It's kinda been a rough week.

On Monday, my macbook's hard drive crashed suddenly and inexplicably. I didn't have anything backed up except for an outdated list of supporters on a flash drive. Ironically, a couple days before it died, I had been thinking that I ought to ask a friend about external hard drives and such stuff that I know nothing about. Alas.

But the friend that I didn't speak to soon enough was quick to try various methods to get the information off the hard drive (albeit unsuccessfully) and equip me with a hard drive for use until the new one came in the mail. Now the new hard drive is installed, and I've learned my lesson about backing stuff up.

This was a bit of a traumatic experience, but the more I think about it, the less I can complain. I've had awfully good help and in losing all this I'm reminded that it's all earthly, fleeting stuff anyway. Granted I'm not always good at remembering that, so I'm also comforted that lots of my pictures are online, some papers are in my e-mail, and my music is back in NJ.

In other sad news, I lost my Burt's Bees chapstick a few days ago.