I am (sometimes)

Wow. It's been a while, hasn't it? For those of you who were unblessed by cell phone excuses, or in-person appologies, I appoloigize for not having blogged, and for not being on aim for the past two weeks. But I have an excuse. Yes. And this time it's not because I hid a body in the wall and accidently cut the phone line. See, the past six months, we've had a landline in the appartment. Laura didn't have a cell phone, and it made DSL a bit cheaper, so we enjoyed a phone number for a while. Before Laura left, she canceled the phone line - fine thing to do since she's the only one who uses it. Only thing is, apparently when asked if she wanted to keep the dsl service, she replied, "negative, Captain." And, she didn't even tell us. Bad mistake. Around three am on Tuesday morning of the twenty-fourth of March, the DSL went out. I thought maybe Qwest was just being lame, so I went to work not thinking much of it. I came back and it still wouldn't go on, so I called Qwest and found out what happened. Qwest guy had me sign up to open a new account with them, since they couldn't just reactivate the old one. Unfortunately that was to take a week. So I patiently wait, not doing any of the organizing I had put off all quarter until when I finally had time spring break. Tuesday comes around again, and it's still not working. I call Qwest and see what the deal is - turns out this jackass from the week before didn't put in my order, so they didn't even have me in the system to get dsl activated. The woman I was talking to about it all was very nice about the whole thing, she appologized, and put through a request to rush it, since they had fucked it up. I'm quite greatful, but it still could take a while. Meanwhile I'm having my CS classes with mailing lists and homeworks posted already. Kinda hard when I don't have the net to do all these web-assignments. Finally, I get a call from the Qwest lady on Thursday saying it should be up - I call tech support, they say it's not up yet. Friday I get another voicemail saying it's up again, this time it is. Yay! So Alden's back. I can finally live again. It was so weird not having the net...

"It is only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything." - Tyler Durden, Fight Club