I got an A- on my History and Archaeology of the ANE mid-term!

Update: As it turns out, Volusion could either restore everything or nothing, but not just a piece of the information they keep (such as the RMA’s). And obviously we didn’t want to lose orders and such by going back to a previous entire backup. Back to manual entry.

This is Calvin’s new nickname for me (the name is from Stargate for the uninformed). Why, you ask? Well, today I managed to delete every RMA (return merchandise authorization) from our database at work. How, you ask? Well, I went to delete the one at the top of the list, and it so happens that the top check box for the delete column is in fact, not the top RMA but a “select all” check box. I knew this of course, but sometimes I do things on the computer faster than I think. This would be one of those days, where the result was disasterous. I checked the top box, clicked Saved Changes, zoomed past the box that popped up saying, “Are you sure you want to delete all 307 records?” and about 1 second after I hit the mouse button, my brain caught up with my fingers, the box that had just popped up flashed before my eyes in my memory, and I realized what I had just done.

My co-worker thought this was highly amusing, as normally she’s the one who makes silly mistakes. I’m sure our webmaster/tech guy found it a little less amusing.

So I spent all day manually entering the RMA information into a spreadsheet to be imported back into the shopping cart software. (I at least had the foresight to click the back button and print the page so I had a hard copy of what I had just destroyed.) Then, upon import, we discovered that the shopping cart renumbered all the RMA’s because the RMA_Number field is an auto-assign. What this means is that they don’t match the RMA numbers that people have in their possession to return items with - our homespun “online exchange form” where people submit their requests isn’t inherently linked to the shopping cart software, we just have the form start where the shopping cart leaves off. The mismatch of numbers, of course, would make it a pain to match returns with the proper order. There are more complications as well, but I won’t go into it.

Needless to say, our webmaster is now on the phone with Volusion to see if they can somehow fix this mess I made, since they should have a backup…theoretically.

I got online tonight and found that I had 81 unread posts on my Google reader. I’ve never had above 30 unread before at any given time.

I haven’t called my parents in over 2 weeks. I love talking to them but a typical phone call takes 2 hours of time that I haven’t been able to find all in a row when all of us would be at home.

I had a dream that I got a 59 on my History & Archaeology of the ANE mid-term. I don’t know where my mind pulled that number from, but it was a rather lengthy dream involving me bursting into tears and begging the prof for a second chance. I still don’t have the real grade back yet.

I live with a constant feeling of strain, and swing between highs of confidence and lows of despair, more frequently the latter, especially when I consider the 2 papers and 1 major project I cannot seem to find the time to fit into my weekly school work routine that I am barely keeping up with already.

I spend at least 1 hour a week in tears, and have considered more than once giving up on the Ph.D. idea.

When I take an hour to watch Stargate with my husband and relax, I can’t relax because I feel guilty for taking time to have fun instead of studying.

I cut my work hours back to 18 from 20/wk. I am tired all the time. I can’t enjoy what I’m learning because I’m so stressed about getting the schoolwork done. I am frustrated over the youth ministry at church.

I just want this semester to end.

I’m staring at my Akkadian homework right now and it looks like gibberish. What is my problem? I’ve been learning this for 5 weeks and studying the new stuff almost every day since last class. I think my brain is going into overload.

Deep breath, back to work.

Why do these things never display properly on my blog??

Thanks to my hubby.