See, the thing about fan fic is, once you start, you can't stop. That's why I avoided it for so long in the first place. Anyway, I've got the first part of a new one up here, and somebody asked me if they could put it up here, and of course it's going to go up here just as soon as I get around to it, which may not be all that soon, really. Anyway, go read it, enjoy it (or not), and tell me what you think. It's completely unrelated to the round-robin fic, by the way.

I think I did okay on the math. I bought myself a decent calculator last night, and once I sat down and figured out how to use it, everything started to fall into place. I just hope they'll let me take the instruction sheet in with me when I take the test this afternoon, because if not I'll be completely lost as to which buttons I'm supposed to push.

This will probably cause pain to some of you more diehard geeks out there, but while I was calculator shopping last night, at Wal-Mart of all places, I saw an HP computer that has everything I need for under $800. And if I can get my sister to buy it for me with her employee discount that will cancel out the sales tax and I can keep it under $800. I didn't buy it, but I'm seriously considering going back there this weekend and putting it on layaway.

When I pulled into the parking lot this morning, there were police cars and news vans lined up all along the street. I was kind of afraid to walk through there to get to my office, because it looked like something major was going down, and I didn't want to get shot at or anything, but it was either that or go three blocks out of the way to get around them. So I walked through, and when I did, I found that the hubbub was all about the St. Pat's celebration at the pub across from the lot. So then I started to panic because I completely forgot about St. Patrick's Day, and didn't wear any green, but then I remembered that I don't really care, and then I remembered that it's not actually until tomorrow. So the cops and Channel 6 managed to fake me out twice this morning. That was fun. Except, not really.

In one hour and forty minutes I'm supposed to leave to go take my test. I guess I should go do some studying.