June 17, 2008 at 4:14 pm (life n stuff)
If you follow this sort of thing, you may have seen that our little university-that-could is to be the first to supply every incoming freshman with an iPhone or iPod Touch. My beloved and I had several heated discussions about this move, primarily with me ranting something like “WTH? Aren’t there more worthy things they could be spending my tuition on?” and him interrupting me with “Yeah, but you’re not seeing the big picture,” and “You don’t know everything there is to know about the deal that was made.” And he’s right about not knowing all the facts, as is the case with the goings-on of most educational institutions. And I’m sort of right, too, but I’m only halfway kidding when I say all that really bothered be about it was the fact that they didn’t give right of first refusal to grad students. Pfft.
Anyhoo, now he’s telling me that there may be some, shall we say, benefits to going the iPhone route and I’m starting to think about it. Right now I have a cell, an mp3 player and I would be carrying a Palm if it hadn’t crapped out on me. And I just found out that my internship next year will likely involve quite a bit of travel, so one device instead of three and being able to check e-mail and etc. while away from the office would be mighty nice.
Here’s my biggest obstacle: For at least a year now, we’ve been using the Rhapsody To Go service, which for $15 a month gets us transfers limited only by the size of the device on up to three devices. So basically both the Hub and I can download and transfer whatever we want and all we have to do is sync up once a month to renew the licenses. If I don’t like the new Radiohead album (which I do, BTW), I never have to listen to it again and I’ve lost nothing. It’s like going to Wal-Mart and being allowed to test every single shade of Loreal lipstick so you can get the one that actually doesn’t look horrible on you. To go to paying $.99 a track? Hmmm. I just don’t know. Of course, I could continue to use my fauxPod and use the iPhone for everything else.
Have any of you made the switch or know someone who has? Love it, hate it?
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June 14, 2008 at 6:39 pm (offspring)
We did our own little “While You Were Out” surprise makeover on Elder Sibling’s room while he was at camp this week. Before and after pictures are here. We are both exhausted but very pleased about how it turned out and the look on ES’s face was worth every second of work.
*Direct quote. Apparently he’s been paying closer attention to HGTV than I thought.
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May 5, 2008 at 12:56 pm (life n stuff)
I’m intermittently eavesdropping on a conversation between two regular-aged college students (because I can’t NOT hear them), and it occurs to me that my grades might have been much better the first time around if I hadn’t been worrying about boys…
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May 5, 2008 at 10:20 am (school)
I’m in the library with about 4,000 of my closest friends–it’s Dead Day and the stress is radiating off of everyone in waves. Including me. Think good thoughts in our direction!
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May 2, 2008 at 10:53 am (life n stuff)
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You can’t see them all, but there are 14 little bebeh tomatoes on this plant. Just an itty bitty plant, in a container on my back porch. I have nothing resembling a green thumb, and I’ve certainly never grown food before. For some reason, I’m giddy like a school girl about it.
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April 28, 2008 at 8:25 pm (non-stupid stuff on the internet)
I forgot all about this one from Euphrosyne:
- I can’t believe I’ve never –I’m with Euphrosyne on this one– been to the UK. I love all things British, old and new. Still working up a Secret Boyfriend post, by the by. And with Polly missing a trip to Europe in her passport, (*singsongs*) I smell a road trip!
- Every time I think about….I still cringe. Oh, dear. This is a long list, but I’m working on shortening it. Forgiving oneself is a bitch of a thing, isn’t it?
- I wish I’d practiced to be a really good (technically solid) singer when I had the chance and the access to teaching. I don’t think it would have changed my path in life, and that’s just fine, but these days when I’m asked to sing and I can’t because I just don’t have the chops any more, it frustrates me.
- I have never felt so out of place as… this is a hard one. As I may or may not have said before, if you’re going to insult me or make me feel uncomfortable, you’d better let me know beforehand or I’ll just miss it and your wicked efforts will be wasted. I guess I’ve got just enough blissfully ignorant arrogance to waltz in and think I belong just about anywhere. I think that’s Dad talking…
- Room service breakfasts are my guiltiest pleasure. True happiness is being married to a man who, even since the more cash-strapped days of our time together, has booked hotels based on this fact without either of us having to mention it.
- I hope the Hub knows how grateful I am because he’s probably saved my life.
- In my darkest hours, I secretly blame myself for my dysfunction. But then I get over it.
- My children have changed my life forever. I couldn’t possibly learn and love and hurt and laugh as much as I do in any other way.
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April 23, 2008 at 8:25 pm (social work)
I just heard–better not say how, but from a reliable source– that all volunteer caseworkers and etc. in El Dorado can stand down, but may be called back to help at a later time. Hard to believe they’re already to a point at which they can cut back on staff, even temporarily.
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April 10, 2008 at 10:51 pm (amigas, school)
Dear readers, tonight we join our plucky non-traditional student at her desk, working furiously on a to-do list.
Panic sets in almost immediately.
A little hyperventilating and a calming shoulder-rub later, she rises from the desk to wash the long day from her face. She breathes deep.
She thinks, “I can do this. This is manageable. I have to do this. I will do this.” Spirits buoyed, the strategy begins to form…
“All I need is a little self-discipline to whittle away at the list (check), unshakable backup from the family and friends (check), and the promise of adult beverages on a chaise lounge by the lake with the grrls. No sweat.”
She sleeps and dreams of books, sweethearts and central Texas.
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April 9, 2008 at 10:53 pm (school)
Well, ladies and germs, we’ve reached the portion of our semester when our heroine can’t get a thing done. She lacks energy, she lacks focus, she lacks give-a-damn; the only she she has plenty of is deadlines! Her study group members are counting on her, her teachers assume she’s got it all together. They have no idea the terror lurking in her heart at the sight of her to-do list. What will she do?!?
Seriously, though. More later.
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