I'm sitting here in the computer lab in Odegaard recovering from a traumatic experience... so I have this paper due tomorrow (yeah, the one about nutrition). 5-6 pages. Hadn't started writing yet. Went to lab after my 9.30 class, got to work: first, went to electronic index of The Times and looked up sixty bajillion articles (at least thirty, anyway) and typed the relevant quotes in a Word document. Then, wrote the first two pages of essay. Saved essay but stupidly did not note where saved essay.
Went to email essay to myself so that could take lunch break, when browsing for document noted that couldn't find it. Where was essay? Searched for document name; no essay. Looked in every "temp" and "document" folder on computer; no essay. Searched for document name and looked in each folder for forty five minutes. No essay. Tried not to cry in middle of computer lab. Took deep breath, went to internet history and typed all relevant quotes back into another Word document. Rewrote two pages of essay, all the time thinking "Damnit! I'm so screwed!" Went to save essay - and noted link to what looked like previous essay in dialogue box. Opened link. Was essay. Had just wasted about two hours and still need to write most of essay. But it was through no fault of my own; I still don't understand how I missed the file because I looked everywhere that it could possibly be.
Anyway, I sent both copies to myself twice, so that should be okay, and will now go get lunch. Writing hell until 1.30 tomorrow and then, going to see Joshua Bell in the evening! Woohoo!
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