Another fun day in work land...

So today has been another interesting day. I have been having to answer phone calls for a bit this morning, as people are up and running around along with having some problems in the lab.

My greatest achievement for the day, I lost someone's paper that was due at 11. Go me. The computer lost its network connection so she couldn't print or save it to a network drive. To make this even better, the computer's floppy drive didn't work. There is software on the computers that resets up the harddrive on a reboot so you can't save to the harddrive. Instead of thinking though, I deactivated the software, saved the file and rebooted. I was thinking that it would deactivate and not reset up on reboot, but I was wrong. The file was gone. Had I actually been thinking I could have tracked down a zip disk somewhere and used that. That would have been the smarter thing to do. Too bad I didn't have my usb drive keychain, because that also would have worked. She had to go dig her handwritten paper out of the trash and she was going to explain to the professor what happened. Outside typing it up 20 mins before class, this really wasn't her fault. At least she had the handwritten paper to prove it was finished. I ended up giving her a couple of free print cards, since I felt we owed her something.

There is a giant spider crawling near me now, I'm just going to hope it stays away. I'm not scared of spiders but this one does not look like something I want mess with.

I hope I hear back from NWU soon, I would really like to get an interview set up. I am going to be working longer tomorrow, until 2:30 because of some meeting. I will be back doing my old job of manning the help desk for a couple hours. I also agreed to come work in the lab on Sunday from 1-5, that should be thoroughly painless and probably boring, but at least I'm getting paid.