Becoming amish ???

Sometimes I am so lucky...

I spent most of last weekend writing an 20 page essay, due last monday about violence in films and its effect, we had to watch a movie and analyze and describe the violence in it and how it showed. I wrote about "Once were Warriors", a film from New Zealand about domestic abuse in Maori families. Good film, very dramatic.. anyway...

After spending a lot of time on it, my computer starts to behave weird, getting slow and shutting down. I try to recover my data from the hard drive but no, my computer crashed and I last those 20 pages. Excellent, I always want to have my work thrown away ....

I decide to pull an allnighter in school writing the damn thing AGAIN. I get there around 4 or 5 pm and stay up allnight, writing the damn thing. Luckily for me, not so good for my professor though, my professor had a sick kid at home and told us to leave the paper in a postbox so I had extra time. At 6 am the stupid system restores itself and by that reformatting the hard drive on all the computers, and therefore loosing the damn 20 page essay AGAIN... What are the odds of loosing the same friggin' work twice due to technical problems ??? I spent an entire hours searching everywhere I could think of for that essay... oh, by the way, the system restore wasnt supposed to happen on computer people were logged on. It was a glitch... just my luck...

I could have cried when I went home at 7am on monday morning, vowing to moving to Pennsylvania, becoming amish and NEVER TO TOUCH A COMPUTER AGAIN !!!

I manage to sleep for 3,5 hours, wake up and try to find SOMEONE to fix my computer, but apparently there is only 1 certified Sony laptop workshop in Europe. Yes you read right the first time, 1 in Europe. So I decided to pay loads of money to get a new hard drive in Iceland since I can't be without my baby Vaio...

aaaaaaaaaaanyway...

I get something to eat, run some errands needed to be run and pull an allnighter again, but somehow less enthusiastic about the whole thing... Don't know why, maybe to have to watch the friggin move and count the blows to a jaw for the third time got to me... well, I spend the night in front of the screen, saving the third draft of my 20 page essay in 3 different places!!! Anyway, I finally turning the damn thing in and walk home longing for my bed around 9.30 am

I manage to sleep somewhat fitfully until I have to go to work at 4 pm. I try to do a little bit of studying since I had a test on wednesday and hadn't read a thing in that course... Well, I woke up and studied for about 90 minutes before the exam. My little sister came to Reykjavik to help me out with my apartment that wednesday and we manage to move my stuff around in my very small 36 m2 apartment. That day ends with me driving her back to where she lives in Hvanneyri and I get home around 2,30 am. I work about 8-10 hours thursday and friday.

I have seldom been so tired, we are talking about I fell asleep before 11 pm last night. Me going to sleep early on a friday ??? that is unheard of, I am such an nightowl !!!

This has been one week of horror !!! so take it from me, back up every data you have or are working on in SEVERAL PLACES or you might have to pull an allnighter several times !!!

I have spent enough time in front of the computer writing this blog, I am still a little bit anti-technological... OVER AND OUT

jólin jólin jólin koma brátt...

Æ dónt bílív itt.. jólin fara að koma bráðum... gúlp..

Maður þarf að fara að hugsa um jóla þetta og jóla hitt... sem er í sjálfu sér ekki slæmt nema að mér finnst sumarið RÉTT AÐ VERA AÐ ENDA... er varla komin í haustgírinn, hvað þá jólagírinn. Samt hlakka ég alltaf til jólanna, vildi bara að ég hefði aðeins meiri tíma þangað til.

2006

Hello all,

yes I am still alive. Somehow time has passed so fast that I can't keep up :s

the year 2006:

Was ill and ended up in a hospital,
didn't go to the university but still managed to finish 1 big course this spring inspite of my illness, kudos for me (need all I can get)
spent the summer cold, wet and outside,
fell in love and consequently got my heart broken,
found out what I want to be when I grow up,
am now working in a café about 65% and going to school fulltime,
wanted to do bellydancing this fall but my bank account didnt agree,
Need to step up my game about studying but hey what else is new,

Gonna try to blog more often, it feels good to vent online. The only problem is how personal should my ranting be ? will posting some personal stuff about me come back to hunt me one day ? or am I just paranoid ?

Whatya think?

Anyway. I hope ya'll good and hope to seeya soon