Yesterday, two monumental technology-related things happened to me in rapid succession.

1) I realized that my Yale email had been officially shut off. As anticipated, I realized this because I didn't get the NYTimes headlines or Word of the Day in the morning like I'm accustomed to. Not that it mattered so much, I guess, because I was so busy at work that I didn't even have time to read the four or five articles I'd opened tabs for in Firefox. Also, I was sort of a little lucky, as I know at least one person had their account shut off the day before mine was, so another day with Yale mail (which, among other things, initiated my departure from AOL email) was weaseled out of The Man, though I'm not quite sure why (maybe it's hard to shut off everybody's final tangible connection to the University all at once).

2) I received, under somewhat dubious circumstances, a wireless headset. The person who gave it to me claimed it had been a fluke, so I thought maybe strings were pulled, then they were maybe going to have to take it away and then they let me keep it! Hooray. I feel like I work in a call center now, but whatever. Also, I kind of do. Especially on days I'm booking travel.