A mixed bag.
Oct. 4th, 2003 09:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieSo Mather's network connection is still down, but in an interesting way. If you live on the side of the hall with the men's room, you have internet access. If you live on the women's room side of the hall, you don't. The genders alternate sides of the hall with each floor. I, of course, live in the corner by the women's room on my floor and thus do not have network access.
Reeeeeeeeally wanna scream right now. Can we bitch about discrimination?
Russell's and my best, uninformed guess is that each side of each hall is connected to different routers, and one router is turned on and the other is off. *sobs*
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In other news, parents have said I can come home for October break! I could go to the book festival! *bounces* Unfortunately, I'm torn--I really, really want to hear Sharyn McCrumb speak and go to the other presentations, but I could get so much work and writing done if I stay at school. (Theoretically, I suppose I could get a good amount of work done at home, too, but you know that won't happen.) Advice? I do love my parents and my animals and it would be lovely to see them a month and a half earlier than I was expecting, but it is kind of a lot of trouble/expense for only four days.
Help? Please?
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Also book-related, here's a PSA: never, ever let me go into the back half of the Kenyon bookstore when I'm bored and have no network access in my room. The front half of the store sells food, pens, paper, folders, etc. etc. The side room sells hardware and art supplies. The back half sells fiction and calendars.
Yeah.
I came out with $50 of books and calendars. I got a Camelot calendar and a Victorian fairies calendar that are both gorgeous and have pictures that I will be cutting out and putting on walls once 2004 is over. (Dude, that'll be during my year in England...cool and scary at the same time.) I also got, in paperback:
- Moving Pictures (hooray for Pratchett! Kate, my roomie, is getting addicted to him as well. Hee.)
- Catherine Asaro's Quantum Rose (somebody recommended her to me a long time ago--![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chickwithmonkey, maybe?--but I never got aorund to picking something up)
- and the first book in a new fantasy trilogy by Sarah Zettel, A Sorcerer's Treason. Am about fifty pages into it loving it so far.
And I drooled over Sharyn McCrumb's newest ballad novel, but I certainly don't need to be buying things in hardback. Looked long and hard at it, though.
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And, finally, the Irish Lit. paper was finished last night. Yaaaaaay! I think it's pretty darn good, but just to make sure, Chandra, Ellen and I are getting together to read each others' papers before we hand them in on Tuesday.
Now all I have is the history paper, which is 1500 words and shouldn't be a problem. Will hopefully get it started and finished tomorrow, especially without the Internet to distract me. (Dude, watch us get our network connection back at, like, two AM or something...)
Reeeeeeeeally wanna scream right now. Can we bitch about discrimination?
Russell's and my best, uninformed guess is that each side of each hall is connected to different routers, and one router is turned on and the other is off. *sobs*
*
In other news, parents have said I can come home for October break! I could go to the book festival! *bounces* Unfortunately, I'm torn--I really, really want to hear Sharyn McCrumb speak and go to the other presentations, but I could get so much work and writing done if I stay at school. (Theoretically, I suppose I could get a good amount of work done at home, too, but you know that won't happen.) Advice? I do love my parents and my animals and it would be lovely to see them a month and a half earlier than I was expecting, but it is kind of a lot of trouble/expense for only four days.
Help? Please?
*
Also book-related, here's a PSA: never, ever let me go into the back half of the Kenyon bookstore when I'm bored and have no network access in my room. The front half of the store sells food, pens, paper, folders, etc. etc. The side room sells hardware and art supplies. The back half sells fiction and calendars.
Yeah.
I came out with $50 of books and calendars. I got a Camelot calendar and a Victorian fairies calendar that are both gorgeous and have pictures that I will be cutting out and putting on walls once 2004 is over. (Dude, that'll be during my year in England...cool and scary at the same time.) I also got, in paperback:
- Moving Pictures (hooray for Pratchett! Kate, my roomie, is getting addicted to him as well. Hee.)
- Catherine Asaro's Quantum Rose (somebody recommended her to me a long time ago--
chickwithmonkey, maybe?--but I never got aorund to picking something up)- and the first book in a new fantasy trilogy by Sarah Zettel, A Sorcerer's Treason. Am about fifty pages into it loving it so far.
And I drooled over Sharyn McCrumb's newest ballad novel, but I certainly don't need to be buying things in hardback. Looked long and hard at it, though.
*
And, finally, the Irish Lit. paper was finished last night. Yaaaaaay! I think it's pretty darn good, but just to make sure, Chandra, Ellen and I are getting together to read each others' papers before we hand them in on Tuesday.
Now all I have is the history paper, which is 1500 words and shouldn't be a problem. Will hopefully get it started and finished tomorrow, especially without the Internet to distract me. (Dude, watch us get our network connection back at, like, two AM or something...)
