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After returning my previous one when I quit work last June, I have my new Latitude D630 laptop! (Named
In other news, I'm starting to settle into grad school. Classes are going just fine. I've been working on the first assignments, and while they aren't easy, they don't make me want to curl into a ball and whimper either. Running the lab sections has turned out to be easy enough, just 10 hours a week of patiently explaining the same thing over and over again. That's about all I have to worry about for the next few months. The next big milestone is getting a supervisor, which has to happen by the end of second term.
jeepney to continue my 'j word' naming scheme.) This means I no longer have to use the horrible Sun keyboard in the lab at school. And I can start working on schoolwork in my most productive environment -- coffee shops. It feels so good to have a proper, personal computing environment available again. Relying on borrowed/frankensteined hardware for the last 2 months made me feel even more unstable and disconnected from reality than lacking a permanent address.In other news, I'm starting to settle into grad school. Classes are going just fine. I've been working on the first assignments, and while they aren't easy, they don't make me want to curl into a ball and whimper either. Running the lab sections has turned out to be easy enough, just 10 hours a week of patiently explaining the same thing over and over again. That's about all I have to worry about for the next few months. The next big milestone is getting a supervisor, which has to happen by the end of second term.