19.5.03

Today sucked. I got up to do the budget for college bowl (which is a $20,000 budget that they give us exactly five days to do), spent about five hours on it, realised it was due at 3 rather than at 5, skipped my 2:30 class, and did get it finished, though I think parts of it aren't right. Talked to Diana and found out that Enterprise is claiming they called Amanda about the missing car saga (short story-- she parked it on the wrong floor of the parking garage, they didn't call to ask her where it was for two weeks and want us to pay for 'having' the car that whole time. Oddly enough, after they called her, it took them 20 minutes to find the car. You think the dipshits would have looked before). So they said they called her (even though they didn't leave a message on her machine), so we should have to pay them $500, which I don't think we have left in the budget. I asked Diana to keep fighting with them. I get home, my computer has gone from hiccupy to non-functional. No Internet Explorer, no Outlook, no AIM. I can use insecure Telnet to check my email (shut up, Matt), but that's about it. I ran chkdsk and chkdsk /F, but apparently everything's too corrupted for that to fix it. If I don't run chkdsk every time I reboot my computer, it doesn't reboot, but chkdsk takes an hour to run. Oh, and apparently my /pagefile.sys file is completely fucked up. Wonderful. So I'm facing a system recovery. I'm hoping I can get the computer to boot back up so I can burn some movies and a couple of papers to my hard drive.

Went to a talk on the Poincare conjecture for my topology class that actually wasn't that bad, but I have a problem set due in 16 hours that I've barely started, the beginnings of a migraine, and I haven't eaten since last night.

So my day really wasn't that bad. It was the Phil, prince of Insufficient Light of bad days. I still feel better for bitching about it for a while.