Delusions of Grandeur

( My week: meetings, quibbles, and the need for a fandom Dear Abby... )

In more diverting news, awhile ago I posted a set of photos I've taken around Berkeley illustrating its coolness/weirdness/fandom infiltration, and mentioned then that I hoped I could add to this collection in the future. So, without further ado, I present: Geeks At Cal: Round II:
( My school is full of wonderful, geeky, brilliant people (and some twelve-year-olds, apparently)... )

In addition, I've been having possibly too much fun noodling around with the Bureau of Communication. OMG, you guys, I've actually found
something more addictive than Akinator! I've saved a few of my favorites that I've produced:
( Temeraire, ASOIAF, Hornblower, and AtLA... )

Reviewing these, I can spot at least one MAJOR continuity/canon error, and one character's name misspelled. XP My only excuse is, the sudden mania that produced these occurred at 2 AM.

EDIT: Apologies for the weird font thing towards the end! LJ doesn't like me at the moment.
( OK, so, classes! (and related activities)... )


( I've been making a sincere effort to finish Mistborn... )


( I finished Lords and Ladies... )


( The Mysteries of Udolpho continues to be deliciously silly and melodramatic... )


( The last book I'm working on now is Jhereg... )

I'm typing this on my brand spankin' new MacBook Pro, tentatively named Sleekerton. The data transfer process from Lila, my trust old MacBook, which I began at around 8:00 Sunday night (this being Wednesday early afternoon), finally wrapped up in the wee hours of this morning. I was initially all O.o when it looked like, after more than 48 hours of near-complete loss of Internet (neither of my laptops could be used while transferring data), that just a few settings had actually made it over, but then I made the happy mistake of re-starting Sleekerton, and when he finished rebooting, everything was here, exactly like it is on Lila! So a big thank you to Mac! Your products may be nail-bitingly delicate, perhaps-more-than-slightly overpriced, and disgustingly trendy, but when they work, they *work*!

So it turns out that two days and some change of my only window to teh Intertubez being my iPhone 4G (Skippyjon III bore up beautifully, btw) means *a lot* of backlog. Going through LJ alone took me nearly three hours today! As usual, my sincerest apologies for not being as attentive to my flist as I should; it looks like my life is calming down a little, so I should have some time to work on it soon!

( I mentioned C's and H's looming wedding in my last post... )

( My next big worry: UC... )

( In other, much lighter, news, I am now officially 21!... )

( Nerd News (GoT season 2 thoughts, and Captain America: The First Avenger)... )