Clearly I'm a Luddite Sleeper Agent
Oct. 8th, 2009 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
masterofmidgetsSo it turns out that when it comes to computers I have some kind of Kiss of Death thing going on, because I swear every machine I have touched this week has immediately broken in some catastrophic way. First was my laptop and the dead power cord. Then I went to the computer cluster to check my email and the computer I was using froze when I tried to open the browser - couldn't get it unfrozen, couldn't shut it down, couldn't use another computer because I was still logged in and they wouldn't take my password. And it was a Mac, which pro-Mac/anti-PC people have been telling me smugly for years never freeze or crash. Once I got that resolved (by unplugging the computer), all of the other computers in the cluster instantly developed this bizarre bug where they wouldn't take anyone's passwords. Our RCC fixed that one. And then this morning, the log-in was working, but the computers were starting and loading so slowly I had time to leave the dorm, go to the post office, and come back between when I logged-in and when I could actually do anything. KISS OF DEATH I SWEAR.
Still no power cord in my mailbox. Still no paycheck, either from the job I'm working at now or the job I finished three weeks ago. I hate our post office sometimes. I'm still bitter about the package freshman year that took them six months to deliver. But this is a hell of a lot more stressful, since I really need my computer this week. And I'm getting a little frantic about that money.
Might be getting sick - I've been feeling kind of wonky since yesterday evening. Probably not swine flu, as paranoid as everyone is - when I got the flu in the spring I went from feeling perfectly fine to wanting to die in the space of about six hours. But if I am getting sick I'm going to be so pissed off, since there is a singer performing at the CoHo tomorrow I really want to go see. Fuck you, immune system.
Still no power cord in my mailbox. Still no paycheck, either from the job I'm working at now or the job I finished three weeks ago. I hate our post office sometimes. I'm still bitter about the package freshman year that took them six months to deliver. But this is a hell of a lot more stressful, since I really need my computer this week. And I'm getting a little frantic about that money.
Might be getting sick - I've been feeling kind of wonky since yesterday evening. Probably not swine flu, as paranoid as everyone is - when I got the flu in the spring I went from feeling perfectly fine to wanting to die in the space of about six hours. But if I am getting sick I'm going to be so pissed off, since there is a singer performing at the CoHo tomorrow I really want to go see. Fuck you, immune system.