I'm unlucky.

[Asila]

My laptop crashed. And when I say crashed, I don't mean that it froze. Or that it decided to be a pain and shut itself off at an inconveniant time. I mean that it froze, shut down, and then would proceed to turn itself on and off every five minutes for the next few hours until it's battery died. And the screen that it brought up when it did so was composed entirely of black and white lines.

*anxious* I have almost every story I have ever begun saved onto that computer! And I have no foresight (for some reason I have to learn everything the hard way) so I never backed them up. I had SEVEN stories on the damn thing! That adds up to about two hundred pages of typed fiction! Ugh! But I never took them seriously...if I had valued them more I would have backed them up onto a memory stick...or an external hard drive...something but I didn't, and now I may have lost them all.

My computer broke down at nine on Friday night. I spent the following hour and a half trying not to hyperventilate (anxiety attack) and then went for a hundred-mile car ride to nowhere so that I may calm myself down. It kind of worked. I still wasn't calm enough to even read, let alone write (writing makes me worry about my stories) so I dragged out my poor neglected sketchbook, picked out a sketch of a sea serpent that I hadn't really liked, and spent the next five hours obsessively shading it with my new colored pencils.

Which brings me to the silver lining of this murky cloud of misfortune. The sea serpent turned out to be one of the more magnificent pictures that I have ever finished (I'm having trouble believing that I actually created this thing). I would even post it...except I would have to steal Renae's sister's digital camera...and I would need my laptop...*becomes anxious again*

*talking to self now* It's all right, it's all right. Breathe, be calm, these things happen. You are YOU, in case you have forgotten. This type of thing happens to you at every available opportunity. Just learn from it and never let it happen again.

Thanks voice in my head. Now where was I? Ah, the serpent picture. It's so pretty! I'll do everything I can to post it, since this is one of the only pictures that I am satisfied with. I tend to think that everything I draw is crap. I should have my laptop back by Tuesday...

Which brings me to why I posted this in the absence board and not in the rant one. Until I get my computer back, I will be absent. Right now I am posting this via the city library's computer, and I'm not going to be able to come back here every day. I suppose I could use the college computers on Monday, but I hate using them for things like this. Technically we're not supposed to use them for any non-educational purpose...but, more importantly, if I am using a public computer, I am thinking about what happened to MY computer and why I can't use IT. And then I become frantic all over again. Already I can't focus enough to read, and writing makes me depressed. All I have left is my sketchbook, and I will be channeling all of my negative energy into it. Which means that I'll create some beautiful images but...I MISS MY LAPTOP! *throws a tantrum* I WANT MY STORIES BACK! WHY? WHY DID THE FATES HAVE TO TAKE THEM FROM ME!!!

Calm down, calm down. *takes deep breaths* They might not be gone. I took my computer to Best Buy so that the techs there could take a look at it, and they could still get my computer to go into safe mode. Which implies that the files are still there. (and if anyone knows otherwise, since I know nothing about computers, keep that knowledge to YOURSELF for the love of god!!! I'm having a freakin' nervous breakdown here!!!) Either way, I had to pay one hundred and fifty dollars to send my computer in and get it fixed. And I won't have it back until Tuesday. Maybe tomorrow if I'm lucky. (which I'm obviously not) Or Wednesday if I'm unlucky. (which I obviously am)

So I love all of you, and I will return. Though I can not gaurentee my state of mind. If something happened to those files...*shakes head* it won't be good. It DEFINATELY won't be good. In fact, I would probably become vaguely psychotic for the next few months...and my grandparents would worry again...and decide that they aren't dealing with this crap for six months as they had last time...and then I would be hanging out in an asylum for a little while. Which would NOT be cool. I'm not THAT crazy! Sheesh! Or maybe I am, but I'm harmless crazy. I don't threaten or try to hurt other people or even myself, for that matter. I just become insanely withdrawn. No big deal.

...riiiight. Anyway, I will be gone for a little while. Farewell my friends, until I return!

-Asila

[Seven]

NooOOOOooooooOooooooOOOOooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!


That's so sad!!!!!!! I'm so sorry for you Asila! I really really REALLY hope that they fix your computer and you don't lose all your files. Hey, if they can open it in safe mode right now, can't you still back up your files before it's too late?

[Rojo]

Curses...
Well...miss you, hope you do get into an asylum: It's lonely...

[Seven]

...Why do you want Asila to be comitted to an asylum? If that happened, we'd never find out what would happen on small glade! And we wouldn't be able to talk to her anymore!

[Asila]

He wants me to go to an asylum so that he'll have company! Isn't that sweet? *grins*

Ahhh!!! I still don't have my computer back! I feel like a fugitive, since I can only get on for short periods of time. And not even that often. *sighs* I'm seriously considering storming Best Buy, armed with Super Soakers, and forcing them to finish fixing my laptop...or else I will drench all of their electronics. MU WHA HA!!!

*coughs* Let's pretend that I never said that...

[Rojo]

You didn't.
Oh, wait, I don't live in an asylum, I function on a different plane of reality.

[The Imfamous AKA]

I'll help you storm Best Buy! I have SUPERSOAKERS!!!!!!! And an unnatural urge to soak electronics.

[Asila]

Really? That's great! 'Cause it just so happens that my laptop is still being held hostage by the Geek Squad. I am only on now because it seems that luck has finally chosen to grant me a small favor and my grandparents' desktop is now functioning properly. As it hasn't been for the past week.

I've missed everyone so much! This has been the longest week of my life, though it has been an interesting one. I have stories to tell, though half of them aren't pleasent. I think I'll keep those to myself...

Still, if anyone else wants to seize Best Buy by force and the ever menacing water gun, we march at dawn!

[Rojo]

That post brings up aninteresting question...oh, by the way, I can't help you storm Bestbuy, which I am assuming is a shopping retailer or the like due to the large amount of water and land between us.
But anyway, I must think now: Am I a Geek Or A Nerd? I'm DEFINITLY a Boffin, but that's a region specific classification...

[Asila]

Well, the good news (or perhaps the bad news, since riots or anything related to them are fun) is that I no longer have to storm Best Buy (which is a department store that sells electronics and everything related to them). They finally returned my computer to me(after eight days! Eight miserable days! *growls in frustration*) and no one had to get hurt. The Geek Squad, by the way, is actually a group of employees hired by Best Buy to help idiots like me with computer problems.

As for the whole 'am I a geek or a nerd?' dilemma, I can't answer your question because I don't really know the difference between the two. I know that it's been explained to me once but they're too similar for my easily confused mind to keep straight. *shrugs*

[Rojo]

Hooray!
*Glompy-mc-glompifies Asila*