Troubles

Today, while continuously boasting the new features of my brand new MBP, my mom's computer did just the opposite. Without moving, without touching anything, she was faced with the infamous Blue-Screen-Of-Death. After running several diagnostics, the computer found nothing wrong. We shut it off, and came back to it a bit later. Restarting apparently was all it needed. Maybe it was a temporary glitch in how it started up. Hopefully it is nothing more. Regardless, she now has made several mentions about how it would be nice if she could afford to buy herself something like I have.

I do not pity a woman who is able to support a family, own a car, own a house, and put food on the table. This is especially true after her remark yesterday of, "once you pay for the train, and health care, you won't be making anything. What are you going to do?" I'm going to enjoy my job, and take advantage of my opportunities within it. I love going to work, and I love what I am doing. It' so much and it is absolutely overwhelming, but I wouldn't trade it. I was added to a paper being submitted for review today. This means I am getting co-authored, aka published. It's my third week. I was just asked to co-author a manuscript that I will begin working on at the end of the summer. These are in addition to getting credit for writing a grant later this year, and speaking at a national psych conference next March. So - that's what I am going to do. And I cannot wait!

Delivery

Time to go

I have been in the market for a new laptop recently. As I have gotten closer to being able to make that happen, more things seem to be going wrong with my laptop. Recently, the wireless internet has been failing. I average less than two minutes connected before it disconnects and loses reception of the signal. This is further impacted by performing any sort of function on the computer. Starting a song on iTunes, opening a browser for the internet, an instant message conversation - all of these will essentially 'call the full attention' of the computer causing it to disconnect from the internet. Essentially - it is only capable of doing one thing at a time.

I'm not sure if these things become more apparent in the end because it's in the back of your mind that your replacing it and so things become more frustrating or not but the other explanation is, I perfectly timed things for when I'd be preparing to get a new one. I half expect this computer's hard drive to crash the day my new Mac arrives.

(I'll explain this picture tomorrow.)