My computer is dead. I have lost everything. [View All]

[Taxloss]

I am extremely upset.

My book was lost; I can retrieve earlier drafts from emails to my agent and the laptop I am now using, but a lot is gone. I've suffered that kind of loss before and lived.

But all my research is gone. Again, these things happen. I will survive.

What really hurts is the loss of the personality that my computer seemed to be; the loss of all my internet bookmarks, digital photographs, funny thing from the internet, saved computer games, bookmarked DU threads. I think of the time it will take to restore everything, re-install everything. And I know it is stupid and materialist and so on, but I genuinely feel like I want to cry.