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I am going to excuse the fact that I didn't wake up until almost eleven with a counter fact: I woke up for some inexplicable reason at 2;30 last night and couldn't get back to sleep for a good three hours. I am right mightly pissed for losing time this morning during which I meant to be working on an essay and also reading the dreaded france book. I'm going to finish up that paper if I can, and then read, and then I have to go into school before class to decide if I want to stay in it or not.

I am considering dropping Historical Archaeology for a few reasons: I have already done classes of this nature at Sheffield, and they were the classes in which I got my highest marks (78 and 81, respectively.... that's British system, so those are both firsts). According to the syllabus and what he said in class, Dr. Ewen is going to require us to do a project on the historical archaeology of North Carolina, but I had hoped to use the class to do something for my thesis. And the class that the New Guy (tm) is offering a: sounds really interesting and b: is probably something I can make relevant to my thesis quite easily. The class is Maritime Culture and Cultural Landscapes, and "will cover all aspects of maritime culture and interaction between seafarers and maritime communities." I don't want to pick up an *extra* course this term, and the Landscape class has the advantage that it is only starting in October.

So, I am going to talk to Dr. Ewen, and see what he says. he may let me do another project, and if that is the case, I will probably stay in the class, because the more classses that make me work on my thesis, the better.

My *other* option is to drop Conservation, and take Landscape instead. either way, I have to decide today, because it is the last day to add classes.

Suggestions from the peanut gallery?

Well, I've done all I can with this essay,. I tihnk. There are some comments one it that I'm not really sure how to fix up, and so I will leave them until I have a chance to go over it with carl at some point. I need to make a list of things to talk about with dr. Ewen, I think. One of them will be on how to approach the history section of my thesis. Anyway, now I am goign to get some food, and then go up to school. It is a little earlier than I'd intended, but I had hoped to get this essay work done earlier, and do some reading. Since I've gotten no reading done, I will go and do the consulting I need to do, and then read until class after I've got that stuff all worked out.

In other randomgood news, I got an e-mail from another of my Niagara friends, and have now heard back from the two people who I thought were most likely to keep in touch :) yay Alexis! I will mail her back later. And Red. I think they are going to be serving on the same ship again for a bit, which is cool. Anyway, I need to eat some pancakes.

I'm home, for the moment. I called Maria but got no answer, so I will try her again later. I haven't forgotten my ambition to see about gamers in mendenhall, but I've been busy! I went to Best Buy, and bough things. Things including a DVDrom player, a headset/mic thing, and some DVDs! I got Master and Commander, The Mummy set, and Pirates of the Caribbean, since apparently no one was going to buy it for me. Rock! Now peple are promising to lend me all manner of things, and I wonder if I will ever get any work done. Heh.

Also, I got cds in the mail from my sister, and transcripts from UNB, wooh! I'll listen to them later, mwa ha! the Cds, not the transcripts, obviously. Now I just need ones from Sheffield, and I can send out the first round of applications.... Oh, and letters of reference, of course.

*hop*

Okay, I just called my dad, and he's not home, so I'm heading out. whee!

Okay, so I understand the basics of installing my DVD drive, and I have both the instructions that came with it, and the instructions for installing new stuff into mycomputer. however, I'm confused because there comes a point where both basically say "And then plug stuff into where it goes". I knid of gave clue what's going on. I know I have thew power hooked up properly, but my computer doesn't know I've added anything new, so I don't know that I've got the IDE interface connected properly. My drive came with a cable for it, and it would be deliciously simple if I could just plug one end into my computer and one end into my drive, and be done with it. however, there isn't a place to plug it in on my computer.... they're all; take. So, I figure I have to 'enslave' it to the CD drive that I already have. Is that right? Right now the cable rom that drive goes tothe new drive, and then to the motherboard. It is workign fine, but there is no new DVD drive for heather! I *think* I have thejumper setting set right... I have it set on 'slave'. Is that right? My other options are 'master' or 'cable select'.

So, if that makes any sense to you.... what am I doing wrong? :o I tried lookign for new hardware to install, but came up with nothing, and the only software that came with my drive was powerDVD, which I assume is not goign to help me install the drive :p

EDIT: when I say my cd drive was working, I apparently was wrong. it isn't playing burned CDs properly 9ones it has played before without issue, as well as exciting new ones, grrr...). It seems to play regular music CDs fine, though. Oh wait, now it isn't being recognized at all... -_-

Edit: I win at installing Hardware :)