My relative silence is due in no small part to the collusion of every piece of technology I use to inconvenience me as much as possible.
- My broken laptop was returned to me, "fixed," where "fixed" is defined as "not nearly as stable as it used to be before the hardware broke." Even with a new hard drive, which of course necessitated reinstalling all my software.
- The first piece of software I installed was Mozilla. The first piece of software I SHOULD have installed was my antivirus software. (Apparently just being connected to the school network for an hour yesterday managed to result in 6 viruses establishing residence on my computer, and a nastygram from BU IT threatening to keep me off the network unless I cleaned up my machine.)
- I did manage to sync my palm onto the laptop, but somehow all the times of all the events ended up 3 hours later than they were supposed to be. That was lots of fun to fix.
- The mouse is flaky, I can't shutdown the machine reliably, and the networking is unstable. Of course, I can't easily troubleshoot the networking because my router has apparently joined my laptop in its uprising against me and decided that now would be a good time to start failing too.
- Meanwhile, all my email has been backing up while I try to get everything reorganized. This has resulted in still more nastygrams from BU IT threatening to bounce my email unless I cleaned that up too. The complication: I DID clean up my email. Many, many times but for some reason it kept thinking I was still over quota. I somehow managed to magically fix this yesterday, but not without further disorganizing myself by dragging and dropping all my email into local folders on a computer, which, unbeknownst to me, was infected with a virus...
- I am now typing this post on a machine in the journal office, but not the machine in the journal office where my 1L memo has taken up permanent residence on the desktop. It's been deleted numerous times, but it keeps coming back. I'm baffled. Cuneaform has less permanence than this file does.
- And nearly daily MoveableType finds more and more show-stopping bugs that require me to upgrade the blogging software ASAP.
So here I was, all excited that I could take a break from writing my note to catch up on everything else in my life... Ha.