What a week. First the confiscation of my teapot. Blargh. Then the Mrs. Fields cookies. Yay! Then I had to scramble to do the reading assigned. Yuck. Then I got the news about my play. Huzzah! Then Toni Morrison came and spoke in English class. Woo hoo! Then so did Mom (albeit not in English class) and I even understood half of it. Woo hoo again! We went out afterwards for dinner with several other art historians. I continue to be of the opinion that all art historians are either spies, or my mother. I wore my Cambridge scarf in celebration.
Then my computer died. This morning. MAJOR bad news. I ran it over to the tech people and they stared at it for four hours while running around and helping other people and then they said that they could fix it temporarily (by removing half of the memory) but that I need to back up EVERYTHING, IMMEDIATELY, and bring it back in on Monday to have it fixed. Or, you know, shipped off to Apple. I was, needless to say, rather bummed by this news. (Hint: gross understatement). Luckily, Mommy was still in town to take me shopping for an external hard drive and peppermint patties and other very important things, after which we went out to dinner and chatted.
After saying goodbye to her I hefted my Target purchases up to my dorm, began the backup process, and went to watch This is England for $2 with Mr.CA- and DownstairsChatterer. What an amazing and intense movie. Maybe not quite what I needed, but I was glad to have seen it.
Work on the blog may be sporadic starting Monday (with the computer being absent from my life. *sob*) As will work on NaNoWriMo. Gulp. I'm still on track with 15,006 words, though. Yippee for that, at least.
2 comments:
I hope the computer can be repaired on site--let us know what happens!
Even A project manager, a computer programmer and a computer operator are driving down the road when the car they are in gets a flat tire. The three men try to solve the problem.
The project manager said: "Let's catch a cab and in ten minutes we'll reach our destination."
The computer programmer said: "We have here the driver's guide. I can easily replace the flat tire and continue our drive."
The computer operator said: "First of all, let's turn off the engine and turn it on again. Maybe it will fix the problem."
Suddenly a Microsoft software engineer passed by and said: "Try to close all windows, get off the car, and then get in and try again."
though it is a Mac. I thought of this one.
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