( *cut for self-obsessed whingeing* )

After releasing all that resentment and frustration, I have to point out a reality check: in Afghanistan, some sadistic jerks throw acid at schoolgirls, blinding them for defying their religion and culture by seeking education. And here I am, needing emotional blackmail and crazy restrictions designed to force me to do well. How wack is that?

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Apart from parents, another source of constant aggravation. Windows Movie Maker is being a real bitch. I know it gives everyone a hard time, but come on! My laptop is pictured in the dictionary under 'epic fail', for frak's sake. 

I thought maybe I was equally culpable for its slackness, since running a laptop on about three GB of spare room is probably not the way to encourage optimal performance, right? I spent the morning clearing out craploads of stuff, ending with an astonishing 21 GB of free space and still, STILL it won't co-operate. It takes half an hour to open the file, operates for two minutes max if I'm lucky before it freezes, and refuses to save a vid of what I have so far, so I can't even be like, 'Look, Dakota, I did try! Here is proof of my efforts!' *wibbles*

Anyway, I'm not allowed to use it til the weekend, *eyeroll*, so maybe by then it'll have simmered down and show some mercy. But oh, if someone has a magic wand that they can wave to cure it of its tantrums and general pissiness, I would welcome a miracle.

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Btw, who thinks Myki is the worst to happen to the public transport system since Connex? I'm not sure who thought it would be a brilliant idea to issue people with cards that you need to TOUCH to the screen- about a hundred times before it registers- rather than conveniently SWIPE, as one does at every other sort of terminal throughout this country.

An even bigger irritation is needing to 'scan off' before one departs the bus, else risk being charged extra or something. Did you ever think about how this would hold up bus services while people stand at the machine and look like fools as the machine ignores their card over and over?

And it's not making the bus driver's job any easier, in fact, it's more of a nuisance because then people want to transfer funds ONTO the myki card, and that process is also time-consuming and inefficient. And a lot of people don't even HAVE the Myki card, so the bus drivers end up issuing 'short term tickets', which serve exactly the same function as the previous ones, only instead of printing out a piece of paper in seconds, they need to punch a whole lot of buttons and 'validate' these damn cards, which makes admitting passengers onto the bus take forever. Accompanied by irritating jangly music. I'd go insane if I had to hear that all day.

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No new TLW dreams, sadly, unless you count dreaming about odakota_rose  posting TLW icons. Weeeiiird. I don't know why THAT would be on my brain. O.o Nope, no clue...

But strangely enough, I did dream about making pancakes with Bree from Desperate Housewives. I don't cook, but there I was, all domestic-y and stuff. Damn good pancakes, I must say. They were smothered with whipped cream, which is one of my many vices. Mmmm. But yes, a little unsettling because it's so OOC for me. Though not as much as those rare, freaky dreams where wacky things happen that seem perfectly normal, like, you know, I'm pregnant- OMGWTF?!

You know those dreams where you're not you, you're somebody else? And then you wake up and wonder if this is how mental illness starts, losing grip on your identity in a dream? Like, what if one day, I wake up and I'm still the person I was while I was dreaming? *shudders*