For a number of years now, I’ve wanted a laptop – for many reasons. I thought about being able to scrapbook digitally on my annual craft vacation. I thought about being able to take a laptop with me to meetings with clients for my side business. Last fall I thought about being able to check my email while I was out on campus and being able to read the PDF e-books on it for LIS 2000. I knew I would use it, but I had no idea how much I would use it.
My family (Thanks, family!) went together this year to get me a laptop for my birthday. It has been truly marvelous. I’m now on my annual craft vacation, and I’m able to do my homework in the evenings, check my work email to make sure things are going well there, and scrapbook digitally as well as on paper. I was able to check email while out in Pittsburgh for class this spring – and even check the bus schedule online. (I also enjoyed being able to watch DVDs in the hotel room in the evenings.)
But I’m finding that my laptop is far more useful in normal life than I ever thought it would be. Over Memorial Day weekend, I watched a coursecast and worked on schoolwork out in my sunroom, enjoying the breeze. I regularly attend class chats from my recliner in the living room, and work on digital scrapbooking and blogging (and sometimes other schoolwork, too) while my sister-in-law and I watch TV at their place on Wednesday nights. I can even work on schoolwork (or play a game) during my lunch break at work. I had no idea just how radical a change the laptop would have on my life. And when you combine it with a flash drive or two…
I’m even learning how to use the touchpad instead of the mouse (when I have to).
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