I'm not sure this day could suck more

[cornerofmadness]

But I'm sure it'll try. It's all been minor irritations up until now. Actually it started last night with...let's call it GI distress which will do me NO good when I'm strapped into and MRI for the better part of an hour today. I end up taking an immodium just in case. I get up in the morning and the radio isn't working...just not working. It'll center on all the stations but no sound.

I give up on that and go for breakfast which is about the last food I have in the house, the last two hard boiled eggs which have gone bad (how when they're less than a week old I don't know). Now it's too late for me to get anything else on the way into town.

The MRI wasn't bad except they do nothing to support my bad knee (which happens to be on the same side as the ankle I just messed up and after being strapped to a table for almost an hour is throbbing like a toothache. I go into town because it's too early for lunch after this (and I'm starving) I start walking around and in spite of it being 60+ all week today it's in the low 50's and raining.

I give up and go to the chinese buffet which I already know isn't all the good but for cheaper than any of the fast food (my only other option other than bar food). It's worse than I remember.

I survive Wal-Mart shopping on a weekend to restock the larder and get so exhausted that I come home and try for a nap (Evil LIttle Dog will tell you I don't nap unless I'm like dead sick). I lay down and every story I've ever written wants to replay itself in my head. I get no sleep so I give up.

I turn on the computer to put the finishing touches on the test I spent EIGHT hours working on yesterday and the day before while talking to mom. It's gone. My exam is GONE. Now I saved the damn thing every time I made significant progress on it. which is many times over two days. How can it be gone? Well it is, a search turned up NOTHING. It's gone. Explain to me, computer guru's, how the hell that's possible. THis computer does that from time to time. I tell mom this and she gets pissed because she bought me the computer and seems to think that because I think this Dell is a piece of shit, that I somehow think badly of her so she hangs up on me.

And this is all on top of PMS which makes me terribly depressed to start with.

And if you computer people can tell me if it's possible to somehow retrieve a file that's been repeatedly saved and somehow 'gone' I'd appreciate it.

Comments

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

I am so, so sorry you're having an awful day. Sometimes it doesn't pay to get out of bed.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I tried to go back there but it was not meant to be.

[makd.livejournal.com]

This is clearly a shitty day. Rest up, eat something treat-ish, and start all over again.

and, that thing with the exam and the computer? Happened to me. Several times. Always at the last minute, and always frustrates the hell out of me.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

at least I'm not alone. That's not comforting per se but at least there's other people this happens to. It would be so bad if it hadn't been renal and respiration which the physiology for it is SO complicated. And to be honest I think it's messing up again. I'm watching it save and I don't think it IS. will make a huge copy and email it to myself this time

[lunykimberly.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear about your bad day, with the others on find something to treat yourself with and try to start over tomorrow.

On the computer front...this is probably gonna sound rather condescending (and it's not meant to) but have you checked to make sure it's not something embarrassingly simple like the file is in a different spot than where you're searching or maybe named differently (couple characters switched or similar)?

If it's not that then I can only suggest that the gremlins in your computer are wanting attention.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah I thought of that but I know the name of it and it was there yesterday when I retrieved it by that name. This computer has done this many many times before.

But thanks

[bashipforever.livejournal.com]

*hugs you*

Thinking about you and as for your computer problem...hell if I know. I still maintain that your computer is possessed

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

Oh I'll go along with possession for this computer

[southernbangel.livejournal.com]

Oh no!! Damn, that blows! I agree with Kristi - your computer is possessed. I hope you're able to find your test somehow without having to redo it.

I'm so sorry about the rest of your day as well. Tomorrow has to be better, right?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

it was lost. it was saving goofy again today.

let me tell you, my tomorrows rarely get better.

[catlove.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear yesterday was such a crappy day (yes, I was reading the award post and wondered what went wrong, which is why this is a bit of a delayed message). I'm glad to see you reconstructed the exam later, taking less time than expected as well. Computers are wonderful until something goes wrong...

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah like eating my damn test. sigh. Thanks.