The "save drafts" function on my hotmail account doesn't work. That is to say, it seems to save the title of the message and any attachments, but the text field is totally blank with all the stuff you wrote deleted. It was not always so, but it has been doing that for a while now.

What's worse is that I don't use it often, and it *used* to work, so I keep on forgetting that it doesn't anymore. I suppose this is the disadvantage of having the same e-mail account since 1995, having barely used anything else and being too attached by the force of habit to switch.

What's worse than that is that for the last few days my laptop has been freezing up and has to be manually re-started about every other time I check my e-mail. It will let me sign in and look at the "today" screen without protest, but if I want to do anything crazy like reading a message or composing one, there are bound to be problems.

Bah.

Meanwhile (with some difficulty given the e-mail situation) I just found out that I got a "no/maybe" (i.e. I got waitlisted) at Ohio State. (Between that and Clarion East, the wait-listing thing is starting to grate. There's something satisfyingly straight-forward about simple rejection. With rejection, you know where you stand.) Now, any one reading this not familiar with the rankings of graduate programs in Philosophy might think it odd that I would even contemplate going to Ohio State when Miami is on the table, but it really is a very, very top-tier program (hence the waitlisting.)

Now, if I hadn't already gotten into Miami (which is a good progaram and someplace I can easily imagine going even without the location), the OSU thing would probably be really depressing. As is, it's just vaguely irritating--I would have liked to have the option, but at least I know the alternate option isn't another year of crashing in East Lansing, substitute teaching and playing way too much PacMan.