Grander than Gettysburg, Bloodier than Antietam

I am waging an epic battle against the computer right now, the slowest, most stubborn, I have ever seen.  And I have seen slow ones.  I have one myself.  The ones in the soc lab always take a good five minutes to warm up.  But this one here, it took two conversations, a walk about the basement lab, and reading through two poems and half of a short story, and me faking out the computer and pretending I'm going to leave, for me just to log on.  And now it is taking minutes to save my document.  I could try for another computer, but that is not how I operate.  I am not one to walk from battles, especially from slow computers.  Also, it is too late in the morning for me to grab one now.  It's finals week and getting a computer in the library is tricky business, business that I am too old and weary for.  Instead, I will sit here until the bloody end and wait this thing out.  Time in on my side.