The Joys of Restoring

If those of you out there in blog land are anything like myself, then your computers house a good part of your life. For myself, being a creative writing major, I have to write a ton of papers, all of which are stored on my nice, 20 GB HD. Now, I'll admit, I made the mistake of not backing up my laptop any time recently, mostly because, until recently, my laptop was the back-up for my desktop. However, with me deciding that I hardly ever play games anymore, I realized that it was time to move to something smaller, lighter, and more up to date. And here we come to my problem. The other day, I shut my laptop down, same as I always do. Later that day when I started it up, my laptop decided to go and fuck up on me. It decided that it was magically going to have a corrupt file that would prevent it from starting back up. So, what did I do?

I RESTORED MY GODDAMN COMPUTER!!

"But George, you've got another computer, what's the big deal?"
The big deal is that since I had made the move towards using just my laptop, I was no longer typing my papers on my desktop, which means when I restored my laptop, I lost those papers. There is a good and bad to that. The good is that I have hard copies of everything that I didn't have on my desktop. The bad is, if I want them back on my laptop, I'm going to have to retype them. Not a big deal since I type about 100 wpm, but still a royal pain in my ass. To top it all off, I can't seem to find all of my discs. The one that I'm missing that can't really be replaced, is my Office 2002 disc. I've got a disc that gives me Word, which is all I'm really using right now, but it would be nice to have all of the programs that I had before. Mind you, I'm pretty sure that I know where the disc is, the problem is that happens to be at my ex-girlfriends house, and we're not really on speaking terms.
So, here we are, a number of hours later, I've got my computer back to pretty much where I want it, minus my music files, but I'll get those back later, and I still have the urge to through this damn thing against the wall. Too bad my service plan doesn't cover that.