Writing

My morning's work went pretty smoothly, so I decided to do some writing this afternoon. I guess I pounded out about 1500 words or so - a very tense, very painful interview, of sorts, between one of the characters and my very unconventional elves.

4:30. Time to pack up and roll out. Of course, I wasn't done with what I was writing, and Thursday evenings tend to be fairly quiet. I e-mailed it to myself, so I could work on it some tonight.

Except...

I got home and fired up the e-mail. My first indication that things were a little odd was that the mail showed up in the e-mail as being only 1K. Well, I don't usually pay much attention to e-mail file sizes. Maybe the inbox only shows actual message size, and not attachment sizes.

I went and opened the attachments folder.

It wasn't there. I looked again.

It wasn't there.

I looked again.

It still wasn't there, and then I realized what I'd done: When I'd done the attachment at work, I'd browsed to the file I wanted, but I'd somehow missed clicking on the "Attach" button that actually uploads the file.

So. No file. Right now I'm debating between going back up to work and retrieving it, trying to work on it without the bits I've already written, working on another part of the novel altogether, or just saying "screw it" and watching some movies or something.

Well, I would be debating, if I could get over feeling so stupid...