Well, today is the Blog Tour of Homes! And, as promised, here is a tour of my home . . . or rather, my apartment ;-)!

1) Here is my front door. It’s crazy boring, because it’s an apartment complex. But, here it is anyway:

2) Next, my desk, where I usually blog. Though I do have a laptop, so I sometimes blog from my bed :-):

3) Here is my living room. It’s still missing a chair (there are 2 green chairs, but one is at my parents’ house in Florida). Can you see the desk with the PC in the back on the left? That’s the home office of MagicMouth Productions - we’re still a work in progress ;-):

4) Here is my kitchen. And yes, those are my dishes in the sink. What, you thought I was gonna clean for you?!

5) Though you already saw part of my bedroom when you saw my desk, here’s another angle:

And here are allll my books - well, all the ones in North Carolina. I have this many at home in FL too, LOL!

So that’s my baby little apartment, LOL! There are 2 other bedrooms for Matt and Ben, but neither of them have moved in yet, so they’re just kind of storage for me right now. Thanks for looking around my home ;-)!

Thirteen Things about LINDSEY

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1. I had an amazing T13 of quizzes all ready to go on my computer for last week . . . until the crash. So last week’s T13 didn’t happen. Apologies. Please love me anyways.

2. Oh the crash. Here’s the deal. For that graduate program that I started last week (seems like last year), we get new computers. As you know, I went to undergrad at Wake Forest, and all the students receive laptops. Well, Wake Forest graduate students get the same deal, though the computers are very different (more on that in a minute). I was excited to get a new computer, blah blah, the first thing I did when I got home was start working on transferring.

3. Get the computer home, install all the programs on it, transfer my email and Firefox settings. All that’s left is my actual files - Word documents, pictures, all the files from MagicMouth, the things I’ve been working on for my website, etc. A total of many many GBs. Big transfer.

4. I decide that life will be easier if instead of saving to DVDs or my external hard drive that I just take the hard drive out of my old computer and with a USB connect it to the new computer and just directly transfer the files. I’ve done this before, so I’m not too worried.

5. I hook it up to the new computer, and it doesn’t recognize the drive. At this point, I’m mildly annoyed. I’m gonna have to do this the hard way. I put the hard drive back into the old computer.

6. OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND

7. I panic. I try absolutely everything I can think of to get the stupid thing to work. I take it in to the IT dept at school, and they try everything that they can think of. The drive is corrupt, completely unrestorable, crashing other computers . . . it’s dead.

8. So they say they’ll get me a new drive, but that doesn’t restore any of my data. My data is gone.

9. Luckily, I have a backup from May back when the thing crashed before (they think the problems were related), so I have a partial backup. Lost some files for the company and for my websites, so that super sucks, but other than that, I can manage.

10. So that’s what I’ve been up to. Trying to rebuild. And get acclimated into this program - it’s the hardest school I’ve had in my life. You’ll hear more this weekend.

11. Don’t forget to stop by on Friday for the Blog Tour of Homes, and this weekend please sponsor me for Blogathon 2006 - I’m blogging for breast cancer!!!

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13. This is too good to pass up. I’ve been playing The Game for about 2 years now, and I come to find that it’s on Wikipedia. Priceless. Also check out www.losethegame.com. Add yourself to the family tree - just remember: your birthday is when you found out about the game, not your actual birthday. Enjoy ;-)!

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Sorry the blog has been neglected this week - grad school was crazy busy last week, and this weekend I was playing catch-up. I’m just now figuring out how this thing is going to work, so expect a nice post tomorrow. Featuring details about the “big crash” and the new computer . . .