Woe.

My laptop is currently in the shop for a diagnostic test because there's something wrong with the power source (not charging). In the meantime I'm posting from the computer room in the English department, where I've been doing a lot of work for the last few days. At home I've unpacked my old, first-generation Blueberry iMac (which seems HUGE in comparison to the 12" Powerbook G4) but its internet access is slow (the browser on there is Netscape Communicator--remember Netscape?), and it keeps crashing if I ask it to do too much too fast (which, come to think of it, is also why I crashed the computers so much at the Gauntlet). I do work at home a lot because I tend to work late so I'm glad that the old iMac is still working, but I'm apprehensive that I might lose my files on it. I still have to figure out how to connect it to my new laser printer so that I at least have hard copies, and need to dig out my old A-drive because it doesn't recognize my flash memory stick. Ah, obselete technology. It also doesn't run MSN Messenger b/c Microsoft doesn't let you run older versions of its apps.

Working at school is better right now anyway because Edmonton is experiencing an incredibly hot summer and I don't have air conditioning at home (who does, in Alberta?). Nonetheless, there is a certain comfort level at home that I don't have here.

And frankly, I miss my laptop. I kind of feel like I'm missing a limb, and until I get it back, I have to deal with a slow, jerky replacement arm that lacks opposable thumbs.