Oh, I had such a productive dissertation day today. SO productive. I told my husband that I would hit my goals for the week today rather than Saturday. Pete asked to stay for the afternoon session at preschool. The baby had an unbelievable nap. I worked like a woman obsessed.
I left my stats program up and running because I had about ten minutes' worth of work to finish. [<-foreshadowing]
Alas, alas alas, when I came back to the computer it had shut down. All my pretty new dataframes are gone. I had written the results up in a Word document which did not get eaten by marauding data monsters, but I also need the stuff that was living inside my stats program.
It will not take me nearly as long to do it a second time. Some of the work I did this afternoon was brain work (deciding what to do and learning how to do it) and some of it was finger work (typing in the right commands to get it done). The redo will be almost entirely finger work. But still: ARGH.
Save your work, my friends; the data monsters are lurking out there.
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