So if I'm a liar, and you're a thief, at least we both know where the other one sleeps
So I'm in the final stretch now. Crazy how fast that came, huh? But at the same time, the time between Thanksgiving and now seems to have dragged on forever. (It's only been two weeks!)
Last week was hell in every sense of the word. I had my linguistics, BCS 111, and psych exams,plus my BCS paper due, all within a 24 hour period. That sucked. The linguistics exam was not as easy as it should have been, though I feel a good part of it was poor question writing (she made it really confusing!) With that in mind, I took to the library to study for BCS, which I had in three hours. So I studied and went to the test. As I started the test, I'm hearing my computer make this annoying clicking noise, almost like it's trying repeatedly to read a CD and it just can't. I obviously couldn't reach into my bag during the test to investigate, so I just let it go (much to the annoyance of the girl sitting next to me, I'm sure.) The exam, once again, was harder than it should have been. [There were six lectures for this exam, two of which were on imagery and visual LTM. The remaining four were all judgment/reasoning/problem solving. So one would logically expect, then, that a good portion of the exam would be dedicated to those areas. So I studied those harder and understood them more. Nope. Both of the essay questions were imagery (50% of the grade,) as well as four of the twelve short answer. That sucked.]
Anyway, I took my computer with me to the commons to grab dinner and start studying for the psych exam I had the next morning. Much to my dismay, upon restart, the computer refused to load Windows and the clicking resumed. Diagnostics once again told me I had a hard drive failure. Ughhhhh.
So I chatted with Dell numerous times and finally the guy agreed to send me a new hard drive as well as a new motherboard, in the form of a Dell technician. This was Wednesday.
Thursday was going really well as my psych exam was ten times easier than her past exams, and at work it started snowing! I sat out front because Amy was out and watched the snow while I filed/did clinics/everything else. It was really exciting...until we started hearing horror stories about traffic. So Mary Ann left at 4 and I basically continued filing until my usual 5:30, when I decided I'd go wait for the bus which was running late. So I trudged to the bus stop, freezing. I waited in the little bus stop shelter, but the wind was so strong I felt like the glass was going to break in around me. Traffic was also at a stand still. I called the shuttle services, and the man basically told me he had no way of knowing when the bus would arrive. I ran into Security who refused to help me find a way home. So I walked. Boy was that miserable. I pretty much wanted to just lie down and accept defeat. Anyway, I made it.
Friday after work and my gospel concert, the Dell tech came...but only with the hard drive. Call me crazy, but I could have installed that myself (as I just did it three weeks ago.) He said he had no motherboard. When he saw that I knew I was supposed to have a motherboard, he got almost defensive about it and explained all the reasons he felt I would not need one. That was pretty sketchy and I am pretty sure he was lying about not receiving one. (Especially since Dell sent the parts in the same package, according to my service call history.) I am fine without the new motherboard, my computer works. However, if this hard drive fails, I am going to be really really upset because it was such a simple fix.
Yesterday I bought a new dress for my birthday. And I love it!! I went shopping on a whim and this was the last dress I was going to try on, grabbed in that last minute, "this is really cute, but I know it won't fit me...but I'll try anyway" type thing (does anyone else do this while shopping?) I really like it and I am so excited for my birthday. I just cannot wait to see everyone and I love any excuse to get dressed up (and ice skating!!)
Basically that leaves me here. Contemplating the double standards I've realized lately that I set for my friends. It's really unfair and I get that, but I don't know how to correct it. In particular, a certain friend as of late has taken a different position on a particular topic. I know that if it were anyone else, I would be really angry, with every right, but because it is this person, I am not. I currently get annoyed with other people involved with it. Baffles my mind.
I have my BCS exam Friday and my Linguistics project due Wednesday. Oh boy. It sounds like a really light load for finals week, and don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, but it's also tough. I know the BCS final is going to be really hard - there was just so much material covered. It's hard to take it all in for non-cumulative mid-terms, let alone the cumulative final. I guess I need to hit the books, hard. The linguistics project isn't a huge deal...except I don't really know what my project is on. I wrote the proposal and everything, and had some excellent sources, but they were all on my hard drive pre-crash #2. I guess I am starting fresh and trying to re-find my sources so I can put a decent poster together.
