Someone broke into my house. I had a Mac G5 with piles of legal software all used for film editing. The price tag for the computer plus software is somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 Grand give or take a hundred bucks. It’s gone. The money I can deal with but the stuff I will miss is all of my projects.
Before I go any further can people please lay off the whole, “you should have made backups” shit?
I’m in film school. Over the past year and a half I’ve made quite a few short films. Six or Eight of them were really quite well done if I do say so myself. They are all gone now. I won’t ever see these projects again. It may sound silly but I am about to cry over it. I was very proud of that work.
I had my sound effects library on this computer. Hundreds of hours of recording, importing, tweaking, cutting, EQing, etc…GONE! I have to start from scratch.
I had just finished importing my CD’s into my computer. It took me about a day (24 hrs) to do it. Then I put my CD’s into storage. Now, not only do I have to go get my CD’s - which will take about a day, including travel, I have to import them all over again. My MP3 player will have the same playlist for quite some time now. I was gonna import some Boys 2 Men into my MP3 player when I got back to school. I have been in between girlfriends for about five years and I’m kinda lonely. It would have helped.
The worst thing, by far, is my diary. I had my diary on my computer. I don’t want people reading my private thoughts.
I’m missing other things, like my MBox, a really nice Camera and whatever little jewelry I had.
I’ve had a bad week. I’ve been extremely stressed about school and the loneliness has been rough this week, I didn’t need this. I’m somewhat trusting and don’t really expect this stuff to actually happen. I grew up in the country. My parents door is unlocked for weeks at a time. I’m not used to stuff like this happening.
I totally could have minimized the damage if only I wasn’t such an idiot. I was supposed to buy an external hard drive but I couldn’t afford one as I just bought a new desktop computer which has a hard drive of 250 gigs (or something). I didn’t figure I’d need the space. I should have backed all of it up. I didn’t. I should have put all of my projects on DVD but I kept putting it off. I should have been a little more careful with receipts. I wasn’t.
I don’t know anything about insurance but I don’t think I have renters insurance…I may but I don’t know. I don’t have the 10 or so grand I need to replace everything. I don’t need this right now. I really don’t.
Fuck me and fuck them.