My computer is a spoiled brat(and university news)!

I swear that the damned thing will drive me crazy someday. It really will. And whoever said that machines don’t think or don’t have personalities is an idiot. Story: Wednesday night I was home with a couple of friends and I turn off my computer to plug the DVD-ROM in(because for some reason my DVD-ROM doesn’t read CDs anymore and for another reason they don’t work at the same time, even though up until 2 months ago they did). Ok, so I unplug the computer, connect the DVD-ROM and then I turn on the computer again. And crickets. After 10 seconds it starts making this beeping sound(kind of like how bombs do in movies or other things that will self-destruct soon).Unplug it again(the on button doesn’t do off). Beeeeeeeeeeep again. Beeeeep-beeeeep-beeeeep. Unplug it again. I wait for it to cool off, even though I had just turned it on less the 4 hour prior. Turn it on again and the beeping starts again. After repeating this procedure a couple more times I give up and go on to making college lists( I’ll get to that in a few minutes). Yesterday night I come home, turn it on again and the beeping starts again. By now I was making all kinds of scenarios in my head about losing my love. After a few more beeping tries and plugging and unplugging various cables, ‘cause maybe that will work, I am on the verge of a nervous breakdown so I watch some TV to calm down and then start again. The fucking beeping again. At this point I had no clue what to do so, since I’m weird and totally obsessed with my computer, I start to clean it. I don’t know why…it’s just something I do if I can’t actually be online. So I finish cleaning it and then plug it in. And the damned thing starts! Apparently the baby just wanted to be cleaned(keep in mind that it didn’t need cleaning- I do it every few months to make sure it doesn’t get to dusty). I have no clue what happened…but I’m glad it’s working now.

And now on to my university news. I made the final lists on which unis I wanted to apply to, after a very careful consideration. We had a very rigorous selection criteria( can anyone smell trouble from that sentence alone?) which were: place on the Guardian’s university list, student satisfaction according to a list I found on BBC.com, size of the university itself, number of students compared to the number of staff members(if there’s one thing I learned from Gilmore is that you should never ignore that…the more staff members the cleaner the uni), size of city,---everything sounds so serious and well thought out so far but don-t worry it will change soon--- proximity to Sheffield(the city were the World Snooker Championship takes place), prettiness of both the city and the uni, nightlife and another category were we added and subtracted points based on absolutely no criteria( again, I shall explain this category later). Everything was well round up(if anybody thinks that you can trust my math skills) and the final 5 were chosen out of the 10 we started with(understandably I chose only uni that offer a forensic science course). Now before I announce the winners I must explain the last category(the list was compiled with the help of some wine). We added points for…weird reasons. Each city got 10 points if a snooker player lived there. The one in Scotland lost points because…well, it’s in Scotland. It also lost points because the cover of the prospectus was a very bright pink but it one 10 points for it’s name(Dundee…imagine just how many Crocodile Dundee jokes I could have made). Another town won 10 points for the funniest coat of arms(it was a sheep holding a cross…guess who came to mind). Google Preston coat of arms and you’ll understand why it’s the funniest thing ever(it’s the third one on the first page, first row-or look up Preston on wiki). But Preston also won some points for the fact that 2 years ago the snooker Grand Prix was held there. You get the point…if I wanted to add or subtract points for any real or imaginary quality or fault that was the place to do it. In the end the winners were(from the 5th place to the 1st): UWE Bristol, Nottingham Trent, Bradford, Kent(which won points for the fact that it has the same name as the cigarettes) and…drum roll please…Leicester. Now I’m hoping I’ll get into Leicester(as it was my first choice, even without the list) but I’ll be happy if I get into even one of those. Wish me luck and I’ll keep you posted.

And to end this I just had to post the amazing comment of the vice-mayor of Bucharest, when asked about the fact that the whole town is covered in snow: "The snow problem will be solved when it gets warmer". Gee, thanks.