Losing It
Posted on | December 18, 2004 | 6 Comments
He tried to convince me that it wasn’t all bad. That losing two years worth of writing is okay…..
See, it goes like this. When we switched from the pc to my laptop, communication got all wonky. I thought D moved the stuff over, he thought I did. The only works I transferred over were a few things that I had written for myself. But everything done for classes since I started at Rollins is gone. Poof. Shit. I failed to move over all the other folders with my work in it. Every brainstorm, every snippet of a character sacrificed to the “I’m a fucking moron” gods. they are mean gods. They saw me cry.
I do have a few things in hard copy, finished works that were graded and put away. The fucked part is many of the papers I did for previous classes are gone. I didn’t keep them because I had them in my hard drive. All the shit I worked on for my writing classes, gone. I am still trying not to be devastated by this. Trying is the key word.
I did manange to get my nephews’ Satan-mas gifts off yesterday. Sucks how I got all anxious when we went to Borders, had a hissy, and made D drive home. I am getting gift certificates for my daughter and her sister. My art kits didn’t go over so well last year (I sent two kits that taught you how to paint like famous artists, and Frida Kahlo was one of them. I figured it would help for her to learn about a mexican artist since that blood runs in her too…. didn’t go over so well with the mother).
At this moment I am cooking enchilada sauce. Having a few good friends over for dinner in leiu of a present. Why? We are broke and I don’t celebrate christmas….duh….
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December 20th, 2004 @ 2:05 pm
Doh! Well, reformatting mostly destroys stuff. Writing over it finishes it off. Sorry.
December 20th, 2004 @ 1:13 pm
I did, but we turned it into the external drive. If I am not misaken, it was reformatted. Since then I have put a lot of stuff on it. I know there are ways to recover lost data, however it seemed to be cost (and time) prohibitive.
December 20th, 2004 @ 1:06 pm
RE: losing data.
You dodn’t have all your stuff on a hard drive somewhere?
December 20th, 2004 @ 6:35 am
LOL N…. I knew it!!!
Thanks Julie my friend, your friendship means the world to me… I hope you know that !
December 19th, 2004 @ 9:28 pm
I just showed up for the quesadillas…
December 19th, 2004 @ 12:48 am
You gave us the best present we could hope for, and that is good friends, good conversation, and wonderful enchiladas. Even though their seems to be a defined time of year to give and recieve gifts, your gracious hospitality is recieved by us lucky few all year long. We have no need for material things when your front porch is always inviting. I hope I speak for everyone when I say this. Thank you Erica and David for your friendship, it is the most spectacular gift.