What's going on
Aug. 27th, 2011 12:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
citrinesunsetI've actually, officially started school now. It's going all right so far, though I don't think I have a realistic idea of the amount of work involved yet, as we have no homework assigned yet except for some reading. The reading's going well enough.
I was scared because one of my professors has a lot of negative ratings on ratemyprofessors.com. I don't actually trust that site much, but still. After seeing him in action a little bit, I get the impression he just has very high standards of his students, which is all right because it seems borne of a genuine interest in the subject and a desire to see his students do well and learn, which is a good thing. I find that "tough" professors are rewarding as long as they're good teachers and willing to help. So I'm carefully optimistic.
I'm worried about hurricane Irene, mainly the possibility of losing power. That would really suck.
What also sucks is that I'm still having computer issues. Now, Microsoft Office has like, disappeared. I can't open Word and as far as I can tell, Powerpoint and Excel aren't even on the computer. I did some Google searches, and I found a post on Microsoft's support forum from a gal having the exact same problem, and it appeared to be possibly connected to, yes, Windows Update. The same Windows Update that's been giving me grief since June. At this point, it doesn't seem to just be .Net Framework 4. But I'll be damned if I can trace the root of the problem. I looked under system restore to see if I could roll back to an older restore point, but the earliest point is from a week ago. I would need to go back to early June. My mom has suggested I use the recovery disk and revert to factory settings. This is...unappealing and feels like it might be overkill. At the same time, it feels like attacking the individual issues isn't doing much. I'd thought I'd fixed the .Net Framework 4 thing, but there are still two updates that won't install, and now there's this thing with Word disappearing.
I still need to put in some major work on my Inception Big Bang fic. I'm not too worried about it because I'm in brainstorming mode and have the idea all worked out and started. I don't really want to focus complete energy on it until I finish the WIP I'm completing now. I'm hoping being in school, while drastically cutting my free time, will also put me in a productive frame of mind that will ultimately help my writing. It's worked in the past.
I was scared because one of my professors has a lot of negative ratings on ratemyprofessors.com. I don't actually trust that site much, but still. After seeing him in action a little bit, I get the impression he just has very high standards of his students, which is all right because it seems borne of a genuine interest in the subject and a desire to see his students do well and learn, which is a good thing. I find that "tough" professors are rewarding as long as they're good teachers and willing to help. So I'm carefully optimistic.
I'm worried about hurricane Irene, mainly the possibility of losing power. That would really suck.
What also sucks is that I'm still having computer issues. Now, Microsoft Office has like, disappeared. I can't open Word and as far as I can tell, Powerpoint and Excel aren't even on the computer. I did some Google searches, and I found a post on Microsoft's support forum from a gal having the exact same problem, and it appeared to be possibly connected to, yes, Windows Update. The same Windows Update that's been giving me grief since June. At this point, it doesn't seem to just be .Net Framework 4. But I'll be damned if I can trace the root of the problem. I looked under system restore to see if I could roll back to an older restore point, but the earliest point is from a week ago. I would need to go back to early June. My mom has suggested I use the recovery disk and revert to factory settings. This is...unappealing and feels like it might be overkill. At the same time, it feels like attacking the individual issues isn't doing much. I'd thought I'd fixed the .Net Framework 4 thing, but there are still two updates that won't install, and now there's this thing with Word disappearing.
I still need to put in some major work on my Inception Big Bang fic. I'm not too worried about it because I'm in brainstorming mode and have the idea all worked out and started. I don't really want to focus complete energy on it until I finish the WIP I'm completing now. I'm hoping being in school, while drastically cutting my free time, will also put me in a productive frame of mind that will ultimately help my writing. It's worked in the past.
