And then something went horribly wrong
My procrastination catches up with me.
I was all set. My paper was four pages long, and I
had plenty of time to print it, staple it, and walk to class. Ignoring the
blinking red light on my printer, I clicked "Print." Four mostly blank pages
were soon delivered to the tray. Not willing to give up so easily, I tried
printing again. Four completely white pages. I quickly started searching through
my supplies, and only found a color cartridge. I was not out of color ink, I was
out of black!
Knowing that printing in
my room was now not an option, I emailed my document to myself and headed over
to the computer lab with only 12 minutes before class. I downloaded the file to
one of the Macs, and found that it didn't have AppleWorks. Word opened the
document, but ruined my header, and made the document almost half of a page
shorter! I had no time to fool around with formatting, so I added a few line
breaks around the title as well as one at the top of each page, and sent it to
the printer.
At the printer kiosk, I
swiped my J-Card so it could charge me $1/page or whatever the rate is, and
waited for my document to arrive. The job before me must have been an entire
encyclopedia. Since I was hovering over the printer, everyone was getting mad at
me because they thought that I was the one printing War and Peace.
Finally, my paper came out, and I got to class just in time. I forgot to bring a
stapler with me, though. They should probably invest in one for the computer lab
to assist other procrastinators. Free staple with every print job or
something.
Posted: Wed - October 15, 2003 at 03:33 PM