Welcome home, tiny box of digital wonder...

I have my computer back! I lost every bit of data that was on my hard drive! Wow! That's fun! Not really. Big apologies to my parents who lost half of their London photos, and still were kind enough to pay for the necessary repairs. Luckily, I had a fair portion of my stuff saved on disk so the loss is just my MP3s, some of my photos from Italy, a couple games that apparently don't back up on disks too well (damn you Yahoo! Games), and a couple poems which weren't very good anyway.

Still, I'm very glad to have it back since it is my primary mode of preforming schoolwork, talking to my friends and family, and keeping connected with popular culture. How I have missed you The Daily Show. One positive, when I finally got my computer back I had HOURS worth of Daily Show and Colbert Report clips to look forward to. I've spent the last couple hours uploading various programs, tracking down photos, and carefully changing each and every one of my icons back to pictures of GIR, Sparks, and Gonzo.

This picture is one I took in Kew Gardens of a Dale Chihuly exhibit. Virtually all of my pictures are from Kew, because I didn't bother to take my camera with me, figuring I'd mooch of my sister's photos which I'm gonna do. All the same, I did get some good photos of Kew and Glastonbury, which I visited with my parents. It was really neat-o. A very bo-ho,crystal shop-y atmosphere. It was fun. They're all up in my gallery which you can reach through the link under my name or here :http://photobucket.com/albums/b199/im_covered_in_bees/My%20Year%20In%20Exeter/ (UPDATE: I've posted a bunch of my sister's neat-o pics to... Hey, I saw all the same stuff! And I didn't have to carry my conspicuously heavy and large camera... Much as I love it.)

Big excitement this week, I've booked my accomadation in Dublin and Galway and purchased my plane ticket. Thank goodness to, since everything is gone over that weekend I'm going to be there. Apparently, it's a busy time, something about... oh that's right... Frickin' St. Parick's Day! I'm gonna be there, in Dublin, for St. Patrick's Day! Granted, I can't afford to stay there overnight (I just can't rationalize spending $120 a night on BUDGET accomodation- add to that that I'd have to stay on Saturday night as well, with another hefty price tag) so I'm heading out of the city that afternoon to stay in Galway. I'm pretty excited, especially since in Galway I'm paying a much more reasonable $17 a night. Cooly-cool.

So this is a fairly short post, I have more work to do on my computer and I have a couple big assignments hanging over me- next week being finals of course. TTYL, TTFN.