Update

Yesterday, I went to pick up what I assumed would be the carcass of my laptop and the discs containing its remains, but instead found that they'd actually gone ahead and fixed the thing and just billed me for two hours' of time.

Odd, but good. (I mean, it would've been nice if the computer guy had discussed this with me first, since I could've gone ahead and bought a whole new laptop if I was an impulsive-yet-financially-solvent kind of girl. But whatever.)

However, at work, our servers have been suffering some kind of long, drawn-out meltdown. Which is not good. Right now, we have Internet access but no email, none of our files and can't print anything. Which means I can basically surf the web (at very slooooow speeds) and not do too much else. Sigh.