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Oct. 27th, 2006 03:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
commotiocordisSo. Remember that big bit of the history project that is due Friday? Yeah. Not getting done. There's a story behind this.
I had quite a bit to do still, but only a few hours worth. Non-book research that I already had found? On my hard drive. I modified my topic like yesterday, put the finishing touches on said modification today, but quite a bit of what I had still applied to the new topic. Asked my brother at about 7pm to bring my hard drive to me on the couch from this (the main) computer. He grabs it by the cord. Cord unplugs from the drive, drive clunks on floor. Me=pissed. But not hugely. Yet.
I go to the gym. Come back. Plug in hard drive. Not working. The light wouldn't even come on to signal that it had power. Messed around with it. Went out and bought a new power thing as that appeared to be the problem and as the power goes through the USB normally, but there's a spot for an adapter cord (one of which did not come with the drive, unfortunately) for extra power or if your USB port on your computer won't give any/enough power, I hoped that would work. Nope. Determined at some point that power wasn't the problem. Plugged it into the other (this) computer, and the light came on. Problem solved. Nope.
Power's working, drive not. Spent a long time trying to figure out the problem. I eventually decided just to screw it and go to bed (as I'm getting sick and have been up late every night this week and was really upset that it looked like I was loosing everything on the drive) without doing the project. Mom comes back, tells me that my dad got it working. I come out. Not really. He thought he had because the computer did some kind of "you've plugged something in" thing, but it wouldn't do it again. We took the thing apart, messed with all of it. Tried to connect it to a box thing that we have that will turn a regular hard drive into an external one. No luck- the ribbon plug is just barely too big for some reason. (But the last conclusion I came to was that that wouldn't help anyway.) What kind of morons make stuff in a non-standard size? At some point (I think it was fine before) I heard the thing making funny noises like it wasn't spinning right. Somehow (involved somewhat gentle shaking and smacking) got it to make the good, spinning right sound. Still wouldn't work. Now pretty much no idea why. It's still out of the case and more or less disassembled at this point, and when you plug it in and unplug it, it was making the "duh-deh" "deh-duh"sound things. And occasionally, a box would come up over the far right of the taskbar saying "A problem occurred during hardware installation. Your new device may not function properly."
So. It's almost 1 at this point, and my dad decides to go to bed. I play with it a little bit more by disabling and (attempting) re-enabling of the device thing. Which we did once before. But before, it didn't tell us to reboot. I reboot this time. Computer doesn't reboot right- goes to the black screen on startup where it tells you about your machine specs, only loads the first few lines of text that are supposed to be on there, and stops. Bad sign. I reboot again, this time it loads properly, but the hard drive is back to making bad (even worse than before, where it was a funny badwhir + click thing, now it's just worsewhir) noises meaning that it's stopped spinning completely.
Hell. So. Yeah. I probably could have done my entire summary of evidence thing if I hadn't played with the hard drive until past 1:30. Because I didn't have horridly much on there in terms of done research, just a bunch of sources, some of which I emailed to myself from the medical library during the tour with minimed and can't get any other way than through them. And most, excepting the aforementioned articles that you've got to pay for/can't get at all except through the med library, I could find again. Had I actually gotten my arse in gear and forgotten about it.
But I'm still really really upset. This had so much stuff on it.
School work that I still need/isn't done/I use for reference. Which should probably be my biggest concern. But isn't.
It had hundreds of fics. Of which quite a few of the older ones (mostly my Enterprise collection) aren't online anywhere anymore.
And around 30 of my fics, which is what I'm most sad about, that and the other writings and work. Because of the fics, 10 or so are incomplete and only exist or are in the most complete form on there, several more have never been posted anywhere, and the remaining ones have been posted in various places, but most only to one site/list/board, which will make it difficult to try to track them all down to keep a copy. I don't have any kind of definitive list of all my stories, so it's going to be nearly impossible to make sure I've recovered all of the ones that it is even possible for me to find again (I completely forget about stories I've written only to rediscover them all the time. It's going to be a lot harder to rediscover now). And there are innumerous ideas and little bits of story jotted down in random Word Perfect/Word files for stuff I've not yet gotten around to writing, most of which I typed up so long ago that there's no chance of me remembering them.
Not to mention the videos and the episodes and the pictures and the manip work and the icons. OMG, the icons. I just realized that. Even ignoring that I don't have any of the huge numbers of them that I saved for my perusing pleasure that belonged to other people, I don't have any of my own anymore but the 6 that are currently on here. Some of my favorite ones just got switched out recently for this batch, and as such are not in existence.
