Another weekend comes to a close…

Way too short, as usual.

Finally finished Wolves of the Calla. It was magnificent! I wish I could read the next one, except it will probably be 3 years before it comes out. 😦

Spent like 8 hours this weekend working on my stupid paper for class. Here’s the thing, it’s only the second week of class. If this slave driving wench in my group keeps this up, we’ll have the whole paper done in week 3! And I think she’ll be pissed that it took us so long! She already sent her 1/3 of the paper out for approval. Keep in mind we have 5 more weeks to do this. She wants us to get it done early though because she just wants to rewrite it. Grrr.

I couldn’t help out with her problems installing her scanner tonight, which I feel bad about. It’s just so hard to help someone with something when you can’t see what they’re doing and they’re trying to describe it to you and you’re not even at your computer as a frame of reference. She was upset at me for not being able to help, but I know it was mostly just because she was frustrated, as I would have been. Oh well, I’m used to that. People wouldn’t have to get upset at me for not knowing these things if they didn’t insist on calling me in the first place!! Just because I’m a programmer doesn’t mean I know shit about how Windows XP handles device drivers. I have my own problems with stupid ZoneAlarm that I still can’t get working. I just gave up on it. Boo ZoneAlarm! >:o

Funny conversation from tonight:

John: “Oh my God, are you crying over Sopranos?”
Melissa: “It was sad! He was crying at the end!”
John: “Jesus Christ, I hope I never grow a vagina.”
Melissa: “Me too babe.”

I’m very sad that they’re moving to South Jersey in a week and a half! ::pout::

SO frustrated

I accidentally downloaded the trial version of ZoneAlarm Pro rather than the actual free version of ZoneAlarm, so my trial version expired. I uninstalled it and installed the free version instead. I then proceeded to spend 2 1/2 hours trying to get internet on my laptop. Everything seems to be working fine on my desktop (the machine running ZoneAlarm) but no matter how I try and set things up, my laptop is just internet-less. If I turn off ZoneAlarm, my laptop instantly has internet. If I set it so that programs have to ask for access to the internet and then try to bring up IE or AIM off my laptop, ZoneAlarm instantly tells me, “Hey! Someone’s trying to get on the internet!” to which I obviously reply, “Hey that’s great, why don’t you let them!” Of course it doesn’t work though. I have nothing else to try.