belated birthday and a broken computer

Well! It has certainly been an interesting week. Why the lack of blogging? Because my computer died. ON MY BIRTHDAY. It was horrible horrible horrible. Even with me being relatively tech-savvy and able to figure a lot of stuff out on my own, this one had me in tears. But never fear, because everything turned out all right! Here's a recap of the week.

Tuesday: I was up very early working on Amateur Radio Club stuff.

le date of birth (but not the exact time)

first it was A's birthday. NOW IT'S MY TURN.

Everything was fine until I woke up at 7 to do some homework...and got the white screen of death. Uh oh.

this doesn't look good...

this REALLY doesn't look good..

So I called Apple Support to figure out what was wrong...and they told me that Tuesday was literally the worst possible day to have this happen because all their computers were down for a software update because of the new iPhones and stuff coming out. Great.

Luckily I was able to take it to a repair shop and it was a cable attached to the hard disk, not the entire hard disk like we feared.

The weather did nothing to improve my mood.

first comes rain...

then a hail of a lot of hail

I went to my Amateur Radio meeting and that was ok, I didn't present my little talk on my trip to Costa Rica but that was actually very alright.

After that I took my roomies to P.F. Chang's for a birthday dinner and it was fabulous. I'm so happy that something good came of a bad day...

fancy drinks

just for fun.

yummmmmm

 And L and C got me these cute teacups! So classy. And D got me two pairs of earrings and an awesome motivational poster (I'll have to put it on my wall and take a picture for you all!).

tea. for me.

Yesterday was the usual school/homework grind. I picked up my computer and got to work right away. And on the way to the gym there was this gorgeous full moon.

ooh

ahhh

And today I was running all over the place! I had classes, then I participated in a research experiment (where I earned some cash! sweet!), and had a study group with HH for humanities! Then it was off to the gym for yoga (so good to get back into some exercise classes!) and finishing homework and relaxing. 

surreptitiously taking a photo before the study

13 bucks! woohoo!

Tomorrow we don't have any crazy plans, but Saturday D and I have some good stuff planned! we'll see if it comes to fruition! Have a thuper thursday!