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God Must Hate Me
Nov. 1st, 2008 10:45 pmSome days, no matter what you do, are just utterly unfabulous, and today was definitely one of those days.
Work was no better or worse than usual - a couple of pledges, a couple of really interesting alums, and one woman who totally flounced on me, which was hysterical - but the fact that I had to walk there and back, a 25-30 minute walk, in the pouring rain DID NOT make me happy at all. I took me almost an hour after I got home to get dried off and warmed up. FAIL, CALIFORNIA WEATHER.
A few hours after I got home, my computer suddenly shut off and refused to turn back on. I gave it a few minutes, got it to turn on again, only to have it immediately shut off when my desktop started loading. Gave it a half hour, got it on again, ran for 15 minutes this time before shutting off /again/. Cue the hour-long, freaked-out, frequently swearing and crying phone call to my dad. After some fiddling and more spazzing, we concluded that the most likely problem was that my side fan, which has been running badly since I got to California, has finally given up the ghost. OH YAY. So I ordered a new fan off of the Dell site, which shall hopefully be here by Monday or Tuesday (at which point I will have to figure out how to install it, joy), and in the meantime I have my big fan running two inches from my computer and am trying not to panic. Max, why do you hate me so? EPIC FAIL, COMPUTER.
Needless to say, this has not been a productive day for NaNo.
Work was no better or worse than usual - a couple of pledges, a couple of really interesting alums, and one woman who totally flounced on me, which was hysterical - but the fact that I had to walk there and back, a 25-30 minute walk, in the pouring rain DID NOT make me happy at all. I took me almost an hour after I got home to get dried off and warmed up. FAIL, CALIFORNIA WEATHER.
A few hours after I got home, my computer suddenly shut off and refused to turn back on. I gave it a few minutes, got it to turn on again, only to have it immediately shut off when my desktop started loading. Gave it a half hour, got it on again, ran for 15 minutes this time before shutting off /again/. Cue the hour-long, freaked-out, frequently swearing and crying phone call to my dad. After some fiddling and more spazzing, we concluded that the most likely problem was that my side fan, which has been running badly since I got to California, has finally given up the ghost. OH YAY. So I ordered a new fan off of the Dell site, which shall hopefully be here by Monday or Tuesday (at which point I will have to figure out how to install it, joy), and in the meantime I have my big fan running two inches from my computer and am trying not to panic. Max, why do you hate me so? EPIC FAIL, COMPUTER.
Needless to say, this has not been a productive day for NaNo.