My old 14-inch Apple laptop is sitting on a shelf in my basement; a basement which I'm now calling the "Laptop Morgue." It's 12-inch replacement arrived today, having been shipped from China just yesterday. I'm slightly amused by the fact that my laptop arriving from China beat my boyfriend arriving from Japan today. It's a strangely contrived race, since my laptop had an Army of people in China, Alaska, and GradShitTownVille. The boyfriend has to carry his own luggage onto the plane. Unfair, I know. Who said life is....
Mom? No, that's my own voice. Sometimes my voice box gets stuck in a certain tone and I swear my mother is talking in my ear. Really it's the sound of my own voice.
fair. And so the Army sent my new laptop to me and the kind gentleman in a purple shirt who brought it to my door woke me up today. Since grad school, "THE CRACK OF DAWN" shifted from 5:30 am--the time I used to get up to go to the gym in North Portland--to 8:30 am.
I don't even exercise in the morning anymore. I swim in the evening.
And I swam last night, but stop interrupting me Ms. Italics! The man in a purple shirt--which makes me think of Tom Hanks' "The Man With One Red Shoe"--woke me from a dream that actually didn't involve people trying to kill me. I dreamt of the garden I'd planted at my mother's third husband's house. In reality, he lived on half an acre, and while I lived there, my mother and I filled as much as I could with gladiolas, lilies, columbine, and tulips. It was theraputic. It was over 10 years ago. In the dream, the garden had become wild and overrun with tulips. I sat in the backseat of a car, and as the car drove slowly past Battlecreek Road, I could see the tulips. It was the scene from Logan's Run, except replace the White House with my ex-step father's house and replace the ivy with tulips.
But Logan's Run is a really cheesie movie.
I agree. Which is why I must find it for next Cheesie Chick Flick Night.
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Wow, nice to hear that you got your new laptop (Is your chair fixed?). You should have got the MacBook. Anyways, did you get the iBook? I have an iBook, and it pains to say that I wont be able to buy a MacBook for a long time now. All part of being a grad student, Sigh. I'm glad that you got your new laptop.
About sounding like your mother. I was seeing this program on National Geographic, which said that all of us sound like our mothers. They recorded cries of babies and found that they imitated their respective mother's voice even in their cries and yells! Weird.
Nah. The MacBook is overprovisioned for someone like me whose greatest compuational needs are demanded by LaTeX. That, and I haven't donated enough of my eggs yet to afford one.
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