He’s the first George Washington University student US Today interviewed who actually did vote in the last election. (Watch him here.) Turns out he’s a political communications major.
More importantly, he’s the genius in the basement of my building who responds to my recurrent internet-connectivity anxiety attacks with infinitely sweet, infinitely long-suffering, positively Buddha-like compassion. As I fail to answer even the very first simple query he poses to me, as I stare at him with the frightened blank eyes of a cornered mouse, he draws in a very deep breath, bats his eyelashes at me in a way that just manages to avoid expressing his incredulity, and asks me another, even more primitive question. One that I can answer! I am grateful to my computer guy, and I’m glad he voted.
December 11th, 2014 at 4:48PM
My computer guy at the law school (where I taught until recently) told me that he and his colleagues would often, in paperwork, describe the outcome of a visit to fix a faculty problem with the acronym PEBCAK. Problem exists between chair and keyboard.