Techno-Woes, Part II

Life has improved since I posted my tale of techno-woe.  To wit --

Just as Alex Voy predicted, the Janeway icon for my LJ has returned as mysteriously as it departed.

AIM now seems willing to accept my previous screen-name again, so I don't have to use the silly "kellyfanfic" username.

It's true that Tripod is still doing its incredibly annoying "redirect" scam, but my dear friend Liz has offered a subdomain, which I may use if Tripod doesn't go back to normal soon.  Thanks, Liz!

And classes are over for the semester!!  Did you get that?  I said, CLASSES ARE OVER.  I will miss my students over the summer, but I will not miss the interminable paper grading, the damned meetings, or the three colleagues whom I can't bear.

I do have one element of misery left, though:  I was so stressed while I was writing my last LJ entry that I made a spelling error.  Twice.  I wrote "bandwith" instead of "bandwidth."  Now, I know perfectly well how to spell this word, yet I typed it wrong and didn't even notice.  I suppose I could go in and fix it, but I think I will leave it there, to make a horrible example of myself.  I'm a serious spelling geek; errors freak me out.

Speaking of major freak-outs:  the cicadas are coming.  My part of the US will soon be inundated with huge, buzzing, red-eyed, flying gross-outs that emerge from the ground every 17 years to mate.  There will be literally billions of them.  They are low-flyers, too.  And slow.  And they don't see very well, so they are as liable to fly into you as not.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?g=events/lf/041904cicada&a=&tmpl=sl&ns=&l=&e=1&t=&prev=2

I think I will stay indoors for the next two solid months.