Ups and downs

First of all, the awesome things:

Awesome thing number one is that I tentatively have a job! If everything goes through correctly, which the woman I spoke with was pretty sure it would, I'll be working as a writer for a financial company in the area. Within 20 minutes of home, no less. It's not a completely done deal yet, but I have a start date and I have to go in to do paperwork, so it's a pretty certain thing. Bwee!

Awesome thing number two is that I talked to anonymous_greg live on the phone today! I was kind of freaking out about our telephone and internet (am in the library at school, by the way, as caitirin be in class) being shut off in the middle of my phone interview today, so we had all the calls forward to my cell, which for some reason didn't ring in one instance. I was calling someone back whose call got cut off (I was worried it was the call I was waiting for) when I got another call - thinking it might be the interviewer, I answered. Instead, someone expressed surprise that the phone call worked and asked me if I were Caitirin! I recognized the voice, and OMG, it was anonymous_greg!! *jumps around* It made me just so happy and excited and totally no longer wigged out about the interview :) Which ended up being rescheduled to a few hours later anyway.

Now, onto the decidedly not-awesome thing and a question/plea:

I'd like to arrange a moment of silence for caitirin's external hard drive. We took it to Best Buy and they said that it was kaputz, something to do with the head (??). Data recovery, they told us, would be between $500 and $2200. GAH.

So if anyone out there knows anything about data recovery for less steep prices, we'd really appreciate hearing about it. Even $500 is way out of our range, and we're not sure how much it would cost anyway. There's a lot on there that Caitirin can get back from the internet, my computer, and other things, but there's also a ton she'd be losing (mostly older writing/schoolwork, pictures, and music). Help on this would really be appreciated. We're not even sure whether you can pick and choose what's recovered or whether they have to recover the whole thing in one go. If anybody knows what goes on in data recovery or of any places or people that do it for less, please let us know.

And that's it :)

Zombie dreams

And, because it's Monday night and caitirin is in class, I'm spamming my LJ with interesting dreams I had the other night.

The immediate aftermath of the dream happened something like this:

caitirin - *making breakfast*
elaby - *toddles blearily out of bedroom*
Caitirin - Good morning!
Elaby - *small serious voice* ... Zombies.
Caitirin - O.o *runs to comfort*

Yes. If you didn't know, I have this dead-people phobia and often have dreams about corpses/graveyards/both. This one was very odd but kind of interesting.

( Zombies! Or, a barrier dream )

It's actually kind of interesting, now that I type this out, how much of a "boundary" theme there really was in that dream. Who knew my dreams would actually have themes sometimes?