[lit-ideas] Re: medical jargon
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 00:00:29 EDT
In a message dated 9/7/04 9:59:41 PM Central Daylight Time,
atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> The maintenance man quit and I asked if I could have the job.
> Sure, they said. I'd never owned a screwdriver before then. "Take
> advantage of fools", has always been my motto, and if they were foolish
> enough to let me do something I knew nothing about, well then, God bless
> 'em.
My father was a computer programmer. I hated computers with a passion. They
were corrupt, they falsified the world and as artificial items interrupted
Nature. I avoided them studiously and refused to acknowledge their existence.
My first post-College job was as a secretary in an English dept at the local
University. They had a computer, plastic wrap still on, never plugged in,
sitting in the back. They'd had it 7 months. No one knew what to do with it.
I
didn't know from squat. It was a challenge -- more interesting than
scribbling doodles trying to look busy. So I plugged it in. A black screen
with an
orange underline came on. Dos 2.0, I think. 24 KB of RAM or something
ridiculous. They let me play with the Expensive Instrument because no one else
cared
to. I put their book lists in alpha order with a few key clicks. It's
amazing what you can do when you're desperate. Yep. They were foolish enough
to
let me do something I knew nothing about. I got tired, eventually, of
listening
to my super-ordinant gripe if a rubber-band found its way into the waste
basket. I have always held her as my Model of Anal Retentiveness. I think
that
leads back to Cracks and I could smooth this into something suitable for Comp
and Rhetoric but I'm just not enthused enough.
Julie Krueger
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