Long Hallway With a Broken Light

Before anyone worries too much about me, I'm ok. I had to cancel my interview, but we did it on Saturday and I'm still on track. However, it was a track of giant, mountain sized speed bumps and blood, sweat and tears. This is all paideia. I hate paideia, in case no one could tell.

I have a terrible transcribing story. Yesterday/this morning was the worst yesterday/this morning of my life. This is going to be hard to believe. But it happened. I have the tears and multiple bawling phone calls to prove it. I had over half of my first interview done and it was around 13 pages, so I figured I could just print that out quickly in case I didn't get around to it later on. When I was clicking out of Word, it asked me if I wanted to save it. I figured that I could work more and actually finish the whole first interview... so I clicked "no"... and now it's gone forever. I tried to recover it, but it's never coming back.

Yeah. I was stupid. I don't save though, I'm not a saver. And this isn't even the first time that's happened, it's just the first time I had spent seven hours and gotten that many pages doing it. Of course the library, the one really really quiet place on campus closes at midnight, so I spent a half an hour trying to find someplace else that was equally as quiet.

I didn't, by the way, but I borrowed someone else's headphones since half the reason I couldn't hear the interviewee was because my headphones are permanently broken (it seems selfish, but I kind of really want my mother to buy me new headphones... like replacement iPod headphones instead of the regular ones... and those are cheap... so I'd rather she bought it... I'm a jerk. Yes.) I think that might have cancelled everything out.

It really wouldn't have been so bad if I hadn't been in the library for SEVEN HOURS when I am personally not a big fan of quiet places that are sometimes scenes in horror movies. And places where I actually have to shut my mouth and/or shut up in general. I'm not too good at that.

Yeah, and today isn't looking any better. I've been awake for two hours and I've almost died five times, my coffee is really gross (don't know why) and I pulled some stupids a few times already. I'm fully incompetent at work and religion so that should be a fun time.