Please cross your fingers

I'm waiting for a return call from a store in Spokane. Getting this trunk show could mean the difference between a so-so trip and a better trip. I currently have a hole the size of a walrus in my schedule, and this would fit in beautifully.

*crosses fingers and toes*

iPod help

I went with a Zen mp3 player because I wasn't in love with iTunes/iPod.

Now I find that I have to load a ton of music (1,000+ songs) onto a brand new iPod. The songs I have are all in .wma format, and need to be in .aac format for the iPod player, I presume.

I can find no other method of converting them, save to convert each song one at a time. However, my time is incredibly slim, as I'm leaving in a week for a long trip, and I'd rather not sit and convert each file one at a time.

I'm holding out hope that, once plugged in for the first time, it will start up a sequence that goes to all of the music, converts it to .aac, and downloads it to the iPod, all with minimal fuss on my end. Yeah, and I'd like a pony, too.

Anyone know of these matters? Any ideas or help?

ETA: And it won't convert any song numbered 10 on an album. ha!

ETA2: Thanks, innerslytherin!

Guilty pleasures

I was tagged by lady_branwyn, naughty thing.

I can't remember what the meme was, only that it was so amazingly yellow that I cannot in good conscience allow it to multiply on this journal without fear of tipping the yellow balance. You all know what happens if that occurs.

I've done this meme before, ages ago, I think. Here I go again. I'm certain that the answers are probably completely different this time. ha! Apparently consistency is not on my list, either.

1. Chocolate. Milk, generally. Especially Vosges Dark Milk Chocolate with Sea Salt and Hazelnuts. And Mauna Loa milk chocolate covered macadamia nuts.


2. Squid. All types, cuttles and colossus included. And crows. I love crows.


3. Fanfic. Especially snupin. Especially h/c with Snape in the hurt/comforted role. That's probably my biggest guilty pleasure of them all. Severus returning from a DE meeting, nearly shattered? Beautiful. Sad thing is, it doesn't matter if the SPAG is awful, the plot atrocious, the characters distorted into pod versions of themselves...if Snape is suffering, I'm there.


4. South Park. It grosses me out most of the time, but it also makes me laugh like an idjit. Also, reality TV shows like How Do I Look? and What Not To Wear and Survivor and American Idol and Amazing Race. Actually, any TV at all is pretty much a guilty pleasure, same with reading fanfic, though at least I can slide in a bit of eBay work during the reading. Now, do I remember to watch these shows? Heh. That's another story entirely.


5. Bad action movies. The Punisher (with Dolph, of course, the movie which proves that a room full of ninjas is no big deal if you have an automatic weapon), Flash Gordon (oh yeah, baby, one of my faves), the Perfect Weapon (with Jeff Speakman), Lost Boys, the Three Musketeers (Kiefer Sutherland Beefcake Edition). Also cheesy (and glorious) movies: Golden Earrings (one of my faves of all time), the Sea Hawk, the Adventures of Robin Hood (mmm, Errol), Captain Blood, the Black Swan (hells yes!)...the list goes on and on. Though, since I had a tape get stuck in the VCR, I haven't been watching them recently.