I GOT MY BABY BACK!!! Okay, so really it's a computer, but I love it all the same.

Thank you, thank you, thank you to the Tech Gods at CompUSA for bringing it back to life. I can't express enough gratitude. (And I promise to be more careful this time.)

42 days and a thousand miles later, it is back at my fingertips and (so far) running like a champ.

Not having it was like being temporarily paralyzed. I never truly understood how much of my life is housed on the chips inside this thing. And since school has fired back up, I haven't been able to access the network and all the course files et cetera, which, at this school, is like a game of human foozball where the stakes are sudden death.