Computer Surgery

Okay, my computer continues to annoy me. 2 days ago, files got corrupted again, and windows refused to start up, even after I tried to repair it. I suspect it's my older hard drive that was cranky, so as a result of being fed up, I decided to surgically remove that hard drive. This is so annoying. Setting up windows 2000 on the other hard drive, getting all the updates, and setting up all the other miscellaneous files always takes forever. If my action produces no improvement, then I'm taking a baseball bat and bashing this bucket of rust.
My magic 8 ball still amazes me. I asked if my computer will ever start up again if I just leave it, and it said no (and sure enough, it didn't. It only started up after I installed windows on my newer hard drive). I wonder what or who is posessing this magic 8 ball.
In DNA Replication and Repair, my group got shafted into going 1st. I hate going first, especially when student evaluation is a part of it. Whenever there's student evaluation, the first people always get horrid marks. After people have gone and realized how challenging the assignment is, they become more lenient with their evaluations. Bah. Well, at least the written assignment is only 10 pages (double spaced not including figures) as opposed to 5000 words. From the looks of it, I think this semester won't make me put ink on as many papers as last semester, so I'm glad.