entirely too much daydreaming, wot wot

My computer ought to be here tomorrow afternoon! Oh dear, I'm beginning to get giddy. (Beginning? All right, I'm beginning to get excessively giddy. There is definitely literal, physical flailing going on.) I am daydreaming about it entirely too much -- when I am trying to sleep, I usually run over bits of stories in my head, and the same scenes often loop like films until I find I'm getting them right, or I find I'm wearing them a little too thin, but the last several nights, Evy's philosophical conversations with her vampire and Briony confronting Mr Caruthers in a very Briony-like manner and the bit with the motorbike and the ceilidh at the pub: these have given way to endless panoramas of typing, and sorting my music library, and playing Roller Coaster Tycoon, and just generally setting the computer to rights and making my mark on it. I run over what I need to download, and install, and wonder what my first desktop picture ought to be, and whether I should run out to the library and borrow a film I've been wanting to see for a while, or if I should be sensible and watch The Namesake or Pan's Labyrinth instead, two very favourite films which I recieved for Christmas and haven't watched yet.

I have also, with the help of UPS's package tracking system, visualised the journey my computer is travelling to me with MapQuest, which also told me approximately how many miles and hours away it was (only four, in the beginning!). Seeing the path, which is nearly straight, as highways go, was very reassuring. And then I've been shopping around for a laptop bag (more on that later; not having the best of luck thus far), and deciding about criteria for external speakers, and wondering if there's anything else I've absolutely got to purchase (good heavens, I hope not!), and my desk is cleared off and made ready... (And I've missed typing by candleabra-light!) 

Things I want to do when the new computer arrives:

• Completely overhaul my music library, which is a shambles, really. Songbird scrambled all of my album art, which is vexing, to be sure, but there are more complicated things to fix -- songs that need to be retagged, genres to go through and decide upon, duplicates to be deleted, live tracks and rarities that need to be consolidated somehow to calm the disorder, various songs I don't even like that ought to be deleted... When one's music library is spread over three separate computers, there tends to be a lot of muddle.
• And then, there will be mixes. I have so many just a few songs and re-orderings away from being ready!
• Completely renovate my LJ tags and retag old entries and... Wow. Yes. This will be an epic task.
• Thrash out my not-Nano-anymore again. I haven't talked about it much, but I think about it constantly, and play with it, and look in its corners for things I might have missed. (The Ian and Tuesday story, which sometimes goes by Tuesday Skyline, is also frequently present in my mind, though I haven't mentioned it in an age -- just to reassure those of you who were fond of it.) 
• Catch up on some television. And I want to watch Battlestar Galactica.
• Write more essay-like somethings-or-other, to do battle with some of the thoughts and concepts that have been trapped inside of my head of late.
• Write more book reviews. I have been reading so many good books lately, it is positively uncanny! 
• WRITE. WRITE WRITE WRITE WRITE WRITE. I could do this with a notebook and pen, it is true (I have a lovely new composition book with polka dots and owls!), but for anything long, anything that's a story, I write better on a computer, because it's so much more orderly, and I become less confused. And I type faster than I write, and I compose faster than I do either of those things, and occasionally I lose sight of what I meant to say in the middle of trying to say it, which is very displeasing.
• Comment on people's LJs more often! 
• Play a lot of Roller Coaster Tycoon. Possibly acquire The Sims.

I mean, clearly, few of these are projects that are likely to be finished in the near future, and some of them are more disciplines than anything else, but... I'm really looking forward to having things more orderly, more consolidated. 

ALSO MY LAPTOP IS SUPPOSED TO BE HERE TOMORROW.  (Other thing on the list of things to do: post about important things I have neglected to post about, such as Dollhouse, where I am going this summer, my general emotional state, my job, and the many fantastic books I have recently read. You may hold me to these things -- with violence, if need be.)