Bullet Lists "R" Us

In case anyone's interested in what's been going on recently:
- Just got caught up in my math reading; now all that's left is review and keeping up - turning in a bit of homework might help, too.
- I love my new roommates (at least Jacquelyn, who's the one I've gotten to know the most).
- I made a new friend, Stacy (this_thorn, who is also Jacquelyn's friend. I actually met Stacy the night after I began signing the paperwork to change rooms and before I met Jacquelyn. It was really cool to find out that this girl I met in the computer lab and was becoming friends with was my new roommate's best friend.
- Stacy's fiancee is pretty cool, too. ^_^
- Jacquelyn, Stacy, Stacy's fiancee (Neile?) and I had Easter brunch today. Neile threatened to light my eyebrows on fire if I didn't get out of bed to eat. ^^; We had blueberry muffins, quiche, angel food cupcakes (which I actually missed out on), and crossaint-ish dinner rolls. Later there were also French silk pie-ettes and gingerbread cookies made.
- My room is mostly set up, though I don't think I'll ever have it completely set up unless I send a couple more things home.
- Katie's crazy. ^_^; But that's why I love her. :)
- Shined half the sink, but the bleach smell bothered Jacquelyn so I'm gonna do the other half another time.
- Got some Dutch textbooks (w/ cassettes and workbooks) that were on sale at the Coffman bookstore. ^___^ Only problem? They're entirely in Dutch. I mean, I can make most of it out between my German and my English, but that doesn't make it very useful as a textbook, now does it?
- I also got an older copy of Deux mondes and the accompanying tapes, and let me tell you, it may not be as bad as the Dutch textbooks I bought, but that book is not designed for self-study. So much lackage of grammar explanaitions...

Computer-related things I need to:
- either buy my own copy of Windows XP Pro or burn my own copies of all the install discs and permanently write down a key designated for my personal use
- replace my MS Office 2003 discs that got rolled over by my chair
- figure out what the deal is with my sound card, and most likely buy a new sound card
- fix whatever I broke when I uninstalled and reinstalled all my NVIDIA drivers in an attempt to figure out what the deal is with my sound card, because now my screen refreshes really jerkily
- buy an external hard drive. I've decided that I actually really want to completely and throughly flush my system, ResNet or not, but I still have a bunch of files I don't want to just delete and that I can't reasonably burn to DVDs.
- wipe and reformat my hard-drive
- buy and upgrade to Vista as soon as it comes out (perhaps I'll wait until then to wipe/reformat my HD, but how long will it be until then?)
- possibly get a flat screen monitor, or at least a smaller monitor - this will be less important once I move back home, and I won't have the money before then, so...
- continue to read PC Hardware in a Nutshell
- connect my front USB ports
- have my subwoofer's power socket fixed
- consider the possibility/feasability of buying a laptop to supplement my desktop computer
- achieve self-actualization

Yup.
I think I'm gonna call U Rent-a-Guru later today.
And back upstairs I go.