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stormdogTonight we have a differant instructor than the last two classes. Not to complain about the last one, but I definitely prefer the new one. She has much more experience on the technical side of things and I'm actually thinking and learning in class. We're touching on a lot of aspects of win2000 server administration that I was vaguely aware of but had never had reason to need. Without reason to need them, I of course never managed to teach them to myself. I expect that, once we start really getting into networking type stuff here, I'm going to do some significant rearranging of my home LAN.
In other news, I have a rental car now. My old car is being looked at and I will hopefully know what's going on (and how much it will take to fix it) sometime tomorrow. I hope it's something minor. Somehow, I suspect it's not. But that's ok. I'm in a position where I can deal with that right now, and as long as I don't freak out and just keep slogging through work, going to school, and dealing with other life-associated complications, things can only get better. With![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
wooisme in my life, they could never be truly bad. Just momentarily scary.
There was a brief discussion at the end of the break with a couple of my classmates about recovering data from destroyed hard drives. I've always had a pretty good idea of how this is theoretically (and practically I think) done. Why does that make me feel vaguley superior?
I've thought about this for a minute or two and I think that, rather than feeling superior, I really feel comfortable about that. Comfortable that, at least on that small level, I'm ahead of others in the class with me. And in the end, that's not because I want to feel like I'm better than everyone else; it's simply that I don't have a lot of confidence in myself. I feel like if I'm a step ahead at the beginning, maybe I have a better chance of finishing with the pack. Heh. A shining example of self-confidence I am not.
In other news, I have a rental car now. My old car is being looked at and I will hopefully know what's going on (and how much it will take to fix it) sometime tomorrow. I hope it's something minor. Somehow, I suspect it's not. But that's ok. I'm in a position where I can deal with that right now, and as long as I don't freak out and just keep slogging through work, going to school, and dealing with other life-associated complications, things can only get better. With
wooisme in my life, they could never be truly bad. Just momentarily scary.There was a brief discussion at the end of the break with a couple of my classmates about recovering data from destroyed hard drives. I've always had a pretty good idea of how this is theoretically (and practically I think) done. Why does that make me feel vaguley superior?
I've thought about this for a minute or two and I think that, rather than feeling superior, I really feel comfortable about that. Comfortable that, at least on that small level, I'm ahead of others in the class with me. And in the end, that's not because I want to feel like I'm better than everyone else; it's simply that I don't have a lot of confidence in myself. I feel like if I'm a step ahead at the beginning, maybe I have a better chance of finishing with the pack. Heh. A shining example of self-confidence I am not.
