Soooo, my tablet has been a total bitch to use lately. I have a Wacom Bamboo Fun, which is only a little under a year old. I've been having issues with the cord for months now: If the cord is moved just the slightest bit while the tablet is in use, it freaks the fuck out. People have been telling me I can buy a new cord, but now I realize that they're referring to an older model of my tablet where the cord was removable. The cord on my tablet is not removable. Now, on top of all this, the touch function has turned to total shit. I only ever use the touch function to zoom in and out, and it's being almost completely unresponsive. I have to keep doing the zoom gesture in various places on the tablet to get it to zoom in/out even the slightest bit. It used to be fixed easily by unplugging the tablet and plugging it back in or even toggling the touch function off then on again, but nothing seems to be working as of late.
I wouldn't be nearly as bothered if the tablet weren't still so new. I've probably been more rough with it than I should be (I had it in my bag wherever I went last school year, so I'm sure it got banged around plenty), but... argh. I just can't justify replacing such a young tablet. It's not even like it's my own money: I'm a jobless college student who is still 100% financially reliant on her parents, and I feel like shit asking them for things, especially expensive things.

I guess the real point of this journal is to see if anyone else has had this kind of tablet trouble and/or has any ideas for fixing it. I'll probably end up e-mailing customer support or something at some point, but I don't think I actually got a warranty on the tablet, so I'm pretty sure they'll just say "lol your fault" and tell me to suck it up or replace it.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.