I was just made by the Presbyterian Church.

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In order to understand the title of this post, follow the link I am about to provide.

Okay, I tried this time. I really did try. "You are not updating your lj until your entry is the entry you said your next entry would be," I told myself. But it's been a while, and the essay is not done yet, although it is now titled: "Om Mane Padme Hum: Musings on the Death of Amidala." And it is started. But not finished. Here is some other stuff instead.

My last day of work was yesterday, and that was good. I really liked the people I worked with, even if I didn't like the job, and I will be back at Christmas. To celebrate my last day at the JC Penney, I bought a chair for school and some books from the bookstore in the mall which was having an awesome sale.

Today I moved boxes in the sweltering heat all day. It was hot and sweaty and gross. But most of our stuff is now moved to the new house, and I am getting a little excited about moving, even though  I'm still sad about leaving my current house. I drove a lot, and I didn't do anything horribly wrong except the minor incident of slightly rear-ending my aunt in the driveway.

I think Yané, my school computer, is disabled. She will not save documents onto a disk. Absolutely. Will. Not. I have dedicated approximately eight hours to attempting to convince her to do so. She has refused. This leaves me in the horribly frustrating position of having the last chapter of Home Again stranded on a computer with no printer and no internet access. These are the things I have tried:

*Copying the document to the disk like the instructions say to.

*Sending the document to the disk like the instructions don't say to.

*Saving the document as a disk file.

*Erasing the disk.

*Doing all of these things again.

*Turning my computer off and turning it on again.

*Doing all of these things again, multiple times. For several hours.

*Trying all of these things with other documents.

*Trying all of these things with another disk.

*Trying all of these things with ANOTHER disk.

*Deleting many files.

*Cleaning out the hard drive.

*De-fragging the computer.

*Doing all of these things again.

*Reasoning with the computer.

*Giving the computer pep talks.

*Pleading with the computer.

*Threatening to remove the computer's FTB (Fluffy Teddy Bear. See Discworld books.).

*Removing the computer's FTB.

*Returning the computer's FTB.

*Shouting at the computer.

*Cursing at the computer.

*Making the computer feel guilty.

*Doing all of these things again.

*Around about 2 a.m., crying.

Over the next couple of days I am going to be incommunicado computer-wise because of the move, but after that if it's still not wanting to work I'm going to re-type the chapter. There's no way I'm waiting until school starts in September to get Home Again done. Which it is, except for the editing of the last chapter and the epilogue. If anyone has any other suggestions, please let me know.

All of that said, I must link you to the Funniest Thing Ever. Well, at least one of the Funniest Things Ever. To see another of these Things, please go to www.iharthdarth.com, where you will find a link to the fake Padmé Naberrie US Weekly cover. Since it's already there, I won't link it here.

So, remember when I said in my ROTS review that people in China were probably watching the movie going "..."? Well, it turns out I was right. At the very least in the case of the English-speaking people in China who got this bootleg copy of Episode III which seems to have been translated by the same people who are responsible for "All your base are belong to us." Or babelfish. Or something. Anyway, the point is that it has been translated into Chinese and then back into English. Badly. Really badly. The title goes from "Revenge of the Sith" to "Backslash of the West." Yeah, "Sith" is translated as "West." We get it, China. You hate us. You don't need to paste it all over our movies.

But seriously, go check this out. It's the best ever. And check the links at the bottom of the thing, too. http://winterson.com/2005/06/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west.html

And that is all for now.