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I have 16:43 left on my Frank Tate hall internet computer and am going to use it to bitch. It's 5:16 on a Sunday and I cannot find a computer in Melbourne to use to type a paper (due Tuesday). The VCA (my school)'s labs and library are closed on the weekends. The University of Melbourne has three places of access: the Arts and Humanities library (open until 5 on Sunday) and the Frank Tate and ERC buildings (open until 2 am on Sunday) with about, I don't know, 20 computers for the 45,000 population student body. In other words, I can't get on a computer.

It's not that I couldn't have done my paper earlier although it's not that I haven't been working on it either. It's just that I would like to keep working on it and not cram.

This morning I went to the State Library of Victoria (the state that Melbourne is in) to use its "one-hour access" computers for one hour and rocked the paper for sixty minutes.

Later, I'll tell you all about the libraries in Melbourne which have many more cute features, but I'll leave you with one of my favorite stories from my first year at the University of Wisconsin.

I had to print 7 pages in the lab which, at the rate of 7 cents a copy, would cost 49 cents. I had 50 cents, so no worries. However, the copy machine only takes copy cards which you need to purchase. The copy cards cost a dollar. I did not have a dollar but I did have an ATM card so I went to the ATM. Unfortunately, I had only $20 in my bank account which did not cover the $20 withdrawal minimum (minus the ATM fees). I did not make my copies.