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Okay, so I'm back from Florida, and my parents are back in Bolivia. Vacation was fun, if very very hectic. Now I need to find a job... Hopefully one that keeps me as far away from two year-olds as possible.

Also, Note on the whole LJ Thing: It really is like watching a Train Crash, and neither side is really acting appropriately. On one hand, LJ is a business and has the right to do as they wish with they're servers, and on the other the lack of replies and mocking makes them look like asshats. I think I'll just go sit in the corner and continue helping with the beta testing of Scribblit.

I'm done with school! No more Calculus for me ^^. Had my final on Thursday. XD Now I get to spend three weeks in Florida Visiting with Family. I fly down tonight, and while I'm exhausted, and I still need to finish cleaning up my apartment, I'm still in a pretty good mood... That might be the coffee helping, I'm not sure. ^^;

So yeah. Now I just need to find a job. Something not people oriented hopefully. I've had enough of dealing with people due to all of the babysitting I've been doing. Worse the kids I've been watching have all been 2 and under (pair of two year old twins and one 6 month old baby). Also Have decided that I'm never having kids, because after six hours of watching the brats, I want to pull out my hair. If I had to deal with them all the time, I'd end up going insane. -_-;;

Okay, I finally got around to catching up on Naruto... after several years of not reading it. -_-;; Am I the only person who thinks that Sasuke's new pants are the dorkiest things on earth? Also, Naruto looks like Halloween. Now to find some good fics to read, that aren't Naruto/Sasuke. I'm really kinda hating Sasuke right now.

Naruto Abridged is also full of comedy goodness

Also, No Longer Am I babysitting the brats. Free! Free! No I just need to find a real job -_-;;

As of today I no longer have to walk everywhere. After a month and a half, I finally have a car again XD.

Um... There was a fire in my apartment building about an hour and a half ago. I'm fine, and everyone here is fine. The only damage really done was to one of the dryers in the basement. Apparently the belt slipped on it, and so it was heating up, but not spinning. Luckily the clothes were still damp enough that they smoked for a few minutes before catching on fire. It gave Tim, who was doing laundry at the same time as I, enough time to realize what was going on, alert everyone on premise, and call 911.

When Tim came to get me, I was upstairs in my apartment, and the smell of smoke was just starting to make it through to me while typing on the computer. Maybe a minute after I got outside, the firemen arrived. It was just in time too, since right about when they got the hose to the basement door (which on the back side of the building), we started seeing flames through the smoke. So the Firemen went in, did their thing, and put out the fire. It probably only took about fifteen minutes to half an hour for them to fully put it out, but it seemed like a much longer time to me.

So yeah. Once it was out, the firemen started looking upstairs in the apartments for any flames that might have made it up. None did. It is about this time that I should describe the condition down the the basement of my apartment building. It contains a great deal of old wood, and free hanging insulation. Therefore it did not surprise me when the Chief took aside Tim, and thanked him for calling so quickly, and yes I was eavesdropping at the time. Apparently the building would have gone up completely if he had called just two minutes later.

Later on, once things had calmed down somewhat, I walk around back to see how bad the damage was. And I realize that the dryer that went up was the one that had my clothes/sheets in it. The only thing I can really think at that time was that could have been me. The clothes were pretty damaged. And while I found it somewhat amusing (probably the hysteria catching up to me) that some of them were melted instead of burned, it was still pretty scary to be faced with a soggy pile of charcoal.

So Yeah. That was my night, and I'm safe thanks to my neighbor, and the firemen here in Fairfax. Now I think I want to go to bed, and forget this happened for a while. I can buy sheets tomorrow.

So, While cleaning up the Apartment today, I decided to move my bed so I could vacuum under it. I found a roach and a fucking huge earwig. *shudders* I managed to spray both of them to death, but it still creeps the fuck out of me. The roach kept wiggling on the ground for a few minutes after I sprayed it Even though every five seconds I would spray it again. Paranoid? Me? You Bet. And now for some reason I keep on thinking of Zombie Roaches... I am not going to be able to sleep in my bed for a while after this.

*is 22 now*

... I have a case of ants that that just won't give up and die. I think I've sprayed the room they're currently trying to take over at least three or four times. Strangest part? The room they're taking over is the bathroom. So yeah. Just sparyed it again, and now have all the windows open so I don't kill myself with the fumes. Lovely. And to think, it's only 32 degrees Fahrenheit outside. -_- why can't I just nuke the ants?

Okay, the pictures for the trip to Cuzco are up. You can find them Here.

Also, I've finally gotten around to installing Sims 2 onto my computer. It works like a charm. YAY No more random shut-downs! XD

Mua-Ha. First Snow of the year here in VA! *dances in glee*

I have my computer back.

