenever I try to play my iPod. And this little symbol.

I really hope that it's just a minor issue and not anything serious. Although I may be in luck, because the warranty lasts another two months. Unless they need proof of purchase, in which case I need to hunt around and figure out what I did with it.