I'm feeling lonely, lost, and cut off from the outside world... (well, as long as I don't count cable tv, 24 hour news, my cellular phone, and brief snatches of computer time on my brother's computer). 

And WHY would I need brief snatches of time on my bro's computer, you may ask?

Well, that's a good question and one that brings a very sad and depressing answer on my part.  For you see, last Friday I went out with some friends.  I finally made myself get off the couch after transferring some pictures off of my digital camera to my laptop.  The ol' laptop (3 years old) has been a bit finicky lately but seemed to be performing just fine.  I left to meet my friends for much drinking, eating, and comraderie.  We had a great time.  So much fun in fact that I invited about 6 people to come over to my house, watch Wedding Crashers, and if need be to also crash at my place.  As we're watching the movie a debate started on who a certain actress was in the movie.  I tell my bro to look on IMDB.com and look up the cast list.  He picks up my laptop... nothing.  It's frozen.  No biggie, sometimes it does this, so I restarted the computer.  It started to load XP, but when it should have started to show me the desktop what comes up?  A beep and "Harddisk 0 Cannont be found"!!!  ARGHHHH!!!  It appears that weddings aren't the only things to be crashed.

Anyway, basically my laptop is currently out of commission.  It's even more depressing when I think about the fact that my 3 1/2 months of my internship journal are on the drive that can't be read.  One of my friends said he would have someone take a look at it for me but after waiting for a week to hopefully hear something positive I was told tonight that the friend couldn't fix it. 

So I guess tomorrow I'll take it to another place and hope that they can at least retrieve some info off my hard drive.  I wasn't really planning on purchasing a laptop anytime soon so I hope the whole thing can be salvaged. 

I miss my computer!!

Anyway, if you don't hear from me for a while longer... that's why.  Stupid computer problems. 

Wow. Sorry about the computer trouble, Chelle. Hope things can get fixed up.