Looking Back

These images are from the place I'll always consider home:

Best Day of My Life

So, let me tell you about my day. If you want the short version, skip to the stars.*****

I woke up as usual on the mattress on the floor of my room. I got ready for my day as usual. I packed my bag overfull of my books and notebooks. I also took my 15.4 inch computer on the side because I wanted to get some help trying to get AFS to work on it. I biked UPhill to class as usual across some major streets. But fortunately, I got to the bus stop at exactly the same time as the bus, so I was able to take the bus from there. Classes were great. I finished one of my homework assignments no problem, and made no progress on the other. So, here is where my day gets interesting. I try using my computer after class, and it fails to boot. I try to boot in safemode and it gets stuck at crcdisk.sys just like last time it broke. Arg! No prob though, they fixed it for me last time using the windows boot disk, so I can do the same, right? I bike home in the rain. It wasn't that hard, but I was still soaked by the time I got home. I tried to fix the computer using the windows boot disk, but it kept having troubles saying I was putting in the wrong CD. That's when I realized that I must be reinstalling windows, not doing the cool fix thing the IT place did. (Looking back, I probably could have retrieved my files, but I did not want to wait in line for IT again.) So, I took a nice nap to forget my troubles. I woke up and then drove to my very first open tutorial session. While driving through campus, I was debating between parking on campus and parking at the institute and walking 20 minutes. That's when my car started making a grinding noise. The battery light and break light came on as well. Shortly after, I noticed that my power steering no longer works. So, I found the nearest parking lot with an empty spot, and parked my car in a parallel parking spot about 3 feet away from the curb. It was last one available, so I didn't think it was a big deal and went to the computer lab. There, I attempted to print out a class roster for my very first open tutorial session in which 250 students are invited to attend. The first 2 computers I tried didn't work, and the rest were taken, so I borrowed a computer from one of the other students and was able to download a list of students to print no problem. I then went to the open tutorial without my handwritten answers because I couldn't find them. The open tutorial went fine. It was kind of scary being in front of 30 students for the first time, but it didn't phase me too much. After class, I found a 3 hole puncher and finally organized my notes for class. I then called AAA. A little over an hour later a tow truck towed my car to the local BP and took me home. And now I'm here sitting on the floor of my roommates room using her computer.

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And if you don't want to read all that, let me give you a quick run down:

-Biked to class with heavy pack

-Computer broke

-Got soaked going home

-deleted all files on computer by accident

-Car made horrible grinding noise, power steering broke

-Took tow truck home

So, today was the best day of my life! Don't believe me? Sure a lot of unfortunate things happened to me, but that's OK. Look at the positives! My computer broke now---At the beginning of semester before I got all settled into it. Sure I just starting installing of my programs, but I'm not completely settled into yet. I now have no excuse to not downgrade to XP which will fix all the other problems I've been having (and there are several). I got wet today. That's certainly better than someday in the future when I don't have as much time to clean off and when the weather is cold. Being wet today wasn't that bad. I was actually smiling at the stoplight. My car broke today, right outside of the place I needed to be at. I had time to spare and could call the tow truck later. Plus the people who helped me were super nice. It's still early in the semester. My homework load hasn't picked up yet. I still have the time to have car problems. Better now than later. Now, I just hope that because of the problems I have now, that I can fix them and that they won't be an issue later on.