The Day My Toshiba Went "Vaio" Con Dios

So, I’ve been a little lax in the bloggery department lately, but I have several good excuses. Let’s take the most salacious one! I should have known I was jinxed last week. How? Well, for one, while walking across campus, I tripped on the sidewalk, recovered, and then a couple of seconds later just narrowly avoided being run over by a “little person” on an electric motorcycle. Bad joojoo or mojo or something. Strange things were most definitely afoot at the Circle K, where K = Cumberland School of Law. Right, so I was jinxed and whatnot. So, I’m up late last Wednesday night working to meet a deadline for turning in my rough draft of my major writing requirement for Law Review. It was at that point that I cashed in my jinx. My Toshiba labtop computer, about which I had bragged less than 24 hours prior to be the most dependable PC I’d ever owned, ceased to be. After expressing my displeasure in no uncertain terms to an inanimate object which had somehow found a way to become even less animate that it had previously been, I spent Thursday night rewriting my paper. Joy-joy. Now, here is the silver lining: I took my cadaverous computer to Grace “the computer goddess of the otherwise coffee-hating Beeson Law Library” who performed an emergency harddrive-ectomy and successfully completed a documentary organ harvest from the donor PC, thus ensuring an after-life to the files which had formerly lived, moved, and found their being in my old machine. Oh, well. Tom Petty was right: Even the losers get lucky sometimes.