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Two weeks ago, someone from the contact lens course locked one of the computers in the crappy little computer lab (which has been without a functioning printer for the past month) that is available to us optometry students. After noticing the locked computer for three days in a row, I asked my brother what the contact lens course password was, lest it was still locked when I next saw it. I didn't go to school the next day due to being on assignment to a different school, didn't go the following day due to headache, didn't go the following 9 days due to being at my parents on the west coast.
Today, I went to the computer lab and found that machine was still locked by someone from the contact lens course, which had ended friday 10 days ago. I unlocked it and logged it out for the first time since october 4th.

For my next task, I shall read a 400 page book on psychophysics, which I was supposed to have access to for 4 weeks but will only have for two due to library and postal service screwups, which resulted in the book showing up at my local library one week ago, the day after I left for the coast and three weeks after I initially requested it.

Poat ree

If you were coming in the fall,
I'd brush the summer by
With half a smile and half a spurn,
As housewives do a fly.

If I could see you in a year,
I'd wind the months in balls,
And put them each in separate drawers,
Until their time befalls.

If only centuries delayed,
I'd count them on my hand,
Subtracting till my fingers dropped
Into Van Diemen’s land.

If certain, when this life was out,
That yours and mine should be,
I'd toss it yonder like a rind,
And taste eternity.

But now, all ignorant of the length
Of time's uncertain wing,
It goads me, like the goblin bee,
That will not state its sting.


- Emily Dickinson