Nic Narrates

I’ve turned into one of those people who hauls their laptop to the coffee shop and parks it for a couple hours. I’m here to get some work done…so far I’ve managed to buy something like 15 songs on iTunes, priced airfare for Thanksgiving (already a freaking fortune), polished off an espresso Cooler, and determined that the guy behind the counter is both extremely hot and not into chicks (I’m on his turf). Oh yeah, and I’ve written like three lines of the script for the MC of next week’s client event. Ooops.

That said, in glancing around the Boo, I’ve realized that my poor little (or not so little actually) Dell Inspiron 1100 is so….vintage. It’s embarassingly old compared to all you crazy kids’ new shiny laptops these days- so thin and light and fast. I think my Dell has performance anxiety, and in view of the neighbors, wouldn’t you? It’s the brick phone to your iPhone.

This was the laptop I got for grad school six years ago. Holy crap. SIX years. Where did the time go? It was the laptop I got from my Dad for “all the things I didn’t do.” It was a gift for never getting arrested, knocked up, addicted to Meth, etc. That’s Dad.

Maybe it’s time to get a laptop for all the things I have done.

Filed under: "work", creative time management, is janky the same thing as wonky?, write on by Nic