Not So Good Day

Woke up before my alarms this morning feeling very ill. Ended up not going to either of my classes today. Started getting a little better around 1-ish, and got some work done.

Recieved another email from the summer camp, and set up an interview. I'll be heading down there over Spring Break to interview in person and see the facilities. They will be hosting a spring break camp, so I will get to see everything in action! I'm pretty excited. Rather annoyed because as soon as I told Mother she booked a hotel there for the night before and said that she was coming, too... No one asked you, lady, all I said was that I was going. All I can say is that she better have booked two rooms. She snores louder than a train (I know this for a fact, we've traveled overnight via train several times), and when we were traveling more often she was good about booking 2 rooms so that I was actually able to sleep. It's been a while since we've traveled together, though, so I am a bit concerned. I really do not want to go to an interview on 28+ hours of no sleep. Our entire last England trip is mostly a blur for me because it was 2 weeks of only catching a few minutes here and there on a train or bus. Screwed up my health pretty bad, being up for that long. The last thing I want is to go to a professional interview on nothing. Not to mention, it's going to look weird if I show up with my Mother. I wish that she would mind her own goddamned business. My former trainer lives less than an hour from the camp and would be happy to let me stay there for the night, so I don't need a hotel. But Mother absolutely can't stand her, and booked a hotel instead. I am going to try to convince Mother to stay at the hotel or wander a mall or something while I am at my interview. She is going to be incredibly hurt and upset, but honestly I don't have any patience for her nosiness anymore. I haven't for years. I'm twenty-fucking-three and she needs to leave me be. When I say "hey, I have an interview!" just be happy for me, don't invite yourself and take over the whole thing.

Sorry, it's an incredibly touchy subject.

Tonight was Bingo night. There were 30 or so prizes, and I didn't win a single one. There were close to 100 people, though, so it's not surprising. Tonight is also admissions overnight for prospective students, so there were a LOT of extra people. At the last Bingo night there was only about 15 people. The whole thing lasted a little over 2 hours, and was kind of fun, I guess. Rowdy and loud, which wasn't fun, since I'm still getting over the migraine I had all day, but my friends seemed to enjoy themselves.

Now it's off with me for the night!
-N.E.

Technology Revolt

I'm pretty much done with everything ever.

Sorry, that sounded overdramatic. It has been an incredibly trying and frustrating day.

Class this morning wasn't terrible, at least. Got to visit Twist during it, too, which was nice. As soon as I got back to campus, things went south. My Win10 laptop has been finnicky since late last September. It kept popping up with "Restart to repair drive errors(C:)" all the time, but even leaving it "repairing" for 54 hours only got it to 43% finished. I shut it down after my morning class, and when I started it back up it decided to inform me that it no longer had a hard drive. I pried it open, readjusted all of the connections, and tried again, but it gave me the same error. Some more digging and it turns out it's fried. Go figure. Right before midterms. This is why I keep doubles of my files, and take notes in the cloud. This is also why I always have backup technology. I have a little tablet (freebie from my cell phone provider like 2 years ago, nothing fancy) and a faulty Win8.1 laptop that has no audio or microphone because Win8.1 is nothing but bugs. It works enough for me to take notes in Google Drive, at least.

So I spent 3 and a half hours on that this afternoon, doing everything that I could think of. My tech degree at work. Least that knowledge is getting a little use.

My night class went well. I surprisingly wasn't terribly lost the entire time. My professor has a tendency to jump all over the place, like how one night in 10 minutes he went 1871->1895->1884->1905->1917->1853. Mind you, it's a TWENTIETH century European history course... Tonight we went over 1900-1920ish in Germany and Russia. Thankfully, I already know a fair bit, so I could, for the most part, keep up.

Anyway, I have to get going for the night. It's late, and I have to get up early for my riding class. Catch you later, LJ!

-N.E.