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First of all, when I woke up, I had a hell of a righteous headache worthy of a pair of Aspirin. That was just the BEGINNING of a bad day. I'd also slept in until, like, fifteen minutes before my first class of the day was due to begin, so I didn't have time to eat breakfast. I just had time to throw on some clothes, re-pack my backpack, and hustle on out. That was my first mistake.

DS 2810 didn't go too badly. Professor had the class work more on their resumé assignment that's due Monday morning. Okay, no biggie... except for the second mistake I made that would lead to today totally going down the tubes:

I decided to move all the files for the assignment from the U:/ drive (it's a campus-hosted data storage bank that students can use to hold some of their class files) to my flash drive.

After DS 2810 came CSC 1070... programming in Visual Basic. Now, most of the file saving I do in that class is to the U:/ drive. I decided to plug my flash drive in because there was a program I wanted to compile to send around to friends for them to play with. That was my third mistake.

I ended up getting bored in that class and deciding to play around with that program I wanted to compile. I'd gotten the idea to add some extra lines of code to it to get it to do something new.

As the class rolled along, my stomach started to complain. Professor stopped lecturing about ten minutes before class was due to end, so I decided to pack up and hustle out a few minutes early so I could get some chow. I didn't even stop to think if I had everything I'd brought with me. Fourth mistake come and gone.

So I practically ran to lunch and got... not nearly enough food to sate my hunger. As I ate, I had a gut feeling to check my backpack because I had a bad feeling I'd forgotten something. I didn't check my backpack. Mistake number five right there.

So after lunch was me sitting around in the dorm to relax a bit before work. I went to work, tutored my tutee for the requisite hour, then went on out to the fitness centre to check the work schedule. On the way back, I ran into my dad's boss, and then later on my dad, and I chatted with him for a bit.

By now, my only concern was making it through my last class of the day because I was tired, hungry, and was gonna be eating dinner at mum's (the main reason why I was letting myself starve even after an insufficient lunch).

My last class of the day was discrete mathematics (think Boolean logic with True and False and ones and zeroes). Made it through that class, stopped by dad's office to drop off a flash memory card, then went back to the dorms.

Finally, now that the day had ended, I took inventory of my backpack... and found that my flash drive wasn't in its rubber case.

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^{_{I had lost my flash drive...}}

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I lost a two gigabyte flash drive... filled with over a gigabyte if irreplaceable data.

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NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!

I practically panicked and RAN back to the last class where I had it... which was my CSC 1070 class. That class ended at, like, 11:00 AM. This was about 3:45 PM that I realized I lost a tiny little jump drive that was (in material cost) worth "not much", but I had considered (in personal cost) absolutely priceless.

I. Was. Panicking.

It wasn't turned into Lost & Found. It wasn't in the computer lab where I'd left it. My professor was gone for the day. It was gone. Just fucking gone.

I'd lost homework. I'd lost a novel. I'd lost... everything. My life was in ruin. Seriously. I was majorly depressed when I went to mum's for dinner. And to make it worse, Hurricane Ike drove gas prices up to $4.20/gal here. That's fucking astronomical for the area I live in.

When I got back to the dorm, I just sat... depressed... for a bit... then decided to listen to my gut again and check my e-mail.

Some staff guy who services the computer labs in the building had found it and cataloged it in a sort of Lost & Found lockbox. Oh my God I was so relieved...

But it doesn't help it's locked away in an office for the weekend and it's got the better half of my DS 2810 assignment that's due on Monday.

So yeah. Today sucked.

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