Um, my Mac has decided it doesn't believe in black anymore.

For instance, I've noticed that icons on LJ look flat all of a sudden.

What did I do? :/

Or is it because the lights are on? Did I develop cataracts overnight?

Confused.

I hate when Photoshop decides to bitch out and close whenever I'm doing something more involved, like cutting out background or something.

Also, that I'm irresponsibly Photoshopping when there's about a dozen other things I should be doing instead.

Message received, universe. I'll do some fucking NCLEX questions.

I woke up today -- at 5am -- showered, got dressed for clinical, poured my tea and all. Then I grab my phone to see who won the baseball game last night (couldn't stay up), and there's a voicemail from my instructor: She's sick, clinical canceled! Would've been even better news if I'd gotten it BEFORE I got up and dressed and all, but it was still nice. (Less nice if I have to do the makeup day at the end of this term, though.)

So I'm being incredibly lazy. The Giants are biting it hard right now, so I turned the game off for a little while. It's... not pretty. GET. IN. THE GAME.

So, this past summer, when I needed to be online to buy Bruce tickets right smack in the middle of class, I opted to bring my laptop. I optimized my earning potential (tickets) by setting up a fresh user on my Mac. (Ironically, I scored tickets via my iPhone that day, but, whatever. Happy ending and all.)

My discovery? It's actually REALLY conducive to me getting homework done. (Well, until now, obviously.) My million and one (constantly) opened Firefox tabs aren't at my disposal. No email. I'd have to actually remember some URLs to the places that usually distract me. All of my files are elsewhere. No Photoshop tempting me.

Niiiiice.

Of course, I've also got the prospect of being totally lazy tomorrow afternoon/nightish motivating me. We're getting out early at clinical. The cut off is 3pm, which isn't astounding, but, it's something. OH RIGHT, AND I GET AN EXTRA HOUR OF SLEEP TONIGHT, SCORE.

On a related note, I'd really like for it to be November 9th.

Waaaay too happy for someone who's just spent 6+ hours on a ridiculous PowerPoint slide. It's the little things.

DAMMIT. My mom just shattered my "fall back" euphoria. I'll have to wait until Saturday night to cash in on that dream.

Just got home from Bruce a little while ago.

AMAZING show. The crowd, the setlist... 31 songs and nearly 3.5 hours of pure bliss. He opened with "The Price You Pay," which has basically been the Holy Grail of Bruce songs, going unplayed for about 30 years or so. My sister being a doofus didn't ruin it -- the people in front of us were backstage prior to the show and had a copy of the setlist. I told her I didn't want to know anything, and she complied; then she asked me, "What's 'Price' mean?" ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Still didn't believe it. Awesome, awesome songs Bruce pulled out of his hat for these shows.

Other highlights: "Dancing in the Dark," during which Bruce pulled his mom on stage to do the Courteney Cox dance, "Higher and Higher," a sign request that was great fun, "The River," "Born the Run" (for real, the crowd was awesome), "Loose Ends," another sign request, "Spirit in the Night" with Vini Lopez on drums, "Kitty's Back" (this is one for the aficionados - my sister wasn't into it at all, and when he played it to close back in April, my mom thought it was a lousy way to end it; I fuckin' love it), and "Save the Last Dance For Me," for the last round at the Spectrum.

Just before the show, Joe Torre showed up about 5 rows in front of us. As more and more people noticed, the crowd started chanting, "Beat L.A." in good fun. Everyone was respectful (except for blatantly flashing cameras in his face), which was really nice. He left before the end of the show, though. OH, these guys in the row in front of me, just slightly to my right -- one of them was WASTED at the start of the show. Dude was CRYING, and spent the whole night (before he basically passed out across the seats trying to find his way out mid-show) embracing his friend, arms around his neck, singing in his ears. SERIOUSLY, CHECK THIS SHIT OUT (I HAD to take a picture).

