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About Last Night
Apr. 10th, 2008 11:38 am
So much to say, and I'm so amazingly exhausted right now. I kept thinking that yesterday was Tuesday, despite knowing that it was Wednesday gathering night. This means that all day I felt like I would have an additional 24 hours in which to complete my next section of my paper that was due this morning. I finally started working on it at midnight, foregoing previous plans to see some people in Dallas. By 3am I was getting blurry eyed and decided to rest for about 30 minutes. Then the storms started to hit. Instinct regarding lightning caused me to get out of bed and go to the computer to save my work, since I realized I hadn't done so since I started working on the paper that evening.
The taskbar was empty and a little bubble hovered in the bottom right of the screen. "Windows has downloaded a security update and has restarted your computer." I click on the paper icon on the desktop and it's just the way it was when I started. NOOOOO!!!! I hang my head on the desk for a moment. I click on Start and am about to click on Search to see if there exists a temp file somewhere when the lights start to flicker as though Frankenstein is awakening and then everything shuts off.
There's a beep. A faint beep every 7-8 seconds. It's already starting to get hot in my room, so I open the window. The beep is louder. For the next 5 hours I would hear the electricity spasm on and off and the beep outside subside only during those brief moments when the device thinks the electricity is coming back on, only to have it start right back up beeping again after a scant couple of minutes.
I got no sleep. I was tenser than I've been in the past couple of weeks wondering about how my teacher will respond to me not having my paper section to turn in and wondering if I'm going to get an A in this class and be able to graduate with honors and wondering if I should have even bothered to sign up for the summer class. My brain never allowed me to sleep and the headache wasn't going anywhere.
Luckily, the teacher knows I wouldn't do something like not turn in my paper on purpose and in her mind I can do no wrong. I have until Tuesday to get it to her, which is a load off for me because I have still been so lazy as to not complete our company tax info.
I'm now off to pick up Dr.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
encephelopathy who says her plane was running 30 minutes late, but the online says it's on time. Depending on plans with her, I do expect at some point this evening to take a nice long hot shower and crash into oblivion for some desperately craved sleep.
The taskbar was empty and a little bubble hovered in the bottom right of the screen. "Windows has downloaded a security update and has restarted your computer." I click on the paper icon on the desktop and it's just the way it was when I started. NOOOOO!!!! I hang my head on the desk for a moment. I click on Start and am about to click on Search to see if there exists a temp file somewhere when the lights start to flicker as though Frankenstein is awakening and then everything shuts off.
There's a beep. A faint beep every 7-8 seconds. It's already starting to get hot in my room, so I open the window. The beep is louder. For the next 5 hours I would hear the electricity spasm on and off and the beep outside subside only during those brief moments when the device thinks the electricity is coming back on, only to have it start right back up beeping again after a scant couple of minutes.
I got no sleep. I was tenser than I've been in the past couple of weeks wondering about how my teacher will respond to me not having my paper section to turn in and wondering if I'm going to get an A in this class and be able to graduate with honors and wondering if I should have even bothered to sign up for the summer class. My brain never allowed me to sleep and the headache wasn't going anywhere.
Luckily, the teacher knows I wouldn't do something like not turn in my paper on purpose and in her mind I can do no wrong. I have until Tuesday to get it to her, which is a load off for me because I have still been so lazy as to not complete our company tax info.
I'm now off to pick up Dr.
encephelopathy who says her plane was running 30 minutes late, but the online says it's on time. Depending on plans with her, I do expect at some point this evening to take a nice long hot shower and crash into oblivion for some desperately craved sleep.
