- Created By Mimmi
You are my sunshine
"Caravan Of Love" is one of my all-time favourite songs. I'm a sucker for a-capella pieces and the video is wacky fun ^^; ...Heureka?
Just now my dad called our internet provider and asked about not being able to access the podcasts and Boxtorrents. My guess was they actively blocked the latter but if baffled me as to why they'd hinder the former.
Turns out their American internet service provider Cogent suddenly cut off the "feed" after giving the Swedish provider 14 hours to sign a new "peering deal" or something, which I'm guessing caused a breakdown in communication etc. This, in turn, lead to people like me not being able to gain entry to websites that run through them and don't have an alternative provider.
The guy dad spoke to thought this was the reason for my problems and said they were hoping to have this sorted out by next week.
So we'll see how this unfolds :o
To sleep or not to sleep is out of the question
For roughly a week or two I went without any kind of sleeping aid because I ran out, had a cold and couldn't be bothered to ask anyone else to fetch another batch for me, but also due to a never ending curiosity of how my body will react when deprived of something it's used to. My mom rolls her eyes at me every time it happens (yeah that implicates I do this on a semi-regular basis and therefore should know very well how it makes me react >.>) figuring one day the research will stick in my brain long enough for me to not repeat it yet again.
This particular medication (Attarax) does help me to relax enough to fall asleep within a reasonable time frame and, most importantly, it allows me to sleep uninterrupted through the night. But there's also this side-effect of being weighed down by heavy drowsiness the following day, thus it never quite feels as if I've rested, even with the added nap(s) included in the equation.
Occasionally this drowsiness will drift off into a feeling that isn't too far removed from depression. Which I'm not, nor want to be. Lots of fun things have happened recently, I'm fundamentally really positive and looking forward. There's nothing for me to get in that state for, leading me to believe that the medication might not be worth it.
If I'm to choose between sleep or happiness ... then I'd rather hang onto the happiness and instead look for other solutions to my sleeping problems. Such as getting started at the gym, as well as that internship. Activity, in combination with adjusting when I go to bed (hehehehrm), will probably do me a lot more good than depending solely on a pill.
Watching/Listening to music videos such as the one below this post, which my younger sister linked me to yesterday, adds to the determination not to give up too easily >:D
For some reason it reminds me of Jeh O.o
Air to fill your soul with
Soooooo I'm mainly posting to show off the intro image I raved about a couple of posts back. But let's see if there's anything else to throw in the mix.
Today I went to see the internship-coordinator lady, who was very nice, and things feel positive on that front. She's gonna check in with the book store to see if they'd be willing to put up with me for a month and, provided they agree along with me being comfortable there, once that month has passed without any complaints on either end, we can talk about an extension or something. (this paragraph probably could've been structured better....)
Both the woman I met today and the one I've been meeting with for some weeks now have only good things to say about the manager of this book store and apparently "Project Collaboration" (which is what it's loosely translated to from Swedish to English) got to place some people to intern there in the past. Sounds good.
Yesterday I was mildly chocked to see melted snow on the roof windows. At first it didn't really sink in, despite seeing a very white landscape beyond mom's bedroom window but once I got downstairs it was pretty hard to deny that it indeed had snowed during the night. In fact, it was still snowing and would continue to snow on and off the day. Almost immediately after the fact sunk in the thought 'eh, winter's not over' struck me, which would never have occurred back in the day.
It used to be that 'winter isn't over until mid-April, at least'. Funny to see and realize so bluntly how the changes in climate have altered my approach/relationship to the seasons and the changing thereof. Like when I was a paper-girl. Usually around when the end of October - early November rolled in I'd start to worry about the snow coming down (my dislike/phobia for biking in snow stemmed from a nasty accident back in '98 when I took a nasty tumble). Nowadays I'm surprised if it snows in late December, haha.
But when it has snowed and there's a blanket of white crystals on the ground that the sun is shining down upon, bouncing off of, while crisp refreshing air surrounds you with equal potency, such as it did to me today, ... it's truly a wonderful thing.
Not now, plz
Everything else works. Except for the podcasts and BoxTorrents.
It's kinda killing my fun in Photoshop.
Neither of the other two computers in the house can access the BoxTorrent site or the podcast episodes. I've tried what little I can to try and fix it. Nothing. Stupid how they've both worked just fine up until 2 days ago.
EDIT: Thank you Shaow, you lovely vixen you, for sending me the otaku.com-podcast!
I'm kind of in two minds about the mention in it, though. Making Batou giggle was good and all but "stalker"? I'm tempted to tell Ichigo not to give Batou anything that I might've possibly sent off very recently ¬¬
