Nicky's coming over again. ^^

Last night Nicky called me when I happened to be in the other room and when I got back to where my phone was, I promptly fell asleep. So I noticed her voice message this morning. Basically, she's dying to get out of California for a while. I think she needs some breathing space, maybe from her family, probably also from her daily life. So she asked if she could come over August 25-30.

Unfortunately, I'm going to be in Nashville until the 26th.

I haven't called her back yet 'cause it's 7:30am there right now, but I'm going to ask her if she can do the next week, September 1-6, instead.

I'm happy she's coming because I've gotten used to seeing her twice a year, and we weren't going to go to Yaoicon this year so we wouldn't be able to see her then. But I'm sad that it's a sad reason that's prompting her to come to New York. =(

Updateses.

I spoke with Raquel this morning and she's definitely able to come. She actually got approval for her leave request while I was on the phone with her. She doesn't have the money for the flight costs right now, so I said I could lend it to her and she could pay me back. $250 isn't that much when you know you can trust the other person to pay you back. ^^ Besides, I know where she lives. So I just booked her flight -- lucky her; she has two non-stop flights from LGA! She's going to get home earlier on Friday night than I will! =Þ

bishsticks, if you'd like to meet up for dinner or such, let me know ~ maybe there's a shopping center we can meet up in, or whatever ~ so I can take that into account for renting a car. =D

I forgot to mention that I dropped my camera late last week (that day that I took a pic of my green shoes). At first it would... stutter, for lack of a better word, whenever the optical zoom extended or retracted. Since last night, however, the LCD screen won't turn on at all and it keeps clicking like a broken record after extending most of the way. So, I've been trying to get Liz to call or visit a camera repair shop for the past several days to get an estimate on the cost of repairing it. She's going to take it somewhere today for a free estimate.

Otherwise, I've already bought a new camera on ebay. There were only three Sony cameras (I really like Sony cameras) that fit my requirements of size/comfort/gadgetry/cost. I ended up getting the W5 -- I think the only difference between the W5 and the one Angelica has (which is the W1, I think) is that it has 32mb internal memory, but you know, I don't know how much of a good thing that is -- I wouldn't be able to take that 32mb memory "card" out of the camera to put it in another one, etc. =( On the other hand, it still takes the Memory Stick™ instead of the Memory Stick Duo™ (heehee, Duo), so I can use my current memory card with it. I really like the T33, except for the size of it (a bit too tall), the fact that it has no finger rest (so I'm sure to drop it), it doesn't have selectable focus (which is really weird), and that you have to use Memory Stick PRO Duo™ in order to record with audio. (What a weird camera.) And! The T33 has a lithium-ion battery, I believe, which although very nice, cannot be replaced with emergency AA batteries! So yeah.