In true Murphy's Law style, just when you think things can't go worse, they do. Tuesday morning, as I was furiously attempting to complete an essay and prepare for an interview uptown, all before my 9-hour shift at work, the worst possible thing happened. I spilled an entire pint of water on the keyboard of my laptop. The good news is that the computer is still functional. But the bad news is that there are still some pretty signfiicant players on the keyboard, guys and girls like 'e', 'r', 's', 't', and sometimes 'y', who just don't seem to want to recover.
As a temporary solution, I have bought an external keyboard. It looks ridiculous attached to a laptop, but at least I can type! If things don't improve with the keys over time, I am going to have to bite the bullet and invest in a new computer. This isn't as tragic as it sounds, I've been wanting a new one for awhile as my current one is showing her age. My next 'puter will be an Apple, most likely an iBook. Being on a modest income of three guineas per week, I am waiting for the release of the iBooks with Intel, so I can profiteer by purchasing one of the old ones at a discount. The first person to see that they've started selling the new Intel iBooks and informs me by way of email will have my eternal gratitude.
In other news, it's exam season. First one isn't until the 27th, so it's been an effort to start studying early. Summer school begins mid-May and I will be taking one last course (ok, 2) to fulfill my requirements: Gender Issues in Religion (or as Amy called it "a course about how women are treated like crap"), and Children's Literature. I'm hoping the reading list for the latter is all stuff I've already read like Swift (one of my favorite authours of all time) and Munsch (not going to happen, but would be sweet).
Blah.
2 comments:
Hi Krista,
Sorry to post this on your blog, but I wasn't able to find an email for you. My name is Christopher Lawton. I am a newspaper reporter for The Wall Street Journal in San Francisco. I saw your post about spilling water on your laptop. We
are currently writing a story for the paper about spillage on laptops and what people do
when this happens. I wondered if
you'd be willing to speak to me over the phone about your spill. (Unfortunately, policy says we can't do interviews over email.) If
you're interested, you can call me in the office, or email me and we can find a good time to chat. My work email address is Christopher.Lawton@wsj.com, and my office phone number is (415) 765
8200. Hope to hear from you. Thanks.
Best,
Christopher Lawton
How's the computron? Have 'e', 'r', 's', 't', and sometimes 'y' come back yet, or have they transcended to computer-heaven, poor things?
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