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Is anyone else having some serious bad luck lately??

It seems karma is paying me back for all my past deeds! This week has been a shocker!

It started when my bike got a flat tyre. I cycle every day to college and back, and on Wednesday I dunno what happened. I had noticed it ever so slightly going down all week but now its totally flat! I was able to pump it back up there and it seems to be holding but theres obviously a slow puncture somewhere. Eventually I'll have to get a new tyre and put it on myself. Until then, its either cycle on the decreasing tyre, or walk twice as long up to college.

Also, I had an exam today. I was studying for it, and I was ready and I was expecting an "A" from it, but, I don't think I'll get one now. It was actually worth 20% of the total mark for the year!!
The exam was 2 hours long. It was to make a website in ASP.NET, using CSS, and stick in a login box. If the user was an administrator, display a link to the Administrator area. If the user was a regular user, display members area, or else if they cant even log in, display the login page again. Simple enough, for those of you who would be familiar with this kinda stuff. I also had to change a few colours around and do some other bollix. Pretty handy all the same, and I could do it in PHP in about 10 mins!
So anyway, I get into the exam, fire up Visual Studio to start making the site. It was even open book so we were given code samples. I used them code samples, as did everyone else, but for some reason theirs worked fine, and mine didnt work at all. I had created the master page (which is like a file that contains all the stuff you want to appear on every page, so u dont have to keep re-writing the same code) but the main pages werent taking the info off the master page!! So I figured I must have missed something small and started from scratch (tick-tock, tick-tock) and began a fresh new site. Few minutes later, exact same problem. More time wasted. Decided to start from scratch YET AGAIN!! At this stage, an hour was gone of the exam. Tried the code again, exact same problem!! Didn't have enough time now to complete the thing so said I'd just soldier on. So I start on the menu (which should have been on every page, as the master page had it on it) and put them manually on every page!
I then went on to the login bit. I did up the login boxes and the button and coded in what the button does when you click on it. However, I never coded the part that deals with the actual data received, ie I never put in the part that says the user is an admin or regular user. On top of that, I didnt have time to do all the other bits like change the colours all fancy. I'll be lucky to even get a pass! I'm so pissed off!

AND, I had to walk home in the rain, since I have no bike!

As well as all that, last night I was messing around with my USB hard drive and fired up partition magic to split the partition. It said there was errors on one of the hard drive inside my actual PC (not the USB HDD) and it needed to fix them. Little did I know by "errors", it meant "working perfectly fine" and by "fix" it meant "fuck up completely"! So now, my storage drive on my pc is unreadable and I'll have to manually recover the data, which can take 2 days. If thats not bad enough, it also managed to destroy my USB HDD for good measure as well! It can be read in my hackintosh, but not in my PC!!

Furthermore, if thats not bad enough, while trying to recover these corrupted partitions, I have just managed to destroy the boot partition off my PC. Which means, I cant turn the thing on at all now! I'll need to create a bootable USB stick and try to load up the Windows 7 installer and hopefully repair the MBR (<--thats the bit that loads Windows up ).

Meanwhile, I also have another exam on Wednesday that I wont get to study for since I have all this shite to be cleaning up!!


So, seriously, pissed off!!!