Serenity is Back from the iHospital

My nice iMac recently suffered a mental breakdown and her poor hard drive quit. :( For a while she would freeze up after I woke her up from sleeping all night, and then she started having problems booting (I'd have to try booting twenty or thirty times before she'd actually let me log in). My home diagnosis was a problem with the Systems Management Unit, for which there was a quick fix listed on Apple.com. I tried it, but apparently Serenity was allergic to the medicine. She passed out and we had to send her to Indy.

My mom brought her home on Friday. She looks as good as new but she's not quite the same--she suffered total amnesia; the only thing she remembered was my Dad's name. I lost all my pictures, sans what I had suspended in the ethereal goodness of the internet, but I had SO many more pictures than were actually online it makes me sad. I also lost a great deal of past homework assignments and writing projects I had been working on...major groan. And all of my hundreds of music albums and photos.

Serenity's undergoing rehab at the moment as I attempt to refill the hard drive with all of my crucial stuff. Luckily I can regain a lot of the final product pictures that I've drawn but all of my writing is gone. Damn me and my lack of backup!