computer in office

tuesday
23 november.

so i've been staking claim on a desk that faces the window (side note - the sky while setting extremely early these days has been really pretty to watch), but the computer at that space does not have the university-wide login. it was specifically someone's workspace computer.

so i asked adrian who i'd have to talk to about switching computers around. he suggested i just move the thing myself. so i figured i would, but not when all the other (somewhat anti-social) people were in there working. so i went before class yesterday at 9 am to accomplish this task.

and i thought, perfect, there are no other students. so first i tried one computer and discovered it was someone else's somehow personalized login computer. so i took the tower i knew was working that i had been sitting at. that worked at my window space but i had to bring all the attachments since the brand was different. so while hooking the cords up, i was stopped by some woman from the department. who, without identifying herself, or asking about why i might need a computer or desk space, asked me what i was doing to the computer that was sitting at that space unused. everyone's so concerned. it's password locked. i can't use it. clearly i'm not going to erase or damage whoever's stuff is sitting on it. the computer is still there. i just need one that functions so that i can work on my degree. i think that's perfectly reasonable. i wasn't going to reattach and leave that one plugged in, but it now is. it's there. sitting in my space. just waiting.

ridiculous.

but at least now i have a working computer - maybe it'll become mine or something somehow - at a window space. and some books. so there's my space. hopefully it will stay that way.