Ghah...Ghah I say.

Yeah...THAT kind of week.

Monday the spool for the belt that drives the power steering pump flew off, and the belt went all medieval on my radiator and the car got very hard to steer. I should have it back by tomorrow.

Of more concern than ANY of this, I've been dealing with 3 term papers.
Which brings us to how, the other day,  I was trying to re-install the Windows 7 partition on my iMac. Hours later I ended up re-installing OSX. Somehow in this process I reformatted or erased the attached flash drive.... The one with the papers.

So I spent 13 hrs at school the other day typing up one of the papers.
...And I was all like...
"save" save""save" "save" save""save" "save" save""save"
At the end of this process, I printed out the preliminary draft and took it home to make corrections. The next morning I found about a dozen typos and marked them. I then went to the school to make those few corrections and print it out for...
  Except that the word document was not in my documents folder.

...And I was all like



It turns out lots of people were having similar issues and yes...the paper was gone. It seems that they've improves system security to the point that saving the paper to my profile "requires a trick" now.

No word on what that trick is...the IT person couldn't get it to work.

So...after making corrections I had to manually retype the paper...all 17 pages. At the end of this process I saved it to my flash drive, highlighted the page and hit the BIBLIOGRAPHY button which will sometimes generate a bibliography page from the footnote cites
...or not...
Error message came up....Oh well, I saved again for good measure and printed ...wait. "Why" I wondered to myself calmly "is the printer saying there are only two pages?"

The answer of course was that I had deleted the whole paper and saved the change, so my paper consisted of a cover sheet and "Error".

And I was all like...



So, since I'd been up for 20 hours, I went home, watched SAO, banged out a post (Minx saves without tricks) and went to bed.
I had to delay the other two papers as I spent the next day typing that one on the comparative geographic challenges facing Sri Lanka and Singapore again.

So I just had 2 more papers....no wait...

You see, Monday we had an exam. Exams are next week but the instructor is leaving for Indonesia today so our exam was early. ...and there was a take home portion. 4 questions. 3-4 pages each...footnoted...by noon today... a fourth paper essentially.

Well, between bathroom breaks and flashes of pain I got 2 of the three papers done. The last one is short,  only 3-5 pages, and due next Tuesday. It's largely plotted out aside from citations (It was almost complete when my hard drive went away).  I should have it finished by Friday.

Thank God.

The exam paper was a bear, but not nearly so challenging as my world religions paper for which the assigned topic was "Explain Emptiness".
I was strongly  tempted to turn in a blank sheet.

Anyway, last night I hobbled into school stuffed my exam under the professors office door, gave a presentation on my unfinished paper, ran home took pain killers and curled up into a fetal position. Today I hobbled into school, gave copies for the respective Dept secretaries to notarize and time stamp to PROVE that, I'd met the deadline.

I got caught in tunnel traffic on the way home and upon arriving I discovered that I'd received an E-mail from one of my professors.
"Where is your cover sheet?"
My reply.."On top with the time stamp from the department secretary on it. "

I'm just about done with this.

In any event, if I don't get a zero on the paper I'm set to graduate next year.

I'm exempt from the rest of my Exams, so only one more class and that final paper loom.

Yay!

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