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I find myself posting more often when things aren’t working out quite like they should, which just happens to be a fair summary of my life right now. So coming back from my organic chemistry lab on Wednesday, I found that my car had been broken into sometime during the previous day. There was glass all over the ground and whoever ripped out my stereo managed to destroy my dashboard and passenger side door in the process.

So the estimate from the body shop came out to over $3300, which doesn’t even include a new stereo. Fortunately my insurance company is pretty cool and they’re doing their best to get everything taken care of quickly.

In other news, a number of my friends graduated from Cal this weekend. Congratulations to Greg, Allan, Yael, Mauricio and everyone else I forgot to mention! Here’s one of me and Mauricio:

So this last week has been phenominally… interesting. Good things, bad things, out-of-the-blue things, but for the time being I’m going to avoid writing about the deeply personal aspects of my life and instead focus on one particularly defeating experience.

Data loss.

The two words that give any nerd a cold, eerie feeling. And it happened to me. It was Friday afternoon and being as nerdy as I am, I decided to clean up my iBook’s hard drive. After backing up all my files to an external hard drive, I proceeded to clean off the iBook’s disk and start over. Only after reinstalling the system software did I realize that my backup was no good. I backed up nearly 45 gigabytes of data (pictures, assignments, music, movies…) and the backup file only registered as one gigabyte. Where did the other 44 gigabytes go, you might ask? Well, Apple’s latest version of Mac OS X called “Tiger” decided that my data was important, so it destroyed the file. Gone. Poof. All but 2.2% of my original data is gone.

*sigh*

The good news: I have all of my pictures from 2001 to 2004 backed up on another set of disks, and my new iPod photo has a copy of every single one of my mp3s. I just need to come to terms with the fact that I lost all of my homework, IM conversations, art and web site stuff.

This whole experience makes me wish I was still using a PC… sad but true.