What a fucking ordeal

It's official...Google is a DICTATORSHIP! It is an evil, manipulative, unreachable, selfish, cruel OVERLORD OF DEATH.

So, tonight, I'm thinking to myself, you know, I'm finally starting to feel better (after being on the brink of death with a very, very, very bad cold), I even managed to leave the apartment for the first time in 6 days (I took the elevator down to the ground floor to check the mail), and I'm catching up on some school work...let's pop into the the old soundoff parade (aka. teh Blog) and just let everyone know, "I'm not dead yet....I feeeeel happyyyyyyyy!"

Except holy Darth Vader's wedgie! Blogger has been murdered, and a cyborg called the Google Blogginator 2000 has morphed into a Blogger Look-alike and taken it's place! Okay, I can handle this part...I'm a trusting sheep, following the herd (which is why Rod loves me so much....bahhhhhh), change can be good.

I blindly follow the Google Blogginator's prompts about trying to sign in to switch over the account, and lucky little ducky, I'm just chugging along so smooth, until this...

Does is strike anyone else as odd that the "yes" option is a....big, white, blank, useless box? Is evil overlord Google Blogginator trying to force me to adopt ANOTHER google account (since I already have one. That I use mostly to store things in gmail.)?? WTF mate? Shit, I'm Canadian...scratch that. WTF...eh?

I furiously searched high and low...frantically clicking on links, trying desperately to find some help, some aid and comfort in this miserable storm of interwebitivity...OH WOE TO ME! Will no one help a feisty but restrained Princess Fancy? Help me Obi-wan Kanobi...you're my only hope.

But guess what I learned? Darth Google Does Not Want You Talking To It. Do Not Contact. Want to contact? Click the link that leads you right back to the useless-as-a-tit-on-a-eunich Help Page belonging to the Google Blogginator 2000.

A furious 2 hours later, I found a back door way in, that shall remain secret because I worked so hard to find it, that I deserve the selfishness of keeping it to myself.

DAMN YOU DARTH GOOGLE! AND YOUR LITTLE MINION, GOOGLE BLOGGINATOR!! YOU WILL NOT WIN! FOR I AM...THE NEW HOPE!!

Holy Paperness Batman!

Anyone wondering where I've been lately?

Well, I think I have officially spent more time at the SFU Burnaby library studying and working on stuff for classes than I spent in all of the U of A Libraries over my time there combined. If not, I'm very near to it becoming a reality.

Last week almost became an assignment catastrophe. Originally, I had a paper due in my gender relations class on Tuesday, an in-class debate in my social policy class on Tuesday as well, and a multi-page learning portfolio due on Friday in my global health class. It was going to be TRULY gruesome because I was so far behind on my reading in every class. Fate threw me a bone.

The horrific paper on affirmative action, race and feminist crap was still due on Tuesday, but the debate was delayed until Thursday because the group on the other side of the debate suffered a few hiccups in preparing (injuries and such). Major relief! Then, I was able to catch another break, because the Learning Portfolios were pushed back to this week because the teacher was sick, classes absent, etc. Problem is of course, that this week I have a panel discussion to prepare for in the global health class, and a new little reading assignment too. Plus, next week I have a term paper proposal due in my ethnography class, and midterms in both the gender relations AND social policy classes on Tuesday.

After 2:30 on Tuesday though, I have a whole 13 days until my next midterm! I won't know what to do with myself! Presumably, I will have time to stay on top of my reading :s

So that's where I'm at...very, very busy. I do read the blogs of my usual suspects and keep up there, but if I'm radio-silent these days, you know why.

Happy Valentine's Day on Wednesday!