mel is so smart!
Picture this: you're writing a [something important] and your computer freezes up. You know that if you restart you'll lose
only the last paragraph. What do you do? Do you hope that maybe auto-save auto-saved the paragraph? Or do you resign yourself to recreating the paragraph?
Mel just
phoned her voicemail and read it to herself, so that when she rebooted she could transcribe from the voicemail. That's pretty darn smart.
I would probably try to snap a photo of the screen with my cellphone, then mail it to myself, print it, and type from the printed photo. Of course, with my luck I'd probably get a horrible glare and not be able to read a word.