You poor stupid baby. You got your first freelancing job and the day it's due, you lost it within the expanse of your computer! Well don't cry just yet, because thanks to some resources via Lifehacker, you might be able to find it:

"The Microsoft Office Application Recovery Tool lets you 'potentially' recover unsaved data in an Office document if your application has hung."

A "a tip for capturing unsaved document changes if Microsoft Word freezes."

Use Eudora or Thunderbird and think you can track down your document in your email? Try Copernic. Or, if you habitually lose stuff in your email, save your searches.

Let Google search the rest of your computer. Or if you're Bill Gates, MSN can do it for you too.

And if the root of your problem is that you can't even get into the computer to begin with, "A password recovery disk can save you the heartache caused by password amnesia."