Eunice

I am attempting to get myself back to a pack (or under, preferably under) of cigarettes a day. I tend to chain smoke when I vid, even worse when I'm feeling frustrated or stuck, which can drag me up to pretty scary levels of amounts of smoke sucked into my lungs on a daily basis. My lungs hate me right now, but my brain is demanding I keep up the level of nicotine. The resulting scary coughing on the one hand and twitching on the other sucks a lot. At the moment I've got myself on a timed system of rationing that allows for one an hour at most. I expect my brain to adjust within a few days.

Damn, but this is a stupid habit. I feel like I might be gearing up to try and quite entirely again, though likely not until after Vividcon. I'm thinking what I'll probably do is take my smokes money at that point and go ahead and invest in a used Playstation and Guitar Hero. It keeps both my hands busy, while appealing to the obsessive part of my brain that will want to keep playing the same song over and over and over and over again for a higher score for hours and hours. I think I'll call that a plan. Quit date post-VVC (exact date to be determined)...Guitar Hero as my methadone.

I am home with car! Many thanks for the music suggestions which were of great assistance in keeping me sane. Have you ever driven across Ohio on the turnpike? Every time I do it just reconfirms the place it has on the top of my 'most boring drive' list. Mind numbingly boring. Torture level boring. And it goes on forever and ever and ever to the point where you start to wonder if perhaps you took a wrong turn into a Twilight Zone episode where the entire world has been turned into the Ohio Turnpike and you are doomed to just keep going until you die of old age. Thank goodness for vagabondage who didn't mind me calling her a gazillion times with such exciting topics of conversation as "I think Ohio is trying to kill me, doesn't it EVER END?", and "The driver in front of me is a douchebag, I just thought someone should know.", and a detailed explanation of how scanning for radio stations because I didn't want to try and dig through CDs while passing trucks ended up with me listening to Straight Up by Paula Abdul and deciding I should totally vid Jack/Ianto to it (Don't you think Ianto deserves to know if Jack straight up is gonna love him forever, or if he's just having fun? I do! Or I did when Ohio drove me insane). My intense fear and dislike of phones was simply no match for the desperate need for some distraction to keep me from driving off the side of the road on purpose just to get some variety.

I have not yet seen last week's Doctor Who, and by the looks of the stuff I have to get done today on account of being gone all week I probably won't get a chance until tomorrow, when I'll just do a double play and watch both at the same time. My dissapointment at being a week behind is slightly made up for by the fact that it means I get a double shot of squee and glee. And now that the final piece of the moving puzzle is in place (CAR!), I am really, really, really hoping for more fannish time.

Once again I find myself a week behind on LJ and no real way of catching up, so if anything happened while I was gone, catch me up! *smooches to you all*

I should be packing boxes today. I am not packing boxes because UPS is horrible. HORRIBLE. It went down like this, when the boxes were ordered online a specific note was made that I am not in the directory for my building (due to another screw up that I don't have time to rant about), so I would need to be contacted when the boxes were to be delivered so I could go downstairs and get them. This note never made it to UPS, I don't know if that was them or the box people. UPS tries to deliver the boxes, sees I am not in the directory and leaves. They do not leave a sticky note on the door or any other indication they were there. I wait for my boxes. They do it again, still not leaving any note on the door. I, thank goodness, check my tracking info online and discover that they have done this, and there is a note in the file saying a postcard was left for me to contact them. There wasn't. I call them and explain the directory situation, to which they are unhelpful and finally conclude that they simply can't deliver to me in my building the way it stands. My boxes are at the central UPS location. I have to come get them. Fine. I say, look, I have no car...I have to arrange a ride, so I will be by in a few days to get them, please hold the shipment. They tell me this is fine and that they will do so. This conversation takes place on Tuesday. This is important. Because when I get there last night to pick up the boxes, they are gone. They have been shipped back. They are already returned, have arrived back at the box place. Which means they had to have been shipped back on the day I spoke to UPS or the morning after. Either before they told me they were still there and would be held, or after they told me they would hold them. I hate them. I hate them a lot.

Since I am being Ianto for the purposes of this move, is it acceptable for me to raid the central UPS warehouse with a stun gun? I can think of several people I spoke to last night that deserve a stun gun to the forehead. Pray I get boxes in time, UPS people, pray.