Down
My laptop appears to have died, so if you don't hear from me for a while, that's why. I don't know what exactly happened — I have some possibilities from a few Google searches, so hopefully at least one of the fixes will turn out to work and I'll have my laptop working again soon enough. If it's fried… I'm screwed. But in the meantime…
Happy new year.
edit: so apparently my motherboard has died. yeah… so that's not good. I'm sending my laptop into Dell for them to work on and hopefully fix, but I'll be without a computer of my own for about two weeks, which has never before happened. it's scary.
So we'll see what happens.