Argh

So my laptop hard drive crashed today, so badly that it couldn't even figure out how to read a CD. I made an emergency trip to the Apple Store with Mark (who is down, visiting. Ask me how that's going another time) and apparently my five month old hard disc died the most spectacular blaze-of-glory death ever seen. Nothing could be recovered, at all. Although the nice young man did tell me that I could pay someone else "starting at $100, but probably more like $1000" to attempt to get my notes for this semester off of it.