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About five days ago, my computer got all…wonky. Specifically, my Symantec virus scan suddenly started saying that my virus definitions were “invalid” every twenty minutes/every time I launched a Microsoft Office program, which themselves failed to launch properly. A message would pop up on this program I’ve been using since I reformatted in September that “Microsoft Word is not installed for this user.” I spent days trying to solve that problem, which ultimately involved deleteting OPA12.dat and re-authorizing the program. I’m quite reluctant to install any Windows updates now, though, considering that this whole thing started after one of them. Really quite frustrating, but I’m glad to have resolved it.
I’ve also been reading Jane Austen’s Persuasion, and I have never, ever hated a book as violently as I hate that one. I absolutely detested it. I found it so obscenely dry and terminally dull that I despaired of the class for which I read it. It took me upwards of forty-five minutes to get through fifteen pages. So I was pleasantly surprised when I started Jane Eyre last night, and adored it, getting through fifty pages in an hour. So I got that going for me.
Anyway, not gonna be a lot of blogging today. I have to read through another fifty pages of Jane Eyre in the space between two classes, then read more of Margery Kempe, and still go to my Italian Cinema class. So I’m gonna be pretty busy.
