NOT a happy camper right now

Laptop has been taken to Tech Services, where they say they'll let me know in two or three days. I suspect I might get faster service if I took it somewhere off-campus, but...well, Tech Services is here, at least. It is amazing how much time I spend on the computer as a general matter of course: basically my entire waking life. So I'm feeling a little...disoriented. And frustrated, because, hi, this is how I communicate with people. And spend my free time, and do my school work, and just...everything. So being forcibly unplugged, not a happy thing. (Also I lack a smartphone, ereader, tablet, or any other electronic device that connects to the internet; right now I'm a school computer that has a keyboard in an incredibly strange place and is basically killing my wrists.)

I guess I'll -- spend more time studying? And reading books? And knitting? None of which are bad things, but the thing that's frustrating me most is that I feel as if I've suddenly lost my ability to write. I can still handwrite, obviously, but it's such a different process. I'm used to writing on the computer; without that, I just feel...impotent. Or something, I dunno. It's really upsetting to me that I can't even write.

I am trying not to think of all the things that are on my computer that are not backed up, which includes most of my current Star Wars WIPs. Mostly because thinking about it makes me sick.

I am also seriously considering if it would be overkill to just buy another computer right now. Or a netbook, at least. SOMETHING I CAN WRITE ON. (In my room, on my own time, not on a school computer.)

I feel like I'm whining, but -- my computer, y'all! My lifeblood! My computer and my lifeblood THREE WEEKS BEFORE FINALS. *cries* (Okay, I feel like I'm whining because one of my roommates also has a busted computer, and had a busted computer for most of last year, but she has an ereader with internet access and she is not a writer, I feel like I've been neutered or something.)