Hello again!


I have a really bad conscience... can't believe I didn't manage to use my blog once more in my holiday... :(

Well well, my semester has started again and I have already written the report - 22 pages strong - for medical sociology (my ALS-case study). Writing it was work of two-and-a-half days, but handing it improved to be n e r v e w r e c k i n g ! Not only for me, but for my family surrounding, too!
Final closing date was last friday, 15.00. Not handing it in by then would mean Exodus, go to hell, fuck yourself! So I finished the report at 14.15, which was pretty good! The stress had taken it's toll on me though, and my fingertips had turned blue and ice cold by lack of blood flow! Did I mention that I didn't sleep all night? Well, I didn't, I finished the report. Back to the problems: unfortunately my good printer didn't work because 10.3.3 apparently has some issues with some HP Laserjet models. So I wanted to be extra clever and sent the Word file to my sister's email to print it from the PC via my old Laserprinter. But I couldn't see it anywhere!!! Well, the last choice, an old HP deskjet, would do, too. But first the PC had to run! Of course it crashed as it always does. Then it wouldn't open said document - my version of Word was newer... *grumble*. Okay, back to the mac, print to pdf, send again, wait for PC to start up - crash - start up again.... by now it was 14.35!!! My nerves lay B L A N K: The inkjet printer wasn't responding! By now I was s c r e a m i n g and shouting and s w e a r i n g loudly while storming back and forth through the flat. Then a miracle happened, I discovered my old printer - I had simply overlooked it before. After Acrobat managed to crash the PC one more time, I was finally printing out the precious pages, patiently feeding the sheets one by one into the printer. It was 14.42. My lovely sister rushed to prepare her new bicycle for me, it was the only chance to get to the office in time, but I hadn't been on the bike for more than six months a n d I was still slightly ill and on penicillin from my super-nasty throat infection! But the report had to get there! Else the semester would be lost for me, and my hard work (of 2 1/2 days) would have been for N O T H I N G ! That couldn't be!
14.51 a human-and-steel-flash was seen dashing out of the house No. 98 in my street, people from in between here and the university area would later record the strange blur that passed them with approximate light-speed.
I arrived five mins too late. But I managed to drop it into the next secretary's office who promised to put it on the right person's desktop. Phew! My head was pumping like a 60 year old's heart a nanosecond before the lethal heart attack! Somehow I managed to creep back home, wondering how I had survived the drive p l u s made it in acceptable time. My body just doesn't let me down - good body, I'll treat you better in the future!
Happy ending after all? Nearly. I have by now corrected the report, which was full of spelling and grammar mistakes due to the night shift and the lack of time for reading it over. Of course now it is perfect, and of course there'll be NO mistake to be found anymore! Hey, it's me! I usually don't hand in reports that lack perfection. And I NEVER hand in reports (in german) with spelling, grammar or style mistakes, tss tss. This has been the first AND last time! And it doesn't count, really, because I don't think she read the whole heap of reports over the weekend. Look at it that way: I handed in a dummy, waiting to be replaced.
See, I'm really proud of myself now. I'll hand the new version in first thing tomorrow morning, and I'll be fine. Yep, real life has caught me back. But I gave it a good punch in the face, so it's nice to me in the next months ^_^

Posted: So - April 18, 2004 at 10:21 Uhr      

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