So very close yet so very far.
A week and two days left of school. I can do it, I can do it, I can do it. I only have one legitimate final so I really shouldn't be too worried (especially since I'm going to get an F in the class anyway) but I just have SO MUCH STATS TO DO THIS WEEK! I have a lab to finish, two lab rewrites to finish, an extra credit assignment and an optional assignment that will replace the hardest questions on the last oral exam. I also have to write two 3 page ethics essays for my last exam in that class (due Thursday morning). So I just don't know how I'm going to get it all done with NO LAPTOP!
Yes, that's right ladies and gentlemen, my laptop has decided, yet again, to shit on me. Daniel turned it on last Wed and there was no taskbar or start menu and I could open folders, word documents, and powerpoints and some pictures. But not excel or games or certain images. Weird and very annoying. At first I was like oh joy, another fucking virus/trojan, but I ran diagnostics and it said the self drive test failed and gave me a Dell error code. Thus, I'm under the assumption it's a hardware issue, which SUCKS because my hard drive was just replaced about a year ago and I CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE ALL OF THAT STATS WORK I HAD. Like, seriously, those excel sheets for all my stats labs, took hours and hours to do. It's all my calculation and graphs and tables and fuck my life right now. UGH. I took it to the computer fix it place on campus and they said they'd look at it and see if they could back up my data for me and fix the problem. If not, they'd call Dell for me to get the part replaced. They said data backup would be $60 and some other service was like $90. Well, sorry to say, I only have $60 for the next two weeks and I have to have gas for those two weeks as well as send out the third book I sold on Amazon. I'm going to go in tomorrow after my class to see if they've fixed it and what's up with it and hopefully they did a back up so I can pay them the last cents to my name for two weeks and have my shit back.
I have the worst luck with technology. Honestly. I want a new laptop so badly since I've had SO many issues with the one I have but I still have a year's worth of warranty on it and I want to use that up. Besides the fact I can't even come close to affording a new one anyway.
On the up side though, since I'm back at the kennel for the summer, it means I'll be making money which means I'll be able to afford to go to Florida with Daniel!!! We bought the tickets for the trip down the other day (only 40 bucks a person!!! not including the freaking 25 bucks for ONE fucking bag and then all the taxes and shit) But yeah, it was good to get those. We're gonna buy the tickets for the return trip when we both get paid next week (it's cheaper than buying round trip) so that'll be exciting too. We leave June 7th and come back the 15th and I can't wait! My mom doesn't know yet so shhhhh. She and Dad will be pissed I'm going on vacation since I always complain about not having money but the kennel checks will definitely boost my bank account. Anyway, we don't have to pay for a hotel cuz we're staying at Dan's relative's house and they also might let us use one of their cars so we might not even have to rent a vehicle! Either way though, I'll have to do all the driving, which makes me nervous cuz the only city I've driven in is Bangor! Haha, so thaaat should be interesting. I couldn't even drive in Boston (I had no idea where I was going) so driving down in the big cities of Florida should just be greeeeeat. I just can't wait to get away. I don't like Maine and ever since Michigan, I don't like living at home and being in Maine all the time. I'm gonna try like hell to move out of state once I graduate.
Anyway, I've written more than I'd originally intended and it's late and I have my last environmental ethics class in 8 hours so bed would be good.
Yes, that's right ladies and gentlemen, my laptop has decided, yet again, to shit on me. Daniel turned it on last Wed and there was no taskbar or start menu and I could open folders, word documents, and powerpoints and some pictures. But not excel or games or certain images. Weird and very annoying. At first I was like oh joy, another fucking virus/trojan, but I ran diagnostics and it said the self drive test failed and gave me a Dell error code. Thus, I'm under the assumption it's a hardware issue, which SUCKS because my hard drive was just replaced about a year ago and I CAN'T AFFORD TO LOSE ALL OF THAT STATS WORK I HAD. Like, seriously, those excel sheets for all my stats labs, took hours and hours to do. It's all my calculation and graphs and tables and fuck my life right now. UGH. I took it to the computer fix it place on campus and they said they'd look at it and see if they could back up my data for me and fix the problem. If not, they'd call Dell for me to get the part replaced. They said data backup would be $60 and some other service was like $90. Well, sorry to say, I only have $60 for the next two weeks and I have to have gas for those two weeks as well as send out the third book I sold on Amazon. I'm going to go in tomorrow after my class to see if they've fixed it and what's up with it and hopefully they did a back up so I can pay them the last cents to my name for two weeks and have my shit back.
I have the worst luck with technology. Honestly. I want a new laptop so badly since I've had SO many issues with the one I have but I still have a year's worth of warranty on it and I want to use that up. Besides the fact I can't even come close to affording a new one anyway.
On the up side though, since I'm back at the kennel for the summer, it means I'll be making money which means I'll be able to afford to go to Florida with Daniel!!! We bought the tickets for the trip down the other day (only 40 bucks a person!!! not including the freaking 25 bucks for ONE fucking bag and then all the taxes and shit) But yeah, it was good to get those. We're gonna buy the tickets for the return trip when we both get paid next week (it's cheaper than buying round trip) so that'll be exciting too. We leave June 7th and come back the 15th and I can't wait! My mom doesn't know yet so shhhhh. She and Dad will be pissed I'm going on vacation since I always complain about not having money but the kennel checks will definitely boost my bank account. Anyway, we don't have to pay for a hotel cuz we're staying at Dan's relative's house and they also might let us use one of their cars so we might not even have to rent a vehicle! Either way though, I'll have to do all the driving, which makes me nervous cuz the only city I've driven in is Bangor! Haha, so thaaat should be interesting. I couldn't even drive in Boston (I had no idea where I was going) so driving down in the big cities of Florida should just be greeeeeat. I just can't wait to get away. I don't like Maine and ever since Michigan, I don't like living at home and being in Maine all the time. I'm gonna try like hell to move out of state once I graduate.
Anyway, I've written more than I'd originally intended and it's late and I have my last environmental ethics class in 8 hours so bed would be good.