It took a while to get internet set up on my own computer after I moved to the job place. Right now I'm at a friends' place and don't want to forget to log OUT.

I got the files, thanks, Sorcha. Email receiving is fine, but I can't send right now, and will just have to put up with that as the employer doesn't want to tell me the account information for their connection. (Even though their daughter is using my connection.) So until I'm back in my own place I'll be unable to send emails through my main accounts. It won't be long though.

Susan - very useful stuff. I'm going to try a few things, like talking honestly to the school about why they want me as a student and what I need from them. If they cannot respond to that, then that truly isn't the place to go.

I went to the computer festival yesterday, and got ink. Tried to negotiate the price down on an optical mouse with scrollwheel (so that I could use my current scrollwheel on my older computer), but the guy wouldn't go for it. Found it MUCH cheaper at another stand, so HA!

Then later on, one of the vendors gave me a set of speakers (worth $5 but still probably better than my 4-year-old other speakers which have a short in one of the wires,) and a REALLY OLD 386 laptop with no power supply. The guy didn't even know what is in it. I have to figure out how to get power into it, but is that not AWESOME? He was calling out "Free speakers with any purchase!" and I just started laughing, and joked a bit that he'd been at the show too long. Guess he was bored, lol. Still, very sweet.