It's been a quiet day at work, full of cancelled appointments. There is something satisfying about knowing that when someone cancels but never tells ASAP, a small piece of their student fees pays for me to sit square on my ass doing nothing. It makes the frustration of them flaking out just a little more managable. Today was also the potluck, though I didn't eat anything. I'd be lying through my teeth if I said I wasn't hungry, but I didn't feel right eating when I didn't bring anything for the potluck. I instead opted for burying my face in my computer to get some work done on my web site, blog a bit, and take care of some errands on campus. For "free food" there sure wasn't anyone here. I think that in part it has a lot to do with the general apathy at ASAP. It's been growing all semester, and now it shows. With a tutoring staff of over 40 kids, maybe half showed. There were more staff and faculty than tutors, which is quite counter to every other potluck I remember having here. It makes me wonder what kind of turnout we are going to have for the spring's "Mandatory Training" we always seem to have. I am guessing numbers that are about the same, if not a little less.
The Internet is still out at our place, which has made doing anything even closely resembling homework difficult. Thanks to the miracles of campus networks (and shiny G4 powerbooks) work is getting done though. Now all that remains is to turn in as much of the work as possible in the shortest amount of time. I doubt I can take this baby home with me. (Edit: Marc just said I could, but it would have to be back bright and early Monday morning. While not opposed to this notion, I just can't bring myself to do work on this at home. I'd play games. Lot's of games...) The technician at SBC offered to come out an inspect our lines, for the wonderful price of $60. I must say, this is one of the few times I am thankful to be renting, since in the end it won't matter whose fault it is, because it won't be ours. Either the house phone lines aren't adequate, or the CO is messed up. Either way, we aren't paying to fix it because an inadequate phone line isn't the problem of ours, it is the landlords. Until then though, I need to cough up to Kryn money for next month's bills.
My paycheck totally vaporated over the course of a few days. Between rent, dryer (we have one now, yay!), Internet, and tickets to disneyland, I watched my money go from yes to no in a matter of moments. While "yes" and "no" are not actual values, we can assume that it went from a lot to a little. It will all work out though, and somehow I will manage to get the fleet of airplanes out to the masses. I will take pictures of them today for Fum so that she can see the Life Savers flying armada.
In response to "How do you have a LAN party without Internet?":