Technology Hates Me

So right now I should be doing homework.

No.

Really.

You have no idea how badly I need to be working on the massive projects that are taking over my life.
But I'm not.
And the reason?
My computer network has locked me out. Completely. I start up the computer, hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete, type in my recently-changed-by- the-administration password, wait a few moments and it says, "Your account has been locked out. Please contact your administrator." Except, I did contact my administration, also known as the IS&S department on campus, earlier today. Twice. For a little while today after I called, my accounts were working. I managed to send some really important emails for work and class and get some important emails. But then it died again, and there's no 24 hour help here. If your problem doesn't occur between the hours of 8am and 5pm, you're screwed.

Sorry! No one to help you out now! So, I have a paper analysis to do that I can't access because it is a word document typed up and saved on the part of the computer I'm locked out of. I can't work on any other homework because, since every professor insists that anything to be turned in is supposed to be typed, they're all locked away from me now. The EARLIEST I will have any access to them again will be 8am. IF I'm lucky, IF they check messages at IS&S and IF they call me back.

So, right now, I'm angry, frustrated, and just generally upset because there is no reason I shouldn't have access to the basic things that I need. I mean, I'm not asking for a miracle here, but I feel like I might as well be. To add to the stress, I'm supposed to register for my senior year classes on Monday. I should be excited about this, I'm the first person in my family to go to college, I've worked so hard, and I'm so close to being done. But instead of relishing in the joy that I've only got a year and a half left (student teaching is an extra semester) I'm freaking out because if I'm locked out I can't register. If I can't register then there's a decent chance I won't get one of the classes I need next semester and since I've never had the professor before I can't hope she'll hold a spot just because she knows me. One of my other classes, an advanced creative writing course taught by the novelist Silas House is sure to fill up very quickly, but if I can't get onto my account I can't register for it.

This whole mess is really stressing me out, so I'm sitting here with my sour patch kids thinking angry thoughts at technology for excluding me and wishing there was something I could do about it.