1. Write a post based on the word crisis.

It’s funny how sometimes, these prompts just conjure up random ideas when I actually let my mind wander. When I saw “crisis”, the very first thing that popped into my head was about the year 2005 – might have been ’06 – when I was working on and almost done with my master’s thesis, which was about 120 pages long. One day, while writing, my computer took a dump and the hard drive crashed. My stupid ass had not backed it up to a thumb drive or our server so… that was a VERY devastating moment.

I remember being at work (which coincidentally was at FSU so, where I was also studying) and panic set in. I did everything I could to get it back, find a saved version, but it kept reverting to an older one.

Funny, as I sit here recreating this, I don’t know why I’d think I was at work. But I know it was my desktop computer that crashed and obviously that would not have been at work with me. But I remember specifically having this crisis AT work and then going home and telling Ash about it and how I was going to go out with work friends and drown my sorrows. And we did. I met a bunch of people at Finnegan’s Wake, an Irish pub in town, and drank a few beers and felt sorry for myself.

In the end, Ash was able to find my files on the hard drive, through his mad computer skills, and really, this crisis was averted. But man, at the time? It was AWFUL! It just felt so bad because I had the power to prevent it and I didn’t. I can tell you this much: I ALWAYS back up my files now! I even got two thumb drives and backed one up to the other!