The other day my computer hiccuped while my Palm Desktop software was running, and as a result it somehow managed to eat a large chunk of data. I've grudgingly become used to losing any new data not previously saved (and annoyingly the Palm software only seems to save on exiting) when my computer crashes, but in this case everything seemed to have survived intact EXCEPT for all my appointments after May 2005. I have no idea why anything would have disappeared at all, or why only calendar data was affected, or why only data since that particular date vanished. I also have no idea how to recover it (especially since the Palm device itself has been unwell so I've not been syncing it to that), so I guess I'll have to re-enter everything from scratch.
Still, I guess things could be worse. I'm a little sad about losing the past data (sometimes it's nice to be able to see where I was a given day) but it won't be too hard to reconstitute the future appointments. Except for a few doctor's appointments I had to call up to get the details of, my life from here on out is pretty simple: bar review, bar exam, bar trip. The end. I have not a single appointment after September, and almost none after the middle of August. Which, while a little scary as an existential predicament, will make reprogramming my datebook a much simpler operation. Guess sometimes it's good to have no future...