Fic type stuff and other fandomy things are pretty much what I do for fun. So basically, all this stuff that is the only thing I have time to do for recreation anymore (that and read, especially medical type stuff, lots of which was also on here) is gone. I get a huge part of my enjoyment in life from this stuff, and it seems like that's been destroyed. Everything I've worked on, everything I've read and really enjoyed, everything I've done. It feels like part of my life is gone with it.
And I'm being depressivey and overreacting and stupid and weepy because I start crying again every couple of minutes when I start thinking about it again and I know it and I can't help it.
Which is why I haven't done my history thing, even yet. I could have done it, not easily, but done it. But I've just reacted so strongly to the breakage of the hard drive that I can't. And I know it's not just this, but it's everything lately put together and this just finally made me break down, and I can't force myself to do anything.
And yet I'm not in bed, where I should be taking into account my lack of sleep of late and the hour. (Thanks in part to a 52oz diet Dr. Pepper that I downed throughout the whole thing that I got after I got back from the gym when I thought that I was going to be up pretty late doing work that's keeping me up both from the caffeine and going to the bathroom every few minutes.) Nor am I studying for my Biology and English exams. I feel so completely worn out, but I don't feel like I would be able to get to sleep or really do anything save think about this and stare off into space.
Yay, breakdownage. I love stress.
I had quite a bit to do still, but only a few hours worth. Non-book research that I already had found? On my hard drive. I modified my topic like yesterday, put the finishing touches on said modification today, but quite a bit of what I had still applied to the new topic. Asked my brother at about 7pm to bring my hard drive to me on the couch from this (the main) computer. He grabs it by the cord. Cord unplugs from the drive, drive clunks on floor. Me=pissed. But not hugely. Yet.
I go to the gym. Come back. Plug in hard drive. Not working. The light wouldn't even come on to signal that it had power. Messed around with it. Went out and bought a new power thing as that appeared to be the problem and as the power goes through the USB normally, but there's a spot for an adapter cord (one of which did not come with the drive, unfortunately) for extra power or if your USB port on your computer won't give any/enough power, I hoped that would work. Nope. Determined at some point that power wasn't the problem. Plugged it into the other (this) computer, and the light came on. Problem solved. Nope.
Power's working, drive not. Spent a long time trying to figure out the problem. I eventually decided just to screw it and go to bed (as I'm getting sick and have been up late every night this week and was really upset that it looked like I was loosing everything on the drive) without doing the project. Mom comes back, tells me that my dad got it working. I come out. Not really. He thought he had because the computer did some kind of "you've plugged something in" thing, but it wouldn't do it again. We took the thing apart, messed with all of it. Tried to connect it to a box thing that we have that will turn a regular hard drive into an external one. No luck- the ribbon plug is just barely too big for some reason. (But the last conclusion I came to was that that wouldn't help anyway.) What kind of morons make stuff in a non-standard size? At some point (I think it was fine before) I heard the thing making funny noises like it wasn't spinning right. Somehow (involved somewhat gentle shaking and smacking) got it to make the good, spinning right sound. Still wouldn't work. Now pretty much no idea why. It's still out of the case and more or less disassembled at this point, and when you plug it in and unplug it, it was making the "duh-deh" "deh-duh"sound things. And occasionally, a box would come up over the far right of the taskbar saying "A problem occurred during hardware installation. Your new device may not function properly."
So. It's almost 1 at this point, and my dad decides to go to bed. I play with it a little bit more by disabling and (attempting) re-enabling of the device thing. Which we did once before. But before, it didn't tell us to reboot. I reboot this time. Computer doesn't reboot right- goes to the black screen on startup where it tells you about your machine specs, only loads the first few lines of text that are supposed to be on there, and stops. Bad sign. I reboot again, this time it loads properly, but the hard drive is back to making bad (even worse than before, where it was a funny badwhir + click thing, now it's just worsewhir) noises meaning that it's stopped spinning completely.
Hell. So. Yeah. I probably could have done my entire summary of evidence thing if I hadn't played with the hard drive until past 1:30. Because I didn't have horridly much on there in terms of done research, just a bunch of sources, some of which I emailed to myself from the medical library during the tour with minimed and can't get any other way than through them. And most, excepting the aforementioned articles that you've got to pay for/can't get at all except through the med library, I could find again. Had I actually gotten my arse in gear and forgotten about it.
