Me vs. The Computer.

So I've come to a new conclusion. Technology hates me. I'm not sure what I did to incur such wrath upon myself, but believe you me, I really wish I could take it back. But technology is cold and merciless. It does not accept apology. Anyway. May I just say that these past two days have passed in a blur of trying to force the computer and its various outlets to bend to my will. As you can guess, it didn't work. Here is my story. It was a slightly more than a little depressing day at school. I was in the lab working on a school group project. This is when it all began to go awry. Actually, no. That didn't happen till I got home. The awry-ness begins now. So I'm sitting at home, writing an outline of our power point of the independence movement to be handed out with our presentation the following day. I finish, but decide not to print 35 copies on my dad's printer. My friend offers to print it out at school the next day, so I joyfully e-mail her the paper. I try 5 times. I keep getting back the same e-mail; "Sending failed. Blah blah blah." So I check the address and try again. No dice. By this point, I'm getting a small bit frustrated. My e-mail has betrayed me, Which means I have to get up 30 minutes earlier tomorrow(today) so that I can go to school early and print it out. Thanks, thank you, technology. I think you understand all to well how precious every minute of slumber is to a high school student. Why?? Why are you punishing me?? Anyway, I arrive school slightly later than the early I planned to arrive, only to find that all of the computers are taken. I then go to my college psychology class (in which the professor is not lecturing, he was in Boise or something..) And I have to have a big argument with the proctor over stepping down into the library to print off my copies. (What? It's not like we were doing anything of worth...) So she finally lets me go, and I run downstairs. I had e-mailed the file to myself. I tried opening it in 4 different ways. Every way failed miserably. I could hear the eerie robotic laughter of technology mocking me as I desperately worked to print out the pages that were due next hour. No dice. Google documents, no dice. It would only show a corner of the paper. I don't know why, but I disapprove. It printed it out that way too. I hate you, google docs. I tried hitting view, download, and the little word button. "Your version of the word is too updated. Would you like to download a compatibility package?" To which I replied with a bunch of uncouth mormon versioned swear words, and a near attempt to throw the troll of a computer at someone's head. Technology, 5. Ali, 0.