Big Trouble

Today I got into terrible trouble. And for once, it wasn't because I was commiting lewd acts in public!

It was far, far worse.

Today I was in sixth period and I committed what might be the most attrocious crime you have ever heard of in all your life. Nay, all ten of your lives. This attrocious crime garnered me the wrath of the school's ever dreaded system administrator. I will never be the same.

So I was in sixth period, right? Right. And I was sitting in my chair, right? Right. And I was eating nachos, right? Wrong. No, I wasn't eating nachos, thank God. If I had been, the only person that could have saved me would have been Nacho woman (Get it? "Not cho" woman? As in, my woman? No laugh? Not even a chuckle? Why are you leaving? No! Please stay here and finish reading this post! I promise it'll get better!).

So, really. I was on the Computer. And bits and bytes were flying this way and that, and I was skillfully dodging them and doing exactly what I wanted to. I was connected to my computer at home . I played around a little bit and figured out how to connect remotely to my laptop at home. It's not that hard, really. And quite fun too. So then, I got caught.

Immediately upon getting caught, I was asked, "What is that?"

I, being the truthful young lad that I am, answered truthfully, "That's remote desktop. I'm connected to my computer at home."

To which to system administrator replied, "No you're not."

I felt like saying, "Yes I am," but I avoided the temptation. I was in trouble. So I gulped quietly, all the while knowing that it didn't really matter how much trouble I got in. I've got ins, you see. I can get out of trouble by saying the right words. "Hi," usually works quite nicely. If that fails, I result to using the bigger guns, such as, "How are you?" When they reply, "Wonderful, and yourself?" I simply reply, "Pretty well, but there's a goon that's trying to frame me," they invariably reply, "I see no goon trying to frame you," and I turn around to find the goon gone.

But that aside, I need to finish the story. So the system administrator (mind if I call him "Sis"?) says something like, "this explains a lot" and storms off. The teacher asks how long I've been doing this, and I reply about a week. She replies that the server has been down a week. Now, I know that I couldn't have crashed a server by doing this. There is some other cause, and if they use this to try to get me in trouble, I'm going to have some fun. I was actually hoping that they would get me in trouble for "crashing the server" or something so that I could say some mumbo jumbo about how any real system administrator knows that someone using remote desktop couldn't crash a server. But he was gone, and I could only hope.

So in about ten minutes he returns. I have been useless for getting work done, which has been the primary focus of this class (Hey...imagine that, right? Wrong. Really. I mean it. Wrong.) He starts working on the teacher's computer and it becomes clear that it was the teacher that had crashed the server by putting a space in between "period" and "6." It wasn't the hacker's fault afterall. Whaddya know? Not much.

So Sis asks the teacher what my name is and calls me up. He says that I'm not in trouble (shucks) and states that the program will be disabled soon. The teacher is trying to come to my rescue, saying that I'm a good kid and all, but I really actually wanted to handle this on my own. I had a justifiable excuse. I take an online course, and was just retrieving the files from my home computer that I needed to work on my stuff in class. But anyhoo, I wasn't in trouble, so I couldn't make a rucuss. Shucks. That was a wasted period of class!

At any rate, I have failed miserably in telling this story well. I could have done a much better job, but I didn't. So you'll just have to suck it up and deal with it. It could have been much more funny. To be honest, I had a little bit of spunk in me today. I would have really enjoyed to get a referral and to have had to justify my actions. I could have done a good job of making a fool of someone. But the opportunity didn't present itself, so I stand before you now with a clean slate. I'm not a bad kid, really, right? Right. Or maybe not...

One thing is for sure. They're disabling the program soon. I'm not sure how they're going to do it, but I'm hoping they use an ineffectual way like blocking the port. I already think I can get by it if they do that. They'll have to do a full fledged block of the program to stop me.

Wow I feel like a rebel. Revenge of the nerds!