The mac is alive! Sort of. It's had a total lobotomy, but it works, and latter this afternoon I will have most if not all of my data back so I can get on with backing it all up to CD. Hurray! Whatever was wrong with it was causing numerous "overlapped extent allocation" errors. A quick search for this term on the apple support site turned out one, count 'em, one page. With only a cryptic mention of the error and something about corrupt directory systems. Which sounds pretty bad, right? So maybe they might want to go into more details, right? Wrong! Oh well. I found the information I needed, found a nice boy at the help desk at work to salvage what he could, and erased everything and started fresh last night. And it's alive! I just to make sure the iPod stuff is all installed right and find a couple of other upgrades, and I don't have to worry. All I'm using this machine for is playing music and watching videos while commuting, so this should be ok for now.
I'm looking forward to having my brain back. All of my updated Palm files were on the mac, all of my personal email was on the mac, I feel like I'm hobbling along with a bag over my head or something. take, for example, this weekend. I have no idea what I've already committed myself to doing this weekend and am having a hard time coming up with plans. Oh well. It'll work itself out one way or another. I might even end up working! Woo.
Actually, my main goal for the weekend is to decide once and for all where I am going to law school and get the appropriate response letters and deposits in order. Scary. I can do this. It's a big, scary step, but surly I must have the courage to take it, right?
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