S T R I P P E D

Well,

For days now (weeks even) I've been fighting with my computer. You see, it had decided that it really didn't want to do any more school work, and didn't really care that I still have just over four months to get through. It was a battle of wills. And for a while, the computer - aka "the beast" - was winning.

But last night I snuck up on ' the beast' while it lay sleeping and slayed it into submission. Who knew that all it would take was one shinny "recovery disk" and a little time?!?!?!

So, my beast has had its memory-wiped. And now I am spending my day inserting different media to brainwash it back to where it was before it got a life of its own.

The consequence to me? I've lost some data - including a lot of emails. But, at least its working again, and thank god I bought my external hard drive last summer and have been backing things up to it faithfully!!!

hmmmm.... I wonder if have a working computer will help bring up my grades?!?