But I'm still really really upset. This had so much stuff on it.
School work that I still need/isn't done/I use for reference. Which should probably be my biggest concern. But isn't.
It had hundreds of fics. Of which quite a few of the older ones (mostly my Enterprise collection) aren't online anywhere anymore.
And around 30 of my fics, which is what I'm most sad about, that and the other writings and work. Because of the fics, 10 or so are incomplete and only exist or are in the most complete form on there, several more have never been posted anywhere, and the remaining ones have been posted in various places, but most only to one site/list/board, which will make it difficult to try to track them all down to keep a copy. I don't have any kind of definitive list of all my stories, so it's going to be nearly impossible to make sure I've recovered all of the ones that it is even possible for me to find again (I completely forget about stories I've written only to rediscover them all the time. It's going to be a lot harder to rediscover now). And there are innumerous ideas and little bits of story jotted down in random Word Perfect/Word files for stuff I've not yet gotten around to writing, most of which I typed up so long ago that there's no chance of me remembering them.
Not to mention the videos and the episodes and the pictures and the manip work and the icons. OMG, the icons. I just realized that. Even ignoring that I don't have any of the huge numbers of them that I saved for my perusing pleasure that belonged to other people, I don't have any of my own anymore but the 6 that are currently on here. Some of my favorite ones just got switched out recently for this batch, and as such are not in existence.
Fic type stuff and other fandomy things are pretty much what I do for fun. So basically, all this stuff that is the only thing I have time to do for recreation anymore (that and read, especially medical type stuff, lots of which was also on here) is gone. I get a huge part of my enjoyment in life from this stuff, and it seems like that's been destroyed. Everything I've worked on, everything I've read and really enjoyed, everything I've done. It feels like part of my life is gone with it.
And I'm being depressivey and overreacting and stupid and weepy because I start crying again every couple of minutes when I start thinking about it again and I know it and I can't help it.
Which is why I haven't done my history thing, even yet. I could have done it, not easily, but done it. But I've just reacted so strongly to the breakage of the hard drive that I can't. And I know it's not just this, but it's everything lately put together and this just finally made me break down, and I can't force myself to do anything.
And yet I'm not in bed, where I should be taking into account my lack of sleep of late and the hour. (Thanks in part to a 52oz diet Dr. Pepper that I downed throughout the whole thing that I got after I got back from the gym when I thought that I was going to be up pretty late doing work that's keeping me up both from the caffeine and going to the bathroom every few minutes.) Nor am I studying for my Biology and English exams. I feel so completely worn out, but I don't feel like I would be able to get to sleep or really do anything save think about this and stare off into space.
Yay, breakdownage. I love stress.
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Date: 2006-10-27 01:08 pm (UTC)And the crying/weeping thing? PMS is a bitch. *nods*. And if it's not PMS screwing with your head, then losing all that stuff is a perfectly good reason to have a breakdown. You should have seen me when my TV broke that time. Although, I had an awfully persistent girl!crush/infatuation thing on Jennifer Garner in Alias at the time, so I was very distraught about the possibility of missing an episode. Whoa, that was ages ago. I've only just realised it was a girl!crush/infatuation thing.
Can you maybe take it into some computer store to get fixed??
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Date: 2006-10-27 07:19 pm (UTC)Yeah. I did. Thanks.
I was very distraught about the possibility of missing an episode
Hee. I know what you mean. Garner's pretty hot. Especially when she's all dressed up cool and talking in different accents. Secret agents in general are hot. Alias reruns ran really late at night for a while, and I watched bits of them occasionally while I was doing homework/waiting for something else to come on, but I actually got sort of into it once and of course, the 2 episodes that I saw once I had gotten into it were the last two they showed late at night, and the whole show ended only a month later or so. So I never got to see many. Which made me sad. And I haven't gotten around to trying to find episodes on DVD or something because I've got so many other shows that I'm trying to get through.
Can you maybe take it into some computer store to get fixed??
I'm going to try. The box thing that would turn a regular hard drive into an external one didn't fit because the cords were off, perhaps they would have one that would fit. Maybe they could do something. I doubt it, though. As the spinning has gone back to the bad, non-spinning noise.
