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Date: 08 September 2005 11:29:50
Grr, I think this is going to be one of those days. After having lost a day this week already to being horribly ill (I did get to sit in bed all day, but that's not something I'm very good at, especially when it adds to the stress of an already intense workload!), I appear to be destined to get nothing done today either.
After being really good and gettin up early, I was in the library this morning by 9.45 (aimed for 9.30, almost made it!) with my packed lunch made (bank account telling me I musn't always buy lunch on campus!) and ready for a full day's work. Hmm. Well, the plan was to check email etc in the main library till 10.00 (ish) when the Biology computer lab is open (across campus), which is where I need to be to access the computer programme I need for my analysis. While checking things I decided to have a look over some photos I'd scanned in (photos for the project, may I add- definately work-related), only to find they'd dissappeared. The computer had no record of them ever existing! I spent about 2 hrs scanning them in and getting them straight/not too dark/ the right way up! The scanner made me save them in some random location, and now they've been lost in some library upgrade or other!!! Annoyed? Doesn't even cover it!!!!! Argh.
Anyway, I thought, nothing I can do about it, best not waste time worrying, so I head over to the biosci lab. I get there about 10.30, and it's still locked!!! At 10.30! Half an hour after it's supposed to be open! It's supposed to be open 10-5. No notice saying otherwise, and no porters around to moan at. Or to open it. The programme that I need to do my data analysis is not on any of the computers in the main library, and the comp lab is shut, and it shouldn't be! So here I am, back in the library, ranting at a computer screen while I try to figure out what I can do instead.
Sometimes when things like this happen I'm tempted to give up and just go shopping! I mean, I'm not sure I'm gonna get a whole lot more work done here!!!
Update: I'm in, not to the main computer lab, but the small, dark MSC lab downstairs. On the positive side the computers here aren't as slow as they used to be- even they've been updated! And they have the computer package I want to use. The down side is that the one thing I want to do in this programme won't work, and I've no idea why. Every other random statistical test works fine, just not this one. Argh. I'm really starting to lose patience with today...