Manic Monday

Yikes!  If you have any precious technology, stay far far away.  At least it has seemed like I am cursed lately.  Last night, I was tediously preparing my lessons for the week, enthralled by the idea that I might get the whole week prepped and not have to stress all week long. 

That's when it happened!  My external harddrive, my precious little passport, simply stopped functioning while I was accessing a file.

My sweet little holder of every important file I own

I thought maybe a simple computer restart would do--no worries... It didn't work.  Then I thought maybe a simple "unplug--wait 30 seconds--plug back in" would do--a little worried... It didn't work.  Then I thought maybe it was my computer because it has always seemed buggy unlike my sweet little passport.  I thought maybe a simple plug it in another computer would do--quite concerned now... It didn't work.  That's when the tears came, and in a flood, they gushed.

This was totally me.

I was tired and ready to go to bed and then this!  I spent the next hour re-prepping the bare minimum for Monday with tears flowing down.  D is so sweet; he spent this entire hour trying to do whatever he could to try to fix the hard drive with no luck.  I finally went to bed, feeling quite down about having to be at school at 6:30 to finish prepping for the day by accessing files I only had on my school computer (and the poor broken passport).  I arrived at school today feeling pretty down, and then... I went to turn on my computer!  Attempt 1: Everything on the screen is zoomed in weird.  I restart.  Attempt 2: Everything seems normal until just after opening the print tab on the files I need copies of, it freezes!  I restart.  Attempt 3: The computer finally turns on and I get my first page printed at 7:05.  Ugh!  Be praying for my passport.  Even after all of the trouble it has caused me, I want it to survive.  I have years of photos that wouldn't fit on my netbook on there.  If I lose those files, I will only have Facebook quality versions of these photos.

Okay so I hope you feel sorry for me and maybe think I am a little ridiculous, too.  I realized by the end of today that, indeed, my life is not completely over (Last night, I was pretty convinced it was!), but I am still bummed.  Hope your Monday was less manic than mine!