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My laptop hates me.
Oct. 11th, 2004 05:39 pmI've been working most of the afternoon on revising my lit review and materials & methods sections of my thesis -- at least, the field work part. I have to leave for work in a half hour so I'm going to do the nematology revisions tomorrow. But I've made the changes I need to on the LR and M&M, which is good... and which means...
Yes! My advisor finally wrote me some constructive feedback on the seemingly endless reams of printed material I keep giving him. I'm so psyched I almost can't stand it... fortunately, he didn't recommend any horrendously large rewrites, mostly just little things -- beef up the introduction a little, move a few things around. Minor stuff, really. I'm just so thrilled that I finally know what's wrong with it so I can DO something about it. When I've read my own stuff five thousand times it gets hard to see what's missing or what doesn't make sense, because it all becomes one big jumbled glob in my head.
Of course, my laptop has decided to crap out on me today... not entirely, but somewhat. Whenever I'd try to revise anything in my thesis documents, the cursor moved sooooo slooooooowwwwlllyyyyyyyy that I'd wind up accidentally deleting extra stuff, and I'd have to go in and retype. Terribly annoying. It's almost as if something large is running in the background, and I don't know what it is to shut it off. [Zip? Any chance you can help me with this when you get home? I ran ad-aware but only found one piece of spyware. Ack!!]
So, revisions took longer than expected. And, for some reason which I can't fathom, Word kept creating temp files over and over again -- like, a dozen of them -- instead of just autosaving. WTF?? Hopefully this is just some weird glitch that'll work itself out, like so many microsoft things do. I tried rebooting though, and that didn't seem to help. *sigh*
I think I'm going to start backing up everything on my thumb drive. You know, just in case. Not that I expect anything to go wrong... right?
Yes! My advisor finally wrote me some constructive feedback on the seemingly endless reams of printed material I keep giving him. I'm so psyched I almost can't stand it... fortunately, he didn't recommend any horrendously large rewrites, mostly just little things -- beef up the introduction a little, move a few things around. Minor stuff, really. I'm just so thrilled that I finally know what's wrong with it so I can DO something about it. When I've read my own stuff five thousand times it gets hard to see what's missing or what doesn't make sense, because it all becomes one big jumbled glob in my head.
Of course, my laptop has decided to crap out on me today... not entirely, but somewhat. Whenever I'd try to revise anything in my thesis documents, the cursor moved sooooo slooooooowwwwlllyyyyyyyy that I'd wind up accidentally deleting extra stuff, and I'd have to go in and retype. Terribly annoying. It's almost as if something large is running in the background, and I don't know what it is to shut it off. [Zip? Any chance you can help me with this when you get home? I ran ad-aware but only found one piece of spyware. Ack!!]
So, revisions took longer than expected. And, for some reason which I can't fathom, Word kept creating temp files over and over again -- like, a dozen of them -- instead of just autosaving. WTF?? Hopefully this is just some weird glitch that'll work itself out, like so many microsoft things do. I tried rebooting though, and that didn't seem to help. *sigh*
I think I'm going to start backing up everything on my thumb drive. You know, just in case. Not that I expect anything to go wrong... right?
