Halls of the Dark Muse

After being totally stressed out over the fact that I thought that by the time I got back from vacation, which is coming up soon I would discover my computer no longer working (being that I am pretty sure my cousin illegally installed Windows Vista on it when he was "fixing" it and thus Windows could not activate, and I only had 30 days to activate it) and then after purchasing a new product key that could be used for activating windows I started getting paranoid that the website I purchased ...

I mentioned a while back that the hard drive on my computer went out, and my cousin was working on it. And he is a nice guy, and good with computers but not always the most reliable person in the world and so after he took my computer months would go by without hearing anything back from him about it. And then first he said that he had an old hard drive he could use on it, but he could not find a case to put the hard drive in that would fit inside the computer (it is a lap top) so then he said ...

I had quite the adventure last night. I was laying in bed, have no idea what time it is, half-way between sleeping and waking, when I hear this strange noise. To me it first it sounds like water. It almost sounded like pipe or something broke because it was just this whooshing sound. I look out my bedroom window but of course I don't see anything and thought I am trying to figure out what the noise could be, I don't think much of it, it is not really unusual to hear strange sounds around here at ...

I was in the front yard sitting on the lawn playing with my kitten when this bird comes up and lands on the driveway and starts hopping around and making this high pitched chirping sounds, and it is clearly intentionally trying to taunt the cat. So at first I thought that maybe it had a nest near by, though I don't know where, as I am pretty sure it was nowhere in my yard, plus the bird came from somewhere on the other side of the street. I figure it would be I would let Strega go chase the bird ...

From Lady Orcale by Margaret Atwood:

Anything is the type of thing anyone would do, given the right circumstances.