they called back, they called back! i got the job at IDG as a writer.
in desperation to not think about rejection and try and have my eye look around in the event of my having to face it, i went for another interview this morning at OCBC. hmm. i have to say: yawn. just not quite the thing for me. and just as i was leaving the office thinking about how i really didn’t want that job, (this is completely me-centric, so the high possibility that they didn’t want me either is conveniently left out) IDG calls and says they want to hire me.
yaaaay! i start next monday.
someone help me. please. the mouse control thing on my laptop, formerly known as the toshiba accupoint, informally known as the nipple is officially possessed. it seems it happens to a lot of people with or without accupoints — mostly with laptops, at least — that the mouse tends to drift without moving it, drifting stronger and stronger till it finally nestles itself permanently in a random corner of the screen, refusing to budge.
so i’ve been using the computer mouseless for the past couple of days. it’s sort of awkward but not altogether impossible, like driving with your feet. fixing an external mouse helps in that it’s stopped acting on its own, but i (a) have lost confidence in the reliability of this state and (b) am completely prevented from my usual computing posture of lying front-down on my bed, laptop further away, arms outstretched. now i actually have to prop myself up to use the mouse.
trivial but grating, for sure.
random searches online have come up to not much, with mainly problems posed and no solutions. except for people who insist that the mice (mouses?) are (a) virused (b) trojanned — like, someone’s controlling it externally… ooh (c) possessed. i think it’s a timebomb that toshiba has put in to make you change your decently-working laptop after several years.
like, they couldn’t wait till the laptop broke down on its own. and, understanding the nature of its buyers as practical, not altogether fashion-conscious, value-for-money-seeking (think: the opposite of all that is the mac) they couldn’t risk waiting for their buyers to drop the products for the next sleeker one on the market, since they wouldn’t. naturally.
and i’m too afraid to bring it back to the toshiba service centre, because the last time i went there for a simple loose socket i wanted tightening, they ruined my motherboard and graphics card, and ended up having to change it all. and directly impinge on my very internet-reliant pathetic existence.
toshiba, i’m on to you.
