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The past 14 hours have not been fun in the least.
Ok, so. Yesterday - I finally get done with studying and I take a well-deserved break by heading over to Dr. Szulgit's farewell party. Delicious home-made pizza is had (WITH BACON). Dr. Szulgit gets very drunk because he's quite sad about leaving. Much lulz occurs.
I get back to my room at 11:00 pm and go to log into the interwebs. Clean Access Agent - my school's shitty firewall... thingy (Jai, YOU remember this!) decides that hey, you need to update windows!
Me: ... k. *clicks button*
Clean Access: Launching Windows Update.
Computer: *nothing happens*
Me: *headdesk*
So I manually launch the update. Whatever dealie it needed to update installs, or so I assume. Everything's fine.
Me: *logs into Clean Access*
Clean Access: You need to update windows before you can log onto the network.
Me: ... I just DID. *rechecks the updater program*
Updater Program: DO U WANT SERVIC PAK 3?!
Me: ... I haven't had service pack 3 since it came out and you've let me onto the network. Freshman year we got notices specifically telling us not to download the stupid thing because it takes forever, is superfluous, and makes your security into swiss cheese.
Clean Access: No internet for you.
Me: >(
Long story short, I can't get on the internets with my laptop. This is a problem since, you know, all my study materials are on my laptop (I use notes in conjunction with Les Internets as review material since my notes tend to be incomprehensible messes).
Ok, so fast forward to this morning. I arrive at Student Academic Support Services, ready to take my first exam. I walk into the computer lab... only to find that every single computer is taken.
Now, this is a problem. This is a problem because I have severe disgraphia - my handwriting is mostly unreadable, and I write verrryyy slowly.
Me: ... I need a computer
SASS: we're sorry but they're all taken and office computers are confidential.
Me: ...
I decide, ok, I'll take the short answer section normally, maybe if I'm lucky a computer will free up by the time I'm done.
It hasn't.
Finally, I convince SASS to let me go down the hall to the Maggie Lab (the high-end graphics lab) to take my test. They say OK, and off I go. Lalala, yay, writing the outline for my essay, everything's fine, when someone comes in an informs me that she's doing a lecture in there (grad student lecture) and that she's really sorry but I have to leave.
Me: *keysmash of despaiiiiiir*
So I go BACK to SASS and I inform them of this. SASS (you know, that acronym is appropriate...) tells me to email my exam to myself and then I can take it in one of the back rooms. I do so; and as I walk back into SASS, one of the lab computers FINALLY frees up. Of course, SASS lab computers don't have internet access so I have to get a flash drive to transfer the data from one of the office computers to one of the lab computers.
Keep in mind that this is all during my alloted test taking time.
So I finally, finally put the essay on the lab computer, I get ready to go... only to find out that something corrupted the file in transit. I almost can't open it, and it takes me doing some fancy hoops to retrieve the data.
It is now 10:00 am. I have only an hour and a half left of test taking time, and I'm so stressed and discombobulated from being shuffled between four rooms and three computers that I can barely concentrate. I make a half-hearted effort at finishing the essay and bounce at 11:00.
If I fail this exam, it's SASS' fault. Jesus christ people. I can't take essay tests without a computer, you're supposed to be helping me with my disability just arrrrrrgh.
Best part is? I have ANOTHER essay exam at 1:30 pm! HOOOOORAY!
In other news: I have failed to work on my novel. I have failed to even write fanfic. My art skillz are rusty. I have failed to apply for summer internships. I have failed to get on top of my Europe trip in winter. Graaaaaaaaahhhh.
Ok, so. Yesterday - I finally get done with studying and I take a well-deserved break by heading over to Dr. Szulgit's farewell party. Delicious home-made pizza is had (WITH BACON). Dr. Szulgit gets very drunk because he's quite sad about leaving. Much lulz occurs.
I get back to my room at 11:00 pm and go to log into the interwebs. Clean Access Agent - my school's shitty firewall... thingy (Jai, YOU remember this!) decides that hey, you need to update windows!
Me: ... k. *clicks button*
Clean Access: Launching Windows Update.
Computer: *nothing happens*
Me: *headdesk*
So I manually launch the update. Whatever dealie it needed to update installs, or so I assume. Everything's fine.
Me: *logs into Clean Access*
Clean Access: You need to update windows before you can log onto the network.
Me: ... I just DID. *rechecks the updater program*
Updater Program: DO U WANT SERVIC PAK 3?!
Me: ... I haven't had service pack 3 since it came out and you've let me onto the network. Freshman year we got notices specifically telling us not to download the stupid thing because it takes forever, is superfluous, and makes your security into swiss cheese.
Clean Access: No internet for you.
Me: >(
Long story short, I can't get on the internets with my laptop. This is a problem since, you know, all my study materials are on my laptop (I use notes in conjunction with Les Internets as review material since my notes tend to be incomprehensible messes).
Ok, so fast forward to this morning. I arrive at Student Academic Support Services, ready to take my first exam. I walk into the computer lab... only to find that every single computer is taken.
Now, this is a problem. This is a problem because I have severe disgraphia - my handwriting is mostly unreadable, and I write verrryyy slowly.
Me: ... I need a computer
SASS: we're sorry but they're all taken and office computers are confidential.
Me: ...
I decide, ok, I'll take the short answer section normally, maybe if I'm lucky a computer will free up by the time I'm done.
It hasn't.
Finally, I convince SASS to let me go down the hall to the Maggie Lab (the high-end graphics lab) to take my test. They say OK, and off I go. Lalala, yay, writing the outline for my essay, everything's fine, when someone comes in an informs me that she's doing a lecture in there (grad student lecture) and that she's really sorry but I have to leave.
Me: *keysmash of despaiiiiiir*
So I go BACK to SASS and I inform them of this. SASS (you know, that acronym is appropriate...) tells me to email my exam to myself and then I can take it in one of the back rooms. I do so; and as I walk back into SASS, one of the lab computers FINALLY frees up. Of course, SASS lab computers don't have internet access so I have to get a flash drive to transfer the data from one of the office computers to one of the lab computers.
Keep in mind that this is all during my alloted test taking time.
So I finally, finally put the essay on the lab computer, I get ready to go... only to find out that something corrupted the file in transit. I almost can't open it, and it takes me doing some fancy hoops to retrieve the data.
It is now 10:00 am. I have only an hour and a half left of test taking time, and I'm so stressed and discombobulated from being shuffled between four rooms and three computers that I can barely concentrate. I make a half-hearted effort at finishing the essay and bounce at 11:00.
If I fail this exam, it's SASS' fault. Jesus christ people. I can't take essay tests without a computer, you're supposed to be helping me with my disability just arrrrrrgh.
Best part is? I have ANOTHER essay exam at 1:30 pm! HOOOOORAY!
In other news: I have failed to work on my novel. I have failed to even write fanfic. My art skillz are rusty. I have failed to apply for summer internships. I have failed to get on top of my Europe trip in winter. Graaaaaaaaahhhh.