I've been happier in my life

When I woke up to come back to China after Derek's wedding my computer wouldn't turn on. Eventually I realized the problem was my hard drive had died. I was holding out hope that I would be able to get the information on my hard drive back (and I still hold onto that hope) but it seems China, Best Buy, Apple, and the South Korean IT specialist they sent my hard drive to for a month can't help me. 

Essentially I lost everything I've wrote and  taken a picture of in the past year and a half (or my entire experience in China) and my music, which was getting me by. Obviously I can get the music or at least most of it back, and most of the memories I have made here will last without a picture or a journal entry to jog my mind. But I am still pretty upset at myself. 

I should have been backing up my files. 

Hopefully I've learned my lesson.