I did a kind gesture. For once. As an apology. They were flowers but nevertheless they had impact. Don't ask what flowers they were. As far as I know they were yellow ones, white ones, purple ones, pink ones (or lilac and violet), and a few orange. This constitutes as a good deed.
I was a bit angry yesterday morning, having to get some technology/IT/DVD burning/DVD playing/video assignment thing done a day before it was due in for my university degree. I'd already uploaded the work to DVD a week previous but from playing the disc came a problem. It wouldn't work. 'The programme your work was edited on is unobtainable. Which of the following programmes do you want it to play from instead' or something like that. My work was only on that one programme. The one that you, the computer, COULDN'T FIND! It's on the desktop. Look. 'It is unobtainable.' Foolish machine.
I spent the morning at home trying to solve the problem. I'm a student yet I still live at home. It is cheaper, I don't have to go out (on what I think are boring) 2am pub crawls, discos and that sort of thing. And overall I prefer living at home with my family. But on this morning my mother (who won't mind when I say she knows little about IT) tried to help me with my DVD problem. 30 minutes and we made no progress. I was getting pretty stressed as I knew I had to go in to university and find someone to help me. Now sometimes you get a bit angry and you unintentionally snap. Which is what I did. At first it felt good, letting out a bit of rage but a while after I felt pretty bad. Someone who only tried to be of assistance after all.
Finally arriving at the university, I went to the IT building to get help. They were busy and said they'd come help me when the cue ran down. I waited 20 minutes: nothing. When someone did come, we couldn't do anything because I was told I needed a 'J- drive'. Why was I not informed of this? Left the editing suite, went to the IT place and came back with the J-drive.
So after 45 minutes of abusing the machine (which it deserved), my video wouldn't play and I had to buy a new DVD as the old one has been used, so I couldn't burn anything else. So I wandered out the building, across the road to the IT building again and bought a blank DVD for £1. You can buy 25 for £5 on amazon. Though I didn't say that to them when buying it. That would cause conflict.
So I went back to the editing suite and began to burn the DVD. It doesn't work! WHY!? 'Oh, the DVD writer on that computer has almost packed out mate,' said Mr Technology. So I changed computers and did the work again. If you at some point have to do this, take into account that a 3 minute video takes about 8 minutes in all to finish.
The DVD ejected, it was completed. Thank you God. I couldn't hand it in because I hadn't wrote my name, project title etc on. Some advice: When in a scrap, don't scratch (notice the word scratch) your name into a DVD like it were a wooden engraving. In all honesty, it doesn't do the DVD the world of good. Fortunately for me I had forgot my pen but I have been known to do that before. I had to go over to the IT building and borrow a special pen to write with. Then I had to fill out a form to hand in the assignment. Joy!
Leaving university and on the way home, I walked past a flower stand. Sometimes an idea will pop into your head and before you say yes or no to it you're already doing it. I asked the seller for a bouquet of what were rainbow coloured flowers. I bought them, she wrapped them and I got the bus home. Flowers seem an obvious gesture that anyone can do, and you can. I've given flowers before but these were on mothers day and birthdays where it's to be expected. This was the first time that I can think that there was no actual occasion.
When I got back and she saw the flowers, all I had to say was 'after this morning...' and she understood. She said there was no need for the flowers; everyone gets angry now and then. If everyone did what I did there wouldn't be enough flowers in the world. True I suppose.
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