I’ve been ghosting through DA for the past two weeks, because ol’ Ethel the PC has been has been in the electronic hospital this entire time. She didn’t use protection and caught about a zillion viruses.

We’ll take a break and go to the good news for a sec. If you’ve seen me around lately it’s because I’ve been getting online with my wonderful new phone that I love. I’m going to marry it. Have I told you guys about phonezilla yet? Well, here’s the story anyway even if I have. Phonezilla was the “family phone”, so it wasn’t even mine, but that was all right because I did not want it. It had a green screen, a broken antenna (taped on, don’t worry), and it was fond of dropping calls. Not good. FINALLY, Mom and I both got new phones, because I got sick of pleading to borrow people’s phones to call and get a ride. I think I had half my Spanish class’s numbers in my phone somewhere because I had borrowed phones from almost every single one of my classmates. So… I go from nothing to Mr. En-V touch, which has faster internet than Ethel here can dream of. YAAAAAY! Unfortunately, Mr. Coolnewphone isn’t DA-friendly, or DA isn’t phone friendly yet. So, I can’t fave or comment on journals and user pages or submit things from it, which stinks. So there’s that story.

Back to the bad news. Ethel was so messed up that the doc had to totally wipe her out and reboot her. Stupid jerkface claimed he would save all of our files… but you can guess where this is going. All of my stuff, except for the lucky few things I had on my flash drive, is gone gone gone gone gone. My stories-in-progress, my stuff for school, my files for my movie projects (oh crap, I just remembered how bad that is), and my two thousand-some songs on iTunes, damn it. T_T This is the part where you scold me for not backing these things up…but where was I supposed to put it all?? Too late now anyway.

So I’m feeling pretty depressed and frustrated about it, all the work I’m going to have to do over. Wondering where I’m going to find the CD with the iTunes software on it… Wish me luck.

Anyway, I hope all of your computers are healthy and happy. And it’s nice to be able to actually talk to you guys again. Hopefully I’ll be able to post some new stuff soon; I’ve had a lot building up while the computer’s been down.

-TA

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