Corinne's Blog

It’s really strange when you think something is private and you keep it to yourself and don’t let it out until you feel ready. But when it comes out by force you feel embarrassed and used and vulnerable.

I need to get this information out though I know it might bite me in the butt later.

I recently misplaced a USB drive in a lab that i had been working in the other night. On the USB drive were some really personal pictures that I had taken while on my trip to Scotland. When I had been studying and working on the Delta Tau Yearbook I would not have brought the drive out but I was looking to save the yearbook to transfer and print out later but I didn’t have enough room on the Normal USB drive. I ended up bringing out my other drive. I was in the computer lab till 5am when the computers reset and then I went to bed not realizing that I’d left my USB drive hooked up to the computer with the DT yearbook and the Pictures on it.

Earlier this morning I was going to work on the yearbook and I looked for my bag for the drive but it wasn’t there. That was around 9am I assumed that I must have put it into the skirt I had been wearing and I just left it for later…but I had a really strange feeling that something was wrong at 11 (6 hours after I’d left the drive in the lab) I went to the lab to go see if I’d left it…nothing was there so I was even more sure that I’d taken it and left it in my dorm room. So felt better and I went on to take my Schools and Societies final and then I went off to work.

While at work I was pulled over by a random man I don’t know and he told me that he’d been in the lab and seen some boys looking at my personal pictures. He told me that he had lied to the boys and told them that I was his sister to get the USB drive back from them.

Crazy enough it worked. When the man told me he also told me that he didn’t have the drive with him at the time but that he’d get it back to me as soon as possible. The man said that “my shit was tight”

So I know where my drive is but I don’t have it back yet. Jacque my co-worker who I confided in says that he thinks the guy is lying about getting the drive from a group of boys because I was getting worried about who the boys might be who saw my pictures.

Jacque says he thinks the guy discovered the pictures himself and that he thinks in order for me to get them back that I’ll have to do some kind of a sexual favor for the man. I said I would never.

But now that I know who has the drive and that I’ve seen him numerous times today i feel that it is only a matter of time before these pictures may be seen by the old man’s perverted friends.

personal is not always personal…I should have deleted the pictures when I got them.