argh

After spending all evening working on configuring and reorganizing my email on the new laptop, the mail program has stalled.

I have two choices. I can let it stay stalled and hope it will "unstall" -- something that has worked for me in the past -- or I can force quit and hope that the changes I've made were all saved.

What an agonizing decision. Ugh.

I tried to change my name on all the user accounts etc. and I couldn't. I may have to bring the laptop into the Apple Store just to get that done, which is particularly obnoxious. Fuckers.

Not crying anymore, but I do feel generally kinda helpless. All these things to do... I was really getting them in hand before the laptop disaster but now I have all that other stuff plus reconfiguring the entire laptop. Ugh.

Opinions on Safari vs. Firebird/Firefox?

Still haven't voted...

I'm leaving it to the last minute so I can do more research.

At first glance, I strongly match Kucinich better than Dean. So as a protest vote, voting for Kucinich would make the most sense.

But I just read up on delegates, and if they are as important as I suspect they are, getting Dean more delegates might be very worthwhile.

So it comes down to the value of delegates vs. the value of a protest vote (which might also get Kucinish delegates, but not as many).

Now I just have to figure out what I want on all the other initiatives, etc.

Go me!

Today I:
-finished grading tests from Monday, put them on a curve, and recorded them
-stopped at Albertsons for needed groceries and tp
-researched some political stuff and voted
-redid all the work I lost last night on my mail program and filters plus some
-got my professional email addresses up and running on the new mail program
-sent an invoice for some work I did a while back

Needless to say all this work has been saved repeatedly. So I shouldn't lose it again. Phew.

More detail:
The tests
They're still all on a curve. But every test, the average gets higher and higher, and the curve less and less necessary. There's also some interesting changes occurring... students who at first appeared to be doing very well are not doing so well and vice versa. To a large extent I think this is due to them choosing to not pay attention because they feel they can get away with it. Everything else in school has been going better and better every week. It's tough, but I'm finally getting in tune with the pace that these students can learn at and what they do and don't know. One of the major problems I've been running into is that apparently they've never had a math teacher with a math background until the one who ditched them last thanksgiving.

Voting
They moved the polling station on us. We went to 6th St where it was supposed to be and they didn't have our name. They told us to go to another place slightly further from our apartment, and they also didn't have our name. They had the street numbers around our apartment, but not us! So we placed provisional votes there, since polling was closing in a few minutes.

weee. Now I think it is bed time.