What IS it with me and Wednesdays?

WARNING: whining post.

Good question, Lucy. I'm not entirely sure. Everyone sometimes have one of those days, when plugging in a laptop can result in electrocution. For me, it just happens that about 90 to 95% of those days always happen to fall on a Wednesday. Not every Wednesday sucks, thank goodness, but even so I've learned that when a day has turned out to be awful, it's most likely Wednesday again. (Yeah my grasp of days of the week can be a little shaky at times, and grad school is not helping.)

Take today, for example:

The day began with me, oversleeping. Yes, me. I usually wake up at least once at 6:30am, 5:30 if it's bright outside and not cloudy like it usually is in the mornings here (it's because of the ocean). (This tend to make me wonder what'll happen to me when I'm seventy. Will I wake up at three in the morning when everyone else wakes up at five? Will I forgo sleep altogether?) For some reason I was out cold last night and didn't wake up once until I opened my eyes and saw it was 7:48am. Which was immediately followed by panic, since I have experiments and I need to go to the bank today, because my application for the studio apartment was approved and in order for them to hold the place for me I need to get the deposit (money order or cashier's check only) to the place within 48 hours or something, and I got the message at 7pm last night, after the bank (Chase) had already closed so it'll have to be today. Conclusion: short lab day just got shorter.

Then I left home, and had to come back less than five minutes later because I forgot the stuff. Which hasn't happened to me in...what? This level? Two years?

Then I missed the bus.

And then my laptop failed me. Ivy for some reason wouldn't output to its screen when I booted up. I tried directly plugging it into another monitor with the reasoning that a basic functioning computer must have a boot drive, power supply, hard drive, an input source, and an output source -- and so if it's something fundamentally wrong with the connections (such if something shorted out), then the output source'd be gone and if I plug it into a functioning output source while the original one was out, what's in Ivy should show up in the plug in monitor.

Nope. Got nothing. Which means when I get the time I'll need to take Ivy apart, manually disconnect the screen from the harddrive, and plug it into an alternate monitor to do further diagnosis etc. Current prognosis? Not good. Since I did have to drive down to Pacific Beach today after lab (by the time I set out it was past 7pm already, and the rush-hour traffic had cleared so at least I wasn't stuck in traffic) for the deposit and further paperwork, that took another hour out of my time. After dinner, shower and such, I've just now got a chance to connect to the internet and looking at the clock? I don't think I'll take a stab at it tonight. I plead mild exhaustion.

I did get my Hep B titer results back today though, and now I'm (finally) immunized. In addition, the PI got us each a nice USB drive for lab stuff and chocolates for the lab meeting, so the day wasn't a total loss.