Shoot me now!

[titan5]

So, my flash drive died. The one with all my school powerpoints and study guides and syllabi. Some of that is posted or an early version is saved somewhere else or I can recover it from email. Then there are the "cannot be recreated or replaced" things like several unfinished SGA stories, some that are pretty long and close to being finished . . . er, rather they were. The big disaster? I had a huge chapter (or two) - like 30 pages or so - from the novel I'm writing that was my murphy's law/humorous chapter that whumped the daylights out of the whole crew. It was sort of loosely based on Planet of Doom, but a lot more complex and with a clueless scientist who caused a lot of their problems. I poured my soul into that chapter and it's completely gone. I took it to professionals and they just called to tell me they couldn't pull anything off the drive.

I'm going to go crawl into a corner and cry now, after which I'll research what online backup service I want to pay for. Yes, I know. Closing the barn door after the animals have escaped.