Now to Formica at the courthouse.

"Thank you Velveeta."

-Idiocracy

  The new semester has started and its already off to a bad start.  Its really frustrating.  First the school had yet another server problem and then half the university lost the ability to log into the network.  We had to be issued temporary passwords to get in and then change our password to something of our own.  At first I thought that was it.  Then I began having problems registering for classes.  But the system said there were no holds to keep me from registering.  Finally today it showed up on the system that I had an advising hold.  Even though I already had advising and my advisor had cleared me to register.  So I had to go back to him to get him to take the hold off. 

  Apparently, when the system went down, the holds that were on student records flipped back on after they got people’s passwords working again.  So now, here I am on the first day of class trying to find classes.  This is so frustrating.  Now I’m going to have to go talk to professors whose classes I could have gotten into normally if the system had worked right.  Hopefully after I explain the situation they’ll let me into the class. 

  In other news I got an unsigned note asking if my "How does it know your name?" entry was inspired by someone specific or was about something specific.  In response, yes it was.  It was about something specific that happened first.  Many times I really do feel alone.  I rarely meet others that I can really talk and connect with.  That understand the things that I talk about and are of a similar mind.  That wish to undertake that same journey into life without giving into societal pressure or constraints.  I can’t exactly say I met someone, because on OD we get to read into things that people many times don’t even say to those close to them IRL.  But I got to talk with someone for the first time.  It was wonderful.  It was that connection.  And in that moment I knew that I was not alone. 

  I would like to continue to talk to that person.  But just that inital talk was wonderful in its own way because if there’s one other person out there that I can connect with in that wonderful way there has to be others that we can build into a community of something wonderful.  So, to the second, it was inspired and written to someone specific.  Maybe I should tell her, maybe she knows.  I’d best get back to sorting out this registration mess though.  Good day to all.

-Damien