What do you mean "it's dead"?

Yep. I have to come to terms with it eventually.

Josh, your computer...we did everything we could...it's...well...it's bricked. There's nothing we can do but reinstall the entire operating system. Backing up your files will be difficult, but with some time, I'm sure your computer will make a full recovery.

Well, this is my first Blogger entry and I gotta say I'm pretty stoked. My other blog didn't ever quite take off. I have a lot of plans for this blog, and I will try to make it as everyday as possible. I'm hoping that I will follow through with my plans.

But about my old laptop. Yep, it's deaded. There is a guy on campus fixing it, and I'm paying him in installments (thank God for understanding, compassionate, fellow college students...) but he is (again, understandably) keeping my backed up files as collateral until I pay him the full amount. Gurf.

On the bright side, I should be getting my laptop back tomorrow! YAY!!!!!

I didn't go to class today because I started getting a major headache the night before. When I woke up at 8:45, it was pain on a scale so epic I couldn't focus on anything, but apparently I went to sleep with a piece of gum in my mouth, because that same piece of gum is now residing very resiliently on my shirt. My Luther College shirt. My ONLY Luther College shirt. So much for showing school spirit.

When I felt capable enough of doing regular activities around 3:00 p.m., I went to our college's technology help desk to see what I could get done about fixing my computer cheaply, because I couldn't afford a new computer all at once and everyone was turning me down for payment plans because I have no credit. Yay for being a broke college student.

"Yeah, this message you are getting is a start-up issue. It's telling you that it's having problems with an 'unmountable boot volume.' (At this point, I was thinking to myself thank you Captain Obvious) This usually means that the file is corrupt. I suggest you get your operating system reloaded. We don't fix things like this, but (whips out my new Bible: a list of campus technicians that do things cheap and well...AT THE SAME TIME!!!) here is a list of everyone on campus who you would want to go to for a reload. Keep in mind who does XP and who doesn't you'll waste your time otherwise."

I was jumping with joy and before I left, was referred to a technician named Theo who lived on the other side of the college's Union building, in a building I had never been in before. I went down, figuring out that the ONLY way that I was going to get downstairs was an elevator. WHAT IF A FIRE HAPPENS?!?!?!?! I dropped off my computer and Theo (my new savior) said he would have it back to me within 24 hours. He is a bucket of awesomesauce!!!

Then I went to supper and hung out with Danny, his roommate Adam, Adam's friend Nick, Annie, and some of their friends. Supper was good: we had a pasta line and they had my favorite food of all time. MACARONI AND CHEESE!!!!!!1!!1 Unless it's your favorite food, you cannot fathom the elation I felt as I walked up and asked for a big plate of it, while the smells of Cheddar and American cheese were wafting up from the cheese-smothered pasta. YUM!!!!

Later, I hung out with Leslie, her boyfriend Jake, and her roommate Kathleen, and John. who is all of our friends. We went out to see Sherlock Holmes. It was boss, I will not lie. Although there were some epic 3D animation fails and greenscreen fails. So much for Hollywood. On a scale of 1 to 5 where 5 is the best, a 4.5 out of 5. Great movie, great acting, great plot, mediocre effects, and it seemed as if Watson was the brains of the operation, not Holmes...hmmm.....

Now, I am planning on pulling an all nighter so I can a) get homework done and b) take the consequences of being an asshole and staying up way past the time that I am used to going to bed.

Until tomorrow!!