With Honors

Does anyone remember that movie? It came out in 1994 and had Brendan Fraser and Moira Kelly (also of Cutting Edge fame). Brendan Fraser played a Harvard student who lost his dissertation when his computer crashed. He only had one copy, which he dropped down a grate in his haste to make a photocopy. Even though the movie wasn't that great, the thought of losing a dissertation has always stuck with me. Now I know how he feels. Okay, I'm not as bad off as he was -- I e-mailed myself a copy on Sunday. But everything I did between Sunday and today -- gone. I'm currently searching my hard drive for temporary files, but so far, no luck. This sucks sucks sucks. I'm not sure if the problem is my computer or my USB drive, but now I'm afraid to even try and work on my computer. And of course I owe my advisor a draft by the end of the weekend. One good thing about my procrastination this week...I didn't get as much done as I normally would have. Less done, less lost.