Gasp gasp gasp gasp OW my head

[kassandraloxias.livejournal.com]

There was a lightning strike and we lost power and then my computer, my computer, it said 'OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND fuckity fuck fuck.'
Well, that last part might have been me.

I was not thinking about my files, the Master's Thesis with edits, the several opera of fiction. I was thinking

"But if my computer's dead, how will I RP???"

You people are sick and are driving me to an addiction. :)

Comments

[rymenhild.livejournal.com]

I started panicking and looking for my draft of your MA thesis, and then noticed the line about "the last part might have been me." So your computer is all well and good. That being said:

You have a gmail account, don't you? Do yourself a gigantic favor and upload EVERYTHING important on your computer to that account. Possibly email some of the most important things to various people who could hold copies. I'd volunteer. Because I don't want to think about the year's work that could be entirely wasted if you lose that novel, and computers do die. This I know.

[kassandraloxias.livejournal.com]

Oh, believe me, no, it did say OPERATING SYSTEM NOT FOUND. The part I was talking about was me cussing it to the winds and stars.

(Gmail thing --- good idea. Why do you get all the Rational? I signed up for some!)

[mydearguil.livejournal.com]

DAMN. Did you have backups? What computer are you using anyway?

[mydearguil.livejournal.com]

I do have the Vilna stories with my corrections as far as they went, but not whatever you did with them afterwards. You posted Raissa's death on the LJ, so that should be fine, with whatever snippets there. I think I have the Victorian opiatefic somewhere. I *had* your BA thesis on the computer that went zzzzzip in May; that's gone. You already sent out the maskmaker story, right? You should be able to ask the people who you sent it to to send you back a copy. What else?

[kassandraloxias.livejournal.com]

Okay. Thank God I'm not prolific. The James/Everett stuff, and the Maskmaker story, I need to send to GMail. Also my gradworthy portfolio stuff. Dammit, everybody's computers have been dammit dying!

(maybe because we bought them to do theses junior/senior year?)

[mydearguil.livejournal.com]

You have James/Everett and Maskmaker? And if so, where and how?

...and translations from the Yiddish?

[mydearguil.livejournal.com]

::just saw message you sent to villainny, that makes sense:: OfcourseyouknowtosendyourselfacurrentVilnadraft, but could I have one too? ::hopeful look::

[kassandraloxias.livejournal.com]

You want the disembowelled thing? It's all a great, unwieldy... mess... with all the additions just added willynilly, and great gobs of its guts taken out and strewn and deleted.

Okay....

[kassandraloxias.livejournal.com]

Those are at the LJ, or down in a notebook by hand. Heavens. This is an awful thing. (J/E and the Maskmaker went to Gmail just now. It's just, I have to close IE to open My Documents -- this thing is running, but slow as a herd of turtles through molasses in the snow.)

[miscellanny.livejournal.com]

You people are sick and are driving me to an addiction. :)

I'm sorry. :(

No, wait. Big lie. *g*

Your stuff is all okay though, right?

[kassandraloxias.livejournal.com]

Yes. I managed to boot from cd-rom and am now frantically GMailing myself my files. So if I suddenly vanish tonight, that's where I went, should you need to reassure someone with whom I was in the middle of a convo.

[clumsy_auror]

Whew! Glad nothing was lost.

My computer crashed last night in the middle of the Wings Incident. I started yelling obscenities at my computer and my cat absolutely freaked out.

This CANNOT be healthy, but it's FABULOUS. :)

[minkhollow]

That sounds like me a few months back, with the Discworld RPage - I was kicking myself more over missing a log chat than I would have if I'd forgone the Real People social life stuff that night.
So, of course, I get myself into more madness. XD

[fairest1.livejournal.com]

Gaah! Is your computer okay?