Yesterday, while doing some pretty decent writing on Nov #2 (the second half will be told from Philip's POV, which I love because he's a florid-speaking nerdy freakball and I love him), my MacBook's hard drive decided to take a dump and I was greeted with the horror of horrors: an unbootable computer with a flashing question mark symbol on the screen. SHIT! It gets worse: the day before (Friday), I had done some rearranging and a lot of work and guess who chose that day to forget to back all that up??? Yeah. So two days of work shot. It's not all lost, and it was probably going to be all rewritten anyway, but I have to drop the first 15 pages in the mail to Ms. Nelson tomorrow so she reads it and tells me what she thinks during her week at VSC.
Shit.
Poopers.
I think I steered some customers away from the Mad Crab, or at least pissed off the management (eat me, management, the way I ate your crappy food!) as someone from the Whidbey area Googled their way in through "crabby crab restaurant coupeville." Neener neener.
I never realized how dependent on my laptop I am. If my car had to go to the shop, I'd shrug, be inconvenienced, but ultimately be fine. I can get to 90% of the places I need to be by walking or taking the bus, so no big loss there. But my laptop...I don't know what I'm going to do with myself today. I have a desktop at home but I don't like writing my novel at home. The atmosphere doesn't work for me. I like having people milling around me even if I don't talk to them.
I have a date at the Apple Genius Bar tomorrow at noon. Until then, I'll be biting my nails or something. Crap.
Posted by Zerd at August 24, 2008 12:30 PM