So, I just put the disk I typed all my NaNo stuff on into my computer. Apparently, my parents' computer has a virus. As I have never had a virus I didn't know that "quarantining" a file is synonymous with "deleting" a file, at least in the Norton Anti-Virus dictionary. So, everything I wrote at my parents house - poof! - gone.
Actually, it's still on their harddrive so once they clean their computer (my BIL is a computer whiz and will take care of that for them next time he's over there), I can recover it. It sucks so bad though, I don't really care! :)
So, now I know why I was so adamant with myself that I had to take 37 minutes to upload the novel for verification "in case something happens" instead of waiting until I got to work this morning and could have uploaded it in 30 seconds. Whew! Now that 37 minutes seems like time well spent!
Also, this whole virus thing hasn't helped with my complete lack of motivation in writing that final chapter sometime in the next 5.5 hours.
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