A treatise on why I AM A FUCKING NINJA
Look at my post title. LOOK AT IT. Yeah, I don't need a reason for it, I just AM a ninja.
Today was already off to a good start due to my pulling a full all-nighter, by which I mean I didn't take any of the little naps that I normally allow myself when pulling such stunts. I also did it Mountain Dew-free and energy-drink-free, for which I should probably win some sort of Nobel Prize.
The reason for this all-nighter being yes, I have an Anthropology exam today, but more precisely it was due to a computer science homework assignment due today. Ahh, the glories of comp sci. This particular assignment required that I print out some screenshots off my computer. No biggie, right?
As Lex Luthor would say: WRONG!
So my printer is being retarded and not printing well, but there are plenty of places to print on campus, right? Okay, so I go to my first class (for Madisonites: in Psychology), sit around, pay as much attention as I can, blah. Class lets out and I begin on my quest.
Union South, which used to have a very nice little computer lab, is out due to it being disassembled piece by ugly-ass piece as we speak. I figure Wendt Library is a decent bet. Sitting on the graveyard of the decaying Union South, it's tantalizingly close to my class and the Comp Sci Building, although the construction meant that instead it was a nice hike ALL the way around in a spiral to get in.
I get into Wendt and am told that the printers there are low on toner. Not good when you need to print screenshots (read: detail). So I scout out the building to try and find printers on the DL (they exist!), but they're locked up today. I do try to print off one of my pages, but find it impossible to tell if I was printing out my homework or a LOLcat, so I dumped it and left. On the way I walked down the completely finished and fine wooden ramp (construction does strange things) which for some reason was still "CLOSED" and had a big chunk of wood blocking my exit. I ducked. TAKE THAT, WOOD!
So I head to Comp Sci. Now, I'm in a weak-ass comp sci class, so I no longer have access to the Linux computers. Nevertheless, I popped into one of the Linux labs and tried. No luck.
So then I went to the DoIT (tech store) inside that same building just to scout around, see if they knew where a nearby printer was. I kinda poked around and saw a display computer with a printer hooked up and a sign "TRY IT AND BUY IT". Hoping for a nice, free print I fiddle around with the stupid Dell, but to no avail. Finally, I grow the balls to ask the service guy where a printer could be. He's like "well they moved the Union South computers to the old University Health building". For some reason (read: sleep-deprivation) my mind jumps to the Med Science Center,which is like 2 blocks away. Oops! He meant the one on University over by FREAKING BREESE WHAT?! Yeah, that's such a convenient place for me to walk to.
By the way, it's now about 10:15, and my homework is due by 11.
Deciding "fuck that", I walk back into the depths of the comp sci building. My first stop is my old CS 302 lab room, which I discover has been turned from one that runs Windows to one that runs Linux. So now I have to walk down this really long, echo-y, obnoxious hallway, which I do, trying not to stomp too loudly on what must be the most hollow floors on campus. I do the thing where I go slow and kind of glance sideways into the rooms to try and see what kind of system they're running, because I don't want to go running around like some dumb freshman. I reach the end of the hallway with no luck. Pissed, I turn around and notice a door that I'd ignored because it's mostly closed... but the faded paper sign on it says "WindowsXP"!
So I duck into this room, not bothering to turn on the light, which makes me feel like a total badass. I try to log on with what I thought might be my old username/password. Denied. I try again with a more recent one and...
SUCCESS!
So I finally get my two damn pages printed out, only to realize that there isn't a stapler near the printers/computers. I do the walk-down-the-hallway-and-peek-in-rooms thing again and spot one in one of the bigger Linux labs. I walk in, try to look casual, and use the stapler.
Well, make that try to use it. Out of staples.
Growing ever more pissed off, I take off back towards the DoIT store. On the way I see one of the offices open, with a glorious freakin' stapler RIGHT THERE. So I look around shifty-like, run in, staple my damn papers, and run out.
Finally I get to turn in my DAMN HOMEWORK.
