Kind of Sad, But Really Funny Story

Here we go:

You know how in those cartoon movies someone will start vacuuming and they'll end up sucking something up that shouldn't be sucked? It's, like, a cartoon law (right up there with "don't-fall-until-you-look-down"). But has that ever happened to YOU?

Well, it's happened to me.

I was vacuuming my floor yesterday, and not really paying attention. I had left two small socks on the floor in front of my dresser, and I didn't feel like bending down to pick them up so I decided that I could just push them out of the way with the vacuum. "They're not small enough to get sucked up, right?" Wrong-o!

The next thing I knew, one of the socks was whisked out of sight with an odd shvloorckt and the vacuum started making an unhealthy noise. I think it was choking. I immediately turned it off and laid it on the floor so that I could try to get the sock out. Except that the sock wasn't visible like I thought it would be.

It turns out that the sock got sucked UP THE TUBE and it proved very difficult to get out. Luckily, Dad was home (with a cold, which is not so lucky), and with his help we managed to get that sock outta there. (It involved using an old broom handle and much struggling.) It was wrapped up in this tiny, compact little ball, and it was absolutely filthy. That poor little sock.

In other, unrelated news: I got to help Carrie tend Eldon and another little boy the other day. It was fun. Ask me about it later. :)

Slightly Guilty

*sob* I confess! I did it! I BROKE THE COLOR PRINTER IN THE LAB ON CAMPUS!

No, I didn't REALLY break it, but I feel responsible...

I was working late last night, and some lady came up and asked me which tray the color printer printed from. I said I didn't know for sure, but we both figured it was the top one... seeing as how the bottom one didn't have any paper in it. This lady had a piece of very glossy paper in her hand, and I should have guessed what was going to happen right then and there. But I was kind of out of it (working for six consecutive hours can do that to you), and I thought that the glossy piece of paper was just glossy, and not twenty times thicker than the normal paper used in the color printer.

Much to my consternation, however, a few minutes later the color printer made this horrendous noise that could be heard by all in the computer lab (and which one person said sounded like "someone blowing their nose") and then the printer became deathly quiet and refused to print anything else. I pulled up the trusty computer software that lets me see how things are going in the labs and it told me what I already feared... that there was a jam in the output bin. (Great. Just great.)

Now, the printers in the main computer lab sit on a high table which makes them almost impossible to reach for a person just barely topping five feet. Especially this color printer. Getting to the output bin was beyond my capacity, so I just sat for the last twenty minutes of my shift trying to pacify the concerned users who were attempting to print from the color printer. *Sigh*

But other than that, I'm okay. School is almost over, and I am overjoyed. (Now all I have to do is figure out what I'm going to do over the summer. Heh.) :)

Techical Difficulties

Um, there used to be a different post here, but I decided to get rid of it. There is now nothing here.