Sunday afternoon before Finals Week.

Step 1. Remember that you have to give a Theory final exam at 8am tomorrow morning, so you finish writing up the exam and go to print it out.

Step 2. Realize that your printer is out of ink and won't print out the exam.

Step 3. Resolve that you have to get to Kinko's before it closes. Look up tonight's closing time and learn that it closes inexplicably early on Sundays. WTF? Remember when Kinko's was open 24 hours? And doesn't Kinko's realize that there are plenty of people (ME.) who like to wait until the last possible minute before printing out essential work-related items for Monday?!

Step 4. Pray to the Printer Gods that maybe for some magical reason there is an extra ink cartridge in our paper drawer.

Step 5. Dig through the paper drawer while Schmoobins watches and asks, "Are you hoping you'll find an extra printer cartridge in there?!"

Step 6. FIND MAGICAL EXTRA INK CARTRIDGE IN PAPER DRAWER!

Step 7. Exclaim the wonders of the magic ink cartridge and its magical power to magically manifest itself all because I wished hard enough.

Step 8. Look closer at the magical ink cartridge.

Step 9. Realize that it is not magical at all. Rather, it is an OLD USELESS ink cartridge that SOMEBODY (Schmoobins!!!!!!) had put back in its original packaging and threw back in the paper drawer last time we replaced the printer ink instead of getting rid of it like a normal person.

Step 10. Throw a fit and curse the stupid fake non-magical ink cartridge while you throw multiple empty useless printer ink cartridges violently on the floor.

Step 11. Resolve to have to go to Kinko's after all. Harumph.

Step 12. Realize that you have another final exam on Wednesday that you will have to print out as well.

Step 13. Tell Schmoobs that you are just going to go to Target and get a new printer cartridge instead of going to Kinko's.

Step 14. Go to Target to buy a new ink cartridge. Resist the urge to buy new lipgloss, mascara, scarf, gloves, kettle chips, toffee peanuts, etc.

Step 15. Come home and put new ink cartridge in printer.

Step 16. Printer still refuses to print final exam.

Step 17. Try to print exam twenty zillion more times with no success. Stupid printer keeps spitting out blank pieces of paper. Call printer multitude of nasty names in order to bully it into working. Not successful.

Step 18. Give up.

Step 19. Figure out exactly how early I have to wake up in order to get to work extra extra early to find a working printer, make final touches on exam, make copies and be in classroom at 8.

Step 20. Blurgh.