I am despairing here

[lobelia321]

I just spent about an hour, typing about 5 pages worth of Boring!Orli nr. 18 into the LJ posting box (as is my wont with Boring!Orli whose principle is speedy spontaneity). Then I pressed, stupidly stupidly, the command-R button. The page refreshed!

I thought, not to worry. I'd been doing command-C's (copyings) at regular intervals. I thought I'd lost a few paragraphs, very annoying.

So I pressed command-V (paste) and one bloody line popped up! I forgot that I had stupidly hit command-X (delete) and NOW ALL OF BORING!ORLI 18 HAS DISAPPEARED INTO THE ETHER!!!

Has this happened to anyone before? Is there any way to retrieve a lost LJ post??

Is there anybody in the world as stupid as I?

*bangs head on keyboard in despair*

Do I rewrite the thing or do I go to bed, with my heart weeping???!!

Comments

[maralily.livejournal.com]

I have lost many a story to the ether. I empathize. Unfortunately I know not how to retrieve them from the depths of internet hell.

Good luck to you.

(By the way, it's Muffin.)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Eep, Muffin!

Fuck the ether.

[bunnysquee.livejournal.com]

i am so sorry. i don't know what you can do.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Eep, Orlisbunny!

Your birthday ficlet has evidently unleashed a flood of pent-up Orli's bunnies! And now I am foiled! FOILED!

This is the ether, sorely testing my perseverance here. It must be ordained somewhere.

[bunnysquee.livejournal.com]

*loads of cuddles* i'm sorry my birthday treat has ruined your day ...

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

It hasn't ruined my day, you noggin! It has made my day!

Any road, I've now rewritten 4 pages of the 5 I lost. Memory is an amazing thing.

Write through the pain, I say.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

and it's probabky muxch better than the first version, though you'll always remember the other one as the one that got away, right :D

go you!!!

[bunnysquee.livejournal.com]

you're amazing!

Did you ever know that you're my hero?
You're everything I wish I could be.
I could fly higher than an eagle,
for you are the Wind Beneath My Wings.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Wow, what is this?

Nice icon. :-) (duh)

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

i've lost long, long posts like that before more than once. copy and paste are your friend!!!

so very sorry!!! but i don't think there's any way to retrieve...

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Bloody-fucky-cunty-pooh!

I am now rewriting in Word. I'm evidently too stupid for LJ.

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

i actually use word pad for that very purpose!!! b/c word has smart quotes turned on which screws with formatting...

but yes, i try to avoid the lj interface whenever i can help it...so, you're definitely not alone in feeling like a bloody idiot :-)

where have you been? i've missed talking with you :-)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Been depressed.

:-(

Better now.

[thejennabides.livejournal.com]

This happens to me all the time. If I am in love with what I wrote and fear it could be lost forever if I wait, then I rewrite right away. If it's something that I think is still with me, I often choose to wait in favor of stepping away from the computer entirely.

D'oh.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I can't believe I just did the former in order to indulge in a vision of Orli masturbating his vagina.

[thejennabides.livejournal.com]

I can believe that. :p

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I forgot whom I was talking to for a moment there.

:-)