You know how you are all stressed out, but you are pretty sure it will turn out all right? Life is throwing wacky wacky things at you, and you have more homework than a bureaucrat has paperwork, but you are reasonably sure you will come through the ordeal alive and as a stronger individual who has learned some kind of lesson...
Why is it THIS EXACT MOMENT when you are so close to achieving academic/work/spiritual awesomeness that the computer FREAKS OUT.
Maybe it will only print in streaky lines. Even though you KNOW you replaced the ink cartridge. Five minutes ago.
Maybe it will not send something. Like your philosophy paper that is due in thirteen hours. Because it hates you and your flash drive and wants you both to suffer in the hell where technology-challenged people go.
Maybe, you will only have three pages of paper on which to print your four page paper because the computer has eaten the rest of the ream in a paper jam so massive that it sent ripples backwards in time, and probably killed the dinosaurs.
Maybe, it just froze and you have to sacrifice to the technology Gods to make it work again. Except you don't know how to do that because you are technology-challenged and cannot read the manual for how to sacrifice to the technology Gods.
For me, technology in general and computers in particular seem to be the last straw that sends me from the teetering safety of panicked sanity into the dark abyss of blind, crazy, terror.
There is a reason I have named my laptop "the prince of darkness".
I think that someday I will organize a massive event of computer DESTRUCTION. With bulldozers. And flame throwers. And lots of angry people just like me.
Please note that the irony of my using a computer to type this rant is not lost on me. The internet will probably have its revenge my choking my server with cookies or something...
Modern(and wishing she wasn't)Helen
ps: I promise to put pictures on this thing eventually!!!
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