What I Want

My TV broke down at some indeterminate time, since I apparently watched even less TV than usual this week, what with laundry, a co-worker's wedding and so forth. Last night it wouldn't turn on. I wish I could click the TV and have a technician show up at my door an hour later. I wish I could stay in my bra and panties and provoke no more reaction than jeans and a tee. I wish I could drag and drop furniture. I wish I could write a novel just by sitting at my computer and typing until it's done. Also, I'd like some flame fruit.

And it turns out I can't have the Asian language pack because, while it's okay to download the Windows XP SP3, it's not okay to download the files that languages are installed from because, OMG! What if my XP is pirated? I have to call Lenovo/IBM support and order the CDs, wait for them to be ordered and shipped, and then go to the support center in person and pick them up. And that's assuming everything goes without hitch. Maybe they'll decide that the CDs aren't covered by my warranty.

I can't have a part-time job next year that will cover my rent, because my department got the financing to hire someone full-time instead of me, and it's not worth their while to keep me part-time when they can have someone full-time. I also found this out in a very roundabout, unpleasant way, rather than my boss coming to me and saying, "Look, we can't keep you." Which is what he said he'd do, and I said it would be okay if he told me at the last minute, because I knew it depended on the numbers for the second quarter, or the third quarter, or whatnot. Next year will be hard.

What I can have is my sister, who flew in last night and will be at dinner tonight. I can also probably have a summer cold.