July 01, 2003
So I have called the Help Desk, backed everything up to the gills, and am anxiously waiting for the techno boy to come and upgrade my PC to Win 2000. I am extremely nervous-I have a very deep and intimate relationship with my PC. I am not excited at the prospect of a 12 year old coming to upgrade my PC and losing all my files, all my settings, all my comfort zones. That, and I have some things in my PC that are very dear and important to me. So I have backed them up on the network, in my PC, and on floppy disk.
I get the feeling that should a war ever come, I will be the one who has stockpiled the most stuff in order to be safe. I'll have the largest mounds of tinned food and water, which I won't touch, since I'll feel the need to save them. Yes, I am incredibly paranoid.
My PC is something that I hold incredibly sacred. It is, for me, the electronic version of a diary (which I also maintain, in paper version). My PC is the dumping ground for all my thoughts, fears, work, stresses, and labors. I tightly control it's boundaries, I have everything set up the way I want it. I do not let anyone into it-in fact, a friend recently told me he had been on my PC and deleted a few files he didn't think I should have, and I swear to God I thought I was going to lose my mind-my personal, private space had been violated. It was almost like he climbed into my brain, pulled out a few sections of the lobe, saying "This is not what you need." and walked off with them.
Yup, it's official. I'm a control freak.
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