I am jealous.
No, really. Today, I found out that my cousin will defend her thesis tomorrow, and while I have my thesis in works - I am almost at the end, I just lack the presentation of the questionnaire's results - she already defended Sociology, and tomorrow, she will defend Geography - yes, she chose two courses to do, and what's more, she's expecting a kid at the beginning of February. A little girl, I am told, and there's a big chance she would be Aries by horoscope /snickers/... then poor her. I am Aries too, and I am incredibly stubborn and driven - whatever it takes. I am still on my thesis, and really, it scares me a little, because it's... so... big. I'm not kidding, because it already has some 64 pages, and I suspect it will, when finished, be over 100 - which is already a prerequisite for a magisterial degree. I really pity the beta who will have to get through all the stuff, because even if it isn't most boring reading in the world, it's certainly a little difficult - I went through many of the fields - Medicine, Logistics, Physics.../sweatdrops/. However, it's also true it took me three years to write it up to the shape it is today - I began in my second last year of school, continued another year, because of questionnaire style, and the third year was just because I fucked up and lost almost half of the already written material via faulty disk, and had to begin anew. Gee, ain't I lucky? /sarcastic/. Let's cross the finger the thing will be done and over with properly, as I am aiming for the highest scores possible, both for the thesis and the defense of thesis.
Anyway, I wish my cousin good luck with the defense. I will root for you.... just a little .
Now, continuing on the SSD drive. In the last post, I mentioned I switched my ordinary drive with a SSD one, got a whole host of programs working and was happy with the speed. However, it baffled me that in the evenings, the drive was as lazy as ever, and I set on finding on what was wrong. The chewing out of the disk courtesy of Zone Alarm Antivirus did nothing, but then I remembered I had to upload a whole heck of a updates for Windows 7 - I think it was something of a 127 - and I set on kicking the updating program in the question in order. I deleted the appropriate files, bit the uploading program for a time, and then uploaded both Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Pro and Tune Up Utilities 2013. For those not familiar with the two programs, Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Pro is a program that chomps on any malware or bad code that dares to enter your computer or laptop and crunches 'em in smithereens. I had Spybot Search&Destroy before, and while it does it's job (and it's free), Malwarebytes does the same job, without snatching too much of a memory resources, and it discovers some of the more clever bits that Spybot S&D may have overlooked. I used Malwarebytes when I had the trouble with the SweetIM, and it had done it's part brilliantly. So it's a good thing to have it uploaded on laptop or computer and occasionally check the disk for anything that made hiccups in otherwise smooth working of programs. As for Tune Up Utilities 2013, the name tells all - it's a number of tools or utilities that help you tune up your lil' beastie - for example, clean up registry, straighten up - metaphorically speaking- your disk, and so on. And it also has automatic maintenance of the overall program, so you don't need to be obsessive about checking everything every Saturday or something similar. The end result? My program stopped being so darned stubborn and performed as it should - fast, silent and without any hiccups it may have had before. Yay.
On the 'mom' front, it pisses and confuses the pants off of me how she can't use the Firefox browser, or better, she doesn't have a clue how to navigate the sites. /Sweatdrops/. Really. What has she done at that computer/laptop course, then? or maybe I am just too used to the workings of the computers and laptops and thus a mite bit worse teacher that I would have liked to be to her. Well, we'll see how it goes.
Also, continuing with writing fanfiction. Checked some of my older works, now doing Fire And Ice next chapter, as Among The Hawks And Doves plotdragons suddenly screeched to a stop - have more than a half of the chapter written out there, and also began the next chapter of Crimson Sagittarius. And just for the kicks of it, I am munching on FFVII may-be-may-not-be chapter, just because I was on a reading binge in that particular fandom. Still waiting on MHB to get the router repaired so that I can post the next part of Scrapbook Jewels out. Hint. it's the bitchy one. I moaned and groaned about it some posts back there.
Well, Anatomy went as well as expected, still no results. We all were a mite bit traumatised by that particular exam, but hopefully, I did fine.
Signing off,
Eirenei
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