Productivity

Hmm. I have been defriended three times in as many days. Let me know if I'm getting boring. Actually, I'm sure those "you're boring!" notifications will spring in from every direction when I go on to discuss what I did today.

I tidied my hard disc. I only ever do it in holiday time, as that's the only time I can justify spending an hour on something so utterly anal-retentive, but I did it this afternoon. Having organised everything I could, files into folders and so on, I had a look at the section Windows imaginatively titles "My Documents" where I keep every Word document I create. They're all in file folders - one for each fandom, one for original fic, one for school, one for music and one for "other" - and arranged carefully in order. Well, I ran an open search and found that in the four years I have owned my computer, I have amassed 1,505 files in 106 folders, taking up 771 megabytes of space. I gaped for a moment, then remembered to remove music from the search. This reduced the megabytes to 87, but still left me with over a thousand files. Let's take away about fifty for school, and another hundred for "other", and that still leaves me with about eight hundred files containing nothing but fanfiction on my computer's hard disc.

I am afraid.

Moving on, I had a look at the media files. There's about five hundred downloaded songs, which I'm mostly familiar with, and then there's another section for miscellaneous. As the filenames are rarely descriptive, I had to run them all to see what they were. I giggled a lot; my grandmother must have thought I'd gone crazy. For example, one of the files rejoiced in the filename of "cotg3". I'm sure there are a lot of people who could immediately tell the contents of the file off the name, but I wasn't one of them. I opened the file.

And laughed. It was none other than the infamous beer/cheap date scene from the Stargate pilot, Children of the Gods. It's only about five minutes long, but the quality was perfect, so I watched it with considerable amusement. As an afterthought, I made a note to burn it to disc and send it to gamesiplay in August. I've forgotten the exact particulars - was it never shown in America, or something? Can't remember. Anyway.

Now I come to think of it, anyone trawling through my hard disc would probably find my notes regarding stuff to send to Leigh as the most incomprehensible thing on it. I added a few things that I'd found on my hard disc - another thing that comes to mind is a fanvid shipperkitten must have sent me. It's set to the Friends theme and had me giggling away to myself in no time.

Maybe I'm paranoid, but I do see people trawling my hard disc as a possibility. Accordingly, I also backed up everything and password-protected the whole lot. Yeah, I'm paranoid. I daresay I'm only really writing this for personal reference, as I didn't do anything else today beyond fight with my mother.

There was another thing: yesterday, hathy_col lent me a tape of season 7 Stargate episodes. I can't make the damn thing play. Well, I can, but it jumps so much it's unwatchable - I've no idea what's going on there. I watched Grace and Fallout instead. I will now proceed to amaze shipperkitten and say I really enjoyed Grace, which is the Stargate take on a familiar "monumental bash on the head" plotline. It was sweet.

And now I've spent a good deal of time being fannish, I ought to go to bed, but I can't be bothered. This half term is going way too quickly; I can't believe tomorrow's Thursday. Can't cope. Waah, etc. I'm not looking forward to going back to school. Next week is... what? February the twenty-third? Yeah, so it's next week, then the next four weeks of March, then Easter, which will involve fairly intensive revision for AS modules in May and June. I have less exams than some people, but nine is enough. Especially as the first one is the infamous Chemistry practical that I'm going to fuck up. That's the twentieth of May, and at fairly regular intervals from then to June the tenth, I've got two Chemistry modules (Inorganic and Organic), two Biology modules (Genetics and Physiology), two Politics modules (a representative democracy and parties and pressure groups) and two English modules (attitudes and values in poetry and text transformation). In case I hadn't mentioned it, my parents will be away for all that time. They're going to San Francisco. I am insanely jealous but trying to hide it; I rather think they ought to go. Their being here won't affect me much one way or another - I'll only be going in for exams.

Fandom to exams in one fell swoop; how symbolic of the way my mind works.