It's beautiful. What else can I say? I could actually go on for pages describing the individuality of each snowflake and how out of the zillions that have fallen not one single one is alike. How is that? Have you ever wondered about that? I do every time a snowflake catches in the web of the screen of my window. It's simply amazing. Breath taking.
Now I'm sitting asking myself a question. Why in the world am I writing this out after I've just spent the last two weeks writing term papers? Well I've finished them and I want to write something I enjoy. I want to update everyone on the exciting news of St. John's. Wait for it............................
And I guess that's all I've got to write. Take care.
Kidding. In all honesty not a lot has been happening in my life with the end of the term coming up. I've been attempting to sort out St. Petersburg, but with my prof having pneumonia and these assignments, final tests and papers being due this week I just haven't had time to meet with him, let alone clean the house I live in.
One exciting thing is that I am typing this on my new computer! Yes the old one is well on its way out the door. I'm so tempted to throw it out the window as I've wanted to do so many times, but I think it'll stay safely in my room for gaming or movies until I can return it back to Red Deer where it will become my computer for composing as it started out to be. What a romantic end for it, ending where it started.
I can't say it was exciting getting my computer as it was quite the struggle to get it working to this point. After a week of waiting to reinstall the software I was able to do so in a 2.5 hour session with Dell on the phone. Now I think is the point where I add how much I detest Windows 8 and how difficult I find it is to navigate. I would say that I'm a pretty tech savvy kind of person....but this is just impossible. So the Indian man I was talking to on the phone wasn't much help when he went through numerous steps in what I had to do without me being able to get off the lock screen. Struggling to keep up I found it rather frustrating and wanted to talk to a supervisor. In the end I didn't get that opportunity, just glad to be off the phone.
However that wasn't the end. I had to call them the next day to fix the problem of brightness as my computer screen was attempting to burn my eyeballs out. So squinting I followed the Indian man's directions. This man was much more specific however, giving much simpler directions to the point I was sitting there three steps ahead of him.
Him: "You are now on the desktop screen. Now look down at the bottom left corner and see the little e symbol. Please click that and it will open the internet."
-pause-
Him: "Have you done that?"
Me: "Yes....."
Him: "Now you see a window and at the top of that window is an address bar with a bunch of letters in it. Please click that and delete them all. Then type w....w.....w....."
And thus our conversation continued to proceed. After 2 hours I was finished and my computer seems to still be working, so I'll take that as a good sign.
Christmas is coming upon us. I plan on doing all my shopping this weekend so that I can focus on studying for my exams the coming two weeks. And then....in 16 days I will be back in the land of Alberta. I'm excited, but trying to contain it so that I can stay focused. That's hard though when all you literally dream about is your family and dog back home. It'll be a good holiday. But I should be off to study for my Japanese exam, now that I have time. I pray you're all doing well and hope you stay safe over the holidays.
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