20 sep 01
this update comes to you courtesy of the Dell Alumni Study Lounge in Norris University Center. so anyway, it’s been a pretty good day so far. i had a job interview with Staci Roberts at the Web Communications office at 2pm, which I thought i was going to be late to, since I went to Taco Bell beforehand. i wasn’t late, and i got the job. i’m pretty excited; i think it will be a great resume-builder. i’ll get to work on the top-level Northwestern pages and redesign NU departmental pages.
the NICOR dude was supposed to come today to take a reading, but i guess i missed him. i couldn’t wait around all day, after all. tomorrow, the Ameritech dude is coming to set up my phone. yay. then i’ll have dial-up access from home.
i really need to go to the grocery store, Best Buy/Radioshack, and a Target-type store. i have no food in the house, and i lack fairly important things like toilet paper and paper towels.
in other white-knuckles news, something is awry with my preamp. the power supply seems to have taken a dump. it makes a strange hum (60Hz?) and doesn’t power the main unit properly. (by the way, my preamp [see stereo page] has an external power supply.) i might just get a cheapo passive preamp from Radioshack if i can’t get this sorted out.
ok, enough for now.