Okay, so you guys know how pressed I am for time this week right? And how I have twelve bazillion assignments that need to be posted, like, TODAY. And how I was doing pretty good because I had hand-written out everything and today was going to busy but not particularly taxing because all I had to do was type out everything? WELL...
Last night I made a start. Got a full assignment typed out. Started a new one.
Folks, if you're ever in this situation, please pay careful attention to what I'm going to say next:
DO NOT simply cut the existing text out of a document and start typing the new document up in its place (because you're too lazy to click two extra times to open a new document) while thinking to yourself, "Oh, it's okay, I'll just do 'Save As' through the file menu when I finish up for the night."
Because you won't. At dawn-o'clock when you're finally finishing up because you start falling asleep at the keyboard and bruising your head, you're not going to remember it. You're just gonna click the little disc icon and stumble to bed. And then you're going to wake up in the morning ready to print the assignment you've typed up the night before and discover your mistake.
And then you're going to have to really, really, really remind yourself that you don't swear.
That's an hour plus worth of work down the drain. But it could be worse. Here's why it's not.
* I was so tired last night I didn't throw out the screwed up pieces of paper from my notebook. If I'd thrown them out last night, they'd have been covered with the remnants of this morning's porridge by now. As it were, they're still right here where I tossed them last night.
* It was a relatively short assignment! I've written 25 page RSI-inducing behemoths before. Last night's was just 2 and a bit pages. So even in my desperation, the situation is not dire. I cannot even begin to explain how panicked I would be if it were the former.
So this is fixable. Annoying, but fixable!
Cheers,
Lizzie
15 comments:
Been there, done that... Had a (fortunately short) piece to write; I was ALL organised and had done a rough draft, and had typed up probably three quarters of it. Normally, I would save to hard drive and save to disk - but yeah, eyes hanging out of my head had to go to work the next day blah blah shut down and forgot.
Turned on my computer the next day to discover it had magically over night turned itself into a really big paperweight! With my assignment inside...
It was 8pm when I discovered my computer had the Chernobyl virus, 9pm by the time I found someone with a working computer who was at home, and wouldn't mind staying up while I re-wrote 750 words; 11.30pm when I discovered their printer had shat itself...
At least I had the draft done! I ended up having to drive out to work, wait for someone with a security code to get there, print off my assignment and bolt to uni for a 9am class!
SAVE AS is your friend!!!!
LOL - yes, you can be sure I'll be paying close attention next time!
It's hard to imagine after four years that I'm all but done with this course. I've lived and breathed assignments and deadlines (at varying degrees of eeek!-ness, LOL) for that whole time so it will be nice to 'just' be a housewife for a while. I still have about an afternoon's worth of work to do today and a semi-major project due mid-Jan but the light has appeared at the end of the tunnel!
Cheers,
Lizzie
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