F.U. Computer

In my 3rd year of college I took a Law class. Loved it. Turned into law geek for a semester (even though I had no clue about anything). So one of our final assignments was to write a legal brief. My assignment was for Bates vs. State Bar of Arizona. Now, if anyone has written one of these babies they know they involve an insane amount of research and every scrap of research needs to be documented in footnotes, etc. So I did all the research, killed several trees, and probably guaranteed my need for glasses in 5 years.

I start typing, spend about 6 hours with Radiohead's O.K. Computer on loop blasting through my mini speakers. All of a sudden. . Blank. 20 pages, 40 footnotes, formatting: gone. Ah! Ahhhh!!! * smashing the mouse against my desk *. OK. I try undo...nope. Ummm...did I save it under another name? no, I was on a typing spree, forgot to back it up. Call Dad the computer whiz at 11 pm. We go through a 1/2 hour trouble shooting frenzy before he says "Sorry, it's gone". I cry. I cry as if my pet just died. Then I decided to chill the heck out because I really couldn't waste any time (did I mention it was due the next day?...thanks Dad, for giving me the procrastination gene...and thanks Mom for not giving me boobs...that has nothing to do with this post, but yes I'm bitter).

I put on some shoes and decided to get out of the house and go to someone else's house who could distract my brain from the horror that just happened. I get in my car and call about 6 people...no one answers...those are really bad odds. So then of course I cry because not only did I just lose 6 hours of work to the black hole of my hard drive, but I am also not as popular as I thought I was. So, I go back home. Sit back down, type a paragraph save "Version 1", type a sentence, save "Version 2"....etc, until I think I was at about "Version 145". It ended up being 27 pages, I was up until 6am. I got an A. My friends eventually called. Happy Ending.

Just thought I'd share how I annoy myself on a daily basis: because of that fiasco I hit ctrl+s a million times a day. A million. It is so annoying when using the Internet, opens up all sort of windows. I did it so many times today I got annoyed and had to walk away. Computer and I will make up later.
ctrl+s. ctrl+s. ctrl+sctrl+sctrl+sctrl+sctrl+s.