Compy comp

Well, it looks like I am at least temporarily caught up on work. I finished my summer class and its final paper, I wrote up the rules for Professor Pollack's game, and I have no current assignment for my internship. Nice little lull for me now. It certainly isn't going to last long, soon I'll likely have to edit those rules and get more internship work to do, but for the moment I'm enjoying the feeling of completion.

My temporary computer-- an unused laptop of my dad's --should be arriving in the mail today. It probably won't be all that good, but at least it'll be a computer until my new one ships. My old box is currently sitting gutted under the desk in my bedroom, its hard drive in the capable hands of laurion, who has very graciously offered to extract the data on it for me. That takes quite a load off my mind, knowing that I won't be losing that information. I shall have to buy him dinner.

Tonight I'd like to really buckle down and write. If I do actually get that laptop today, I'll set it up and try to use it for constructive purposes. If I don't have any other stuff hanging over my head, I should take advantage of the temporary stress-free period.

Apropos of nothing and everything, sometimes I miss Jared so much it makes my insides ache. It's a little less than two weeks before he's back, and every moment of that time is killing me.

On jewelry

Having some jewelry issues today. My ears are sore from the posts with screw-on backs I've been wearing for the last couple of days, so no earrings for me this morning. Other than that, I'm wearing my anniversary pretty (easily my favorite piece) and a bracelet, a sweeping band of silver with a thin gold wire around it. I don't often wear bracelets but I did for some reason today, maybe to make up for the lack of earrings. It's actually a little annoying to type with it on, because it's continually pressing into the desktop and making clicking sounds I'm worried are indications that it's getting bumped and scratched. It's kind of nice, I like it, so I should probably polish it up a little and make sure it's taken care of.

I don't wear a super-lot of jewelry, but I really do like it. I confess I'm a bit of a jewelry snob; I'm only really into real stones and real metal. For most of my life I was fairly uninterested in it, so I only got my ears pierced when I was nineteen, but I'm glad I did, as all really nice earrings tend to be for pierced ones. My taste is kind of old-fashioned; I like small, subtle, elegant things with gold, silver, and understated gems. Big gaudy stuff isn't attractive to me, and though it's not a firm rule, anything made of plastic tends to be right out.

Typically I only wear necklaces and earrings, partially because I find them prettiest, but mostly because they're the easiest kinds to forget about when you're wearing them. I have a much harder time wearing things like bracelets or rings, not because I don't like them, but because I can't seem to stop screwing with them. They get uncomfortable to wear much more easily, and I'm always fidgeting with the positioning of the bracelet or compulsively taking the ring off and on again as if to make sure it's not stuck.

My favorite gems, I think, are amber, pearl, and garnet. I like the golden color and the visual texture of amber, I love the warm sheen and smoothness of pearl, and I like the deep red of garnets. I find it amusing that though I profess to only like jewelry with "real stones," two of those three aren't actually stones at all. Everybody likes the four precious ones, sapphire, ruby, emerald, and diamond, and I'm no exception, so I don't mention them among my favorites. Of the four precious, though they're all gorgeous and I love them, I think I like diamond best. There are diamonds on my anniversary necklace, and my posts are diamonds. They go with everything and everything goes with them.

One thing I've been meaning to check up on is what basically amounts to how you select what jewelry to wear. I'm not sure what the "rules" are-- do you match your outfit, or should you avoid outright matching and just make sure they're complementary? What can be mixed with what? I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to wear silver and gold at the same time, but do all stones have to match? I should look that up sometime. Even if it's a silly thing to hold to, it might be nice to know the rules before I break them.