1. Oh god almighty. I think my computer and/or external hard drive is dying on me. I'm not sure what's happening, but it's behaving super weirdly and ARGH. I can't tell WHERE the problem is, or I'd at least know who to call to get it fixed. Can an external hard drive be corrupted and completely wreck an operating system? FUCKITY. Details under the cut, if anyone can help me puzzle out what the heck is going on.


2. So yeah, I might be on hiatus. I'm posting from my brother's computer right now, which only works since he's not at home - at 3am on a Sunday morning! - but clearly I can't do this when he IS home.

3. Tried to go for yoga today. FULL OF FAIL. Because I got there, after rushing down and ultimately paying far too much for parking, to discover that the idiot who signed me up for classes and promised to help me book them if I texted him, had NOT booked the class I wanted. Fuckwit. So instead of staying at home to flail (I had reason to do so, trust me), I wasted time, money and GRARGH.

4. Went out for a ridiculously expensive but quite exciting French dinner @ the St Regis hotel - it was a six-course meal that included lots of seafood. Smoked salmon to start, lobster and crab ravioli to follow, grapefruit sorbet to cleanse the palate, and then scallops with foie gras and smoked hazelnuts, before this hazelnut mousse biscuit dessert. Very exciting. I spent the entire time bitching in a mightily bitchy fashion to my poor fellow diners - JL and SC - about work suckage and my plans to abscond in some way in the next year. It's amusing that everyone just tells me to bite the bullet and DO IT. It's fear of the unknown, more than anything else, I think, that keeps me from really DOING anything about it. Even when I tell myself: it could work out. It should work out. You'll never know 'til you try.

5. Sigh.