My Laptop is Broken. Don't Judge Me.

So, I haven't written as often as I said I would. But I feel that I have a valid excuse.

Well a couple of excuses actually.

First, there was a blizzard. I was literally trapped at my friend Gabi's apartment for over 48 hours because they banned people from driving on the roads and all public transportation shut down. I was a little taken aback because in Colorado we dealt with snow a little differently. Probably because everyone had their own Subaru, and those little cars are champs in the snow. And also Colorado doesn't rely as heavily on public transportation as Boston does. We spent the two days watching movies, playing drinking games and one day we even took a little jaunt through the snow. In all, it was a pretty fun blizzard party experience and I am pretty sure that the four of us are bonded for life.

So that is excuse number one. Excuse number two is that my laptop decided one morning that it wasn't going to turn on. I took it to the Apple store and they said that other than the fact that my hard drive is kaputz that my computer is working fine. Which to me was equivalent of them telling me that other than the fact that my engine is broken, my car is running just fine. The hard drive seems like a pretty important part of my computer, but then again, I don't know much about computers. Luckily my computer is only a couple of years old, so it's still under warranty and they can replace my hard drive for free. The only problem is that I hadn't backed up my files anywhere. The funny thing is that I had just been talking the other day about how I really should back up my files especially because of all the writing I've been doing lately. So, I'm currently in the middle of trying to find some computer doctor/genie/man/woman/etc that can get my files off the hard drive before the lovely people at Apple replace it.

That being said, it's been pretty hard for me to get access to a computer with the weather, and work and trying to get to campus. And when I have been on campus I've been doing homework like the good little grad student I am. My friend Eloisa is letting me use her computer over the weekend because she's going to go home to Arizona and she won't need it. She's pretty awesome.

This experience has definitely made me appreciate computers way more than I did before. Because not only is my computer essential for homework and staying connected with all my friends/family, I don't have a TV and my computer is how I watch TV shows and movies. So, I've been doing a lot of reading lately. Even more than I did before, haha, which is not necessarily a bad thing. Also, my room has never been cleaner.

Yesterday I wrote an email to my work telling them that I either need to take a leave of absence from work because they are scheduling me too much, or they need to make some serious changes. Honestly, I kind of just want to quit because I don't like feeling stressed out all the time about something that has no place in my future. This is just supposed to be a job while I'm in school, not my life and I feel like they don't quite understand that. So we shall see how they take the email.

I might just try to find another job, or an internship that understands that school is my priority. And a place that won't bitch every time I try to take time off or want to go home and see my family.  Caitlin and Meghan are coming in March around St Patricks day and my bosses/some of the people I work with told me "don't even bother trying to take any days off around St Patricks day." Which kind of pissed me off, to be honest.

Anywho, those are the highlights of what is going on in my life right now. School, work, blizzard, more school, repeat.

I'm hoping to get this computer nonsense and work nonsense worked out in the next week. All I can do now is cross my fingers.


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