I don't know what happened.

One minute it was there, the next... gone.

I'm talking about my dissertation.

It should have been in that folder, waiting for me to come back and work on it.

I copied the whole directory across onto my network drive this morning, so that I had a backup copy.

Maybe I should have checked it was all there in the first place.

Neither the backup directory or the original directory had the main text of the dissertation in them.

My dissertation has leapt back to 0 words, and I wanted to get about 4-5000 done by the end of tomorrow.

I'm fucked.

I feel sicker than I ever have done before.

I'm going to email Mick, get something to eat (a plate full of chicken nuggets should fill me) and then just go to bed. Maybe I'll play something gratuitiously violent beforehand, depending on how frantic I feel. I've got my handwritten notes on printouts of the texts I'm analysing, but there's still a hell of a lot that hasn't been written down, and needs to get from brain to screen all over again.