Ok, so in one hour my whole life just turned upside down, then rightside up as if someone was shaking the earth from a little space age snow globe. Ok ok, so maybe thats just a tad dramatic, but seriously. At around 10pm, I come in my room and realize that my screen is black.
Click…….Click…….CLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKDAMNITCLICK
…Awesome, my computer is frozen. So, like any other computer literate human being, I go ahead and shut down the computer (couldn’t decide whether to do so polietly with the power button, angrily by pulling it out of the socket, or remorsefully by giving it a good jab…..i took the polite rout this time). Pressing the power button again, I was looking forward to writing blog number 2 while sipping a cup of coffee, what has now become a nightly routine. So I sit, and wait,….and wait…..and wait…..”oh awesome, im staring at a blank screen”
Blah, luckily I have enough computer knowledge to get this back up and running (thank god for Windows System Restore), but to do so, I need my handy dandy………thumbdrive! So I go to its usual spot, on my bookshelf, but (of course) its not there. So I start digging, and digging, and searching…and after about 30 minutes, I was ready to pull out the shotgun (the one in my head, pew pew). Of course, my thesis, and all of my grad work is sitting on that wonderful, easily misplaced item. So now I start pacing the room, looking at every place I could possibly think of (except the toilet tank, that would be a funny place for it to be).
Well, I might as well call Hill and say “hey so is there any way for me to still get my masters?”
Of course I would find it an hour later, in the most random damn spot on earth (in a gym bag at the top of my closet). Seriously, if I could go back in time and watch myself put it in that bag, I would slam myself in the chest with a rubber mallet (bet that would teach me).
Luckily, after having thoughts of self mutilation due to my own stupidity (that would be fun to explain to people), I managed to get the PC back up and running.
Moral of this story? If you have an important thumb drive, especially with something that would make or break your graduation, hang it on the wall and have a string run from it to a cleverly designed knife catapult. That would sure make you think twice about placing it in a stupid place.
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