2004-10-19
Take it from me, kids. If you download a song that has some adware attached to it which starts pumping your PC full of pop-up ads and cashback rewards programs that REALLY, REALLY piss you off, the wrong course of action is to drink too much wine, open up Windows Explorer, say to yourself, "This computer repair stuff can't be that hard!" and spend the next hour giving the delete key a healthy workout.Waking up with a headache and the shits is one thing, but a headache, the shits, AND a freshly broken computer? Hell, that's an undergraduate hat trick. So it's gonna cost me upward of $160 because I definitely erased something that I shouldn't have.
Which is why I'm here. At the Webster computer lab. Unshowered and unscrubed, wearing yesterday's clothes. Because I was jolted out of bed at 9:45 by a phone call from a client who couldn't email me a work proposal because my Hotmail inbox was overloaded. There's something about being out in public when you haven't even brushed your teeth that puts one on a heightened sense of awareness, because the second you leave the security of your home you're taking a gamble that you might just run into somebody that you know.
Which is why I'm cutting this one short. Gotta get the hell out of here...
-Andy