Current mood:	tired
Current music:	Chelsea Lately - E!
Entry tags:	pit 5

Cursed!
After a run of great luck a few weeks ago -- which included the happy news of budgetary pink slips being rescinded in my district (so I will definitely have a job next school year), driving a DeLorean, and meeting my longtime favorite actor Michael J. Fox...twice! -- I had some rotten luck happen with various electrical devices. They included:

- Last Saturday, my PowerBook died. Kaput. This could've been worse for me if I hadn't already saved for and intended to get a MacBook in late June (timing it so I could buy it in Oregon and not pay sales tax) and there was nothing on my PB that I didn't have backed up already on my iMac. However, bottom line, I have no laptop until then and since I do most of my writing on a laptop.... This has tossed a kink into my progress.

- On Monday, my car's AC went on the fritz. Fortunately, that was fixed today for a sum that was not as bad as I anticipated.

- Tonight, my 5 month old iPhone decided to stop working...or charging. So tomorrow I get to go to the Apple Store and beg for help. Lovely.

Really, I hope that's the last of the bad run of luck for me!

PIT5 is, still, moving along. I've had to write segments by hand after marking up printed pages on the most recent stuff. I used to write like this a lot until I got so used to using a laptop. If I was in a revision stage, I would be dead in the water...you can't revise something easily without the whole beast at your access!

There's about four weeks left of the school year. This is my favorite time of year...the gradual slowing down of everything coupled with the celebrations and traditions and anticipations of time off. For my part, I look forward to being a fully functional person again by not rising at 5 A.M. for a couple months!

-K