Don't get me wrong, I love my computer. I have accepted the fact that it's getting old, and that it needs electricity plugged into it constantly in order for it to work.
It's battery is dependent on the single black cord that connects it to the wall, therefore eliminating the possibility of walking free, of enjoying the freedom of seeing new places, operating in new environments, with or without wi-fi. I adopted this old laptop, fully knowing that the only time I'll be able to use it only when I am at home.

The time period that it can usually survive without the plug is ten seconds. Take out the plug, the screen goes dark, and you have ten seconds to replug it or else it dies.

Well, my mom accidentally tripped over the wire today.
It unplugged.
The possibility of losing my current work was real, but it was minute work; work that was easily recovered. It shouldn't have upset me much.
Except one second later it died.

The event was similar to something like this:

[Mom trips.]

Mom: Oop!
[screen turns dark; the extreme energy saver mode has kicked in.]
Me: [screaming] THE PLUG! PLUG IT BACK IN! [I was thinking the wall/plug had come loose. In fact, it was the plug/computer connection.]
[I locate the source of the problem but the computer shuts down only after a few second. Possibly one second, but it definitely wasn't ten.]
Me: YOU MADE ME LOSE MY WORK.

It was just an accident, I knew that well enough. I shouldn't have lost my temper like that. Still, what made me mad was probably the realization that my computer was quick to give up on me. It was slightly disappointing.







I'm a girl who, for the most part, is in love with her computer and the internet. Hello. Sorry if I sound pathetic. Anyways, LONG STORY SHORT: Mom tripped, made my computer be unplugged, computer shuts down, I realize how funny it is that my computer is dependent on electricity like a drug. It's like someone so obsessed with...with...hair? I WAS going to say oxygen, but it didn't seem to fit. I can't find a good comparison right now, sue me.
Hope you liked my dramatics. Hope it's a change from my sometimes boring journals/updates...