2004-03-14 | 10:53 p.m.
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I'm not really sure why it is that I am updating right now, for I don't think there is much to say. I get so tired of saying the same things over and over again..."I'm so happy to be home", "I love Lakewood", "My friends are my support and they make me the best Alexis I can be"...I mean, it is all true, don't get me wrong. I suppose I just worry that my continuous reaffirmations would imply that things are not as great as they could be, that I am hiding something.

I really am happy to be home, honest. I guess the thing that gets to me is knowing that I can't leave all of my troubles in Oxford and just relax when I am home.

I know that I have been joking about my computer problems for some weeks now, but I don't think I have ever really said anything about how truly upset I am. First of all, I have fallen behind in a few of my classes because I couldn't access the notes from the internet. It would have been possible to print them from a friend's computer, but that would have been over 40 pages of notes, not to mention the amount of ink I would have used. I could have also printed the notes in the library, but I shudder to think what that would have cost me.

So imagine my relief when I talked to the Gateway people and they said, "Sure, bring your computer in over break and we will fix it for you. We are confident that we will have it ready for you to take back to school at the end of the week." Well, when I took it to the store yesterday, the woman at the counter said they may have to send it back to Texas and that I wouldn't have it by next Saturday. She mentioned mailing it to school, but the postal center at Miami is terrible. Besides, what would be the point of mailing it down there and possibly making me pay for shipping if I would only be there for a few more weeks?

Which brings me to my final worry - money. My computer's warranty was for certain hard drive repairs...my computer had complete hard drive failure. Call me a worrywart, but I don't know that this will be covered under warranty and that scares me to death. Will I be able to afford this? I'm inclined to say "no".

I know that my mom will help me, but she also made a jab at me, saying that it was my fault that the computer broke. She was talking about the fact that I had Blubster, a music downloading program that is illegal and really messes with your system. In my defense, my computer was cleared of Blubster and all of its evil henchmen weeks before the entire system crashed. To get off my tangent, I just want to say that I think I will be paying for this on my own, and it is worrysome.

I may have been laughing on the outside about my computer problems for the last few weeks, but inside, I am crying. I'm more stressed out about this than I let on because it is such a huge part of my life at school that I am without, and I don't even want to think about how much it is going to cost me in the end.

I just want it to be over. I want my computer back and I want everything to be covered under warranty. The probability of this happening is very slim right now

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