Long week.
Home on Friday!!!
Yay!
Last week was hell in every sense of the word. I had my linguistics, BCS 111, and psych exams,plus my BCS paper due, all within a 24 hour period. That sucked. The linguistics exam was not as easy as it should have been, though I feel a good part of it was poor question writing (she made it really confusing!) With that in mind, I took to the library to study for BCS, which I had in three hours. So I studied and went to the test. As I started the test, I'm hearing my computer make this annoying clicking noise, almost like it's trying repeatedly to read a CD and it just can't. I obviously couldn't reach into my bag during the test to investigate, so I just let it go (much to the annoyance of the girl sitting next to me, I'm sure.) The exam, once again, was harder than it should have been. [There were six lectures for this exam, two of which were on imagery and visual LTM. The remaining four were all judgment/reasoning/problem solving. So one would logically expect, then, that a good portion of the exam would be dedicated to those areas. So I studied those harder and understood them more. Nope. Both of the essay questions were imagery (50% of the grade,) as well as four of the twelve short answer. That sucked.]
Anyway, I took my computer with me to the commons to grab dinner and start studying for the psych exam I had the next morning. Much to my dismay, upon restart, the computer refused to load Windows and the clicking resumed. Diagnostics once again told me I had a hard drive failure. Ughhhhh.
So I chatted with Dell numerous times and finally the guy agreed to send me a new hard drive as well as a new motherboard, in the form of a Dell technician. This was Wednesday.
Thursday was going really well as my psych exam was ten times easier than her past exams, and at work it started snowing! I sat out front because Amy was out and watched the snow while I filed/did clinics/everything else. It was really exciting...until we started hearing horror stories about traffic. So Mary Ann left at 4 and I basically continued filing until my usual 5:30, when I decided I'd go wait for the bus which was running late. So I trudged to the bus stop, freezing. I waited in the little bus stop shelter, but the wind was so strong I felt like the glass was going to break in around me. Traffic was also at a stand still. I called the shuttle services, and the man basically told me he had no way of knowing when the bus would arrive. I ran into Security who refused to help me find a way home. So I walked. Boy was that miserable. I pretty much wanted to just lie down and accept defeat. Anyway, I made it.
Friday after work and my gospel concert, the Dell tech came...but only with the hard drive. Call me crazy, but I could have installed that myself (as I just did it three weeks ago.) He said he had no motherboard. When he saw that I knew I was supposed to have a motherboard, he got almost defensive about it and explained all the reasons he felt I would not need one. That was pretty sketchy and I am pretty sure he was lying about not receiving one. (Especially since Dell sent the parts in the same package, according to my service call history.) I am fine without the new motherboard, my computer works. However, if this hard drive fails, I am going to be really really upset because it was such a simple fix.
Yesterday I bought a new dress for my birthday. And I love it!! I went shopping on a whim and this was the last dress I was going to try on, grabbed in that last minute, "this is really cute, but I know it won't fit me...but I'll try anyway" type thing (does anyone else do this while shopping?) I really like it and I am so excited for my birthday. I just cannot wait to see everyone and I love any excuse to get dressed up (and ice skating!!)
Basically that leaves me here. Contemplating the double standards I've realized lately that I set for my friends. It's really unfair and I get that, but I don't know how to correct it. In particular, a certain friend as of late has taken a different position on a particular topic. I know that if it were anyone else, I would be really angry, with every right, but because it is this person, I am not. I currently get annoyed with other people involved with it. Baffles my mind.
I have my BCS exam Friday and my Linguistics project due Wednesday. Oh boy. It sounds like a really light load for finals week, and don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining, but it's also tough. I know the BCS final is going to be really hard - there was just so much material covered. It's hard to take it all in for non-cumulative mid-terms, let alone the cumulative final. I guess I need to hit the books, hard. The linguistics project isn't a huge deal...except I don't really know what my project is on. I wrote the proposal and everything, and had some excellent sources, but they were all on my hard drive pre-crash #2. I guess I am starting fresh and trying to re-find my sources so I can put a decent poster together.
Long week.
Home on Friday!!!
Yay!