Today I had a final due. No big deal. I wrote most of it last night, and emailed it to myself to work on at school today before class. I get up early get to school around 10 to give myself 3 hours to get it done and get everything organized. I open my email, and I had emailed myself the incorrect version. No biggie, I'll just start from there, my ideas were more organized now anyway. Class starts at 1:30, so at 1 I'm finishing up my paper, making sure all my sources are in order and all that jazz. Now, I had remembered a few hours back to save the document, so I had been saving it at various junctions throughout the day. So I go to double space my paper, and the computer freezes. Shit. Ok, no biggie, I saved it, I just have to reopen the document and print it. A moment of panic vanishes when I see that the file is indeed there. I double click it, expecting all my glorious, 2300 words of brilliance to be in front of me. THE DOCUMENT WAS BLANK. It was a five page document, just like my paper, but not a word was written.
I think someone kicked me in the stomach at that point. I began asking anyone if they could recover it, no one knew how. I held back the tears, I was convinced that my professor would understand and let me turn it in later tonight. I go up to class, but on my strong face and tell him what happened. He just looks at me and says "yea, I hate when that happens... so what can you turn in right now?" ... ugh... a little bit over half of it, full of spelling mistakes and notes to myself! And then the dam breaks and the tears start flowing, and try as I may I cannot stop them. One of the girls comes to my defence and says I was almost in tears when it happened... kinda like now. After the tears I think he realized that I was not in the mood to joke around, he's letting me turn it in on Thursday. I would still like to express my annoyance in rewriting the paper, again.
And that is the story of how Karlene cried in front of her class. And shook. That can be contributed to my diet of coffee that morning, because i had dropped my breakfast on the ground on the way to school. I'm glad today is over!
3 comments:
Aww I'm sorry. I hope the rest of your week goes much better.
Kar Kar -- I wish we could come right over and give you a hug. That is a bad day!! Love you, Aunt Mary
Many of have had the lost/blank document problem and could relate to your frustration. It happened to me at about 2:00am when the last, most complicated annual evaluations of 15 I had been working on for two days disappeared from the screen. I couldn't locate it anywhere. So, I began all over again, finishing about 4:00am. Later that morning, my son Jon easily retrieved the original.
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