and it was like bleep bleep bleepbleepbeep, and then, like, half of my paper was gone (Video)
For some reason, life has been playing little jokes on me all week. I don’t think there could’ve been more little disasters in my presentation in Computational Modeling. First, my laptop wouldn’t project. Then my thumbdrive was formatted incorrectly so I couldn’t transfer my presentation to the TA’s computer. Also, my internet was down (I would learn later that I accidentally hit a wifi kill switch on the bottom of my laptop) so I couldn’t transfer files that way. I ended up giving the presentation without projection, turning my laptop around periodically to show off figures.Awesome.
Right now I’m trying to finish my sociology paper. I was using Zoho Writer to write it, but somehow Zoho lost pretty much all of my notes as I was about to start turning them into a paper. So now I’m writing the paper directly from the original sources. And I’m using OpenOffice.
But just now, I think OpenOffice crashed without me realizing it. I opened my paper, thinking I had just saved and closed. And those little autorecover dialogs popped up, and I was like “weird, I didn’t see a crash. Whatever.” and clicked cancel a few times without reading the dialogs carefully.
Only to see that the version on disk was one. single. paragraph.
Awesome.
Life is like a ball pit. You can’t really get from point A to point B very fast. And even if you do, it’s not really the fun way to play. Best is to see who’s nearby, make a friend, throw some balls at their head and laugh at the absurdity.
