Unfortunately, everyone, my hard drive is gone. The tech guy at the Mac store couldn't even see it, thus dashing our hopes that it was just a corruption of the OS. I'm really bummed about it - I'm losing a lot of stuff that I foolishly didn't back up, but nothing irreplaceable, thank goodness.

So I'm going to have to restart the chapter. Thank you to whoever suggested that I use Google Documents - that's a really great suggestion for my more valued documents. Also, my husband will be getting me an external hard drive to back up my computer from now on, so that if this ever happens again, the losses will be far less severe. I'm going to be the back-up queen.

Thanks for all the support though! I hope to be back up and running like usual in about a week or so, which is when I'll be getting my Mac back with a brand new hard drive. Until then, communication with me will be limited. I will still try to post sooner than that though, so never fear.

On the positive side of things, I do have an idea for another Inuyasha story. More details on that later.