post surgery, all is well. very sleepy now. maybe more later.
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from an email i sent earlier:
doctors are fish. after telling me how bad my break was and they were going to send me to surgery, they decided that i might have yet a fourth broken bone and sent me to ct… after which they decided thaat yep, it’s pretty darn broken–and then they sent me home. go figure. i have to call a specialist. i have no idea when i’ll get to go in for surgery. i hope it’s soon… allegedly it’s outpatient. so far the only opinion on recovery time i’ve been able to extract from anyone is “end of january.” joy.
1. it takes far too long to bathe and wash hair one-handed.
2. i don’t own any elastic-waist anything exceptfor pajamas, which means i have to go shopping for some. and suddenly shopping sounds much less fun. 3. can’t use my hair dryer, so i’ve been sitting around the house, ordering from peapod at the speed of mud, for like 2 hours now waiting for my stupid hair to dry so i can go to the hospital. 4. I CAN’T COOK. sseriously, i mean, i can’t even make mac and cheese from a box because i couldn’t lift the pasta pot off the stove. am really cranky about not cooking. 5. my hair is finally almost dry, and i just realized that once i leave my apartment, i won’t be able to get back in — you have to twist the doorknob at the same time you turn the deadbolt key, or it won’t open. faaaaaaabulous. … so i just called maintenance. hopefully they can replace the knob. 6. this vicodin is making me REALLY sleepy. i have things to do! i can’t fall asleep! plus it doesn’t even really help with the pain at all. vicodin is overrated. this sucks.i’d write more about this evening, but i now have a compound fracture in my right wrist that may require surgery, and frankly all the vicodin is doing for me is making me want to puke.
fun, fun, fun.this is the email i just tried to send:
From: sabrina l. downard
To: iTunes Music Store Customer Service
Specific Request: Computer Authorization Hello. This message is actually not in regard to computer authorization at all, but this was the only form I could find after jumping through at least a dozen pages (half of which just directed me back to http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/musicstore.html, which has no actual "contact support" option on it beyond the one at the bottom of the page which tells me I'm not entitled to support -- honestly, guys, you need to make it much easier to get in touch with billing; this is nuts.) I was in the middle of downloading a bunch of stuff and my computer wigged out on me (iTunes started skipping during playback and everything else was completely unresponsive), so I had to shut it off and restart. After restarting, I used "Check for purchased music," and it started downloading again -- except for one particular track, which it doesn't see and didn't complete downloading prior to the crash (perhaps it was writing it to disk when the crash occurred?). I would like to get that one track without re-purchasing it. It's track 11 from "200 KM/H in the Wrong Lane," by t.A.T.u., called "Show Me Love (Extended Version)." Please contact me with instructions on how I should go about getting this track, since iTunes won't see it, or credit my account (sld+somethingorother@uchicago.edu) with the $0.99 it would cost to re-purchase it. Thank you.
but the form rejected it because of an “invalid email address.” so i modified the address to just “sld@uchicago.edu” and added this paragraph:
Oh, for Pete's sake. This web form is rejecting my support request because it claims my email address is invalid because it contains a plus character (sld+somethingorother@uchicago.edu). A plus is perfectly valid in Internet email addresses, and has been since NINETEEN EIGHTY-TWO. Read the RFCs -- a good place to start would be RFC 822. Argh!
but then it still rejected it as invalid.
so i guess i don’t get my pop music. at least until monday, when our apple campus rep gets to work and checks his email, wherein i’m going to ask him who i should yell at for this particular stroke of customer-care genius.
