That real life stuff
Apr. 25th, 2004 11:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cornerofmadnessThis week has been odd, odd odd. Monday, I go 40 miles to school to turn in my thesis and to print the one page of pictures he suddenly decided I had to have of my measuring fake wounds. I get there and learn that BOTH copies of my thesis have corrupted and are unretrievable. Sigh. Luckily he's cool with it and I head for my advisor because now I need to set up my oral exams for the summer and get a research project and make sure they know I'm gonna graduate yadda yadda. This at least goes smoothly and I'll be doing manatee research this summer. However I STILL don't know if my online final is tue. or wed. nothing like NOT telling your class what day the final is (this is my community college curriculum class, that class I had to rewrite my paper 3 times for).
Turns out it was both days. I take the exam. No problem other than if I wasn't excellent at doing the book thing I would have been doomed. She picked obscure passages from the book word for word and I had to flip like mad to find them But like I said I'm excellent at research. I needed to be this book is over 700 pages long.
Worked like mad to get my ficathon done. It worked out pretty well. Got my thesis turned in finally.
Then on friday I get a call. Can I be in Kansas for a job interview in two weeks. I'm thinking Kansas? Why the hell did I apply in Kansas? I say yes figuring it's been a week since my first interview to teach here in Florida and I hadn't heard back on the second interview so why not. No more than 30 minutes later as I'm filling out applications to teach in Wisconsin (you know, a place I actually WANT to live), I get called by Jacksonville. I DID get the second interview in FL. I need to be there next week with a 15 min. powerpoint presentation on the digestive system.
Okay. No, not okay. THis shitty Dell doesn't have power point but my old computer does but it can't burn cd's. The library here in town AND the computer labs at school have power point but can't burn it either. That does me know good. I know I have PP on an old start up disc but I can't find it. I call Anubis and ask him to help since he's the computer god I worship. No problem. So I plan a drive to the coast. He calls back. He can't find his start up discs and he doesn't have PP. I find one set of start ups but being a business start up it doesn't have PP (because businesses never have to do presentations right?). Finally a third party finds they have it. By this time I've said screw it. Did it on the old computer, put it on a floppy then took it to ANubis and he burned it on the cd because it's easier than explaining it to me.
In the course of this weekend, I've ground my teeth so badly, the molar with the slight crack totally fractured. My tooth is wiggling because the fillings holding it together are gone. Ever have a broken tooth? Spent today drinking lots of alcohol (should make for an interesting pp presentation when I finally view this thing) to numb the pain. Found my narcotics for the last time I broke a tooth. Gonna go add them to the alcohol and then work on my fic until I fall asleep....
Turns out it was both days. I take the exam. No problem other than if I wasn't excellent at doing the book thing I would have been doomed. She picked obscure passages from the book word for word and I had to flip like mad to find them But like I said I'm excellent at research. I needed to be this book is over 700 pages long.
Worked like mad to get my ficathon done. It worked out pretty well. Got my thesis turned in finally.
Then on friday I get a call. Can I be in Kansas for a job interview in two weeks. I'm thinking Kansas? Why the hell did I apply in Kansas? I say yes figuring it's been a week since my first interview to teach here in Florida and I hadn't heard back on the second interview so why not. No more than 30 minutes later as I'm filling out applications to teach in Wisconsin (you know, a place I actually WANT to live), I get called by Jacksonville. I DID get the second interview in FL. I need to be there next week with a 15 min. powerpoint presentation on the digestive system.
Okay. No, not okay. THis shitty Dell doesn't have power point but my old computer does but it can't burn cd's. The library here in town AND the computer labs at school have power point but can't burn it either. That does me know good. I know I have PP on an old start up disc but I can't find it. I call Anubis and ask him to help since he's the computer god I worship. No problem. So I plan a drive to the coast. He calls back. He can't find his start up discs and he doesn't have PP. I find one set of start ups but being a business start up it doesn't have PP (because businesses never have to do presentations right?). Finally a third party finds they have it. By this time I've said screw it. Did it on the old computer, put it on a floppy then took it to ANubis and he burned it on the cd because it's easier than explaining it to me.
In the course of this weekend, I've ground my teeth so badly, the molar with the slight crack totally fractured. My tooth is wiggling because the fillings holding it together are gone. Ever have a broken tooth? Spent today drinking lots of alcohol (should make for an interesting pp presentation when I finally view this thing) to numb the pain. Found my narcotics for the last time I broke a tooth. Gonna go add them to the alcohol and then work on my fic until I fall asleep....
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Date: 2004-04-25 09:41 pm (UTC)Good luck with the presentation. You'll do great though, you've managed to deal with everything that's been thrown at you in all its hectic glory. Once it's all over, relax, bake some Anzac cookies ;)
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Date: 2004-04-25 09:53 pm (UTC)