Writing, Lab Work, Packing, & New Love

June 21, 2005 by

Today’s Inbox Ideas section is on rap and hip-hop, which tied to an LA Times article.

I turned my draft in just before The Daily Show last night (which is ahead of time for me); so I managed to get some other reading done and get some sleep before going down to the CCLI to help a little with ECAC. Mostly I just pointed to things in FrontPage and tried to stay out of the way. I’ve found that if you stand in the passageway between the Mac and Windows portions of the lab, you (1) get the excellent breeze from the super fans, and (2) manage to avoid questions from either room. Course, I only used this tactic when they were working with software I couldn’t help with on both sides. Really. I promise.

I convinced myself that I really do have to leave Michigan this evening, and I began the packing process. I packed up the clothes that I won’t need and started piling the various hard drives and other such technology into the proper bags. The biggest accomplishment is probably that I packed the suitcase of books and wrestled it into the back seat. I’m not even sure that I used 1/2 of the pile of books that I brought with me, but that’s probably because I didn’t get much writing done on those 125 pages I was supposed to accomplish. Somehow I just can’t manage to write, and I’m about out of time. When time runs out, I’m into some major big trouble. Like MAJOR.

So did I write this evening while I watched the second running of The Daily Show? No. I couldn’t help it. I was too ashamed of my toenails, and I justified that if I just redid them, I would be able to pack the nail polish. See? Perfectly logical.

Oh, I forgot to mention that I’m in love. I saw someone with a baby 12-inch iBook. So cute. So lightweight. I want one. I have been searching around and daydreaming about replacing my cute clamshell iBook for months now. It has two annoying problems: the modem doesn’t work anymore, and its 6 GB hard drive is ridiculous by modern standards. Here, I’ve been thinking that I need a mega-huge, 17″ powerbook. You know. Big screen. Bigger is better, so they say. (I wouldn’t really know, being a pure young lady and all.)

When I saw the 12-inch ibook in the lab this afternoon, suddenly I rethought everything. Here I’ve been lamenting that my lovely, cool Win laptop is just too heavy to carry around and use. It’s an excellent machine, and it takes care of my needs for a work-engine computer. I was reluctant to go for a 17-inch Powerbook precisely because the Win laptop is a good machine. I couldn’t really justify two great machines. What I need is a more portable machine that I can carry around with me.

And that’s why the cute little 12-inch iBook suddenly seemed perfect for me today when I saw it. Oh, and I left out that it’s the least expensive of the laptops. How often does that happen?

Tomorrow, if that laptop’s owner is around again, I’m going to ask if I can put my hands on the keyboard. I always know about a laptop when I orient myself to the keyboard. That’s how I knew that the clamshell was the right one. The keyboard fit. If he’s not around, there may be a trip to Indy or St. Louis in my near future. Get me to an Apple Store :)


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