My laptop was stolen from under my feet...

[katia]

So I was sitting in Shakespeare's head in Holborn with a couple of friends, a pub I have been in many, many times, I was trying to cheer my friend up because her laptop was stolen at King's Cross a few days ago and she has exams in three weeks, and then I said, we should all be careful, let me just check my laptop is still here and upon looking under the table discovered that in fact it was gone! GONE! MY BEAUTIFUL LAPTOP AND worst of all EVERYTHING ON IT, ALL MY NOTES, ALL OF THEM! (And photos and music and films and fic and EVERYTHING!) You see TWO days ago the memory stick on which I had saved everything was acting really weird, saying it was full when it wasn't and I needed to transfer some photos and DELETED everything from it and hadn't got round to re-saving it. TWO days ago, I deleted my back up,. I am so so stupid. Also screwed. This is possibly my worst nightmare, to revise for exams with no notes. It's like the year is gone.

There was CCTV footage of the guy taking it, but his face was hidden, so nothing could be done, of course.

Then I was really upset, only to get to Euston and find out that I have to wait for a train for over an hour!! As opposed to the usual at most 10 minutes wait. And then I cried like a crazy person in the middle of the station.

Comments

[proskynesis]

:(((((((! Oh my god. Oh my god. Worst nightmare. I hope you manage alright...

[kuteki.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I am okay now, shall be begging people for their notes of course, but it could have been worse.

[lauds.livejournal.com]

I am so sorry, oh gosh that is horrific! Can you contact uni about mitigating circumstances or something? <3

[lauds.livejournal.com]

(I feel SO ANGRY on your behalf, the cheek of that guy! I hope they somehow manage to catch him anyway.)

[kuteki.livejournal.com]

Not gonna happen, but am going to report it to the police tomorrow, as that way at least I won't have to pay for the library book that was in my bag. On the bright side I'd done so little work this year, have probably not actually lost that much.

(btw, sadly didn't manage to get to Mina. Next time we'll have to both go!)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

What she said! It's not like they can turn around and say you should have backed up... this is just appalling bad luck.

[pitchblackrose.livejournal.com]

Oh, no! :( How awful!

Can you maybe take your USB key somewhere to see if there is any trace of your data on it still? :/

*hugs*

[slasheuse.livejournal.com]

THIS. This is a really good idea because aren't the police always catching people because you can't wipe anything forever and your sins will always find you out?

I'm so sorry, this is just appalling. I felt sick reading this, you poor thing. How are you doing?

[kuteki.livejournal.com]

Someone else said that exact thing today, I will try, though don't want to get my hopes up. Am okay, thank you, people have offered to send me notes and I still have time before exams to read, just keep getting angry at self, because I could have so easily prevented it!

[kuteki.livejournal.com]

I will do that, though have very low hopes of it working as I'd emptied the recycle bin of the USB exactly because simply deleting things hadn't worked and it had no space, when it said it was empty..

[magic-at-mungos.livejournal.com]

Oh noes. That's awful

[starcrossedgirl.livejournal.com]

Gah, that is just the suckiest thing that could happen in that situation. Good luck on the revision front, and hugs from both Greg and I!

[kuteki.livejournal.com]

Thank you! <3

[davosaurus.livejournal.com]

OH THAT SUCKS SO MUCH. I FEEL SO BAD FOR YOU. D: