IT'S THE END OF AN ERA!

and i am very upset! i do not deal will with change! particularly not when that change is TAKING DEREK LEACH AWAY FROM ME!!!!

i am sure that many of you did not see this b/c it was embedded late in one of those generic little UVA Law School emails that none of us read. well, i don't read them, so i'm going to assume you don't either, b/c i'm the girl who still reads the entirety of the weekly events email and most people quit doing that in about the second week. anyways, i usually read the first line. enough to know that it's crap that i don't need to worry about. pro bono! ha! (kidding! that was a joke!) but somehow, i was not turned away by the talk of expanded billing code printing in the WB lab. looking back, i’m not quite sure how. i suppose my subconscious knew there was something more important, lurking later in the email.

anyways, the point is that derek leach is taking on more support responsibility at the law school and that he will no longer be our computer guy. they're hiring us a new computer guy. someone who is not derek leach! can you hear my heart breaking?!?! well, at least the new guy won't be hired by tomorrow. and since my computer has been giving me the blue screen this week, and refusing to start at times, i have already slated my visit to derek for tomorrow after class. i know he'll miss me most of all. a girl who gives you a dumbstruck look when you use the phrase "back up your data" is surely every tech guy's dream. especially if you get the same dumbstruck look after you've been saying it to her for 3 years.

but anyways, everyone should wish derek well, and if you find out where his new office is, let me know so i can drop by and keep him up to date on the minutiae of my life.