life is no caberet
Dec. 4th, 2008 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolComputer fucked. They think it's the hard drive. This is more than a little aggravating. If anyone else says 'oh, you should have backed it up!' then I will say 'I KNOW THAT I'M NOT A COMPLETE MORON YOU KNOW.' You know, just a moron that has thoroughly learnt her lesson.
I am torn between what's worse; losing the first 500 words of my dissertation (you know, that thing I have to hand 3000 words in of on Tuesday), the fact I will have to now do vast swathes of my dissertation on library computers, or that I am going to have to shell out on getting a new computer sorted.
I have a few options. Firstly, I can go to the PC clinic at the uni, and they will... well, firstly they'll charge me £30 for looking at it, and then it's £40 for a new hard drive on top of that. This is a bit shite, as I don't have any of the discs I need with me, in terms of Word and stuff. I can get these posted up, though. Also, if it's not the hard drive, they won't charge me for that, but if other stuff has gone then I could be paying who knows what. My other option is just sucking it up and buying a new laptop. Now, this would be an option I could just about afford IF I didn't, in the next two months, have to pay my rent, my MOT, my car tax, my gas and my electricity. Oh, and that Christmas thing and all. I can't borrow money off anyone since, you know, it's a bad time of year for everyone, I'm unwilling to get into the cycle of using my credit card, and there's only so far the overdraft will stretch.
Oh, and I have Glasgow Collectormania this weekend, which I would cancel going to had I not already paid for my room.
Right. I'm going to book it into the PC clinic, and if I have no joy out of that then... well, I'll still pay the £30 for them to look at it, and then I'll have to make some magic with the numbers to see if I can afford a new one. Man, I hope that I get something for conmpensation for my back because then life isn't so scary.
Dear computer gods - I promise I will buy a shiny new computer in the sales if I have any comp money coming through but PLEASE let the thing be solved so that I can write my flipping dissertation...
[eta: yep, just got e-mail confirming massive failing at civil service. oh yay.]
I am torn between what's worse; losing the first 500 words of my dissertation (you know, that thing I have to hand 3000 words in of on Tuesday), the fact I will have to now do vast swathes of my dissertation on library computers, or that I am going to have to shell out on getting a new computer sorted.
I have a few options. Firstly, I can go to the PC clinic at the uni, and they will... well, firstly they'll charge me £30 for looking at it, and then it's £40 for a new hard drive on top of that. This is a bit shite, as I don't have any of the discs I need with me, in terms of Word and stuff. I can get these posted up, though. Also, if it's not the hard drive, they won't charge me for that, but if other stuff has gone then I could be paying who knows what. My other option is just sucking it up and buying a new laptop. Now, this would be an option I could just about afford IF I didn't, in the next two months, have to pay my rent, my MOT, my car tax, my gas and my electricity. Oh, and that Christmas thing and all. I can't borrow money off anyone since, you know, it's a bad time of year for everyone, I'm unwilling to get into the cycle of using my credit card, and there's only so far the overdraft will stretch.
Oh, and I have Glasgow Collectormania this weekend, which I would cancel going to had I not already paid for my room.
Right. I'm going to book it into the PC clinic, and if I have no joy out of that then... well, I'll still pay the £30 for them to look at it, and then I'll have to make some magic with the numbers to see if I can afford a new one. Man, I hope that I get something for conmpensation for my back because then life isn't so scary.
Dear computer gods - I promise I will buy a shiny new computer in the sales if I have any comp money coming through but PLEASE let the thing be solved so that I can write my flipping dissertation...
[eta: yep, just got e-mail confirming massive failing at civil service. oh yay.]
