Technology woes

July 21, 2011

In honor of my mom, I turned off my phone last night to conserve the battery since I couldn’t figure out how to charge it. Of course, this meant I couldn’t use it either, but since I also couldn’t figure out how to turn it back on this morning I didn’t have much of a choice. Why I never asked anyone in Jane’s family how to use this phone during the week I was at their house, I have no idea. Thankfully, Holly and Stephanie, who I met and hung out with Tuesday, were the 10:30 session Studying @ JCU so verbal communication sufficed. 

This is the Aussie "breakfast of champions."

Stephanie told me she was moving to Rotary in the afternoon based on what I told her the day before (I must have really talked it up), so she headed back to her dorm to pack while I went to the library to see if someone there could figure out why my internet won’t work in my dorm. The lady at the InfoHelp desk said she couldn’t help me but that I could go to the Social Sciences building because there might be an IT there who felt sorry for me. When I went to the administration desk there, however, they directed me to the InfoHelp desk in the library. Exasperated, I gave up for the day and just used the wireless connection on campus.

When the last session finally ended just before 4:00, Holly and I helped Stephanie move, then Holly drove us to the store so Stephanie could get food for the next few days. As part of a 2 for $5 deal, I got the best loaf of bread that tasted like a cross between Dave's Killer Bread and the french bread I used to get every week at Safeway. After Holly dropped us off at Rotary, Stephanie walked around the campus with me until it got dark, at which point we did our laundry. I attempted to use the computer lab next door, which is located behind a door labeled "female toilets," but the computers are so painfully slow that when she came to get me 15 minutes later the most I had managed to do was load my e-mail. I never realized the convenience of having internet in my room until now.