Still grinning ear to ear. I got my "Backstreets" on night one (and just hearing the whole Born to Run album was incredible, and, no lie, there was some misting), all the awesomeness of tonight. THIS is why I'm a fiend and go to as many shows as I can('t) afford.

TOTALLY ON A BRUCE HIGH, WILL I SLEEP? PHILLY + BRUCE = OTP (PHRUUUUUCE? BRILLY?)

5:53am ETA: No, I will not sleep, clearly.

Countdown to Springsteen -- I am useless. There are things I could be doing, but I'm doing none of them.

I'm anticipating epic shit to go down in the House fandom, too, since last Bruce concert I was at this epic epicness happened. Just in case, I've reacquainted myself with my iPhone's capslock feature (that was a hindrance last time around). Either this week or next. Episode 7 promos, maybe?

Bored now. 6pm please?

Good news: I'm going to finally get my long-awaited "Backstreets" in a week.

Bad news: I know I'm going to finally get my long-awaited "Backstreets" in week. (Also, can I trade my 10/20 for 10/14?)

Good news: It's almost time for House!

I just spent a ridiculous amount of time on this bullshit assignment based on this conference we had to go to (the questions were written before the conference and, in retrospect, have very little relevancy to what was actually... conferred upon).

I got a 99 today on a 10-question quiz. When I fail at med calc questions, I will remind them of this. (The profs sent us an email and told us not to look at grades, they need to be retabulated; riiight, they should know by now we're a bunch of type A freaks who pounced on those grades 2 minutes after they were posted.)

Annnd now I am avoiding studying for a test tomorrow. I have very little motivation. Worth 10%, 10 questions, I've got a 90 right now. I'm tired. I want to sleep so I can do the 274 assignments I've got to finish by Tuesday (I'm setting unattainable goals for myself) tomorrow. My finals are on Thursday and I want to devote as much of the weekend as humanly possibly for studying for those.

I WANT TO FLAIL. SO. BAD. The DVR is full, I want to bury myself in my shows. House is being all epic and DO WANT. Our profs told us today that after this term (=10/9), things slow down. I CANNOT WAIT.

My next rotation starts 10/17 -- maternity. I got Saturday/Sunday, which, in this case, is AWESOME, because it means my Bruce concerts remain uncompromised (and I think having 3 days off will be nice, especially in terms of studying). We're done next Friday, we get the WHOOOOLE weekend off (lol), Bruce on Tuesday, new term starts up Wednesday, moar Bruce the following Tuesday. I SO fucking need that right now.

Still hate studying.

Two tests tomorrow, one Friday, 10-15% -- try to make me care moar, please! I'm worried more about the exams next week, which are 35-40% but, whatever. I started everything early, but for the most part, have been slow-rolling alllll day. I've overcome my procrastination tendencies somewhat, but the ADD ones are still totally there.

Obsessively checking for those new House promos doesn't really help matters.

I think I'm going to have to really cut back on TV this season, relegate some to summer/DVD catch-up. House is appointment TV (rotations permitting); I'm excited about Dexter, and what's more, we have Showtime now, so I can't watch on demand at my convenience; Glee is really enjoyable, and my sister will be watching, so she'll be all over me about it (told her I'd wait to watch it with her Friday, since I'm studying -- clearly); kind of the same deal with Chuck (and I feel like I can multitask with that one).

Thursday nights (The Office, 30 Rock) are going to turn into background noise and probably be DVD catch-ups. Same with Sunday (Desperate Housewives, Brothers & Sisters), though they're on demand, so maybe monthly check-ins. I'm blanking on any others.

Ugh, real life is such a wet blanket.

Uber-random note: Keep your fingers crossed that I score a workable (in the context of my two Bruce concerts, 10/13 and 10/20) clinical rotation next round -- either a 7am-7pm in Philly or an early 8-hour elsewhere if it has to include Tuesdays. I'm kind of hoping for weekends. This rotation ends 10/9 and then we start up maternity right away, apparently.

Blah. Studying beckons.

True Blood was ridiculously short tonight. Not cool.