Tori Amos quotes:

"You know when you've cried and cried, and you really can't cry anymore, so you're very quiet? I started hearing the water. And Pandora - the last one on the record - came to me. She was sort of warning me that there are so many feelings under the rocks that I needed to turn into. She told me, 'You need to dive into this one, Tori, because your healing is there. Once you go, it's a whole new journey, but you've got to metaphorically leave this little dock and come with me to find out what's really in this ocean of feelings. So I did. "

"Past the Mission is a love story. It's kind of a strange one in that it's me again, still trying to find pieces that I've left other places. It kind of breaks my heart when I hear him [Trent Reznor] sing with me, 'I once knew a hot girl.' Where is she now? She can come back again. It's that same thing, where in Pretty Good Year and Past the Mission and Space Dog, where everything is reclaimable."

Trivial:

Well, as I have talked about, I work in the English Departements computer lab as a lab monitor/aid/whatnot.. well, the thing about this is that it is a very small lab, and it is my favourite lab, so I am there even when I'm not working, which means I am pretty much always on duty, even when I'm not. Usually it doesn't bother me much, it seldom goes beyond a rescue every now and then of helping someone to get a thing printed, or something weird has possessed their computer. Okay. I usualy am able to help them.

HOWEVER. Right now, something evil has taken over the lab. Yesterday and today, I have been asked for help by a dussin students, and I haven't been able to help them. Out of the 16 computers we have in this lab, about 2 thirds of them are suffering disk drive problems, won't print, problems with the net.connection, certain problems have gone whacky... it's clear something's been passed around in here. What drives me _crazy_ though is that A) they seem to think it is my fault when they end up on a puter that all of a sudden has decided it doesn't want to recognize the disk drive, refuses to socialize with the printer, and isolated itself from any kind of net, and B) roll their eyes when I figure out alternative ways to transport something they wrote to some other computer that will work (I actually put up one girls document on my simplenet account so she'd be able to reach it at another computer since she hadn't even brought a disk) because I run into some other trouble that won't let it work.

ARGH!! I just want to tear my hair out and scream "I AM NOT GETTING PAID FOR THIS! I AM NOT AN EXPERT! I DID NOT CREATE THIS LAB AND CAN'T BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR THINGS IT IS LACKING!!" Blah. When I whined to my advisor (who's driving me home, yey, saved a buck), he said "That's why we're getting paid these big bucks (sarcastically, of course)", I muttered "I haven't even gotten the money for last semester." Blah. My application better get approved soon by the dean or I'll be MIGHTY pissed. That's all. I think. Yes. And now I will close this lab down. Ta.