Computers, Terry Pratchett and deadlines
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tarigwaemirAd Mundo Exteriore,
I got my free iBook yesterday. Tina won't end up suing Apple after all. ::slightly disappointed:: It's nice and white, but they didn't give me the version with the CD-R and it's not compatible with anything I have! Argh. I can practice using Unix of course with the Terminal, which may be a good thing, but I don't have Internet access (yet), which may be a bad thing. I have a feeling the iBook's modem is better than the Vaio's.
Mother: What on earth are you going to do with three computers?
Me: Don't know.
Mother: Are you going to bring them all to college?
Me: Don't know.
Mother: Maybe we should throw out the old one.
Me: No.
Mother: And you still want us to buy you a new desktop for college?
Me: YES!
In other words: needless computer greed. Hey, I didn't ask for the iBook. Not my fault we won third place at that competition. Apple decided to give them to us. I bear no responsibility for the fact that we own five computers now.
The universe seems to be heeding my complaints. I found Reaper Man at the local Shakespeare Books on my way home yesterday. Am now finishing as fast as I can possibly read. Now if I can only find Witches Abroad, The Last Hero, and Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, I'll be all set.
I only have two weeks left before the school year starts again, and I'm probably not going to finish this project by then. ::sighs:: Why on earth these searches take so long is beyond me. And I still have to write a paper on all of this too. ::calculates frantically:: Okay, if I finish this by the end of September, and I can write the paper in a couple of weekends despite the Supremely Difficult Math Class next year...
...I don't think that's possible. Urgh.
Doesn't help that what I really want to work on right now is exobiology. But there aren't any exobiologists in Manhattan universities, at least to my knowledge. (If there are, don't tell me.) So I'll just resort to my usual coping strategy: absolute denial.
...Tari
I got my free iBook yesterday. Tina won't end up suing Apple after all. ::slightly disappointed:: It's nice and white, but they didn't give me the version with the CD-R and it's not compatible with anything I have! Argh. I can practice using Unix of course with the Terminal, which may be a good thing, but I don't have Internet access (yet), which may be a bad thing. I have a feeling the iBook's modem is better than the Vaio's.
Mother: What on earth are you going to do with three computers?
Me: Don't know.
Mother: Are you going to bring them all to college?
Me: Don't know.
Mother: Maybe we should throw out the old one.
Me: No.
Mother: And you still want us to buy you a new desktop for college?
Me: YES!
In other words: needless computer greed. Hey, I didn't ask for the iBook. Not my fault we won third place at that competition. Apple decided to give them to us. I bear no responsibility for the fact that we own five computers now.
The universe seems to be heeding my complaints. I found Reaper Man at the local Shakespeare Books on my way home yesterday. Am now finishing as fast as I can possibly read. Now if I can only find Witches Abroad, The Last Hero, and Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, I'll be all set.
I only have two weeks left before the school year starts again, and I'm probably not going to finish this project by then. ::sighs:: Why on earth these searches take so long is beyond me. And I still have to write a paper on all of this too. ::calculates frantically:: Okay, if I finish this by the end of September, and I can write the paper in a couple of weekends despite the Supremely Difficult Math Class next year...
...I don't think that's possible. Urgh.
Doesn't help that what I really want to work on right now is exobiology. But there aren't any exobiologists in Manhattan universities, at least to my knowledge. (If there are, don't tell me.) So I'll just resort to my usual coping strategy: absolute denial.
...Tari
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