A Very Good Birthday
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ceitfiannaMy birthday yesterday was really wonderful and as is normal with my family, its going to stretch for a while longer. I started the day by opening the package that my parents sent me which had some beautiful blue glass earrings and the Stacy Schiff Cleopatra book.
Today I just spent the first half or so of my Amazon gift card from one of my brothers on A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones, The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer, Welcome to Bordertown and an Ignenuitea pot with four green teas.
When my parents arrive at the end of next week, I'm going to get a new Mac laptop as a graduation/birthday gift which I'm looking forward to. Mac users, what kinds do you have and what do you recommend? I think this computer knows I'm going to move on from it as the screen's been acting up more.
Thank you to everyone for the good wishes, I feel quite blessed with such wonderful friends and for all the help figuring out how to spend my gift card. One of the great joys of yesterday was that I was able to talk to my oldest friend, we've known each other since we were about a year old on my walk home from work. I'll be doing another purchase at some point too, I love having my only worry being deciding what to get.
Yesterday I was reminded of just how nice people in Ann Arbor are because so many people smiled and wished me Happy Birthday when I told them. As a treat, I bought a sundae at the Ben and Jerry's store on State Street and it was good but filling. I don't eat ice cream very often and I'd forgotten how heavy it can be. Sadly I finished my first pot of homemade mint tea but I'm going to make another one. Homemade iced tea is one of the best parts of summer.
School stuff is also full of interesting things, tomorrow in the early morning I have meeting to help out with the Ann Arbor Book Festival after my parents leave. This is something I've wanted to help with since I started at SI but the timing never seemed to work out. If this comes together, I'll get paid and be able to help with children's activities.
I have a paper to write this weekend that I think will go much faster than the other one and then I get about two weeks off from class in which I work on my grant. The idea I have isn't in as good a form as I'd like so I'm going to push it into shape before I turn in a draft.
Today I just spent the first half or so of my Amazon gift card from one of my brothers on A Tale of Time City by Diana Wynne Jones, The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer, Welcome to Bordertown and an Ignenuitea pot with four green teas.
When my parents arrive at the end of next week, I'm going to get a new Mac laptop as a graduation/birthday gift which I'm looking forward to. Mac users, what kinds do you have and what do you recommend? I think this computer knows I'm going to move on from it as the screen's been acting up more.
Thank you to everyone for the good wishes, I feel quite blessed with such wonderful friends and for all the help figuring out how to spend my gift card. One of the great joys of yesterday was that I was able to talk to my oldest friend, we've known each other since we were about a year old on my walk home from work. I'll be doing another purchase at some point too, I love having my only worry being deciding what to get.
Yesterday I was reminded of just how nice people in Ann Arbor are because so many people smiled and wished me Happy Birthday when I told them. As a treat, I bought a sundae at the Ben and Jerry's store on State Street and it was good but filling. I don't eat ice cream very often and I'd forgotten how heavy it can be. Sadly I finished my first pot of homemade mint tea but I'm going to make another one. Homemade iced tea is one of the best parts of summer.
School stuff is also full of interesting things, tomorrow in the early morning I have meeting to help out with the Ann Arbor Book Festival after my parents leave. This is something I've wanted to help with since I started at SI but the timing never seemed to work out. If this comes together, I'll get paid and be able to help with children's activities.
I have a paper to write this weekend that I think will go much faster than the other one and then I get about two weeks off from class in which I work on my grant. The idea I have isn't in as good a form as I'd like so I'm going to push it into shape before I turn in a draft.
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Date: 2011-06-09 07:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-09 09:35 pm (UTC)Yes, I really am. Its been relaxed and nice.
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Date: 2011-06-09 08:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-09 09:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-09 08:32 pm (UTC)And as for Macs, I LOVE MY MACBOOK PRO~ so I would obvs recommend one of those. This is the one I have (15", 4GB RAM, 2.4GHz processor, 250GB HD), but they're not in production anymore. The newer models are still just as fantastic, so it's not a problem.
They pack a very powerful punch and can do a lot. I work mine to the bone.
Of course, it depends on what you use yours for? I do a lot of post-production on photographs, so having all those Adobe programs open + whatever else I usually do requires a powerful machine. But you might find that a normal Macbook works just as well for you, too. (My bff has one and it works really well too.) Plus, they are kinder on the wallet. ;)
I don't know when you're planning on getting one, but I'd wait until they start putting the new Lion OSX into all of their machines - pretty sure they'll start doing that from late-July/August on.
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Date: 2011-06-09 09:39 pm (UTC)I'd rather get an incredibly good computer and know it will do whatever I need it to. I'll check with the computer guys about what the timeline on the new OS is and see what they recommend. Thank you.
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Date: 2011-06-10 12:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-10 12:09 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-10 01:16 am (UTC)I don't know anything about Macs, but I've always heard good things about them. I'm thinking about eventually saving up to buy one for myself. Love my gaming desktop, but I want to have something mobile too.
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Date: 2011-06-10 01:24 am (UTC)