Just two more sections.

I’ve been fiddling around with my blackberry, trying to learn polish, trying to keep up in my schoolwork, and trying desperately to find meaning in life (lol, jk) and so, maybe, I’ve neglected you.

Oh, who am I kidding.  Come here, you.  Give me a hug.  I’ve missed you.

I have two sections left on my math studying.  It’s functional analysis, so I’ve already done it, but it never hurts to look over things before an exam.  The exam, of course, is in a little under 4 hours.  I hate 9am classes.

What’s worse, though, is that my sleep schedule is all f’d up.  I’m staying awake all night and I’m sleeping all day.  How did this happen, you ask?  Commutative Algebra.  And being generally lazy.  Maybe tomorrow I’ll try to actually stay up.  But, you know how I do.

Maybe I haven’t been doing things like I should because it’s been just way too cold to think about anything like, you know, going out to see friends, working, walking around, shopping for food, etc.  It’s going to be 28 degrees today, which is a high for this week, so maybe I’ll go to the store.  It’ll only be a LITTLE below freezing.  Ugh.

Now, as you all know, I like to keep on the cutting edge of things.  I have a twitter now [jsal13], and also am trying to get a qik for my blackberry-adventures.  But, since I’ve gotten my blackberry, I’ve had a lot of time to sort of, you know, just sit places and think.  Unfortunately, these thoughts are limited to 160 characters, because of twitter’s limits!  I was considering getting a blog which was purely for me to blog about my life from my blackberry.  This would obviously not be as extensive as this blog, but perhaps I wouldn’t ramble so much.

Why should you care?

I’m a middle-class white bi male on medication for anxiety at a university studying math.  What more could you want from a person?

What would be a bit cooler about the new blog would be this: my blackberry has a camera, so I would be able to upload pictures straight from my bb to the new bbblog.  or bbb for short.  That would be a cool name for blackberry blogs.  BBB’s.  TripB’s.  3B’s.  B^3s.  BeeCubes.

B Cubes.

Anyway, I’m trying to get a flickr account and figure out a way to get some sort of app that uploads them directly from my bb, so when I figure that out, I’ll give you guys a holla.

I’d also sort of be curious to see who still reads this blog.  Surprisingly, I’m still averaging about 5 – 6 hits a day, even when I haven’t been updating so much.  I know some of you have this rss’d, and I appreciate that!  For those of you not in the “know”, rss feeds (really simple syndication) can be read from things called “feed readers”.

Google has one, Feeddemon is the one I use, there’s a bunch more.  Basically, it’s a one-stop-shop for all the sorts of news that you like that you read every day anyway.  Do you find yourself clicking cnn.com, npr.com, porn.com, etc., constantly?  You may want to check this out if you haven’t already.

Alright.  I don’t think I’ll be updating for a little while, since I need to spend this weekend catching up on my finances so I don’t go broke, and figuring out the gas situation [oh!  stay tuned for that, it's going to be fun.] and also, I NEED TO KEEP APPLYING TO GRAD SCHOOLS.

Ugh.  Life!

Comcast.

About a week ago, I think on thursday, our modem stopped working so great.  So on Friday, I called comcast to see if there was a problem.  After waiting ~15 minutes and speaking to someone (I think her name was Shanelle.) who was obviously not qualified for a tech job, she told me to wait until the morning and call up billing.  So I did.  After ~15 minutes, billing said there’s nothing they could do because it wasn’t a billing problem.  So they transfered me to another person who clearly had no idea what she was doing.

So, she told me that she’d schedule an appointment for a tech to come over on Sunday, the following day.  So, I said okay and hung up.

The next day, no tech.  All day.  So I called back and ~20 minutes later, I got some guy who told me that my account was blank — some tech had probably erased it, and they probably also forgot to put my appointment down or my appointment was canceled because of it.  So I asked him if there was anything he could do.  Yes, he said: schedule an appointment.

The only apt was on Wednesday, so I said okay.  It was 10 – 1, which would mean that I’d have to stay home and miss class.  I said okay.

On Wednesday, 9:30, I got a call.  I didn’t get there in time, so I had to call back.  Comcast.

~20 minutes later, I got to someone and asked what they called for.  Apparently, this was some sort of wake-up call to see if I was home; since I didn’t answer, the tech was told to skip my house.  Again, note that this was before my scheduled appointment.  I asked the woman if there was anything I could do.  She said, yes; schedule another appointment.

So she said, how about tomorrow at 10 – 1?  I said okay.  Fine.

So I slept with the phone next to my ear so that I could get it.  It rings at 11:00.  I grab it.

“Hello?  Hello?!”  I scream into the phone.  Silence.

No one is on the other end.  It disconnects.  I frantically call comcast back.  ~15 minutes later, I’m talking to this chummy guy who is telling me that sometimes comcast will call one day ahead of time to make sure that the individual is home for the following day — and, in fact, my appointment was scheduled for Friday, so this was probably my pre-wakeup call.

I said, “what?  Friday?  No, thusday.”

“No, I’m checking the appointment book.  Friday at 10 – 1.  I’ll see if I can get you anything sooner.  [...]  Nope, Friday.  Should I schedule you for Friday?”

I was confused.  Wasn’t I already scheduled for Friday?

“Sure.”  I said.

“Make sure you pick up the phone when we call, otherwise we’ll skip over you.”

“Thanks.”  I said, and hung up.

Now it has been one week without internet.  It’s not too big of a deal, but I have graduate applications to do, and on a shotty internet connection, they’re a pain.  I’d go to the library, but it’s freezing outside and I frankly like to stay around in my pj’s.

So what the fuck am I paying comcast $60 a month for if this shit is going to keep happening?  This is a new modem that the guy installed less than 6 months ago.  It’s annoying, but I know people probably have tons of worse comcast stories.  It just annoys me that I need to take off from class three days in a row because comcast can’t get their shit together.