{ take whatever you can, girl, leave the rest for the crows. }

[delga]

I really envy those of y'all who have successfully conquered the list format of updating. You make it seem effortless. I... still fail at it. Ostensibly it's a process of numbering or bulleting issues but there's a brevity to it that I have never really been able to capture. Seriously, guys, I salute you.

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Shameface: OBSESSED with this song.

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I really, really want to write something for in_a_name because I love the concept and because I love crossover and also because I want to write something and not feel like I've been lagging. (How a person who has to pry words from her own grip can be seen to be lagging in a department not her own is a special non-sense-making question and I don't really know where I'm going with this parenthetical aside but you should know that I truly approve of other people's ability to stick to the damn point). Wait, what?

Right! in_a_name! The prompts have been open for a while and natch I forgot about them. But that's okay because the posting period is March 20-29 which means I have plenty of time. AND SO DO YOU.

(Pimping? MOI? How dare you even suggest.)

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The centre was crazy busy this morning although, surprisingly, it was a mostly-male class (this is a rare thing). One guy came with his laptop; he was due in the afternoon, but whatever. He was having a problem using programs on his laptop because he hadn't registered with McAfee and so it was blocking his access to various software. It took us a while to fix that; it turned out that every time McAfee asked for an email and password he was entering one without having actually set up an account. True story, guys. And then, OH GOSH, AND THEN. Then he wanted to log into his email address so we went to the Btinternet/Yahoo site and tried to log in. He couldn't remember his password (which BT sends out with its userinfo &c.) so we were going to attempt password recovery. Except then I remembered that the guy is using mobile internet, specifically O2. CAN YOU SEE WHERE THIS IS GOING? He was trying to access an email account that he didn't actually have. BT isn't his ISP; there's NO WAY he can have a btinternet.com email address. And he's been giving this address out! To other people!

I ended up signing him onto our email course and sending him away despairingly.

Whilst that was going on I was also hopping around various people. One guy was trying to work out how to insert tables in Word and another - this FABULOUS and kindly old gentleman - needed help with spellfucker. Seriously: I love the people I meet at the centre. They're all so lovely and excited and willing and just marvellous. Laptop Guy was a bit of a headcase but he's a rare exception. Lovely.

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During lunch I went to the main office and printed off leaflets for the front desk because that is apparently still impossible for other people to do. I walked to The Store and chatted with one of the staff - this delightful woman who works c.8hrs per week when we have deliveries.

In the afternoon session there was a sum total of TWO students. One was a Silver Surfer regular who just came to surf the web; the other was a guy learning to use eBay, so Boss Lady dealt with him. I spent the time drafting a letter for the Boss Lady and also sorting out some market research. I need to finish that off this weekend.

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And now I'm going to pretend to write fanfic.