And so it ends.
Hey, blog readers! Happy April 30th, my darlings. We made it. Now, as per my BEDA style, I'm going to tell you what I did today and whine about how my life is hard.
"I'm sad because my life is hard. And because I'm not even a real character." - The Oatmeal
I woke up feeling refreshed despite going to be late last night and waking up around seven. I went and ate breakfast, then went upstairs to get to work on my essay. I was minding my own business visiting all the sites I go to regularly when...
I got a virus.
I'm not even joking, if you were curious. I picked up a computer virus. It's like the universe was saying, "Since you're not going to get off the internet and write your essay, I'm going to force you off the internet to write your essay." I mean, I wrote my essay and I'm finally done with English challenge work, but it was not all fun and games.
Not wanting to screw up my computer further, I decided to get my dad to fix it. He was on his way to Boston. He said to run Malware Bytes, or whatever the hell that program is called. It wouldn't open. I ran Super Anti-Spyware instead, which boasts 'Getting rid of all the spyware, not just the easy ones!' Thirty minutes later, it wiped 86 files and restarted my computer. The malware messages continued. Finally, I did what my mom told me to. I called my cousins.
This probably should have been my first action, but it was 9 am when this started and I didn't want to bother them. Context: my uncle works with computers, and his son (my cousins) helps him a lot with his work. He tried to email me a file that would clean up the file (apparently it was a fraud, as I had begun to suspect as I tried to type my essay around all the warning messages. It wouldn't let me go on the internet aside from Gmail, and it kept trying to force me to download an anti-spyware thing that led me to believe it was a scam), but it wouldn't send. I borrowed my brother's computer (he gave it up willingly, to my surprise), downloaded what my cousin was trying to send, put it on a flash drive, moved it to my computer, and ran it.
It was fixed!
Later that day, I, being the idiot I am, went back to the site that I was on when the virus hacked my computer. The thing started getting slow, so I closed it like lightning and prayed. No virus. I went on it again a half hour ago, and the screen closed itself just like when the virus came. I restarted my computer immediately and I was safe. It could have just been the fact that I had been on the internet for hours that the browser closed, but I'm not taking any chances. I'm not going to Smartphowned for a long time, even though it's hilarious.
So that's my story. I thought I'd get more work done when everything cleared itself up around noon, but that was not to be had. Around 1:30, I consumed an entire frozen pizza (930 calories--"You wish you had the metabolism to eat this!"), and it was back to the computer. I did some work for my fanfic, but not much. I had to do a bunch of research in order to not be scientifically incorrect, and while it was interesting, it got tedious. Then I had to edit some plans I'd already written to switch in a different main character for an awesome plot idea I'd had. And that was pretty much my day. Oh, and I made some changes to my blog. Didja notice? XD
I'm going to go plan some more, and maybe do my independent reading write up. Starship tomorrow!
Wait, wait, wait. This is the last day of BEDA. I should say something.
Uh.
I guess I have mixed feelings on the whole thing. When I think about it, maybe it was fun. It was definitely a cool experience. It isn't like NaNoWriMo where I'm dying to participate again. But it wasn't a complete waste of my time. This isn't the sort of writing I usually do, so it was an interesting twist and a learning experience, I suppose.
See you all eventually~ XD
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