Sugared Harpy

So, over this past week a huge thing happened in my household. My laptop, she died.

I mean, it flashed IMMINENT HARD DRIVE FAILURE and then failed. It never was able to boot up properly again. NB is going to look at it, but gah.

Gone.

Everything on it is gone. Unless he can get it back, that is. And then I really would love him forever. That’s how you win my love around here, service me.

Thankfully, THANKFULLY, a few months ago the thing started overheating and then just shutting off. NB took my laptop, performed some magic and it’s been fine ever since (um, except for that dying part). The THANKFULLY part is that when he did that, he backed up all my files.

HOORFUCKINAY!

Now, whatever I’ve added to my computer since then is possibly still gone. But it could have been so, so much worse. Years of my teaching work, writing work, my WORK, would be lost. People, do you know how long it takes to put together a semester’s worth of powerpoints?

Forever. It takes forever. And I do not have forever until August.

After spending a buttload of time trying to make my laptop work again, I gave up.

And by the time I called NB about it, I had already bought a new laptop. I NEED one.

This (waves hands around) is my office. This is my workplace. My workplace has a corner desk nestled up to my bed, with a cat lying behind the screen and one on the floor at my feet. Today I have NB’s puppy here (acclimating the cats and her, you see) on the bed, backed up to my chair.

I can’t go without a laptop until it’s maybe fixed. This is where I make my living. Yadda yaddah teaching, but it’s summer. I’m researching and writing. And hells, when it is August again and I am teaching again, I’ll do the grunt work here and not at the schools. Have you seen how adjuncts work?

Mama needed an excuse for a new laptop anyway, a six year old model that crashes with all her files is a good enough reason. So she got a pretty one:

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