laptop, if you're listening: get with the program.

my lovely, lovely laptop has quit taking commands from me. it's like 28 days into its life it has just given up, and when i'm all, install ms office, yo, it's like, ha ha! i'm going to make you think i'm installing it, but i'm really not. and i'm keeping your cd! it's holding onto cds for dear life or maybe like it has a vendetta against me, so now it requires much coaxing and lots of overriding the override that overrode my command to eject just to get the stupid thing out. and then maybe it will do what i want it to after it thinks about it for the next half hour, though that maybe part doesn't actually apply to installing software. my laptop doesn't believe in software. it's all, what the hell is this? and then it eats it, much like how cookie monster gobbles cookies.

i need the laptop to understand that i have to install office by tomorrow because my life and my word documents depend on it, and life & word are pretty much inseparable right now. and the part where my mouse pointer plays hide and seek with the browser window, or refuses to work at all? yeah, that's not funny either.