Back.

I dropped my mom safely at LaGuardia a couple hours ago. She can no longer drag me out to buy one last thing for my room, nor can we do any more fun touristy things.

We went to the Cloisters and basked in all the pretty flowers and had a nice lunch and took blurry no-flash pictures and went on two tours, the mayhap tour and the actual docent tour, and we went to Coney Island and waded in the Atlantic, her up to her ankles, me up to my neck, and had Nathan's hot dogs and ate cotton candy as we went up on the ferris wheel.

I saw a woman on a Segway on my way back from the airport, out with the traffic on Lafayette (I don't think they're even allowed on the sidewalks). People sort of picture them and gloss them as "goofy little scooters", but she was standing out there like a figurehead in the breeze, waiting on the light and making everyone trapped behind their wheels in their oversized, under-utilized vehicles look silly.

My roommate and her boyfriend are lying in bed awake behind me, which is making me feel nervous.

Back.

I dropped my mom safely at LaGuardia a couple hours ago. She can no longer drag me out to buy one last thing for my room, nor can we do any more fun touristy things.

We went to the Cloisters and basked in all the pretty flowers and had a nice lunch and took blurry no-flash pictures and went on two tours, the mayhap tour and the actual docent tour, and we went to Coney Island and waded in the Atlantic, her up to her ankles, me up to my neck, and had Nathan's hot dogs and ate cotton candy as we went up on the ferris wheel.

I saw a woman on a Segway on my way back from the airport, out with the traffic on Lafayette (I don't think they're even allowed on the sidewalks). People sort of picture them and gloss them as "goofy little scooters", but she was standing out there like a figurehead in the breeze, waiting on the light and making everyone trapped behind their wheels in their oversized, under-utilized vehicles look silly.

My roommate and her boyfriend are lying in bed awake behind me, which is making me feel nervous.

Technical bitchery

Fucking NYU won't let me use my wireless access point (AirPort) in my dorm. Their email, which was somehow addressed to my roommate who has no wireless 802.11b equipment, contains what I can only, with my reasonably technical and obsessive degree of knowledge, deem a blatant untruth:

"This access point was giving out network addresses to other users at the dorm, and preventing them from obtaining normal access."

It doesn't work that way. It just doesn't. *bangs head against the wall*

I'm not using my WAP anyway. I unplugged it and put it in my drawer. I'm using someone else's WAP which has a factory-default name and no password. If they pack theirs up and go home, I'll have to actually plug in the damn ethernet cord. I know, I know, my life is so hard. Wireless internet was keeping me sane, okay? It meant I could get stuff done even if stupid shit started going down in my room.

Now, there had better just not be any.

*glares at unseeing back of roommate, the true nature of whom is still unknown*

Update: The WAP I'm using is outside the building/off the campus network. I need not rely on NYU for my internet access at all! Score! Nobody tell them I'm on it, unless they actually wanted it to be freely accessible! Either way, I love them!

I can't access the OED this way, but shucks, how often is that really necessary? I can dig out the ethernet cord for that.

Technical bitchery

Fucking NYU won't let me use my wireless access point (AirPort) in my dorm. Their email, which was somehow addressed to my roommate who has no wireless 802.11b equipment, contains what I can only, with my reasonably technical and obsessive degree of knowledge, deem a blatant untruth:

"This access point was giving out network addresses to other users at the dorm, and preventing them from obtaining normal access."

It doesn't work that way. It just doesn't. *bangs head against the wall*

I'm not using my WAP anyway. I unplugged it and put it in my drawer. I'm using someone else's WAP which has a factory-default name and no password. If they pack theirs up and go home, I'll have to actually plug in the damn ethernet cord. I know, I know, my life is so hard. Wireless internet was keeping me sane, okay? It meant I could get stuff done even if stupid shit started going down in my room.

Now, there had better just not be any.

*glares at unseeing back of roommate, the true nature of whom is still unknown*

Update: The WAP I'm using is outside the building/off the campus network. I need not rely on NYU for my internet access at all! Score! Nobody tell them I'm on it, unless they actually wanted it to be freely accessible! Either way, I love them!

I can't access the OED this way, but shucks, how often is that really necessary? I can dig out the ethernet cord for that.