So just so everybody knows, I'm not actually dead. I just spent the last year reading for massive Ph.D. exams (~1500 years of books in seven languages) and now I'm *utterly fucking incapable* of relaxing or in any way acting like a normal human being, though I'm working on it.
Anyways, between some ennui and exams-related depression, I haven't had much of a summer, but at least it's ending soon and I'll be able to get myself back to work. I'm really looking forward to writing my thesis.
So, I was screwing around today, and found out that the sound card that Dolston gave me ACTUALLY WORKS FINE, now that M-Audio has finally made a proper Vista patch for it. The problem was actually in the cable, of all things.