And breathe...
And relax.
I went back to the shop today. (What can I say, not having a phone got ANNOYING!) and explained to the nice lass on the desk who served me on Tuesday that my phone was still not working!
So she calls up their service company or whatever, and starts fiddling on with it. Eventually, it all got sorted. So, this time, I figure I deserve an explanation of what happened. Turns out, when they blocked my account, they put lots of different bars on, dictating what I could and couldn't so. When I came in on Tuesday, only some of the bars were removed, and a few minor ones were left in place.
You know, texts, calls... minor things... God... what woould have happened if I had wanted to COMMUNICATE with someone... Good job they were only minor things, isn't it?
Oh, and you know how I keep going on about how my laptop is FUBAR... it's slightly less FUBAR... I love my housemate! He spent about 2 hours with me last night doing all sorts of wonderful things to it so it WORKS! And it DOESN'T take forever to do anything now, and it DOESN'T try to do a disk check everytime I turn it on. And it DOESN'T keep yelling at me about my antivirus, cos I FINALLY have some on that DOESN'T crash my laptop when I turn it on.
So my life is going pretty well now. And I'm meeting my mum and brother tomorrow, so that should be fun. Ain't been to London in YEARS!
Though I am feeling a little bit of an uber-bitch today. We have a tutorial group module in our course, and part of this module is a debate. So the tutorial group was split up into 2, half doing for a topic, half doing against it. Our group decided on transplants, and I was on the side of the against. (Which is ironic really, cos I'm on the donor register etc...) Anyway. 2000 word essay, 4 people per essay, 500 words each. It doesn't take all that much time and effort to get some research done and write 500 words, right?
I suggested, we all do our own little bit, research a topic and write the 500 words for the essay, give it to me and I'd put it into essay form. All it'd need was to be put into the same font and some linking sentences etc. Wouldn't take too long.
So can someone PLEASE explain to me how only me and Sam did our part of the essay? Suhail did some research, but didn't put anything into essay form, and Giovanna didn't even give me that. So, because I was up for 3 hours working on something that should have taken maybe 20 minutes to put together, I figured it was unfair on Sam and I, who had actually doen the work, to get the same mark as Suhail and Giovanna, who hadn't.
Got in today to find that Giovanna had apparently sent me her research bit at about half 11 last night. Yeah... cos I was going to be awake at that time of night to wait for a 500 word contribution when I was told I'd have it latest by Wednesday. I was not impressed. So basically, her topics for the essay were by me, Suhail's part of the essay was by me, cos it's all very well having pages and pages of research, I was the one who had to sit down, read through it, find relative bits of info and write it up. My bit of the essay was by me. Sam's bit of the essay was by Sam. Of the 2000 words, 1500 were me. I was NOT impressed!
Discussed this with Sam, he agreeed. So after everyone signed off saying they were in the group, mark allocations were awarded. And now I feel kinda mean, cos I'm penalising the two of them... But at the same time they didn't do what they said they would and get it to me at a time where I could do anything with it. So I guess it's fair... I just hate being the one to be the bitch.
I went back to the shop today. (What can I say, not having a phone got ANNOYING!) and explained to the nice lass on the desk who served me on Tuesday that my phone was still not working!
So she calls up their service company or whatever, and starts fiddling on with it. Eventually, it all got sorted. So, this time, I figure I deserve an explanation of what happened. Turns out, when they blocked my account, they put lots of different bars on, dictating what I could and couldn't so. When I came in on Tuesday, only some of the bars were removed, and a few minor ones were left in place.
You know, texts, calls... minor things... God... what woould have happened if I had wanted to COMMUNICATE with someone... Good job they were only minor things, isn't it?
Oh, and you know how I keep going on about how my laptop is FUBAR... it's slightly less FUBAR... I love my housemate! He spent about 2 hours with me last night doing all sorts of wonderful things to it so it WORKS! And it DOESN'T take forever to do anything now, and it DOESN'T try to do a disk check everytime I turn it on. And it DOESN'T keep yelling at me about my antivirus, cos I FINALLY have some on that DOESN'T crash my laptop when I turn it on.
So my life is going pretty well now. And I'm meeting my mum and brother tomorrow, so that should be fun. Ain't been to London in YEARS!
Though I am feeling a little bit of an uber-bitch today. We have a tutorial group module in our course, and part of this module is a debate. So the tutorial group was split up into 2, half doing for a topic, half doing against it. Our group decided on transplants, and I was on the side of the against. (Which is ironic really, cos I'm on the donor register etc...) Anyway. 2000 word essay, 4 people per essay, 500 words each. It doesn't take all that much time and effort to get some research done and write 500 words, right?
I suggested, we all do our own little bit, research a topic and write the 500 words for the essay, give it to me and I'd put it into essay form. All it'd need was to be put into the same font and some linking sentences etc. Wouldn't take too long.
So can someone PLEASE explain to me how only me and Sam did our part of the essay? Suhail did some research, but didn't put anything into essay form, and Giovanna didn't even give me that. So, because I was up for 3 hours working on something that should have taken maybe 20 minutes to put together, I figured it was unfair on Sam and I, who had actually doen the work, to get the same mark as Suhail and Giovanna, who hadn't.
Got in today to find that Giovanna had apparently sent me her research bit at about half 11 last night. Yeah... cos I was going to be awake at that time of night to wait for a 500 word contribution when I was told I'd have it latest by Wednesday. I was not impressed. So basically, her topics for the essay were by me, Suhail's part of the essay was by me, cos it's all very well having pages and pages of research, I was the one who had to sit down, read through it, find relative bits of info and write it up. My bit of the essay was by me. Sam's bit of the essay was by Sam. Of the 2000 words, 1500 were me. I was NOT impressed!
Discussed this with Sam, he agreeed. So after everyone signed off saying they were in the group, mark allocations were awarded. And now I feel kinda mean, cos I'm penalising the two of them... But at the same time they didn't do what they said they would and get it to me at a time where I could do anything with it. So I guess it's fair... I just hate being the one to be the bitch.
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