Friday was the last day of summer quarter and thank goodness! I powered up my laptop only to find that the screen (which had been ailing since I got the computer as a hand-me-down) had finally given up the ghost. For the last several months I've had vertical lines of nothingness plaguing my screen, now I only get about 1/3 of the content to show up and the rest of it looks more like a bar code.
I've been telling myself that I needed to buy myself a new computer if I ever expected to make it through grad school, but I was too cheap to do it until I had run the previous one in to the ground. Yesterday I went to a BBQ at my dad's, afterward I asked him if he would come with me to buy a new laptop. Fourty-five minutes and too much money later we emerged from the store victorious with new laptop in hand. As I drove my dad back to his house he apparently just couldn't wait and whipped out his pocket knife and opened the box as we were driving 60+ down the freeway. Of course he had to boot it up and start playing with it... Wait a minute, whose computer is it? We can just call it a "daddy daughter bonding experience."
Anyway, it's probably safe to say that two blog entries in one day is due to the end of the quarter and the new computer. I just hope that this one will last through a thesis.
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