A heavy pall

[cornerofmadness]

It has everyone here wrapped up in it. In theory today they met about who to cut. In theory we're hoping they'll tell us tomorrow just to get it the fuck over with. THey have literally been hanging this over our heads for the last six months. How long can it take?

I suspect none of us will sleep tonight. Not well at any rate. Even knowing that one way or the other, I'll have a job (I teach the nursing anatomy after all and no way in hell they'll be cut) I still feel sick (though some of that is dinner choice mistakes, not that I ate much. I'm the complete opposite of stress eater). Cross your fingers for Chemistry and Biology if you will.

And god, let them TELL US. We're registering/orientating new students on THURSDAY. How can I do that in good conscience if I don't know if the program I'm signing them up for will exist in the fall. It's not fair to them.

You'll notice I didn't do a writerly ways. I didn't have the spoons for it.

I was forced to open my netbook that I never threw out once I replaced it with the now-dead laptop. It almost didn't boot after nearly three years. Thank god I'm a hoarder after a fashion because on it were photos completely missing from the desk top and external drive. I couldn't believe they were missing until I went looking for them last week and realized Wales Day four was gone but on the netbook I found even MORE that weren't on the main computer and back up. What the actual fuck? The netbook is so old it can tell the external drive is there but can't talk to it. I'm going to try to hub it to the main computer and pull the files over. If that fails I guess it's a file at a time on a flash drive.

At least I can mostly type on the netbook. The internet was taken out by a virus within a year of me getting it and after several years of use the space bar is half dead as is the shift key which is why I replaced it with the lap top but never got around to tossing it. I'm glad I didn't.

I'm also looking at moving two big series for Buffy onto AO3 that I have (one cowritten with a friend). One is really a series of drabbles and ficlets with a few longer ones and I'm trying to determine should I just put the smaller works up by themselves or try to make them into bigger files.

Comments

[ysilme]

There must be a special hell for people doing this to people. Part of me doesn't want to believe that it's even possible treating staff and future students in this way; I've followed your tales about your job even if I don't often comment. But of course I know that this happens - it just shouldn't. All the sympathies! *hugs* I hope it resolves soon.

[cornerofmadness]

thanks. They didn't make a choice so it drags on.

And will get worse. in the US a MAJOR dip in college attendance is expected in 5 years

[mdlbear]

Ugh! Hugs if wanted.

One possibility for getting files off the netbook would be to take the hard drive out and put it into a USB enclosure or external dock so that you can mount it on the desktop.

Another possibility is replacing the keyboard -- it's usually pretty simple. You can find replacement keyboards on eBay and instructions on YouTube. I tend to repair rather than replace because what Lenovo calls a "thinkpad" these days is... I'm failing to come up with a suitable analogy.

[cornerofmadness]

Oh I just plan to hub it over to the desk top. I don't want to replace any part of that ancient netbook. I'm just buying a new laptop BUT finding all those missing photos was eyeopening (mostly because I hadn't even realized how many had gone missing off the main computer and the external drive.

THanks