Snow...and other stuff...
Dec. 2nd, 2007 11:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sherryillkI was happy to see the snow after walking out of 3rd North, I was pissed at the snow after walking in it and having it blown into my eyes...
I was thankful to get back to my dorm, to finally get to bed. And I got really, really, really scared when my laptop wouldn't respond to me. And then I become absolutely bat-shit freaked out when it wouldn't start up at all after restarting it. And that's when I knew it -- it's that hard drive failure that I convinced myself that it wouldn't happen... I probably should have paid more attention to those weird clicking noises...
So, after deciding to just turn it off and hope it'll be better after I get some sleep and wake up, I try and sleep. But I really couldn't, not with something this horrible happening... I mean I didn't back up my computer assignment that's due Monday! I spent days on that, making the graphics, tweaking the layout so it looks just right, playing with colors so it's all color-coded... Not to mention the video that I made for it... There's no way I could have made it as awesome as I had it in the space of a day. Not even since I have classes and work. I try to console myself that I could skip work, spend time from noon on working on it, trying to at least get all the technical elements in so I would get credit for assignment but it was no use. I couldn't fall asleep.
So I tried again and it was the same reaction -- it just wouldn't start up. It kept saying "Invalid Partition Table" and I had no idea what it meant... So I tried back to falling asleep. Still couldn't do it. I got back up and hoped against hope that it would start up again. It didn't. So I gave up, tried sleeping once more and of course, I couldn't fall asleep. I mean I was freaking out. Everything lost, just like that. My homework! 25 points, the largest assignment we've had and probably will have! I wanted to cry but I couldn't...
Eventually, I got up again, tried turning it on and I get the warning that my hard drive is going to fail soon (it used the words eminent failure) but since this was different I was happy. And it started to boot up, something it hasn't done for a while. Thank god. It took longer than it should have but I was glad that it worked. First thing I did was to copy my computer assignment. Next, back up my files and write Masha. So now my external hard drive is a mess but at least I've got my homework, ready for me to work on it later today.
Gah, is it really noon? I haven't even slept yet... I'm so gonna be dead. And I have to finish my essay too... I don't know how I'm going to manage this at all... Okay, sleep first. Gotta get some hours in or else I'm no good at all... Then back to campus for more work. Yay. Depending on how I feel tomorrow, I might not go to work... I don't want it to be for nothing and if it's going to ruin me more than anything, I can't see it being any good to me by going...
I'm going to hope I can fall asleep now... Please, let me fall asleep...
I was thankful to get back to my dorm, to finally get to bed. And I got really, really, really scared when my laptop wouldn't respond to me. And then I become absolutely bat-shit freaked out when it wouldn't start up at all after restarting it. And that's when I knew it -- it's that hard drive failure that I convinced myself that it wouldn't happen... I probably should have paid more attention to those weird clicking noises...
So, after deciding to just turn it off and hope it'll be better after I get some sleep and wake up, I try and sleep. But I really couldn't, not with something this horrible happening... I mean I didn't back up my computer assignment that's due Monday! I spent days on that, making the graphics, tweaking the layout so it looks just right, playing with colors so it's all color-coded... Not to mention the video that I made for it... There's no way I could have made it as awesome as I had it in the space of a day. Not even since I have classes and work. I try to console myself that I could skip work, spend time from noon on working on it, trying to at least get all the technical elements in so I would get credit for assignment but it was no use. I couldn't fall asleep.
So I tried again and it was the same reaction -- it just wouldn't start up. It kept saying "Invalid Partition Table" and I had no idea what it meant... So I tried back to falling asleep. Still couldn't do it. I got back up and hoped against hope that it would start up again. It didn't. So I gave up, tried sleeping once more and of course, I couldn't fall asleep. I mean I was freaking out. Everything lost, just like that. My homework! 25 points, the largest assignment we've had and probably will have! I wanted to cry but I couldn't...
Eventually, I got up again, tried turning it on and I get the warning that my hard drive is going to fail soon (it used the words eminent failure) but since this was different I was happy. And it started to boot up, something it hasn't done for a while. Thank god. It took longer than it should have but I was glad that it worked. First thing I did was to copy my computer assignment. Next, back up my files and write Masha. So now my external hard drive is a mess but at least I've got my homework, ready for me to work on it later today.
Gah, is it really noon? I haven't even slept yet... I'm so gonna be dead. And I have to finish my essay too... I don't know how I'm going to manage this at all... Okay, sleep first. Gotta get some hours in or else I'm no good at all... Then back to campus for more work. Yay. Depending on how I feel tomorrow, I might not go to work... I don't want it to be for nothing and if it's going to ruin me more than anything, I can't see it being any good to me by going...
I'm going to hope I can fall asleep now... Please, let me fall asleep...