See, that hour-long ordeal probably seemed boring to you. To which I say: sleep less. Everything gets much more amusing. WHEE!
Today was already off to a good start due to my pulling a full all-nighter, by which I mean I didn't take any of the little naps that I normally allow myself when pulling such stunts. I also did it Mountain Dew-free and energy-drink-free, for which I should probably win some sort of Nobel Prize.
The reason for this all-nighter being yes, I have an Anthropology exam today, but more precisely it was due to a computer science homework assignment due today. Ahh, the glories of comp sci. This particular assignment required that I print out some screenshots off my computer. No biggie, right?
As Lex Luthor would say: WRONG!
So my printer is being retarded and not printing well, but there are plenty of places to print on campus, right? Okay, so I go to my first class (for Madisonites: in Psychology), sit around, pay as much attention as I can, blah. Class lets out and I begin on my quest.
Union South, which used to have a very nice little computer lab, is out due to it being disassembled piece by ugly-ass piece as we speak. I figure Wendt Library is a decent bet. Sitting on the graveyard of the decaying Union South, it's tantalizingly close to my class and the Comp Sci Building, although the construction meant that instead it was a nice hike ALL the way around in a spiral to get in.
I get into Wendt and am told that the printers there are low on toner. Not good when you need to print screenshots (read: detail). So I scout out the building to try and find printers on the DL (they exist!), but they're locked up today. I do try to print off one of my pages, but find it impossible to tell if I was printing out my homework or a LOLcat, so I dumped it and left. On the way I walked down the completely finished and fine wooden ramp (construction does strange things) which for some reason was still "CLOSED" and had a big chunk of wood blocking my exit. I ducked. TAKE THAT, WOOD!
So I head to Comp Sci. Now, I'm in a weak-ass comp sci class, so I no longer have access to the Linux computers. Nevertheless, I popped into one of the Linux labs and tried. No luck.
So then I went to the DoIT (tech store) inside that same building just to scout around, see if they knew where a nearby printer was. I kinda poked around and saw a display computer with a printer hooked up and a sign "TRY IT AND BUY IT". Hoping for a nice, free print I fiddle around with the stupid Dell, but to no avail. Finally, I grow the balls to ask the service guy where a printer could be. He's like "well they moved the Union South computers to the old University Health building". For some reason (read: sleep-deprivation) my mind jumps to the Med Science Center,which is like 2 blocks away. Oops! He meant the one on University over by FREAKING BREESE WHAT?! Yeah, that's such a convenient place for me to walk to.
By the way, it's now about 10:15, and my homework is due by 11.
Deciding "fuck that", I walk back into the depths of the comp sci building. My first stop is my old CS 302 lab room, which I discover has been turned from one that runs Windows to one that runs Linux. So now I have to walk down this really long, echo-y, obnoxious hallway, which I do, trying not to stomp too loudly on what must be the most hollow floors on campus. I do the thing where I go slow and kind of glance sideways into the rooms to try and see what kind of system they're running, because I don't want to go running around like some dumb freshman. I reach the end of the hallway with no luck. Pissed, I turn around and notice a door that I'd ignored because it's mostly closed... but the faded paper sign on it says "WindowsXP"!
So I duck into this room, not bothering to turn on the light, which makes me feel like a total badass. I try to log on with what I thought might be my old username/password. Denied. I try again with a more recent one and...
SUCCESS!
So I finally get my two damn pages printed out, only to realize that there isn't a stapler near the printers/computers. I do the walk-down-the-hallway-and-peek-in-rooms thing again and spot one in one of the bigger Linux labs. I walk in, try to look casual, and use the stapler.
Well, make that try to use it. Out of staples.
Growing ever more pissed off, I take off back towards the DoIT store. On the way I see one of the offices open, with a glorious freakin' stapler RIGHT THERE. So I look around shifty-like, run in, staple my damn papers, and run out.
Finally I get to turn in my DAMN HOMEWORK.
See, that hour-long ordeal probably seemed boring to you. To which I say: sleep less. Everything gets much more amusing. WHEE!