info @ the P.Pole 02.25.08
5 memorable things I’ve lost over the years:
- My very own Pokémon Blue for the GB/GBC in grade school
- Half of my music collection in a tragic external harddrive malfunction
- My copy of Josh Groban’s self-titled album (did one of you borrow it and not return it?!)
- My soul to IB and its sultry sirens
- My Theory of Knowledge/Philosophy paper (predicted as an A) that is due in weeks
I submitted an essay last year for TOK (the course) that I was supposed to keep and revise to resubmit this year for IB evaluation (part of a scheme to get up to three bonus marks to add to my IB post-exam final grades). I lost this essay awhile ago when my harddrive crashed part-way through copying stuff over to my other drive. I did not realize this. Well, not until last night when I went to print off a copy to show Usprech when I found “Hey, my TOK homework folder is gone. Oh that’s right, I lost it when my drive got wiped. Oh well… OH WAIT.” Now, I am waiting with bated breath (that tastes a little funny on account of the chocolate milk I just had) to see whether Usprech has kept the second copy of my essay that I was required to hand in so that I won’t have to redo this 1600 word essay. It’s been so long since that I haven’t the slightest recollection of what it was I had jotted down in the original, and it’s impossibly difficult to rewrite an A-grade essay and not lose some of the original juicy. I dislike losing and losing stuff, so when this kind of thing happens (where losing stuff may lead to further losing for me), I pretty much am dead-set in a broody, bitter mood for the next little while until I resolve to be content or solve this. With my fingers crossed, there will be love (of the Theory of Knowledge, of course)!
February 25th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
your Josh Groban album. i has it.
February 25th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
…wow.
I really, really hope you get your essay back.
February 26th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
I actually had that happen too. Mine appeared on my school drive though. Someone upstairs must have been like “oh, hey there’s Alex, he probably doesn’t need any more stuff to worry about, we’ll toss the essay to him, and make a Dane Cook stand up concert link show up in his daily browsing material. Just between me and you, I can’t wait till he dies, we’re going to have a blasty-blast (Dane Cook that is, not Alex, he ain’t getting a ticket here, sucker).” Anyway check that out. Or maybe on your old email storage box, if you ever used that to send it place to place. It will at least save you the trouble of re-typing the whole thing even if you have a hard copy.
Oh and I always, always wanted a gameboy so I could play pokemon. I thought it was “the” craziest thing in the world. Nothing compared to 16 bit graphics and the insane story line that is pokemon.