i seem to be fated to have laptops break on me, then have the repair people mistype my phone number into the work order. the same thing happened to me when my pc laptop got sad in june. fortunately, mac repairpeople care a lot more, in my opinion, and generally seem way more competent.

i called today after not having heard from them at all, worried that they'd been trying to reach me through the errant phone number in their database. turns out the unit is still somehow under some miraculous warranty (despite the fact that thomas had had it for, what, over two years?) and they've already ordered the parts. they said nothing about having to wipe the hard drive, so i'm hoping that it doesn't have to happen. i actually haven't owned it long enough to have too much content on it; i just don't want to lose the software that i *cough* don't have the cds for. i hope to get it back sometime early next week.

i leave for edmonton on the 10th. my sweetie doesn't leave until the 16th. i'm going early so that my parents can no longer complain that i spend all of my time in town out with my friends and not with them. i really should spend some more time with them, though -- both have had elective surgery this past year.

anyway, there's a tentative plan to head to brooks on boxing day for a corb lund concert (sans geoff berner!).

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had dmac and his girl over for dinner last night. we had a great winter meal: butternut squash soup, homemade yam gnocchi and punkin pie. also, balsamic-marinated chicken and watercress and red radish salad. yum.

i still have tonnes of punkin pie left, so gerry and smorg, if you're reading this, you should come up for pie and hot chocolate or some such.

right. i should really write this essay so i can get studying for my final on monday, hmm?