Current mood:	gah
Current music:	The Black Mages - Dancing Mad
Entry tags:	bank, computers, gah, internet

Chaos Unfolding Part II: Failing Preperations
Uni is drawing closer and closer...and thus the amount of preperation I'm having to do is skyrocketing. My main task at present is clearing my room, which is much harder than it sounds because this is a house where very little gets thrown away, and thus there is no space to put the things from my room. There wasn't enough space in my room anyway, which is why it's always such a mess, and I'm semi-despairing over it all. Dad told me if I had it sorted by the end of the week, he'd give me £200 for clothes shopping, which I could really do with, however I doubt I'll have things up to a reasonable standard until at least Sunday...I'll see what I can do. I've got plenty of other things to occupy me though, which need sorting. I need to revisit Halifax to sort some bank things out, arrange some medical things for Uni, and get things for Uni. I won't need too much that I don't already have, but it's still going to require a lot of work.

For one thing, I'm computerless. I'll be able to take down my laptop, but it really isn't anywhere close to the standard I'd need. It overheats very quickly, has about 20 minutes of battery power, had a CD drive which works only half of the time, and has such low RAM that it can barely do anything besides run Word...provided it hasn't been on for so long it's overheated. Obviously, I'm going to need something a lot better for use in my room, but I don't have anything. Dad has not the money for a new computer, although he can get it cheaply, and the only other option would be to take one of the two computers we have here. The one I'm on now is fantastic and has no problems...it's also the one my brother uses, and even if I were allowed to take it, it would mean that there would be no internet down here, as the other computer (the one I used up until July) has decided it cannot stand internet connections and mercilessly hunts them down. That was all that was seriously wrong with it though...well, it was until recently, as now it seems to be giving up, and crashes are far more common. That is my other choice for Uni...obviously, I'd have to wipe the disk, requiring a day's work of transferring files and resetting things up, and even then there's no guarentee that it will run internet again...and all this is provided a LAN can actually be set up at Rhul. Gaaaaaaah.