Hard drives and harsh realities
Not that anyone cares...but it appears the laptop may be dead. Officially. Our tech guy has assured me I did nothing wrong, but I don't believe him. Surely I'm to blame in some way. I'm ALWAYS to blame!
But no.
In good news, last week I purchased an external hard drive and BACKED UP the laptop! Oh yeah, who's looking like a genius now? (answer: me. I'm a genius.) So while this whole crash thing is highly disturbing I'm not crying on the floor in the fetal position like I would have been if not for the geniusly-timed laptop backup.
In other new, tomorrow kicks off the one-week countdown to the release of CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO SPY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh my gosh, I got nervous just typing that.
You guys want to know a secret? This one freaks me out. Not in a bad way--in a good way. And it's all your fault! That's right. Every time one of you writes or comments about how you're going to buy the book and all of your friends are going to buy the book my expectations creep up a little bit higher.
But do you know what happens every I have high expectations about anything (the Buffy series finale, the overall funness of every party I've ever tried to host, every pair of "perfect for curvy figures" jeans I've ever tried on)? My expectations inevitably get hammered into nothingness.
So really...expectations--not my friends.
And if you guys really want to help me out you'll tell me how much you're not looking forward to the book. I mean not at all. Honestly, people, that would help bunches (because whenever I go into something with low expectations I'm always pleasantly surprised.)
You could say things like "Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy? Might as well be Cross My Heart and Hope Not to Die of boredom!" You could tell me that the only reason you would buy it would be because it's the perfect height to fix a wobbly table you've got--that would help me feel better. Cause seriously, all this "I can't wait!" business is keeping me up nights and let's just say Ally needs her beauty sleep.
later gators
-Ally
But no.
In good news, last week I purchased an external hard drive and BACKED UP the laptop! Oh yeah, who's looking like a genius now? (answer: me. I'm a genius.) So while this whole crash thing is highly disturbing I'm not crying on the floor in the fetal position like I would have been if not for the geniusly-timed laptop backup.
In other new, tomorrow kicks off the one-week countdown to the release of CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO SPY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh my gosh, I got nervous just typing that.
You guys want to know a secret? This one freaks me out. Not in a bad way--in a good way. And it's all your fault! That's right. Every time one of you writes or comments about how you're going to buy the book and all of your friends are going to buy the book my expectations creep up a little bit higher.
But do you know what happens every I have high expectations about anything (the Buffy series finale, the overall funness of every party I've ever tried to host, every pair of "perfect for curvy figures" jeans I've ever tried on)? My expectations inevitably get hammered into nothingness.
So really...expectations--not my friends.
And if you guys really want to help me out you'll tell me how much you're not looking forward to the book. I mean not at all. Honestly, people, that would help bunches (because whenever I go into something with low expectations I'm always pleasantly surprised.)
You could say things like "Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy? Might as well be Cross My Heart and Hope Not to Die of boredom!" You could tell me that the only reason you would buy it would be because it's the perfect height to fix a wobbly table you've got--that would help me feel better. Cause seriously, all this "I can't wait!" business is keeping me up nights and let's just say Ally needs her beauty sleep.
later gators
-Ally
posted by Ally Carter at Monday, September 24, 2007
9 Comments:
ok i can't wait for the book.......so i can use it as a fix for my wobble table
This book is going to be the most UN-anticipated, UN-cool, UN-magical, and UN-awesome book of the UN-year! It was written by an UN-great author, and and she should(not) be worried about it and losing sleep over it!
And I'm NOT going to buy it! (I think I seriously can't. It's going to kill me. I have no more book money. WAH!)
UN-sincerely,
Kai
Yeah I so am not going anywhere near this book at the store. I can't believe it would even get published, it's clearly going to be the worst thing ever written. Duh.
(Just kidding. Sorry I couldn't quite come through.)
<3 Alli
ya the only reason im buying the book is so my mom can stop bothering me about how much i dont read it will probley end up under my bed(jkjkjk i not very good at this lying stuff i have a big Conscious)
yea, like WHO in their RIGHT mid what actually WASTE their money on Cross my heart and hope I die by falling off a million foot cliff so that i dont even have to THINK about buying that wasted heap of paper...sheesh. dont worry ally, you have no need to lose your sleep. just think of all the wasted time you spent on that *shudder* book.
JUST KIDDING!!!! OR AM I?!?!?!?!?
MUAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHH
"I have confidence in sunshine."
Yeah, well I might, you know, buy it just to, like, have some extra collaging material on hand, 'cause I kind of like that cover, and I bet if I chopped it up and put it with some pictures of flowers and maybe clowns or something, it could look very artistic.
But I won't actually *read* it or anything. The pages will probably go toward rabbit bedding or something useful.
;-)
I'm certainly not buying it. And neither is my sister. Or her roommate. Nope, we are a bunch of non-book buying people. We don't ever go to Barnes and Noble three times in one week just to see if they've gotten anything new.
Don't worry. We're not gonna read it then tell everyone we know what a great book it is, because it probably won't be any good anyway. Why bother? Reading is overrated.
;)
ugh, cross my heart and hope to spy? more like cross my heart and hope to cry...at how HORRIBLE it's going to be. i mean, seriously...what WERE you thinking when you decided to write a book about spies? gosh...it's been done a million times before...alex rider anyone?
it's not like I'M going to be first in line to buy it the day it comes out. NOPE! you won't see me go anywhere NEAR Borders!
okay...ally? is this helping, cause do you even KNOW how hard it was to insult your books like that? haha but yeah, soooo not buying it...*twitch*
Briana
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