Frog and Goat

So it’s no surprise that I work for a large university, right? It might surprise you to know how much our IT system sucks. This afternoon I was in a meeting and the first few minutes were spent saying mean things about how lame our system is…one person went as far to relate a story of how she was talking to the Dean of our School and said she’d rather call her on the phone than email her because she could drive the 20 minutes to campus and see the Dean in person before her computer would even consider sending email. The Dean (the MF DEAN!) said she turns on her PC in the morning and then goes and does something else while she waits for it to stop fingering itself. OK, maybe she didn’t use those exact terms. The point was our IT system blows. And, it’s been especially bad after all those students came back to town. You know, those 30,000 extra people the school has been EXPECTING.

I got home and plunked down in front of my 4 year old computer and said how happy I was to have a fast connection and a speedy machine. The better-half asked me if I was being sarcastic. I said no, I’m serious because our IT system blows filthy chunks. Then he reminded me of the new laptop that I got today and how I’ll think my old one is slow. The new one is pretty awesome, but seriously, a caveman typing with a bird’s beak is faster than what I’ve been putting up with at work.