Curse you, Electromagnetic Field!!!!

Mum and I have been having a rousing go-around about the stupid International Economics paper, right? So, I have about four paragraphs of free-write done and saved, I'm on a roll, I'm gonna get this done by Christmas. I saved it to a disk last night and went to open it on my cousin's computer (home is sounding a little hostile right now) and *plink* "This disk is not formatted." Seems that the four seconds my cell phone spent on top of my disks yesterday was just enough to erase it, with all of my papers for the last year, including my Capstone, which was the only one entirely saved in another place. *raging and gnashing (or is it knashing?) of teeth* Of course, all you ex-students and current students know what that means: ALL of the wind has been taken out of my sails. I CANNOT write about Venezuela now, CANNOT. Even though I know Marie would counsel me to just get all of the stuff out of my head and into the document, I keep thinking of the two brilliant opening sentences I had already crafted and which I'm not willing to spend a ton of money I DON'T HAVE (right now, maybe when I'm rich and retired) to try and maybe possibly not-sure retrieve. *heavy, heavy sigh and the sound of a candy wrapper crinkling* On the plus side, it didn't manage to erase my Mexico journal entries that are on the disk underneath and that also need to be turned in soon. Sooo, yes, Merry Christmas to all!!! Drive safely, traveling mercies, and may all your disks retain their information.