sometimes all you can do is throw up your hands and laugh
my hard drive just died. or is in the process of dying -- tonight i will make one last attempt to coax it into letting me backup my applications. luckily, i have all of my actually precious materials (papers, notes, etc) backed up already, but it would make reinstalling everything a lot easier if I could get all of my applications onto my external hard drive (bluepapercup, thank you so much for helping me buy that... i think it very nearly saved my life, or at least my sanity) so that i have it all in one place for when my poor little laptop is returned to me.
it's just unbelievably, hilariously bad timing. i guess i will be writing my thesis on the cluster computers and carrying around even more books than usual. my friend L has offered to lend me her brand new computer (and just continuing to use her old one -- it's so new she hasn't transferred much yet), but i think i'd feel too guilty taking her up on it. i'm not the only one with papers to write, after all.
so i'll be online rather less for the next couple of weeks. it's going to be very very weird not having a computer at home, or at least within a very short walking distance. though i guess i can experiment with the Rains computer lab so maybe it won't be sooooo bad. better than having to walk into campus every time i want to check my email, anyway.
now, back to putting together the presentation i'm doing this afternoon, as the time i was going to spend yesterday was eaten by computer issues. whee!
it's just unbelievably, hilariously bad timing. i guess i will be writing my thesis on the cluster computers and carrying around even more books than usual. my friend L has offered to lend me her brand new computer (and just continuing to use her old one -- it's so new she hasn't transferred much yet), but i think i'd feel too guilty taking her up on it. i'm not the only one with papers to write, after all.
so i'll be online rather less for the next couple of weeks. it's going to be very very weird not having a computer at home, or at least within a very short walking distance. though i guess i can experiment with the Rains computer lab so maybe it won't be sooooo bad. better than having to walk into campus every time i want to check my email, anyway.
now, back to putting together the presentation i'm doing this afternoon, as the time i was going to spend yesterday was eaten by computer issues. whee!