Rain, Rain Go Away… Oh wait, I live in London.

Have you ever had one of those days where you think back to the moment you threw the covers off and got out of bed, only to wish you had pulled them back up and gone back to sleep? Welcome to my day. Everything started out well enough- I got up at 8 and showered, got ready and headed down to catch a bus into school. For whatever reason the buses were few and far between, so I hopped on a 19 instead of an 11, knowing I’d have to walk a little longer when I got off, but oh well. Apparently getting on the bus was going to be the easiest part of my morning. It took, no joke, 25 minutes to get up the King’s Road. As I can walk it in less than 15 I should have gotten off and walked, but I kept, mistakenly, thinking that we’d get going soon. I’d had enough once we made it to Sloane Square, so I hopped off and decided to catch the tube. Yeah, good decision. I got to the platform only to see no trains listed and to hear the announcement that due to an earlier security alert there were severe delays on both the Circle and District lines. So color me happy as I waited another 20 minutes for a train. At least once I was on it, it only took about 12 minutes to get to school, but still…

To make matters worse, I tried to check my Yahoo and Gmail accounts this morning before heading off, but both informed me that my username and password were invalid. This really confused me because a) I’ve not changed my password recently, b) neither account is new and I’ve been using them successfully for a while now, and c) I had access to them at about 2.30 this morning. So I comforted myself by assuming that something was wrong with my computer/browser at home and all would be right once I came to school.

Well, I get to school (massively later than I’d planned) only to find that I still can’t log-in to my accounts. Imagine a very, very, very pissed off girl fuming (quietly, of course, as I was in the library) at her computer. I’ve emailed both Yahoo and Gmail’s customer service helpline thing-a-ma-bobbers, but have not received much in the way of help. I get standard answers suggesting that I refresh my browser or download a new browser. Those aren’t the bloody problems, are they?! No, read my actual email and get an actual person to try to figure it out. It is now 1.45 in the afternoon and I still have no access. Great, really helpful for my life.

I have not been this frustrated about anything in a long time. I don’t understand how all of a sudden my usernames and passwords could just become invalid and not work, particularly since they worked less than 12 hours ago. AAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!

Clearly it’s all a ploy to ruin my day- Transport for London, Google and Yahoo have joined forces (along with Carphone Warehouse because my cell phone is also on the blink today) to do everything in their power to mess up my day. Yes, that has to be the answer. Also, it rained on my when I was walking to Carphone Warehouse to see what’s up with my phone (According to them nothing’s wrong. I ask you then, WHY THE HELL ISN’T IT WORKING PROPERLY?!)

Is it just me or does this picture of the LSE library look sort of like a massive igloo? OK, it's probably just me and my extremely cold self starting to hallucinate after having done nearly 3 hours of stats non-stop already this morning. Just thought I'd take a little break to share the fact that it's sunny outside and supposed to hit 70F today and I'm inside on the Lower Ground floor of the library wrapped in my scarf to ward off the biting chill. Delightful!