The Stars and the Cookie Jar

I don't wanna be a writer anymore, waaaaah!

My computer made stew meat out of two pages of the thing I was working on, and took for good measure a page of research notes on Vilna because the window happened to be open. Didn't not-save them! Oh, no! Just garbled them beyond chance or recall!
Never seen anything like it.

So now I'm sitting around clicking through webcomics and talking to people, and relishing the fact that I do not have to work until 5pm, but also very regretful that I have to type all that stuff out again, and because I tweak as I go, it will not be exactly the same.

I should cave in and buy a new laptop, I know this, but I was thinking of switching back to Mac (alliteration and assonance unintentional) and they're so not-affordable on what I get paid.

Was thinking this morning, over my tall caramel-syrup extra foamy Amerimisto (ask your barista for it! They might make it, right before they kill you) that what I do doesn't matter, and then it's okay that it doesn't matter, because of course it doesn't matter, because I serve coffee!!

The writing matters, though.

I gave my back a sad wrench this evening at work; I think the many gallons of milk in one crate had something to do with it, but now the muscle (I have muscles!) is cranky and I'm wasting a disposable heating pad on it.

Other than that: I'd love to watch a DVD but guess what? The drive is stuck shut again (I'm thinking of leaving the paperclip in the little thingwhacker) ...at least I got my RotK soundtrack out of its nasty plastic jaws.

Other, wiser, Jewisher friends from University are debating the thing with legumes on Pesach. I never got that; what's the issue supposed to be? They're beans. (This is like the Catholics deciding that otter and beaver are kinds of fish, at least during Lent?) I didn't know a bean could leaven, and the professor at whose home I always used to attend Seder (uh... I think that grammar is proper) used two different sorts of lentils in his vegetarian kishke. [N.B. The less said about that, the better.]

Now, I know I'm only a marginal, undereddikated kind of Jew, but I don't get it....