(LOL at me skipping the pep rally to answer my email. Not that I'd want to go to the pep rally anyway. It's too loud and I already have a headache. And even if I didn't have a headache and it wasn't too loud, it's dumb. It's great having a teacher that will let you skip stuff and hang out in her room. Yay for that. Yeah. /story)
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Date: 2006-11-12 06:48 am (UTC)Oh yes, some of those outfits were uber hot. Right now I think Cameron should become a secret agent.
I use to watch it religiously, as I said, then I kind of lost interest during... I think the third season. And it started airing later and later and I just wasn't that committed to it anymore. There are a few box sets around, but I won't buy them. MAYBE I'd buy the season I used to watch religiously, but only if I had the money just lying around. Which isn't likely, because I'd be all "Ooh, money! *wastes*".
As the spinning has gone back to the bad, non-spinning noise.
Our actual, big computer hard drive was making odd whirring noises yesterday. I got scared and started rummaging around for blank discs to put all my stuff on in case it crashed, then the noise stopped and I was happy.
Yeah. /story
Yay, story!
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Date: 2006-11-14 06:10 am (UTC)LOL, that's so cool that you say that. Because I half watched an episode last night while doing my biology work (one of the midnight reruns of stuff that they randomly show on my stations enough to get you hooked on the show before they switch that timeslot to something else). More watched than did homework, though, so we'll call it 2/3 watched. And my exact thought (that pervaded my mind throughout the entire thing) was "Yeah. Cameron/Syd would be killer hot."
Which isn't likely, because I'd be all "Ooh, money! *wastes*".
I'm a whore for TV seasons that are $20 or less. But I'm pretty stingy with money, really. I don't spend it on anything without a really good deal. Like clothes. I refuse to pay more than a few dollars for an item of clothing. $5 for a shirt? Too much. (Unless it's like a $10 shirt for a cause or group I'm in or something, at which point I'll beg money off of my parents or sometimes choke up and buy it myself.) And I've got this thing where I pick things out, like clothes or whatever, usually clothes, and try them on and bring them to the checkout and then right before I get up there, I'll decide against buying them and put them back. All the time. It's pretty much impossible for me to shop sometimes because I'll convince myself against buying whatever.
I got scared and started rummaging around for blank discs to put all my stuff on in case it crashed
Eek. You should do that anyway, though. The important stuff, like writings and such. Especially if it's making noises. Because in all my research of how to fix a hard drive (which didn't tell me anything that I hadn't already tried), the one thing I kept hearing was that you should have backed your shit up and that if it is making noises, back that shit up fast. (That sounds like a stupid grungy rap song. I think it actually might be. I'm seeming to think that I've heard something where that's the refrain. That or "back that ass up". One of the two. For some reason, people play nasty dumb music all the time really loudly in their cars, especially when I go downtown for minimed school or something, so at really long stoplights you can get most of a song stuck in your head.)
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Date: 2006-11-30 12:04 pm (UTC)Well, I was just picturing Cameron in all the HOT outfits, but now that you mention it, that's a lovely image also... *stares intensely into space*
for a cause or group I'm in or something, at which point I'll beg money off of my parents
Like the shirt I made my mum buy me for $25 that time. It's a Breast Cancer Foundation shirt. Just a light sort of greeny colour... it's hard to explain. It's got, like, the open collar that you see on exercise-type clothes. With a concentric circle above the right breast, and the caption "Fashion targets breast cancer" because it's from Target. It's a play on words, see. And yeah. Usually I wouldn't spend that much on one of those shirts (because they're rather plain and you can find similar ones in the 'exercise clothes' for much cheaper) but this was for a worthy cause. Especially seeing as one of my mum's closest friends was diagnosed with breast cancer a couple of years ago. [/story]
try them on and bring them to the checkout and then right before I get up there, I'll decide against buying them
Haha, I'm worse. I wait until they're at home sitting in my wardrobe to decide I don't want them.
people play nasty dumb music all the time really loudly in their cars
I hate that. I hate that music.
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Date: 2006-12-02 10:00 pm (UTC)Well, she'd get to wear the hot outfits too. Though, erm, notforlong. /dirty
It's a play on words, see.
See I do indeed. Yay for stories and shirts and such. Ooh, I looked that shirt up, trying to see what it looks like, and I think that every country's is a different color. Australia is green, US is blue and black, UK is "pale blue and lilac", Canada is red and sort of orange, etc. That's cool.
I wait until they're at home sitting in my wardrobe to decide I don't want them
Ooh. Bad.