i had a mini-crisis last night. my usb memory stick thing stopped working - and sure as hell, shalini's been doing a lot of writing lately. and shalini didn't make a backup of her work. i found out when i was doing my usual hour of computer time at uni before classes last night - i plugged the disk in, and the little blue light just didn't come on. changed computers, still no luck. i felt like such an idiot. to make matters worse, the night before i'd had a conversation about that sex and the city episode where carrie loses all her work cause she didn't make backups and her laptop dies - and we were all standing around flinging around phrases like 'how funny was the surly nerd who was trying to fix her laptop?', 'i never make backups of my work!' - now that's karma in motion, people. well, luckily for me i have twenty-four hour access to an only-sometimes-surly nerd (i don't want to praise him too much or he'll get a big head) - the lovely mark who somehow managed to make it work again just long enough to get a copy of everything off it, and on to my laptop. i swear, i was so depressed, even australian idol didn't make me feel better - i sat there thinking of all the stuff i'd written, and how i'd have to start all over again. so, my plea to you all is, please, if you do anything today, don't forget to make backups! won't somebody, please, think of the children!!!