Well, I have a network account now, so I can use the computers in the lab at the library. But I still don’t have an email account, or a dial-up account, nor my own office and computer yet.

I managed to register for car insurance with State Farm yesterday, and then I walked across the street and registered my car. They gave me two license plates, but I only have a mount on the rear of the car. So, now I have to go to the Toyota delaership on Monday so they can install a front license plate holder.

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Celebrity Soul Sister. Since this test is making the rounds, I tried it and came up with Julia Roberts. Hm. I’d rather have Sister Wendy.

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underachievers.com has their posts running horizontally showing the last 7 days. Neat!

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Latest issue: I tried to cook something for the first time today and discovered my stove doesn’t work. Also, still no dial-up access. No computer account. No office computer.

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Okay. I’ve been here a week and I still don’t have a campus computer account. No email, no network access, no dial-up.

To top it off, once I got my modem working again, I discovered that AOL does not have a dial-up number for this area code (660). So, I guess I’ll have to continue using the library’s card catalog machines on the sly for a while longer…

Speaking of AOL, they’re catching some heat for their new AOL@School program (at least, CNN Headline News said so but I can’t find it on the web anywhere). Basically, they’ll offer free AOL service to students (though banning online shopping and filtering porn). They hope to breed brand loyalty.

It’s kind of like the program at IU where we could get Microsoft products for $5 a CD. But now that I have to pay full price, I’m not hankering to buy any new Microsoft products.

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I’m sure you all have heard about the travesty of justice at my old school IU by now (Wooey! IU appeared on the Daily Show with John Stewart two nights in a row!)

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Suspect turns himself in after indictment in 1963 Birmingham church bombing. Finally, maybe the families of the victims will have some peace.

I grew up in Birmingham, but the church bombing was never really talked about in the white school district I lived in. It wasn’t until I took a class on Diverse College Students last semester in Grad School (in Indiana) and watched Spike Lee’s Four Little Girls that I really learned a lot about this terrible tragedy.

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Yesterday my old server back in Indiana went down and I couldn’t get ahold of the new administrator. I thought, “Well, I’ll just work quickly and try to get my new server up and running.”

Then, my building had its hot water turned off for the summer and I had to move to a different building, which doesn’t have ethernet access. So, in a day or two, I’ll be able to set up my server in a different building that does have ethernet.

My other Windows computer is missing a modem driver, so I can’t get online yet (I’m typing this from a library card catalog computer, because they still haven’t created a campus computer account for me yet).

I was freaking out all night about what I was going to do to create a placeholder page for hit-or-mis.org and web queeries if my old server didn’t get back up, but lo and behold it has.

Things are finally starting to look up.

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In reading Bridget Jones’s Diary, I came across the term HAGFAG, i.e. a gay man who likes to hang out with single straight women. Although I’ve had lots of female friends, I’ve never had a woman who slavishly doted on me, i.e. a FAGHAG (though I prefer to use my friend Kevin’s term, FRUITFLY). I HAVE had some wonderful mutually symbiotic relationships with women though, where we have been able to commiserate in our dealings with men.

Right now, there’s no one in that role in my life (actually, I don’t have a single friend out here yet). If I could have any blogger as a real life female friend, I think it’d be Meg, Caroline, or Firda. I don’t know any of them at all, but after reading their blogs for a while, I think they’d be the coolest to hang out with and dish our scumbag boyfriends.

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Third Secret of Fatima. I didn’t understand what the priest was going on about this morning during the homily, but now I do (via Metafilter).

Speaking of Mass, is it small minded of me to say that I didn’t care for the service in my new town this morning? There was no choir and not even a cantor. Everyone stumbled through the hymns at their own tempo as a women played a clavinova in the corner, producing an effect rather like a Charles Ives composition. Supposedly there’s a much bigger church about 45 minutes from here, I’ll have to check it out next Sunday. I can’t wait until September when the campus Newman Center opens up again – I hear they have a nice music program.

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