The Modern Girl
The modern girl is your average American girl, who has her Ipod, laptop, blow drier, flat iron, curling iron, cell phone… you get the picture. To put it simply she is “plugged-into society.” To this extent I would consider myself a “modern girl.” Unfortunately technology was not one of my favorite things this week.
On Sunday I was getting ready for church, I had already blowdried my hair and had my flat iron plugged in and warming up. When I began to straighten my hair I realized that my straightener was not hot… it wasn’t even warm. In other words, my straightener had died, deceased, kicked the bucked, was no more, passed on, perished, croaked, bereft of life, bought the farm, departed, expired, gone to meet its maker, lifeless, was pushing up daisies, dead. To my horror I only had 15 more minutes before I had to leave for church. By the grace of God I was able to tame my hair into a manageable style. Later that afternoon I purchased a replacement for my recently departed straightener… may it rest in peace.
On Tuesday I had a chapel presentation due. Seeing that people are visual learners I made a PowerPoint display that coincided with the presentation. I have enough technology savvy to know that I should expect the worst, consequently I provided myself with a large space of time to get my presentation up an running. The projector was setup for me in the chapel and all I needed to do was plug in my computer and “have at it”. So what did I do? I plugged in my computer and attempted to get my presentation to show up on the screen. Long story short… it wasn’t working. I returned to the office to ask if anyone knew how to do it… nope. I texted my brothers… “pressed a bunch of keys until it works” or “i don’t know how to help you” were my responses. So I went and found some high schoolers from ACA, we were diagnosing the problem when my computer decided to freak-out. First the mouse froze, then the screen went black. I turned of my computer and restarted it. The computer decided that it didn’t want to work and wouldn’t even make it to the password screen! By this point I told the guys not to worry about it and I would just make my presentation without the PowerPoint.
Later that day….
I had just entered the dorm when I thought I heard my phone ringing. When I grabbed my phone I realized that it was not ringing but rather had someone talking to me. Apparently my phone decided to act of its own accord and call my manager on her cell phone.
Still later that day….
By this time I realized that technology was not on my side and that I should expect the worse when I went to work that evening, and technology did not disappoint me. Soon after I arrived I was informed that certain individuals had ruined some of the night crews privileges. During the evening while we are on our breaks we are often in the office on the computer playing spider solitaire. Occasionally when it is ABSOLUTLY DEAD we will play it while we are on the clock, but this circumstance does not happen frequently. Apparently an individual who usually works nights decided to play on the computer during lunch time and now all of the night crew gets punished for someones lack of thought.
Today is Thursday and so far I have not had any more technology drama, but you never know. Stay tuned to find out more. 