Wow, what a series of problems today! I got up early to put some assignments up on Blackboard (it's not really Blackboard, but it's a version of it). It didn't work--error messages. I played with it so long that I was late getting ready for work and left about ten minutes late. Then, of course, there was a bad accident further north on the highway, so the traffic was bumper-to-bumper, squeezed down into one lane, for several miles. My usual 70-minute drive took 90 minutes. It could have been worse, of course. I could have been the one in the accident and wasn't. It could have been snowing or sleeting and wasn't.
But then I got to school and was told that the internet and virtually everything connected online was down. Thursday is the day when my two classes meet in the computer lab. I couldn't do the assignment I'd planned because we couldn't go online, so I had to give it to them for homework. I tried to photocopy it before class began, and the copier was jammed. Some weird math assignment that was stuck when someone was trying to copy it both vertically and horizontally (alternating)--that was what we eventually dug out of the bowels of the giant copier. I finally got the assignment copied, and the internet was finally restored, but by then, class was a lost cause.
Then the soft-drink machine right outside my office wasn't working. So I chewed my tuna dry and thirsty. (I would have brought my own drink if I hadn't been running late getting ready for work.)
My husband emailed me that my diploma frame had at long last arrived, but the mat was cut incorrectly. Of course, it would be ironic to go ahead and frame my diploma sideways and let people crane their necks to read it. (There's a lithograph of Mizzou already in place in one slot of the mat, or I'd just turn the whole shebang sideways.)
On the way home I kept hearing what I thought were hisses and snaps and pops from my brand-new car's brand-new radio. But that problem was easily repaired. When I lifted my cup of Burger King turbo coffee, the sounds stopped. It was just the styrofoam cup rubbing in the cup holder.
Tomorrow I have to get up early and get blood work done. I'll have to fast from about 8 p.m. tonight until after the blood work. Then the spouse and I are heading downtown to get flu shots. Whoopee. Party, party, party. The party won't really get going until I get home and get to grade some more papers! The excitement is overwhelming. I'm such a wild woman.
Let's hope tomorrow is less chaotic than today. The Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times," certainly seemed applicable today. I'm exhausted. Dr. S.
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