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[Nichi]

@Bella: So, already planning for summer? If you can, try to line it up so you can meet up with me and Kari in June :3

[Paul]

Been away for some days because of (suckish) school assignments, test etc... did I miss something?

[Nichi]

As a quick summery:

- Everything is set in stone for me to take a trip up north to meet up with Kari this June. My first epic adventure without my family being there :3
- Pit pulled an April Fool's prank on the site; seemingly turning control of the site over to a spambot that renamed it "Swiss Cheese Collections"
- Kari went to an anime convention, and aside from a few rough points, she had a good time
- Bella is apparently starting to plan for a summer trip
- Stew is going to become a park ranger somewhere
- This Saturday is my birthday. I'll be old enough to drink...but my birthday money is going toward anime and manga instead >:3

[Bella]

@Paul: Good seeing you drop by, especially in light of your busy schedule. Anything less suckish going on? Or are those assignments pretty much the only thing on your agenda right now?

@Pentium: Not planning yet, just trying to figure out how I can get the universe to do what I want it to do. >>

Which consists of this string of events:

1) I have to help figure out dad's work schedule.
2) Then I have to get some rough idea of possible target dates.
3) After that, I have to hint to my cousins that I might be visiting again and hope they're okay with that.
4) Then I have to convince my dad that I have good reason to go back to DC again and get the funding for the trip.
5) I have to make sure the date that I pick/my cousins choose for me to stay with them agree with Stew's uber-busy schedule.
6) Then I have to find a way to justify going back to Harpers Ferry to my family .
7) At which point I'll be at the ethical crossroads of "Be honest about visiting Harpers Ferry for a few days and deal with the parental rage/paranoia this will entail" or "Lie like hell to spare my family paranoia", and I'll undoubtedly choose the latter.
8) Next comes the logistical nightmare of figuring out exact details of transportation - which trains I'm going to take to/from DC and when, etc.
9) Then I'll have to hope like fuck that nothing comes up that keeps me and Stew from meeting (I narrowly avoided having everything ruined/Stew narrowly avoided my eternal pissy wrath last summer when he nearly skipped out on our meeting to have his car inspected.)
10) Depending on whether or not my dad, brother, sister in law, or any friends are working/not available at the time, I may have to get one of my neighbors to drive me to the bus station. Not really a major hassle, but yet another stupid thing that could fuck things up.

[Nichi]

Ah ^_^;;

Hope that goes well, and you figure out what to do...beyond getting to meet me in June, wither Kari and I do stuff close to where you live, or you join us on our expedition into Boston :3

[Paul]

@Pent: Thxies for the summary! Much appreciated :3

@Bells: Just a month until finals start, last maths exam was quite the failure (I did pass, but it was quite painful, especially since I'm usually not that bad at maths). Also there's some small oral exams coming (I volunteered since I wanted to spice up the grades a bit, this was by far my weakest year), so yeah, I'm pretty busy ATM.

In other news, my turtle died a few days ago :/ She never woke up from her winter sleep...

[NejinOniwa]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jth4yATniS4&feature=relmfu
SUOMI. <3

[Nichi]

So, I now have a more portable external HDD to take with me on my trip. I'm slowly knocking down stuff from my "need" list... :3

[Bella]

@Paul: I'm so sorry to hear about your pet turtle. : ( How old was she?

@Pent: If I go on a trip, I still need an entire laptop.

I mean, I need one for other reasons to and I really miss having a portable computer and being able to use a computer wherever I want. But it would be nice to have one for 10+ hour trips places. >_>

[Nichi]

Well, if you keep an eye on your local craigslist, you could find a decent, although a few years old, one for around $150-$200 on average :3

[Chocofreak13]

@bells: thought you had a laptop?
@paul: ;^; RIP turtle
we had a pet turtle when i was a kid. her name was tushay, and we inherited her from my aunt when she passed away in 2000. tushay was with us for a couple years, and despite a couple events (finding out that our 'boy' turtle was actually a girl, lol; outgrowing tanks, etc), lived a peaceful and happy life with us. till the day my dad woke up and she wasn't in the greenhouse. considering the place was locked and had a brick placed over the bottom corner of the door, we think she was stolen. :[

also, i feel your pain on finals. :[ just remember, don't believe in yourself: believe in me, who believes in you. :3

@pent: by then i'll be able to see my floor. so things will be good. -w-

[Paul]

My turtle was 8 years old... considering the normal age of hermann's tortoises she was already pretty old.
@Kari: TTGL quote?

[Chocofreak13]

but of course! ^^

[Bella]

@Paul: It's good to hear she lived a full life, at least.

@Kari: Sorry about your turtle being stolen. : ( I can't imagine what it's like to have a pet go missing and not know what happened to them. : /

@bells: thought you had a laptop?

I have a ton of laptops ... only two are "modern", and of the two only one runs, and that one is a piece of crap HP (it has XP running on 256MB RAM and a 1.something ghz processor).

[Chocofreak13]

the fuck? thought you of all people would have a decent laptop. you always struck me as the laptop type. :\

seriously, i thought you would have had a macbook or something. >>;;

at any rate, it's okay about tushay. it's pretty depressing to think about, but getting mopey about it now won't do any good. :\