It appears that my computer is very sick. Despite passing both the hard-drive-not-dead test and the hard-drive-not-going-to-crash-in-the-somewhat-near-future test, I fear the end may be near for my Dell D800. It recently has begun moving very slowly, probably as a result of my marathon paper-writing sessions and/or semi-frequent slamming on breaks in Charlottesville traffic causing my backpack with laptop encased to fall onto the floorboard.
Today was supposed to solve my problems by reformatting my hard drive. Apparently all was going well until it began to hemorrhage internally, aka to "act funny." There are "fan issues" and other strange phenomena, so when I went to pick it up around 4:45pm, Dr. Derek told me that he was continuing to run diagnostics on it.
He will have more information for me tomorrow morning. For now, I'm the foster child of the law school's Dell D600, a smaller version of my own Dell, but without the same personality.
The upshot of this computer drama is that I've accomplished an unprecedented amount of work thus far today. This is quite good news because ever since returning from Spring Break I've been suffering from an acute case of senior-itis and motivation has been sparse. Tonight I hope to keep up the good work, but I really do promise to share the Captain's Log as soon as my computer feels up to it.
Keep your fingers crossed!
1 comment:
Good luck! (And good luck with all of your work. . . I can hardly believe you're almost done!)
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