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new ghetto laptop and independant study hey I know it's late but it's here. blame Troma for the problem, he left me two computers to run through this morning so I didn't have time to get to it before the bosses came in. but they're gone now and it's just us. I need to update and then I am either going to 1) work 2) photoshop which is like work but not 3) read my glossy Elle or 4) do something on the internet which amounts to nothing. and as Troma said...it's counterintuitive, OMG A bossism!!! NOOO!!! inside joke folks. anyway, spent yesterday sleeping. got through the intro and part of the first section of Walkowitz's City of Dreadful Delight which doesn't seem too bad. the chapters are long though but I have a goal of reading 40 pages a day and well, we'll see how far this goes. speaking of which, the news for the day is the labtop. it's not a good one but it's something. I decided that I am sick and tired of fighting spk or nagging spk to get off of his home machine and we were talking about setting up one of his junk machines somewhere so that I could have something to type on. after further reflection I decided that hell I work for the AV department and the computer is for a class, WS 490, and I kind of need to use it to be more productive so I found the worst computer here and asked the boss if I can take it until the end of winter term, which means that I should be more than done with the damn thing and it will be off our books so nobody will worry about it, except maybe to trash it to proporties. honestly, it's pretty ghetto but I didn't want anybody claiming that I was taking a good machine so I took the worst one. specs wise it is an IBM Thinkpad, a few years old, but it looks kind of funny in regards to anything modern. It's big and clunky and weighs about ten pounds, god knows how I am going to haul it home, but I have decided that it will help me out A LOT. here's some things it will do: 1) stop the weekend feuds of GET OFF THE COMPUTER I NEED TO DO WORK! very annoying to attempt to budge spk when he is into his stuff. yeah, will have to hide in another room to work if he is drawing my attention to too much stuff but I won't have to nag and convince him that my school supercedes his slutting. which it might but the argument doesn't work in reality. 2) prevent me daily from going on the internet. sad to say, when I get bored for a second on the home machine I am off trying to find someone to fuck in the chatrooms on yahoo. I am addicted to yahoo. I cannot part from yahoo. I must find sex on yahoo. yahoo rules my life and dominates my mind. and then there's pogo for games when I do not want to be bothered with yahoo. so I tend to think that if I have something that I can type on on my bed away from the lure of the internet I might actually work on my notes for most of the study time instead of do something for half an hour and then go chat or something for another hour. yes, I am lazy and perhaps this will help prevent that. 3)less worries over data loss. yes, now that I have four backups to my thesis notes, home machine, labtop, IFS space, and floppy disk, perhaps I shall not lose all of it. the labtop itself rarely takes a shit on people in the field, unlike my computer which likes to crap all over me whenever it wants, so I have some happy feelings that even if I use the thing only for the thesis I will be less likely to lose it all in a major crash. also, by taking the whole machine around I won't haha forget to pull the files off of the machine to work on at spk's (this has and does happen a lot when I am trying to get out of the house. maybe a subconscious aversion to work?) I will have everything there, portable and ready to go. 4) I will have mobility! ahhh yes, I might actually work in the library or at a coffeehouse or just somewhere instead of my house that is making me nuts all over! I can also work right when I wake up at spk's instead of waiting for him to get off of the internet, just plug in in the bedroom and go! yeah! no need for being chained to the house and the huge machine! 5) test driving potentional...I can finally learn if a laptop would be right for me. I have thought about it but my home machine is the first computer I have ever owned. after this point, I will see if the mobility thing is enough to keep me motivated to own a labtop with all of the theft and damage risks. currently I don't use enough of the space on the home machine to make a difference so I have been thinking about making the next machine a laptop and now I'll get to see what that is all about. hopefully my hopes aren't baseless. the downside is that my newold machine is quite ghetto. it is ten pounds, or five, well anyways it isn't too light like the newer stuff out there. I need to take good care of it and I got it to type on and not to play with so I will be hauling it around for the Word program and nothing else. It runs 98 and office 97 and I checked that the files can go back and forth between 2000 and 97 without a hitch. so it won't be the schznick but it will be something. I am pretty happy with the idea at the moment. the worst thing that I can waste isn't electricity. as for yesterday, went to work, had a slow day, talked to Troma who told me about watching gay porn with Innocent when they went back to his place. nothing happened, they were just high and laughing a lot. I did a little work and then went to sleep when I got too tired from everything. oh yeah, I did see Jacobsen yesterday and she is still awesome. I love talking to her because she really affirms my plans for the future and I rarely get any support for my dreams of forming a feminist porn company and working for sex worker rights. nobody really gets that so it's great to have someone to cheer me on. I get all excited and bubbly around her, it's funny. she brings out the dreamer and kid in me I guess. she also did something really cool, she offered me an independant study with her for the Fall term. I called Financial Aid and they stated that all they care about is enrolled credits and not graded credits so I think that I will do it. I am not sure if I will drop my LGBT class or not, I kind of want to but that leaves real classes at about 8 hours and the thesis at 4 and the study at 2? 3? has to be at least two to raise me to 14. I am not worried about graduating credits at the moment though because I will be taking my last section of social science in the fall and I need to take one more women's studies course at the 300+ level and one women of color course. not a big deal. I slammed my schedule around for work and now I kind of regret it but I won't be able to for the Winter. I will have to get those classes through though and I am pretty confidant that I will be able to. I was worried about the graded part of the credit hours but I think I got that from Dean's List restrictions where you have to have 14+ graded hours to make the Dean's List. I haven't been able to do that too often because I have been doing the 13 credit hour thing so I am not worried about that. I have a high GPA though, I had to check some things today and for last term it was a 3.72 (damn Sci-Fi class for giving me a B+ instead of the A I deserved) and the overall is now a 3.6 so I am doing pretty well I think. eight hours of class a week though, sounds pretty slacky. I won't quit work then though, I will still do that, because only going to class that much and working on the thesis the rest of the time sounds too easy. waaayyy too easy. It's funny though because freshman year I took 15 and 16 hours and the longer I go the less hours I take. yeah, if you add it all up it will be 14 hours or 16 hours now or if I don't drop the class 18 hours (le maximum) but independant studies and working on the thesis don't require my butt to physically be somewhere which means that I can go lalala whenever I want. anyway, getting rambly. think will take the offer from Jacobsen and work with her as long as I can. maybe I will drop the dyke course, I kind of wanted to meet women in there but if I have to face pro-lesbian anti-bi sentiments in there I might not be able to handle it (will see first day), and if I do I will drop the crazy shit about not working. :) thanks for tuning in... Daphne |