bowel clenching moment of terror early this AM

[herophelia]

all right, mac people. i had a total freak out moment this morning. you know, i almost thought it was a dream at the time - some bizzarely weirdly real dream, because it happened shortly after i fell asleep for an hour sitting up. not sitting up in a chair, mind, but sitting indian style on a bed. never happened to me before. was pretty damn weird. but i digress. i got the spinning tie-dye ball of suck while in AIM and went to force quit it and there was more spinning of fail, and then everything just stopped. so i cursed to myself and held down the power button... which did nothing. nothing at all. i was mashing on that thing for a good five minutes. well, i did get the screech that tells you you've been holding down the power button too long, but the screen didn't change. if i'd been able to look up where exactly the battery is on a macbook air i would have gone in and disconnected the thing. as it was, i had to unplug it and just wait for the battery to die. when it finally did and i started it back up again, for a moment i got the exact same screen i had when it froze, and i nearly pissed my pants, but then it went dark and restarted properly, although extreeeeemely slowly.

has anything like this ever happened to anyone before? i'm really concerned, but i won't be here long enough to send my laptop away for service, and i like the guys at my mac store at home. i trust them. i've never had anything this bad happen to a computer of mine before, though. at least, nothing that didn't end in crispy death. i guess i'm just looking for a bit of comfort.

living for inspiration,
Ophelia