l am twenty-freaking-six today.

God, I'm old.

This post brought to you by my lovely bday present: my pda (a palmOne LifeDrive, on which I'm currently writing this post). This makes me very happy. I finally have an address book, a calender, and a scheduler all in one place. This will be very handy teaching, since I frequently need to rework lesson plans and conferences (no more multiple crossed out calendar books from the the USC bookstore anymore). I don't know why I'd ever need a notebook again with this baby since it has MSWord installed. I've already come up with two story ideas on the road and input them in this as easily as handwriting them. Plus, I have a Japanese/English (and vice versa) dictionary installed, as well as a couple books I've been meaning to read. I also installed some extra Japanese language learning programs since I'm continuing my study of the language in the fall. Oh, and it has my entire music library (complete with Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in mp3 format) and still has room for 3 hours of video. I love it. And I love WordPress for having a pda specific login/post page.

But when I get up in the morning I shall assume my standard Oscar Wilde impersonation and mourn the day that makes me older by dressing in black. Or if I'm feeling sassy, my green-striped dress.

Oh, I bought the sewing machine I want -- overstock.com is out of stock at the moment, and I spoke to one of their customer service chat people and they couldn't verify when/if they'd be getting any more in, so I did some digging and found KensSewingCenter.com, where orders over $69 get free shipping (makes overstock.com's shipping of $2.50 feel like a rip-off!).

Labels: birthday, real life, real life lived through electronics

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at July 21, 2007 11:29 AM  Lindsi said...

Oh your going to looooooove your PDA! You won't be able to live w/o after too long, I know I can't. BTW- no more need for journals anymore? I was going to make you one this time instead of buying one.

 

at July 25, 2007 10:46 PM  charlie said...

well happy b-day! I thought I had your feed on my friends page, but then I realized that if that were true then you haven't posted in forever. so I checked this page. I've missed quite a few things!

Anyway, happy late birthday.