Crisis the First

Oh how I laughed at my near-miss on a crisis by almost leaving my ipod in Cork. I had forgotten to take down the connector, so hadn't reworked the contents as planned but was willing to live with the 20% of junk in the face of the 80% of awesome.

Right now, I have 100% of zero. Not realising there was a music manager that would autoplay the ipod, and even if it did that this would wreak havoc, I plugged in the iPod to the eee and watched it destroy all before it. Except that crappy version of bejewelled I'm still bitter aboout paying 5 euro for. Further investigation shows everything is still there, the software just saw fit to reorganise the folders in a way the iPod does not understand. Sadness. Actual tears. A veritable tragedy in my life. My life which for the next 3 months contains multiple 8+ hours flights and many many 5+ hour bus trips, and hostels where I'll need to drown out my dormmates. You can see the quality of my tragedy*, the terror I am facing. I have zero tolerance for other people's noise, and they'll all have crappy ipod headphones leaking at me in a vicious, deliberate fashion.

Obviously I rang Liam and cried 'save me!!'. No seriously. Ok I ranted first and then cried 'save me!!!' let us hope he can, despite the lack of quality pop tunes on his laptop (he has a complete failure to comprehend the artistry behind Girls Aloud). Give me some Arctic Monkeys and the Charlatans Greatest hits, and I'll be happy. Give me a working iPod with anything except dance music, Muse**, comedy music or country and irish (now that is the music of suicide, not the music of pain) and I'll live.

Fingers crossed people. Or there's likely to be blood on the streets.


* Yes, it's not very tragic in the grand scheme of the world.
** Except that one song that I bought, but that was a disappointment too. And a cover. Oh I admit it, I still feel dirty.

Additional learning experience - need to find a photo editor, stat. Camera only takes pictures in size enormous. Photo Manager doesn't do much detailed managing. Where's Paint when you need it?