Okay, So I fly back to Washington DC tomorrow. While I don't really relish the though of 12+ hours on airplanes and in airports, having my own space again will be nice. So yeah, I leave tomorrow 7:30 AM at get into Washington DC at 10:30 PM, where I'll get picked up by Mom She's in the states for a conference.

I did call the stupid computer people today. The computer is fixed. They ship it out tomorrow, which is kinda good since I don't have to really worry about missing a delivery on Saturday. So that's good.

And then on Monday, I start my next semester of classes at NOVA. Luckily what I need can be crammed into night classes, so I should be able to get a full time job. Temp service, here I come

So yeah. That's about it. I should probably get back to packing. ^^;

I Am Back in La Paz. The trip back over the border went better than anticipated, and I managed to get back into the country with out any problems.

Mom's left for a confrence in Washington, And she won't be comming back till after I've already left. But I'll get to see her in the states on Friday and Saturday.

I Live. I´m currently in a hotel in Urabamba, Peru. We actually drove from Bolivia to Peru on Saturday, although we didn´t get to Cuzco until Sunday. And of course, me being the clutz that I am, I managed to fall into a drainage pipe and hurt my leg that same day. ^^ Luckily I didn´t do more than scrape and bruise it badly. We plan to be going to Manchu Pichu tomarrow, so that should be fun too.

And on Friday we drive back to La Paz. Although it seems that some problems might crop up, and if worse comes to worse I might have to leave a week early. It seems that the Bolivian government decided on the 31st that Americans need a visa to get into the country. Since I came before then, I don´t have one. So if worse comes to worse, and the Bolivian government manages to write up the policy and have it signed and sent to the border by then, I will have to fly back out of Peru. But Dad dosn´t think that will happen. So here´s hopìng.

Well. Update time again. In the past two weeks, I've manged to catch a cold, get over it mostly, read the entire Sandman series (So Fucking Awesome), and cram my brain with useless facts for finals.

No, I don't have my computer back yet, but apparently they now have all they parts they need and it should be fixed by early next week... *knocks on wood*.

Um, I'm going to be leaving for La Paz in less than two weeks, So that will be fun. Or rather it will be fun once the 12 hours of sitting on a plane, and altitude sickness are over. I really don't relish the though of being over 3,500 feet above sea level. Luckily, the doctor gave me some meds for when I get up there, and mom told me that they have Coca tea in the pantry. Coca tea is supposed to be very good at helping people adjust to altitude. We got it way back in sixth grade when my class went to Cuzco... the only problem with it is that the coca leaves used to make the tea are what cocaine is extracted from. ^^; So yeah. I'm not going to be able to bring that home as a souvenir.

Okay, Back from Thanksgiving. I live. It was lots of fun to visit people. The plane flights were uneventful... and boring like usual.

Oh and apparentally the computer company finally got the motherboard for my compy. Now I just have to wait for them to put it in the computer and mail it off. Let's just hope it dosn't take another month. -_-;;

Oh cousin, Grandma has your earings that you left. Did you by any chance happen to pick up one of my library books? The Silver Gryffion?

So I went to the doctor on Firday. Turns out my Yellow Fever vaccine is good till 2008. The only one I needed to get was Typhoid, and since it's now taken oraly, no shots for me! So yeah. Now that's taken care of.

So Tomorrow I fly off to St. Louis to see everyone on my dad's side of the family. So that will be fun. I've been making loads of cookies for everone to eat.(the peanut butter and hershey kiss ones actully turned out well. Amazing what using a mini muffin pan and regular butter do for them -_-;;) Actully the only ones I have to make now are the gingersnaps.

So my computer is still in for repairs. No they still haven't even gotten the motherboard in at the place where it's being repaired. If they don't get it done by the time I go off to Bolivia, I'm going to be very put out.

So yeah, that's life over here. School is starting to get hetic again, and I'm still living out of the library. Yup.

So tomorrow I get to go to the doctor's office to get a bunch of vaccines for when I visit my parents in Bolivia. Not sure yet if I'll need to get the yellow fever one again. If I do, I'll have to go to a different clinic, since the family doctor isn't certified to give it.

Hopefully they won't feel the need to do the whole TB test thing. If they do insist, I'll ask them to get an x-ray as opposed to poking me. Since I've already been exposed, the rash I get is something awful.

Well, it's been a month since my computer hit the dust. It's still in for repairs. This is the first time I've seen a computer in two weeks. On the plus side, I think I'm past the worst of the utter listlessness that comes with having your main form of entertainment die on you. On the plus side, the local library is in walking distance, so I've kinda been borrowing tons of books. I suppose that there is one good thing to be said for not having my computer anymore... my grades sure are going up. ^^;

I have been working on cooking more advanced dishes than canned soup and pizza in a box. Haven't been able to do much so far except make bread and rice pudding, but there is a corn beef stew I'd like to make.

Um, not much else is going on here. All is quiet here. ^^