HARD TIMES

September 3, 2008
Update: Evan ends up meeting with me before 12:00. We go to McDonald’s to get dinner. I have a sweet tea, two burgers, and 8 McNuggets. We then go to the Stern (Evan’s school) building where it doesn’t close at 12:00 and there are private, secret, unused ridiculously supped up lounges for us to chill.
I eat there while Evan does some reading. We leave before 1:00 to go back to our homes. I’m currently watching the first two episodes of the new Prison Break. It feels a lot like a repeat of the last season by setting up the main characters to do a “spy sneaky Scofield business.” It’s getting a bit repetitive, but it has enough suspense, action, and pazazz to keep me watching.
I wake up, do the usual, shower, bagel, and make sangwich for lunch. I go to my Administrative Law class. It’s sort of hard to describe what the class is, but I think it’s pretty interesting. It deals with regulation and how the government deals with many issues like the environment, goods, and such. Unfuckinfortunately, my professor says that no laptops are allowed because he thinks it distracts students. Fuck that shit!! It’s going to make the class a lot rougher.
I then meet up with Evan and we’re supposed to go to the Junior Class meeting that is being run by Alex. She said there’s going to be lunch there and it’s nice to see what’s up and get to see Alex. Evan wants food, so he runs down to get it. I wait for him and Alex says that the meeting is inside. I said that I need for Evan outside of the room since I have his shit.
Evan then comes and says he wants to go somewhere else for food, so I go along with him. At that point, I eat the sandwich I packed and miss the pizza that was supposed to come late. I write on her wall on Facebook because I basically showed up, and then left. I guess she thinks that means that I left because the free food was late and replies with that attitude. Jeez, makes me feel like a real skeve.
I then sit around in the library for a bit before my Spanish class. I pull off a tremendous move because people are supposed to print out a packet for Spanish homework. I didn’t really understand that was out assignment, so I didn’t do it. However, it’s on my laptop. So I answer one of the questions because I have it downloaded.
I both participated and legitimized that I “did” the homework and that I actually use my laptop for class purposes. After class, I call Aaron and talk about how he’s a social expert and walks around talking to strangers. I then sit with Evan in a library room for a while. I end up leaving at 6:00 to go grocery shopping.
I go to a store near campus that’s on the way to school. It’s pretty standard; I get paper towels, sponges, and saran wrap. I then drop off all my shit like my laptop and business at the apartment, walk 2 blocks to the Whole Foods. The place is ridiculous, all this organic, preppy, expensive food. I walk around there and just find more and more of the same expensive shit and end up leaving.
I decide to go Met, which is the supermarket that was near my old dorm on Broome. It’s a longer walk from Whole Foods to Met than it was from Broome, but it was literally 5 blocks from Broome, already way close.
I get a pound of buffalo chicken and half pound of Swiss because I know there’s nothing to eat other than sandwiches. My mom has to come tomorrow with the cooking shit like microwave, plates, forks, and everything. Also, I’m going to be just making sandwiches so I can stay in the library. I also get some baked fresh rolls, which will help the fact that sandwiches aren’t way filling.
After that goose supermarket chase, back to the library! I find a secluded floor, hook myself up, and start roamin that shit at 8:00. I’ve been on Stickam for so fuckin long by now. I guess I’ll stay on, but I should do some reading now instead of just writing this shit up.
I turn off my computer and move into the bottom of the library where it won’t be closing soon. I turn on my computer and it goes to the starting up Windows XP page and restarts the computer. It does this constantly, even though the computer is sleeping.
I call Miah to get some help and I can’t get anything out of it. I go online, speak to him and Spamps and figure out a long ass plan for the next day. During this situation, the wall of shock hits me. My “life” has literally been turned upside down. My computer is dead! The walk back to my apartment is filled with depression and despair, a walk that I will not forget.

September 4, 2008
I specifically wake up early at 9:30 so I can run to Bestbuy to get an external hard drive. This way I can save the stuff from my Windows side because the Mac side of my partitioning still works. Granted, most of it is extremely recoverable like shows and music and favorites on Firefox. However, stuff like my magnum opus, the Prague Blog, 200 pages of memories would be lost, and also the pictures from my trips, essays that I’ve written for previous classes, so on and so forth. I quickly find a 500GB hard drive for $100.
I then go to class and when I get out, I start trying to fix my computer. I find a spot in the library to set up my laptop and external. It’s a bit awkward having all that stuff out. I move my shit onto the external and torrent Windows XP. I then realize that I forgot that I have to buy CD-Rs to burn shit on them. I go to the NYU store to grab 6 with jewel cases for $10.
I burn Windows onto the disk. I try to remove my other Windows partition, but that doesn’t seem to be working. I try to work the burned CD, but that doesn’t work. By now, I’ve spent the time going to Bestbuy and all this time. I’ve already spent like over 6 hours on this business. I have a 6:20 class, Civil Liberties. My professor randomly asks me about Marbury v. Madison.
I jumble around that it was Adams that appointed Marbury and Jefferson was the one that didn’t allow for it. I get a bit flustered. She also asks the ridiculous question as to what Marbury was appointed to. It turns out that it was stupid ass “justice of peace” of DC.
She moves onto the next person, while I get publicly embarrassed. Now I have to read up on the next class and participate to push myself up, goshdarnit.
After that, I have to go back home because my mom is dropping off stuff like microwave, cooking shits, and whatever. We then to go to a pizza place that’s 2 blocks from my dorm at Broome. It’s pretty fantastic because it has spicy cappacola on it. C’mon, you guys know how to pronounce that… “gabba gool.” Learn that shit motherfuckers.
I then get dropped off at the library near 9:00ish. I try to DL another version of Windows to see if that will work. I do random shit in the mean time and reminisce on how frustrating and depressing my day has been. It’s probably been the most shocking day that I’ve had in a long time. I feel as if tons of bricks are on my shoulders and I just have such a hard time dealing with the day.
Eventually, Evan comes to visit. After I burn another Windows and trying to burn it onto the computer, it doesn’t work either. Finally, I feel a lot of the weight off of me because I realize that shit is basically futile for now. There’s nothing I can do.
Part of the problem was that I felt I could fix it and tried everything I could to try to. Now that I know I can’t, I have to try to get shit by. I can still run the Mac side though, but it can only hold like 5 gigs with the partition issues.
My mom also has a shitty HP laptop that I maybe can use the mean time. Hasan also has a real copy of Vista, so maybe that will work with getting my Windows back up.
Evan and I end up going to his dorm. On the way, he gets me two 40s of Coors. I drink one at his place while we chill out. We do random stuff, like watching the DiPrague Vlog videos. They’re pretty weird/boring/funny when looking back. He needs to go to sleep, so I end up leaving his place before 2:00. I save the other 40 for a later date.
I get back, write this shit down of my horrific day, and watch a few episodes of The Shield. I truly feel is a real incredible show and probably a classic in my book. It brings a fresh look onto the cop drama genre with the idea of corruption and how much realism that it brings. It also has some great camera work.
Well tomorrow is a fresh day and we’ll see what that will bring.